Author Archive for trask
Trask is a long-time gamer, world traveler and history buff. He hopes that his scribblings will both inform and advance gaming as a hobby.
Ex Illis Miniature Game Offering Free Trial
Ex illis, the computer/tabletop miniature hybrid game is now offering a 30-day free trial. Here is the press release: Ex illis free trial By popular demand; Bastion is pleased to announce the Ex Illis 30-Day free trial. Try the richness of its gameplay for yourself and share the experience with friends and family, it’s easy! [...]
Battlefoam Foam Laser Cutting Patent Application Document
Battlefoam, an Arizona-based seller of laser-cut foam blocks for miniature transport sent an unusual lawyer letter to Sabol Designs, another seller of cut foam for miniature transport and storage. Click on the link for the full text, but it essentially asks Sabol to track all sales of all infringing products. This will allow Battlefoam to [...]
Current Role-Playing Game Forums Suck–Should I Add One to Livingdice?
Enworld and RPG.net are the clear leaders role-playing game discussions within the gaming community. That said, these communities are now so massive that finding anything is nearly impossible and threads quickly reach “War and Peace” in length. If that were not bad enough, the level of discourse on these sites often degenerates to the lowest [...]
Review: Duck! Duck! Go! Board Game from APE Games
“Duck! Duck! Go!” from APE Games first appeared on my radar at the GAMA Trade Show in 2009, but I did not get a chance to play it. This year, with the release of the sequel “Duck! Duck! Safari!” I contacted APE for review copies of both games and they kindly obliged. Though I have [...]
My New Role-Playing Games Store is Online!
Role-playing-games-store.com is a new web site dedicated to, unsurprisingly, selling role-playing games. Yes, the content for the site comes from Amazon, but its real value is the fact I set it up with more rational categories. Role-playing games on Amazon are one giant category, whereas role-playing-games-store.com categories are things like “Kenzerco,” “Warhammer,” “Dungeons and Dragons” [...]
Review: Crusade and Conquer
Crusade and Conquer is a new chess variant from Canada that I ran across at GTS this year and finally got a chance to take it out for a spin. The board is a standard chess board with a couple of exceptions; castles! Yes, there are little foam castles that stand on either side of [...]
Gen Con 2010 Clean-Up: xPirate from Exim Games and Outbreak: Undead
Gen Con 2010 was a great event, so great it addled my mind and I forgot two interesting games that I thought worth discussing. “Outbreak: Undead“ is a new zombie-survival horror role-playing game. Here are a couple of shots of the cover and the contents. The format of the book is a hand-written journal, so [...]
Interview: Sandstorm Productions
Sandstorm Productions is a new player on the game publishing scene and I made time at Gen Con 2010 to sit down with Jessica Blair, the VP of Sales and marketing for Sandstorm and chat for a few minutes. This post is the result and is a summary of our conversation, and not a strict [...]
Palladium v. Trion Worlds Update: Mediation
The Palladium v. Trion World lawsuit took a surprise turn today with both parties filing a joint request to enter mediation. If approved, both parties avoid a trial. The judge has not signed off on the order yet, but since both defendant and plaintiff submitted the request, I think approval likely. The deadline for [...]
