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Cthulhu Wrapping Paper from Gaming Paper
Too long have reindeer and cute Christmas trees dominated the holiday. The time of weaklings is no more, now is the time of Cthulhu…wrapping paper. Erik and his merry band of cultists over at Gaming Paper have a Cthulhu Wrapping Paper project up on kickstarter that needs supporters. I am doing my part to [...]
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 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 [...]
Unboxing: Nightfall Preview Edition from AEG
Nightfall from Alderac Entertainment Group releases in a few weeks, but AEG kindly sent me a “preview” copy today. The preview copy of “Nightfall” is just a bare-bones box with the cards and the instructions. The full retail version will have the card dividers and sufficient space for the rulebook. Sadly I cannot actually play [...]
First Look: Orbit Rocket Race 5000
A Livingdice spy attended Neoncon and brought back tales of a new game called Orbit: Rocket Race 5000 from Forty-two Games. My spy described it as a fun game, so I contacted 42 Games for some more information about what they were up to with Orbit and Forty-Two Games. Here is their response Orbit is [...]
First Look: Pastiche the Board Game from Gryphon Games
Gryphon Games has a new board game in the pipeline, “Pastiche.” The game releases in the next few months and Gryphon Games kindly forwarded the box art and rules to me for an early look. “Pastiche” is an art-themed set collection board game using the premise that each player gathers specific color palette cards and [...]
Book Report: The Führer’s Headquarters – Hitler’s command bunkers 1939–45
At LivingDice, we often trumpet our love of using history as inspiration for RPG adventuring. One of my favorite quotes, when I think of history and RPGs, comes from an American author named Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame). In his book ‘Good as Gold’ he said: History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open [...]
Chronicles of the Shattered Empires
Paradigm Concepts produces a great fantasy campaign world called “Arcanis.” Originally an OGL-based world, a new version released at Origins 2010 with Paradigm own rules set. Officially the book is “Shattered Empires” and the organized play (living) campaign is the “Chronicles of the Shattered Empires.” I cannot even begin to explain the world in [...]
Kickstarter Project: World of Trexlin and Xephyer
Platinum Lion contacted me today about their “World of Trexlin” and “Xephyer” project posted on kickstarter.com. “World of Trexlin” is a system-neutral campaign world with races, regions and plot hooks designed to aid a DM. Platinum Lion’s “Xephyer” provides rules and cards for a poker-like fantasy betting game that plays stand-alone or as part of [...]