If you’re accustomed to other WizKids combat-dial games, the CS Air Action rules are going to throw you some curve balls. Sadly, due to vague technical writing, those curve balls may hit you right in the unmentionables the way they did my test opponent, a MechWarrior fan. Here’s what you
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
Live from KublaCon ’03
Okay, first: wristbands suck. If anyone out there is planning a con, maybe you’re thinking about those locking wristband things as a handy, secure way of replacing those nastily tradeable, fakeable badges. Don’t do it. You will drive away any clientele who are not geeks and, hence, have other places
Again with the MechWarrior: new expansion in August
MWRealms has quality discussion on Liao Incursion, a 124-piece expansion for MechWarrior due in August. Lovely new features include abilities you only get access to if you have some “faction purity” in your army (that’s not a direct quote, but my interpretation of speculation). That’s three MW expansions this year,
New console titles based on MtG, White Wolf games
According to this article at ICv2, yet another electronic version of Magic: the Gathering was announced the big E3 video game expo thingy. This one will be for the Xbox. Whether the game, announced by what is now called Atari, will bear much resemblance to the card game is unknown.
Hey, I hear those MMPOPRORRPG things are “hep”
Atari (née Infogrames, née Hasbro Interactive) has co-announced with Wizards a massively multiplayer online game called, hold your breath for this one, Dungeons & Dragons Online. Hey, because there’s hardly any competition in the Tolkienesque-online-fantasy-world space. They plan to ship in two years, just like Master Tools (cough). To be
New candidate for world's scariest abstract board game
Rhythmomachy was created 1000 years ago and translated to English in the 16th century. Before the Rennaissance, its popularity allegedly rivaled that of chess. It’s chess-like, or shogi-like maybe, but has more ways of winning, way too many numbers, and is generally a prime example of the historical heights of
A savage journey into the joke I’ve used before
So we got this press release from Pinnacle, click Read More to read it. They’re taking their Savage Worlds system, just released to apparently strong sales (I had a look at it… looks disappointingly ordinary, but I haven’t looked that closely, to say nothing of actually playing) and doing a
You should really put some pigs on top of each other
I should lay off the computer games for a while, but, I had to.
Try it now! (10 seconds later…) Try it now!
If anyone tried to add the OgreCave Headlines box from the code on our new syndicate-us page, there was a dumb mistake in the include code, which I have now fixed. The result is much more pretty, although there’s something to be said for minimalism.
Gen Con Europe to split into little babies?
Nothing useful is at the Gen Con Europe site, but rumors are circulating that, rather than one large Europe show, there will be some smaller shows in various European locales, and that the main show is off for at least two years. GR has a notice with Peter Adkison’s name
I get to alpha test Puzzle Pirates and you don’t
The last time I was this excited about an upcoming online game, it wasn’t really about anything. This time, it’s about pirates, and since I basically look like one, well, you can imagine how I feel. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is the full title of the game, it’ll be available for
Leaden rhetoric
Somebody sat there and sculpted that. Probably a grownup.
Neato: miniatures reference for gamers
“This site is the largest reference for lists and pictures of Fantasy and Science Fiction miniatures, whether used for wargaming, role-playing or simply for show. We do not sell anything nor are we associated with any retailer or manufacturer.”
OgreCave has no comment
Fantasy Sex Roleplaying Game Releases October 2003. Given that there seems to be no corporate website, maybe it’s a prank. Well, I guess that’s a comment.
Online tools for your dead-CCG obsession
CCG Workshop is an online purveyor of the cardboard crack of the past, and allegedly the future. Games currently playable online include DoomTrooper (if I’d known, I might not have spent five dollars on those five pounds of cards over the weekend), Wildstorms, BattleTech CCG, Kult, NetRunner (yaaaaay!), Shadowrun CCG,