Author Archive for Stuart Greenwell
My first experiences with serious gaming came from the Hero Quest board game. I then made the next step to the RoboTech RPG and a lunchtime meeting of AD&D Oriental Adventures. My interests now are pretty much the same. Boardgames and RPGS. Some of my favorites boardgames are currently Settlers of Catan, Wings of War, Battlestar Galactica, and Space Alert. For RPGS, it is Aces & Eights and Chronicles of the Shattered Empire (Arcanis). But I am always down for a good round of Dungeons & Dragons.
Dungeon Crawl Classics at Free RPG Day
First and foremost, I would encourage everyone to attend Free RPG Day this weekend at your local game shop. It is an important event for our hobby and it is great way to try out new games and help find new players for the games that you love. You can visit the Free RPG Day [...]
Review – Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games
When I sat down to read Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games I was extremely shocked! And, in a very good way! I was expecting a DM resource to bring the Medieval Mafia down on your unsuspecting PCs. And of course, it does this very well. There are 60 new stat blocks with [...]
Review: The Last of the Independents from Numbskull Games
The Last of the Independents is a recent Euro-style board game from Numbskull Games. The idea behind this game is to out engineer, out manufacture, and out advertise your competition as an Automobile company circa 1950′s. Aside from the unique setting, this game is also noteworthy that it is a strategy board game that does [...]
GAMA Trade Show Best of Show Winner 2011–Star Trek: Expeditions from Wizkids!
Every year GTS rolls around and Livingdice faces a brutal task. We choose the one game that stands above all others, the “GTS 2011 Best of Show.” We do our level best to give every game an equal shot, regardless of company size or marketing budget. Earlier winners include the groundbreaking, but sadly unsuccessful “Ex-Illis” [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 13
Today’s GAMA Trade Show 2011 exhibitors include Green Ronin, Bandai, Three Sages Games, Gamers Rule, and Cactus Game Design Company Green Ronin Green Ronin had a nice spread of all there recently released books. And they seem to have new stuff around every corner. Most exciting (to me at least) was the Dragon Age RPG: [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 11
Today’s GAMA Trade Show 2011 exhibitors include 42 Games, Stronghold Games, Heartland Games, Cleveland Kids, and Battle Foam 42 Games 42 Games was showing off their newest game, Orbit: Rocket Race 5000. Orbit is a fast-paced strategy card game where you try to match colored sides together to play them, going around in an “orbit” around the board. They [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 8
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Looney Labs, Chivalry Games, Digme Productions,Flying Buffalo, Arcane Tinman, Acrylicos Vallejo, and WorldWise Imports. Looney Labs The Labs were showing off three new products. First is Pirate Fluxx, which released in February. As the many other Fluxx flavors, this adds Pirates to the game. There are a couple [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 6
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Gary Games, RPS Games, Ovation Productions, Greater Games Industry Catalog, MerchantOS, North Star Games, and GameBrother Gary Games Gary Games was showing off the first expansion to the Ascension deck-building game. This new expansion, called Ascension: Return of the Fallen, adds new mechanics (Fate cards), support for more players (up to 6), [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 3
Our GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with offerings from “Numbskull Games,” “Gozer Games,” “Non-Trivial Quest,” “Bereb Enterprises,” “Armstrong Forensic Laboratory,” and “Cepia Games.” Numbskull Games They have a couple of recent titles out on the market. Blockade Runner is a Civil War era economic/resource managememt board game.You take the role of an entrepreneur trying [...]