All Entries Tagged With: "role-playing games"
Review: The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite
Osprey Books has a long and distinguished history as a publisher of historical reference books. I am a huge fan of their product lines and many an adventure sprang from their non-fiction titles. Happily, Osprey is branching out into the gaming arena explicitly with their “Osprey Adventure” line of books. It is a new line [...]
Gen Con 2013 Exhibitors and Vendor Link List with Descriptions
Gen Con 2013 draws near and here is my yearly list of all the vendors attending Gen Con 2013. If you see any errors or omissions, please drop me a line. Trask, The Last Tyromancer http://10x10room.com/ Online role-playing game tools Abbots Hollow Studios Using leather and creative imagination to create fantastical creatures, faces, potion [...]
Hasbro Sues to Prevent the Dungeons and Dragons Movie
Dark Horizons is reporting Wizards took legal action to prevent the recently announced reboot of the “Dungeons and Dragons” movie from the producers of the last two films. I am rooting for Hasbro on this one. The last two films were crimes against cinema and with a track record that poor I would sue to [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 8
Monster Protectors Monster Protectors has a nice line of card protector boxes and binders as well as some unusual map/playmat tubes. It is hard to see in the image, but the map tube has three corners, rather than being a true tube. I did not grasp the importance until Monster’s rep pointed out that it [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 7
Cheapass Games Cheapass games, long known for extremely basic games, evolved a bit and produced a “snazzy” version of the venerable “Unexploded Cow.” This game has a retail price of $25.00. Grandpa’ Beck’s Games Scheming and Skulking is a new trick-taking game due to be released at the end of May for an MSRP [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 6
Collins Epic Wargames Polyversal is a soon-to-kickstart miniature combat system (6 mm) that allows you to use miniatures from other games, assign Polyversal stats and then go to war! The central tile is a commander and he controls all the units attached to him, but should them move out of range they “detach” from [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 5
More gaming goodness below…. Educational Insights “Nowhere to Go” is a quick game with some strategy that is perfect for children, but playable by adults as well. Two fedora wearing miniatures block paths using the gray marble-like tokens of each other until one has nowhere to move, thereby losing. I got in a complete [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 4
Today we begin with: Zvezda Zvezda is a Russian model/gaming company with an interesting line of very cheap ($3.95) models and some large miniature-combat board games. Their new release is an age of sail game called “”Armada Invencible.” This will release at Gen Con 2013 for a $69.95 MSRP. The ships come disassembled, [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2013 Report 2
The adventure continues! Cryptozoic Batman: Arkham City Escape board game is the board game implementation of the Arkham City video game. This head-to-head game pits Batman against a horde of villains seeking freedom beyond Arkham City. Villains slowly march towards the bottom of the board while the Batman player moves [...]