Every now and again, close study of the Daily Illuminator is rewarding. Steve Jackson doesn’t like the nomination process of the annual Origins Awards, which ends tomorrow (the nomination process, I mean), and today on the Ill, he’s telling the world. Interesting read. BTW, the permanent link is here for
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
A Happy Ending
So someone mailed us that , and that the guy who emailed never actually saw it go down (so to speak). Different strokes for different folks. Hell, maybe our net just burped. Also, the actual subtitle of the book appears to be “Piracy in the Caribbean,” not “Pirates of the
MK Dungeons Playtest Report
Didn’t expect this to happen so fast, but I got to play my first game down at Endgame today. (Actually, I’m still there, posting from the back room. Matt asked me to say “These postings brought to you by Endgame,” but I said no. Then he slipped me a twenty.)
Dragonstar Starfarer’s Handbook First Look
You probably got a first look before we did, but hey. Beautiful cover, isn’t it? Kind of iffy writing in the opening chapter about the game world, huh? Not bad writing, exactly, but a little dry and stiff. Nice interior art, though, and… hmm, I notice there are no little
Beware Of Geeks Bearing Gifts?
I admit that all I really know is that Avalanche Press offered several gaming-press websites, via email, the opportunity to host an image of the cover of their new D20 pirate supplement, Black Flag: Pirates of the Caribbean. They may get a phone call from Disney sometime soon, but anyway,
Details On New BattleTe… Uh, MechWarrior CMG
If you care about collectible miniatures, you were all over this a couple days ago, but if not, hey, we’re here for ya! WizKids has posted a lengthy, chatty article about the new collectible BattleTech, now actually titled MechWarrior: Dark Age, which contains more than a few things I didn’t
Mage Knight Dungeons First Look
News flash for the inattentive (such as myself): Mage Knight Dungeons is not a Mage Knight expansion. It is not, in fact, a miniatures game. While MK Dungeons does use conventional MK figures, it is played on a square grid, and resembles old dungeon-crawl board games like DungeonQuest more than
So We Missed This News. It Was Christmas. Bite Me
I always forget to check ICv2 and then find great news there two weeks later, so it’s no surprise that I missed it on Christmas Day. But that was when WizKids announced they’re spinning off Ral Partha. Effective on Tuesday (that’s the first of the new year, if you’re… dumb),
He Only Read It For The Articles, Honest
Apparently, there are some words in The Slayer’s Guide to Amazons too, and if you’d rather someone else read them for you, we’ve got you covered. Hence, Matthew Pook hits you with a review. You’re welcome. WH40K CCG FAQ – Well, Actually Just Rules, But How Could I Not Type
Buy It! It's On Sale, That's Why!
Well, actually, you should buy it because it’s been the most commonly-played game out of everything I’ve been bringing to game nights over the past three months. It’s called Laguna, and it’s German. Its regular game page on Funagain is here if you want to see pictures, but if you’re
Necromancer Fun For The Holidays
We’ve got new reviews of the genre-bending Siege of Durgam’s Folly and Rob Kuntz’s Prisoners of the Maze, both from your friends at Necromancer. Or maybe we have them confused with that other game company that was hanging out at your place playing Grand Theft Auto 3 the other day.
Dragonstar Starfarer’s Handbook Shipping
The FFG front page has the news and the ordering link. The cover looks terrific. In-store date is December 27th, but those dates never seem to have much to do with reality. Pick it up and start fixing to take down those annoying munchkin PCs with one well-placed blaster bolt.
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide – Part 2
At long last, our Christmas Gift Guide – part 2, gift suggestions at the price point of $25 or under, for those of you with slightly higher gifting budgets than the average unplugged gaming journalist. There’s a few surprises on this list, so stay on your toes, and enjoy!
De Profundis First Look
Center stage on the mic… and we puttin it on wax… it’s the New Style. This latest in Hogshead’s line of boundary-pushing RPGs is perhaps the most rules-light of the whole line. It isn’t necessarily the lightest reading, though, as it outlines the “psychodrama” approach to role-playing in text that
The Wages of Electronic Plastic Sin
No, I’m not talking about that book, although I’ll link it, ’cause it’s cool. I mean the sort-of-football-shaped bar code reader and math-doer that Wizards bundled with every NFL Showdown 2002 starter set. The PlayGrid device, manufactured by WotC’s sibling company Tiger, has a great deal of trouble reading the