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Questioning Piracy, Part 1 – Cease & Desist

Questioning Piracy, Part 1 – Cease & Desist

(These series of articles involve quotes from posts on a forum website that distributed copyrighted material. With certain exceptions, names and website addresses have been withheld) Last July of this year, Dias Ex Machina engaged in a dialogue with several individuals the entertainment industry brands as miscreants. You know the type of which I speak, [...]

Wanted: Iphone Carcasonne Opponemts

“Carcasonne” on the iPhone is great fun, but I currently only have a few friends with IPhones to play with and I prefer more players in my games. So I send out this plea (challenge?) to those among my readership that would enjoy crushing me in a game of “Carcasonne. ” Please send game requests [...]

Interview: Sandstorm Productions

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 [...]

Eoris is Released

Update: Eoris released at Gen Con 2010! Check out my Eoris Review. Eoris, the long gestating and beautiful RPG book released at Gen Con 2010! I am blogging from my iPhone, so more details later. Trask

The One Ring: Lord of the Rings Role-Playing Game from Cubicle 7 Entertainment and Sophisticated Games

Angus at Cubicle 7 Entertainment dropped me a line about their new RPG license, “The One Ring:  Lord of the Rings Role-Playing Game.” I am happy to see someone take a fresh look at this venerable gaming property. As usual, I will stay on top of the development process and give you updates as they [...]

Trask Wrote Some Modules–Please Give Me Feedback!

I wrote a couple modules for the Living Arcanis campaign last year and would like some feedback. I thought they were pretty good, but they released quietly and generally disappeared into the ocean of modules for Living Arcanis and I never received any feedback from the player base if they were any good.  Therefore, I [...]

Review: Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC-AD 1644 from Osprey Publishing

Review: Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC-AD 1644 from Osprey Publishing

Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC-AD 1644 by Stephen Turnbull is a recent release from Osprey Publishing that continues their line of fortress reference books. A clarification is required of the term “review” before I continue with this post. Osprey Publishing publishes many titles every year and has done so for decades. There is a small [...]

Review: Battlestar Galactica "Caprica"

Wandering a bit off topic, I felt the urge to post something after watching the Battlestar Galactica prequel series pilot “Caprica.” I now provide you with the world’s shortest movie review. I would rather watch the entire run of “Star Trek: Enterprise” and “Seaquest,” back to back than have anything to do with “Caprica” ever [...]

Broadside: The Influence of Sea Power on History–A Great Resource for a Naval Campaign!

Broadside: The Influence of Sea Power on History is an upcoming documentary about the Age of Sail, the court of Charles II, a young Dutch republic and various naval conflicts. Broadside is currently under production and does not have a firm release date for the United States, but the website is definitely worth your attention.  [...]