All Entries Tagged With: "review"
Review: 1Dollarscan Book Scanning Service
I often review books and games on the site, but this is the first time I reviewed a service. Specifically, the book scanning service offered by 1dollarscan.com. 1dollarscan will scan any text item (books, photos, business cards. etc) and then use optical character recognition to convert the images to searchable text. I have some reference [...]
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 [...]
Review: Livescribe Pulse Smartpen as a DM Tool
I know this is a game site, but sometimes I go off the reservation if I find something useful to gamers. In this case, it is a Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen. I received my Pulse as a Christmas gift and found it very game-useful and worthy of a post. The Pulse is a large [...]
Review: Realms Subterrane Set 3: Dungeon Deep from Scrying Eye Games
Werlen, a long-time gaming buddy decided to take the plunge into reviewing for Livingdice and I am impressed with his first offering, a review of “Realms Subterrane Set 3: Dungeon Deep” map tile set from Scrying Eye Games. Description: 30 sheets of modular rooms and halls with counters and add-ons. Printed on 100 lb glossy [...]
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 [...]
Review: Forbidden Island by Matt Leacock
Forbidden Island by Matt Leacock and published by Gamewright is a cooperative board game designed for 2-4 players. Since “Pandemic” and this game share the same developer, there are some striking similarities. That said, “Forbidden Island” is a fun, quick co-op game with a clever theme for a great price ($15.99). Game play begins with [...]
Review – Age of Cthulhu: Shadows of Leningrad by Goodman Games
Age of Cthulhu: Shadows of Leningrad is the latest offering by Goodman Games. It is volume 3 of their 1920’s horror RPG adventure line, for use with Chaosium’s BRP system and the Call of Cthulhu RPG. This installment brings players into Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, at the very beginnings of the communist Soviet Union. [...]
Review: Days of Steam from Valley Games
“Days of Steam” from Valley Games is the first post-GTS board game review. “Days of Steam” (DoS) differs from the usual “build routes” train game paradigm and instead uses a tile-laying mechanic that allows players control over what routes are in the game. Placing a single city tile containing two goods on the board begins [...]