Author: Mike Sugarbaker

According to the April 2002 issue of the trade magazine Comics & Games Retailer, Decipher’s Lord of the Rings CCG was the top-selling CCG in the month of January, displacing Magic: The Gathering for only the second time in history. Decipher also reportedly beat WotC’s overall share of the CCG

Here’s the World War I flying ace with a response to our playtest report from none other than designer Phil Reed: “Yep, the rules aren’t quite right. We’re working on errata so that: When you roll 1s, you still roll for damage against the target. You then roll for damage

You know how people die really fast in Frag? They die reeeallllyyyy slllloooowww in Frag Deadlands. All weapons have a lot more luck in them, partially through the classic Deadlands mechanic of the “pull” (take the top card of the deck and check either the value or suit of the

You know that CCG that Fantasy Flight was working on? Yeah. The release date is now set for August, and it’ll be based on these million-selling (put together) fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin. I’ve never heard of these books and tend to distrust people with more than one middle

An unconfirmed rumor can get you a long way in gaming journalism, wherein most reporters are doing their work after business hours and can’t call you for a confirmation. We’re no different here at the Cave, but GamingReport does tell us that Precedence Entertainment is going under. If true, this

So I got everything put together, filling the room with a mild odor of super glue in the process. Although one of my Ronin looks a bit like he has to pee and is holding it in, the pose on the other is quite appealing. Modeling these guys was not

Not only does today’s Daily Illuminator announce the shipment of Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering, a general guide to GMing by the renowned designer, new editions of Chez Geek and GURPS Horror, a Deadlands-branded Frag (is there a Wild West FPS they could have grabbed the license for?), the first

Having to glue things together sucks. I mean, sure, I’m spoiled, wargames, uphill in the snow, yada blah foo. Maybe it’s just the plastic that’s giving me trouble. I tried to separate the little tank and airplane units, the ones that don’t require any gluing, and found that the connections

John Tynes‘ weblog, Dispatches from Revland, is a particularly good thing to read right now. It features copious details about the upcoming second edition of Unknown Armies (including a tentative completion date of April), the cover of said edition, a nugget of joy from the RPGnet forums, and a couple

The book that stood alone stands alone no more! Wizards has just announced (well, they probably announced it before but now they’re screaming about it) The Wheel Of Time: Prophecies of the Dragon, a nearly 200-page six-part campaign supplement. The events in the campaign dovetail neatly with the first five

Yeah, I guess so. A whole mess – possibly an entire passel – of Hero System fans were hanging around the joint, enjoying Hero Games‘ celebration of the 5th edition going to press. We also heard news from Ken Hite of Decipher, who assiduously avoided saying that he knew anything

Just in time for DunDraCon, the Green Ronin folks have released Focus on Freeport #14, which completes the three-part mid-level adventure Deus Ex Machina. (I’m not really sure what that has to do with DunDraCon, but I thought I’d slip in a link, seeing as how it’s part of the

Also in the you-don’t-care-but-I-think-it’s-interesting department, ICv2 reports that Infogrames has developed a version of the DragonballZ CCG for the . Creating AI for a card game of this nature is supposed to be a tough problem, but maybe this particular CCG is simple enough to run perfectly well on a

If you happen to have picked up the Magic: the Gathering Online beta CD-ROM at your local game retailer and haven’t tried it yet, and you have a dialup Internet connection: don’t bother. The pain, the pain. I don’t even know why I wanted to play with it, other than

I’m as suspicious of free RPGs as you are, but I’m pretty sure this rules. A quote: “if you’re a hard-core dungeon crawling machine, you’ve probably not seen mechanics that allow players to drive the situation like these. If you’re some sort of narrativist bleeding-edge pansy that’s used to have