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Z-Man announces Choose Your Own Adventure co-op game

April 14, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Gamebooks, Geek Culture Leave a comment

With board games becoming more story-driven, it makes sense for game publishers to look toward classic adventure stories for design inspiration. It makes even more sense to design a game around the Choose Your Own Adventure books – stories that

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OgreCave review: Brothers

December 29, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Computer and Console Games, Reviews Leave a comment

To close out the year for us, Lars Roberts offers us a review of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from 505 Games. This adventure game for PC and consoles stands out for its unique controls, which both play off

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Eleven Games to Play at your Stranger Things Party

October 27, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Features, Game Design, Geek Culture Leave a comment

More than anything, watching the kids on Stranger Things obsess over their favorite games hits us with heavy nostalgia for those classic games of the 1980s. When you celebrate this modern classic of kids against the supernatural, whether you binge-watch

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Z-Man posts preview of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2

September 30, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Game Design Leave a comment

Z-Man Games has posted a preview of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2015 boardgame. Designers Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock have created a game of both exploration and resource management in the anticipated co-op sequel,

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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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Gaming News Update – Anna Meade (Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG)

August 12, 2017 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Geek Culture, Podcast, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

In this Gaming News Update interview, we throw new OgreCave contributor Lars Roberts to the wolves and have her interview Anna Meade, co-author of Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Due to hit Kickstarter for a 2018

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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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MAID RPG, Tokyo Brain Pop, and why GTE couldn’t just fix their network

September 26, 2016 Mike Sugarbaker Geek Culture, Reviews, Roleplaying Games

First, a public apology. A few years ago, Andy Kitkowski, publisher of Tenra Bansho Zero and co-publisher of MAID RPG, sent us a review copy of MAID and was very flattering in a note he attached to it. We’ve felt

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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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Guest column: Dungeons & Dragons as Story

October 26, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Columns, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Today, a friend of the Cave, Aaron Teixeira, offers up his thoughts on the ongoing Dungeons & Dragons discussion: can the original roleplaying game be used as an inspired, artful storytelling device? Or is it merely a game of “killing

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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 video: Luke Laurie, CelestiCon

September 5, 2015 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Game Design, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Around the Cave these past few months, Real Life (TM) has been busy, so gaming has suffered. But even hibernating ogres need to stretch, wake up, and hunt for good gaming now and then. To facilitate a good hunt for

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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 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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