First, the Tucson Gamemasters’ Conference. More or less speaks for itself. Then, the weekly Dungeons and Divas game at Guardian Games here in Portland. An article ran on this in one of the local alternative weeklies, and that on its own is interesting both as a barometer of perceptions of
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
Original Talisman designer self-releases follow-up after 26 years
So this is interesting: Bob Harris, who designed Talisman for Games Workshop in 1983, has published a short-run limited edition of Mythgardia, a new fantasy adventure game that, at first glance, both does and doesn’t remind one of Talisman. It is self-published and seems to straddle the line between handmade
Get ready to count the 4E jokes: interview on card-based RPG in development
LivingDice is definitely a blog to keep in the ol’ aggregator – most recently, it’s brought Untold to our attention. It’s still under development – and maybe I’m cynical, but when I see someone developing a full color card-based roleplaying game, I take “coming soon” with a grain of salt
This is the tweetfest we promised you, and this is the slideshow it turned into
So it turns out that the sort of person who both uses Twitter and goes to gaming cons apparently forgets all about the former once they’re playing things at the latter. I am as guilty of this as everyone else. Fortunately for us board game fans who missed Origins, this
Twitter’s got a use after all!
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the increasing uptake of Twitter amongst the gaming community is gonna make this season’s con coverage a little easier to generate. I’m not at Origins myself this year – it’s Go Play Northwest for me, starting tomorrow – but the #origins2009
Laptops? We don’t need no stinkin’ laptops
Andy Kitkowski at Story Games points out a Japanese tabletop-RPG gamebook and comprehensive play aid for the Nintendo DS. In a kinder universe than this one, we would not have to ask where the hell the iPhone app was for D&D Insider.
I went to GameStorm and some stuff happened
First, The Free RPG Blog is rad. Just had to get that off my mind. Now: GameStorm! The best thing about Portland’s largest game convention is that it’s smaller than anything in Seattle. This makes all the industry heavyweights who live in Seattle feel all relaxed when they come here.
Get to know a few old favorites from the random-encounter tables
The incomparable Lore Sjoberg brings us Monster Manual Comix.
WizKids officially shut down
So yeah – Topps is formally exiting the hobby games market and terminating all WK product lines, or what’s left of them anyway. The predictable noises are being made about changing economic times and etc., but one wonders whether the sports trading card business is really that much better to
FATEsters and IPR-ists present… $3 PDFs of D&D content??
It’s true. A mix of principals from Evil Hat and IPR, plus an all-star cast, is doing a couple lines of PDF material for 4E (I thought we still didn’t get to do that? Shows you what I know). And, uh, the $3 figure is inexact; it’s a good-enough descriptor
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.
More this just more even more in from Gen Con
A few links from Saturday’s shows. North Star Games has followed up their smash Wits and Wagers with Say Anything. Fat Dragon makes cardstock terrain, and even some out-and-out fold-up minis, on a really high level of craft. The Call of Duty real-time card game. I’m fairly certain Paul meant
All we're gonna say about the McCain thing
Edit: we should throw in a mention of this mildly amusing backpedal from the McCain campaign… which gets a little more amusing when you read that it predates the second anti-D&D slam. “Okay, nobody’s looking anymore… try it now!” Maybe someone should tell them that lots of D&D players are
This just in from This Just In From Gen Con
The good news is, someone is actually bothering to report live from the show… where “live” is defined as “ways other than writing rambling daily reports that don’t go up until the next day.” The not-bad-but-maybe-weird news is that the reporting is being done in a podcast – a short