Not that I’m complaining – I know how tough it is to pull yourself away from a show to report on it – but it just seems like it’s always done in the same, sort of stilted way. Firstly, why tell us in obsessive detail how you got to the
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
Today’s completely random web game find
Wanna play Carcassonne online against other players or (fairly stupid) bots? Here ya go.
News flash: gaming trade show plagued by non-professionals and swag hoarders
But not the one you think, ho ho ho ho. I guess it’s true what they say: mo’ money, mo’ problems.
Decipher moves remaining RPG releases to PDF
I guess they had layout finished and all that. So if you’ve been holding out hope for your still-unreleased Decipher RPG books, I’m afraid you’ll be sucking electrons. These will be released on DriveThruRPG starting in “the next couple weeks” – we’ll see how it goes from there.
No Audio Report this week
My travel plans totally smacked us up, so we will have to pick up again next weekend. We will at least touch on the stuff in last week’s comments next time, but we thought we’d throw out another topic to tide you all over; let’s call it an “open thread”
Audio Report: crisp, clean, and advanced
42 minutes of fresh new recording technique await you. Keep the comments coming, plus you can leave voicemail for ‘misuba’ if you have Skype. The discussion question for next week’s show: who’s going to So Cal? Bring it.
Twilight Creations announces they’ve a-sploded my brain
Zombies!!! 5: School’s Out Forever features “‘Guts’ Tokens” and “[n]ew universal ‘Guts’ rules for use with any Zombies!!! set.” If you’ve ever seen the fine Peter Jackson film Brain Dead a.k.a. Dead Alive, you should be getting the fear right about, ohhhhhhhhh, now.
Audio Report: better late than sparkly-sounding
Y’all gave us a lot to talk about last week, and talk we did, for 50 minutes of goodness. The sound is still a little wonky but there aren’t any irritating artifacts this time. Thanks for your patience on that front. Leave comments here on our requested topics or others,
In startling and innovative move, WotC announces big dragons for D&D Minis
I’m just teasing, of course – the game really needs these and I’m psyched for them on some level despite being a non-player – but it’s not as if there was much doubt they’d do this eventually, given the buzz about the AT-AT. Yes, a Black Dragon with a 4×4″
OgreCave Audio: distorting time and decency
This week’s program, or possibly last week’s, is interactive. That’s right; tell us what you think in the comments of this post right here. You’ll have to listen for more details, as well as the sad tale of my capitulation to the siren call of Warmachine, Chris’ current theories on
What the World Series of Poker needs is more critical hits
Here’s a nice consolidation of the recent chatter about Celebrity Dungeons and Dragons having in essence been pitched to Comedy Central a ways back. Paget Brewster was involved; I bet she fancies a half-elf bard.
Vegas Showdown details emerge
Avalon Hill has started turning the crank on their little board-game-marketing machine, giving us box and board-element pics plus some rules for Vegas Showdown. I visualize the board-game marketing machine as looking a bit like the dice tower from the old Parker Brothers game The Inventors, and as having cost
Gen Con Indy now probably Gen Con… um… somewhere
At GenCon, we taped, but didn’t post, a long coda to Peter Adkison’s con-focused press conference. It was by a representative of the Indianapolis Convention Center, announcing the big plans to start expanding the center, virtually right after GenCon closed up. Well, apparently they aren’t gonna be done by next
He’s played Tactics II? SEIZE HIM!
In the Summer 2005 issue of Games Quarterly, Hasbro’s former CEO and still Chairman of the Board, Alan Hassenfeld, namechecked several old Avalon Hill titles (including his claim to have had a Tactics II “phase”) and described himself as a current player of contemporary titles like Duel Masters and Heroscape
Audio Report: slowly driving a stake into the heart of GenCon
Yup. 45 minutes of action. We put plenty of links in the show summary this time, and you can have at the discussion here.