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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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OgreCave Audio Report 2.0 – January 2015

March 5, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, LARP, Miniatures Games, Pathfinder, Podcast, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

In our first show of the new year, we’re already covering a lot of ground. In just the first half of the podcast, we go from Allan’s first impressions of Dungeons & Dragons: Fifth Edition to Mike’s obsession with space

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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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Gaming News Update podcast – Free RPG Day (KublaCon 2012)

June 8, 2012 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Interviews, LARP, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

We’re getting the last bits of KublaCon 2012 out of our system at OgreCave by posting a podcast episode about Free RPG Day 2012. Since it’s coming up in just over a week on Saturday, June 16, you may be

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Dominion wins 2009 Diana Jones Award

August 12, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, LARP, Roleplaying Games One comment

Huzzah and congratulations. My game group played three consecutive games just last night; I’m pretty sure that’s a record for us. Dominion beat out multiple big-name nominees, which are listed over here. Other news coming in via Twitter: lots of

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2009 Diana Jones Award shortlist announced

July 28, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Industry, LARP, Roleplaying Games 6 comments

This year’s nominees for the Diana Jones Award have been announced, and as always, they include a worthwhile assortment of game innovations. They also pit two Origins Award Best RPG nominees against each other again: Dominion (Rio Grande Games) Dungeons

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Come Out and Play ’09 came and played

June 16, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Geek Culture, LARP Leave a comment

Another June, and once again, I’m somewhat annoyed that I didn’t get myself out to New York City to participate in Come Out & Play, the annual weekend festival of city-wide games that strike an odd balance between LARP, sport,

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True Dungeon going big, spreading to whole Realm

October 6, 2008 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, LARP, Roleplaying Games 3 comments

We’ve said all along that the convention event True Dungeon is a cool activity, but that it needs one thing to make it work: big conventions – without the hardcore gamer audience coming out to a convention ready to consume,

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Weisman gets new gig infiltrating physical world with old-timey modern-fantasy mecha

December 7, 2007 Mike Sugarbaker Computer and Console Games, Industry, LARP 6 comments

“Jordan Weisman, founder of FASA, has licensed the rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies from Microsoft to his latest startup, Smith & Tinker.” S&T apparently aims to draw on the lessons of ARGs, the medium Weisman helped pioneer at

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True Dungeon gets yet more competition: get your Aliens on at Origins

June 13, 2007 admin Conventions, LARP 6 comments

And now here’s TerrorWerks, “a fully immersive event” set in “the immersive enviroment of a massive space station.” Also, it’s immersive. But I kid! I am psyched to see more attempts at this. I don’t think I ever posted properly

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Attention motorists: Perplex City is closed

June 11, 2007 Mike Sugarbaker Card Games, LARP 2 comments

Yeah, I saw the news and didn’t post because it just made me unhappy. (Especially when people started asking, right there on the goodbye posts from the story team, if this was all a setup to the start of season

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Perplex City season 1 really, really over

February 13, 2007 Mike Sugarbaker LARP 2 comments

Yeah, you know the Cube, right? The one that’s worth 200 grand? Some English guy found it. [This exciting account of the find doesn’t quite explain how the general area to search in was deduced, but once it was, the

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True Dungeon truths for ’06

April 4, 2006 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, LARP 4 comments

The lowdown on True Dungeon‘s gameplan for 2006 has been announced, along with a video peek of the enhanced adventure for this year, Escape from the Spider Cult. The massive live dungeon-crawl event will benefit from increased volunteer training, improved

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Call for True Dungeon volunteers

March 20, 2006 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, LARP, Roleplaying Games

The folks at True Dungeon are gearing up for Gen Con 2006 already. While event specific information is promised in a couple weeks, the crew is looking for volunteers, who will get various levels of swag and other compensation (even

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True Dungeon to expand at Gen Con Indy ’05

November 27, 2004 Allan Sugarbaker Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, LARP 2 comments

Easily the most lavish LARP-like game in the industry these days, True Dungeon is preparing for its west coast appearance at Gen Con SoCal next weekend. In an email update sent yesterday to fans of the game, Jeff Martin, president

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