Our friend Lee Valentine, deputy Ogre and thorough game reviewer, gives us his blow-by-blow analysis of Ticket to Ride: The Card Game from Days of Wonder. Does interesting gameplay outweigh quirky rules text? Have a read through and find out, and peruse our other reviews while you’re at it.
Month: September 2008
Audio Report: Ogre’s Choice 2008, and prizes!
It’s time once again – okay, fine, it’s a bit overdue – for our annual Ogre’s Choice Awards show, wherein all the Cave Dwellers have contributed to the final award nominee and winner selections. Mike, Steve, and I discuss what we liked this past year, which you can read along
Audio Report: hella PAX and hella Hellas
Our recap of Penny Arcade Expo has made it out the door; perhaps more urgently at this point, I interviewed Michael Fiegel and Jerry Grayson, producers of the much-talked-about Hellas RPG, and you can hear the result. Come on down.
Feeding the Talismania
Fans of the mighty fantasy boardgame Talisman will soon get a close look at the first expansion for Fantasy Flight’s revised edition of the game (Fourth Edition, by my count). The new expansion, The Reaper, provides 128 new cards, four new characters, and the Grim Reaper, a neutral piece any
Ticket to Ride dice expansion coming soon
In an effort to bring customers aboard at even more stations, Days of Wonder has announced plans for Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion by Alan Moon. Usable with any of the TTR boardgame sets, the eight custom dice – five Train dice, and three Tunnel dice for certain boards
Fourth Edition GSL revision still “weeks off”
Links to this Gleemax post, by Dungeons & Dragons Senior Brand Manager Scott Rouse, are currently floating all over the web, wherein Rouse asserts that the 4e GSL revision promised a month ago “has not been shelved”. Rouse stated that “The draft is done. The changes are approved and it
Formula D floors it with exclusive Porsche model
As I first learned at this year’s KublaCon, the popular, out-of-print Formula One racing game Formula De is being tuned up and given a new coat of paint in Formula D from Asmodee. Now there’s news that the new game, which will feature driver character cards and prepainted cars, will
Call the Maid
As Mike mentioned a few weeks back, there’s a little game crossing the Pacific from Japan this year. A hit at Gen Con ’08, the Maid RPG is . Have a look if you dare, and see how this translation of a Japanese RPG about anime maids entertains – or
Order of the Stick rolls out rumble at Azure City
Order of the Stick fans should already know (or even have a preorder or Gen Con copy in-hand) but in case you missed it, there’s news. The third compliation book (and fourth book overall) of Rich Burlew’s popular online comic strip, titled Order of the Stick: War and XPs, has
Out of the Box back on the web
After around 18 months of hiatus, Ken Hite’s column Out of the Box has reappeared on the internet, thanks to the folks at Indie Press Revolution. Naturally, Ken kept himself busy with projects like Trail of Cthulhu in the interim, but we’re happy to see the column make its return.
Fantasy Flight announces price increases
It almost seemed inevitable, and now it has come to pass – Fantasy Flight Games just announced price increases for many of its product lines. Citing “energy, commodity, and labor prices” as the sources of “tremendous upward pressure on manufacturing pricing”, FFG plans to adjust its prices upward by 10%-25%
Tell-all Morocco book spills secrets at Chaosium
According to the dark overlords at Chaosium, the hot new ancient evil is about to pounce. Originally done as a Kinkos-style test product (aka “Monograph”), Secrets of Morocco for Call of Cthulhu has started filtering through distribution and should be in stores in a week or two. Now investigators can
Paizo to publish Book of Experimental Might compilation
Again with the smart moves: Paizo Publishing has plans to release a print version of Monte Cook’s Book of Experimental Might before the end of this year, according to a post today from the man himself. Previously only in print through Lulu’s POD, the new edition will combine BoEM volumes
WotC titles on final approach at Game Table Online
Game Table Online has continued to roll out online versions of both classic and more recent tabletop game titles since getting started in 2001. Next week, it seems they plan to roll out their version of some well-known Wizards of the Coast titles: Acquire, Axis & Allies, Guillotine, Vegas Showdown,
Monty Python Fluxx coming in October
Though the game’s arrival in stores is still a few weeks off, FluxxGames.com has a group of sample cards from Monty Python Fluxx, the latest evolution of Looney Labs’ exceptions-based card game. As I mentioned after looking through a prototype deck back at GTS this year, you can expect to