Matthew sent in his review of Nobody But Us Chickens, the Origins Award nominated card game from Dancing Eggplant Games. Have a look and see what he thought of it.
Author: Allan Sugarbaker
Gen Con Indy ’04 Wrap-up: Sails ahoy!
No really, there was a giant mast, 20 feet high, at the front corner of the WizKids booth. As Mike just reported, WizKids will bring an expansion to Pirates of the Spanish Main out in March. However, I’ve got slightly more info to report than the public press release has
Live from Gen Con ’04: White Wolf gets Pendragon
Details are sketchy at this point, but after checking with White Wolf‘s Stewart Wieck, we’ve confirmed that White Wolf has acquired the rights from Green Knight Publishing to publish new materials for Pendragon. Novels and online games will continue to be produced by Green Knight, but White Wolf has the
Live at Gen Con ’04: Gloom-y days ahead
Lurking in the Atlas Games booth, I ran into Keith Baker, creator of WotC’s Eberron, and Lee Moyer, major contributing artist for same. After talking for a few minutes, Keith mentioned his upcoming card game Gloom, for which John Nephew helpfully brought out the prototype. Set for release in October,
Live at Gen Con ’04: ENnie winners announced
The winners of this year’s ENnie Awards were awarded at a quicker-than-usual ceremony, and much fun was to be had. Here’s the list of winners: Best Aid or Accessory Gold: Roleplaying Tips GM Encyclopedia (Roleplayingtips.com) Silver: Counter Collection Gold (Fiery Dragon Productions) Best Art (Interior) Gold: Nocturnals: A Midnight Companion
Live at Gen Con ’04: Finding monsters expeditiously
Suzi at Expeditious Retreat Press brought the noise and the funk — or at least a thorough list of D&D beasts. Monster Geographica: Underground, a collection of 200 3.0 and 3.5 monsters, released here at Gen Con with a new approach to its menagerie listing. As the title suggests, all
Live at Gen Con ’04: OgreCave T-shirt Throwdown
So, it all started at last year’s Gen Con Indy when both Steve and I, through random acts of fate and generous game companies, both ended up with six free t-shirts apiece. At Gen Con SoCal a few months later, we both actively tried to outdo each other in t-shirt
Live at Gen Con ’04: Prowling for promo minis
The WotC booth is nearly set up now, with mostly chairs and product displays to piece together, and a guy fiddling with a mixing board to get the booth’s music just right. Over next to a large robot-like statue (10’+ tall), a few sealed boxes caught my eye. Apparently containing
Live at Gen Con ’04: Scoping things out
Not much going on yet, but the storm that will be Gen Con Indy ’04 is about to break. I’ve wandered through the exhibit hall to get a sense of where companies will be. Miniatures company Rakham has a fairly large booth near the front of the hall with a
Star Sisterz unleashed, no longer just Limited
ICv2 warns of the news that Star Sisterz is busting out of the joint it was originally sold in (that being the Limited Too store chain in malls). Wizards of the Coast is taking the collectible charm game mass market this fall, attempting to reach more young girls who don’t
Rock the vote! No… roll the vote? Hmm…
Voting for the 2004 ENnie Awards is now open. Get to it.
This one ain’t losing any wheels
Ain’t It Cool News has a mirror of an amateur video clip showing the Batmobile from the movie Batman Begins. It looks interesting, like a proto-version of the machine Michael Keaton’s Batman commanded to shield itself. We may well see an upsurge in superhero-themed games when this flick comes out
2004 ENnie nominees announced
The ENnie Award nominees (aka, the 2004 Gen Con EN World RPG Awards nominees) are up as of yesterday, and online voting will be available soon. The ENnies, run by d20 System uber-website EN World, will announce the winners at Gen Con Indy later this month. The nominee list is
Army of Darkness card game at Gen Con Indy
Eden Studios plans to have the Army of Darkness Card Game at Gen Con Indy later this month, previewing before its Halloween release. Gamers have been waiting to use their boom sticks for a while now, and anticipation has simmered and increased slowly. It’s a sure bet that Eden will
Board breaking at GAMA, karate not involved
The new GAMA Board of Directors has hit rough waters already, after being appointed a month ago, and has lost two members. According to the press release sent yesterday (see below), Ryan Dancey has resigned as Treasurer of GAMA after revealing that he had been reading private emails from the