Yesterday evening marked a banner evening for me. Not only did I get to do some development on a new game, but I also got to play in an RPG, something I haven’t done in far too long. To add even more to the interesting factor, I was playing Welcome to the Meat Parade, an experimental game systems that’s being publicly developed by you, me and anyone else who wants to dip their hands in. Brent, who you know from this site, has taken a very active [...]
It has been two weeks since I wrote the last “Losing at Board Games” column. Those weeks have been the kind of weeks that seem to be worn at the seams; where a state of perpetual tiredness is sealed in and surrounded with a fog of exhaustion. But of course, I’m still going to game. So this week, my question for all of you is: What games do you play when you are tired? These aren’t the moments to try large-scale worker placement games [...]
Aaron Bostian blogging at the Fancy Wars.
Wargaming Recon #91: Aaron Bostian and How Wargamers Can Give Back [ 1:38:42 | 45.21 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (92)
Monsters of the Shattered World Season 2 Episode 6 [ 4:21 | 3.98 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (379)In this episode of Monsters of the Shattered World, Andreas and his companions defending the city of Arrowsight face a second wave of attackers. But their enemies are not exactly as they seem. For those of you new to this show, Monsters of the Shattered World is a storytelling podcast. It’s about a young scholar out on his own in the world, the newest member of an adventuring party encountering strange monsters and writing about them. Each episode is 5 to 10 minutes long, so it won’t overburden your [...]
Game Overview Ticket to Ride (TTR) is a card-playing set-matching game. If you are able to lay down matching cards, you can claim a train route and lay your trains down on the board – connecting one city to another city. Adding complexity to this gameplay are destination tickets. These are tickets that involve longer train routes that connect one part of the map to another part. These tickets come with point bonuses that are tallied at the end of the game; if you fail [...]
by Clinton Coddington and Jon Beall Game Journey Photography… yet another monthly column. As you think through whether this is worth adding to your RSS feeds and bookmarks, allow us to take a moment to tell you what you’re in for. First, this is a photo-essay. Every month we’ll feature a handful of photographs and talk about them for a bit. If you don’t like that, you won’t like this. Secondly, we are gamer-nerds. If you don’t like reading about board games, or seeing pictures [...]
Monsters Of The Shattered World, Season 2 Episode 5: The Battle of Arrowsight Field [ 7:32 | 2.69 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (528)In this episode of Monsters of the Shattered World, Andreas and his companions attempt to defend the city of Arrowsight from an army of allied goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs. This episode contains a snippet of the Litany Against Fear, originally written by Frank Herbert for his Dune series. This is my homage to my favorite book. For those of you new to this show, Monsters of the Shattered World is a storytelling podcast. It’s about a young scholar out on his own in the world, the newest member of an [...]
Just two days ago, I announced a new experimental project. A role playing game called Welcome to the Meat Parade which exams what happens to the world when everything goes south. Like your normal post-apocalyptic games, there is a sudden, bad event that throws the world’s societies into chaos. Unlike the other games though, we’re attempting to inject some humor into the situation. For a basic look at why people are going to suddenly be forced to make spears out of little plastic cards and [...]
