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2020 Diana Jones Award honors Black Excellence in Gaming

July 29, 2020 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Game Design, Industry Leave a comment

This year’s Diana Jones Award has been announced, and it repairs some mistakes of the past with its list of honorees. For 2020, the Diana Jones Award committee has recognized the concept of Black Excellence in Gaming. In the announcement,

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Passing the Talisman Around: Licensing the Classics

August 29, 2019 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Computer and Console Games, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry Leave a comment

So you may have heard of the collaborations between The Op (formerly USAopoly, best known for its hundreds of versions of Monopoly) and Games Workshop (best known for Warhammer 40K and numerous fantasy or sci-fi board games). One of the

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Chaosium founder Greg Stafford passes away

October 12, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Founder of Chaosium and longtime game industry trailblazer Greg Stafford passed away yesterday. Greg founded Chaosium to get his work on the fantasy world of Glorantha published, and from there went on to design Pendragon, co-design the roleplaying games of

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Gale Force 9 gets Dune license

August 15, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Industry, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Gale Force Nine has reached an agreement with the Herbert Estate to publish tabletop games based on the Dune property. This will include a roleplaying game in late 2019, as well as board and miniatures games timed to release just

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2018 Origins Award winners

June 17, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

You’ve already read through the 2018 Origins Award nominees, right? And played all of them, as you were instructed? Okay, good – let’s proceed. As always, congratulations to all the nominees. Here’s the winners: 2018 Origins Award winners Best Board

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2018 Origins Award nominees announced

June 1, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Industry, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has announced their 2018 Origins Award nominees. There will also be Fan Favorite categories, voted on by attendees of the Origins Game Fair (as usual). Let’s peruse the list, shall we? Then,

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2018 Spiel des Jahres nominees announced

May 15, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Game Design, Industry Leave a comment

This year’s nominees for the Spiel des Jahres – Germany’s Game of the Year, a highly regarded title in tabletop gaming – have been announced, along with nominees for the Kennerspiel des Jahres (“Expert Game of the Year”, intended for

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Gen Con game convention wins 2017 Diana Jones Award

August 17, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, LARP, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

At Gen Con 50, the winner of this year’s Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming has been announced as… Gen Con itself! First organized in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin by Gary Gygax himself, Gen Con has grown to become an

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KublaCon 2017 photo gallery – complete!

June 7, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Okay, the flood of KublaCon photos has reached its peak, and all are now neatly contained in OgreCave’s KublaCon 2017 photo gallery (over at our Facebook page). Final attendee count was reportedly 3,321 – a good sized show! See if

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KublaCon 2017 photo gallery

June 2, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Those of you who follow OgreCave’s Facebook page have already heard, but in case you missed it, the first half of OgreCave’s KublaCon 2017 photo gallery is up and running. Have a look, comment, like, and see if you got

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Game Designer Eric Lang wins 2016 Diana Jones Award

August 6, 2016 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Industry Leave a comment

At Gen Con 2016, the winner of this year’s Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming has been announced as prolific and impressive game designer Eric M. Lang. Lang is known as the man behind Chaos in the Old World,

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OgreCave video: KublaCon 2015, Goodman Games, Cheapass Games

October 16, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Because we got some great footage at KublaCon 2015, we’re doing our best to ambush you with some of it (Flashback Friday, anyone?). We’ve included a general look at parts of the convention, but also managed to talk with Joseph

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OgreCave Audio Report 2.0 – March 2015

March 15, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Industry, Podcast, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

We’ve got a lot to say in the latest OgreCave Audio Report episode. First, we talk of DunDraCon 2015, wherein Allan describes some of the things he saw at the show. Then we hit Kickstarter hard, describing a variety of

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OgreCave video: DunDraCon promo

January 23, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, LARP, Miniatures Games, OgreCave, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

For the Cave dwellers, the start of convention season is heralded by DunDraCon. Now that the annual gaming event and its impending awesomeness are nearly here, this seems like the time to premiere our DunDraCon promo video. Take it away,

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OgreCave Audio Report 2.0 – December 2014

December 29, 2014 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, OgreCave, Pathfinder, Podcast, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

We’re back, and ready to talk all things gaming. To wrap up the year and prepare for new things, we have a brand new episode of our long-dormant (hibernating?) podcast show, the OgreCave Audio Report. Now redubbed 2.0, the relaunch

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