In case you missed it at the end of last week, Fantasy Flight announced it would no longer be handling distribution for Rackham. So far, no plan has been announced for handling the AT-43 and Confrontation product lines going forward, but retailers and gamers alike don’t seem to care much
D&D Miniatures becoming less random in 2009
Anyone watching the collectible games market over the past year has noticed a distinct trend toward reducing the randomness (note our lack of a Best Collectible Game in this year’s Ogre’s Choice Awards). Now, as has been speculated since the game’s inception, Wizards of the Coast plans to release some
OgreCave reviews – Malleus Monstrorum, and Tim
Continuing our Screams from the Cave event, Demian has provided us with a pair of game reviews for the discerning horror gamer. First, he tells us a bit about the massive Call of Cthulhu creature book Malleus Monstrorum from Chaosium. Then we get his thoughts on the Cthulhu-inspired CD The
First look: Monty Python Fluxx
We just received our copy of Monty Python Fluxx from Looney Labs today, and I had a quick look through the cards. Despite what I saw in a prototype deck at GTS ’08, it appears the card selection has been de-spammed – as in, no cards with the word “Spam”
OgreCave reviews – Stunning Eldritch Tales
Okay, let’s get this show on the road: our Screams from the Cave event, highlighting goodies of fear and creepiness, starts off with Lee’s in-depth review of Stunning Eldritch Tales from Pelgrane Press. The collection of pulp horror adventures for Trail of Cthulhu gets high marks from Lee, and he
True Dungeon going big, spreading to whole Realm
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, the company’s profit model would crash. Well, next April, True
FATEsters and IPR-ists present… $3 PDFs of D&D content??
It’s true. A mix of principals from Evil Hat and IPR, plus an all-star cast, is doing a couple lines of PDF material for 4E (I thought we still didn’t get to do that? Shows you what I know). And, uh, the $3 figure is inexact; it’s a good-enough descriptor
OgreCave review – Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
Our friend Lee Valentine, deputy Ogre and thorough game reviewer, gives us his blow-by-blow analysis of Ticket to Ride: The Card Game from Days of Wonder. Does interesting gameplay outweigh quirky rules text? Have a read through and find out, and peruse our other reviews while you’re at it.
Audio Report: Ogre’s Choice 2008, and prizes!
It’s time once again – okay, fine, it’s a bit overdue – for our annual Ogre’s Choice Awards show, wherein all the Cave Dwellers have contributed to the final award nominee and winner selections. Mike, Steve, and I discuss what we liked this past year, which you can read along
Audio Report: hella PAX and hella Hellas
Our recap of Penny Arcade Expo has made it out the door; perhaps more urgently at this point, I interviewed Michael Fiegel and Jerry Grayson, producers of the much-talked-about Hellas RPG, and you can hear the result. Come on down.
Feeding the Talismania
Fans of the mighty fantasy boardgame Talisman will soon get a close look at the first expansion for Fantasy Flight’s revised edition of the game (Fourth Edition, by my count). The new expansion, The Reaper, provides 128 new cards, four new characters, and the Grim Reaper, a neutral piece any
Ticket to Ride dice expansion coming soon
In an effort to bring customers aboard at even more stations, Days of Wonder has announced plans for Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion by Alan Moon. Usable with any of the TTR boardgame sets, the eight custom dice – five Train dice, and three Tunnel dice for certain boards
Fourth Edition GSL revision still “weeks off”
Links to this Gleemax post, by Dungeons & Dragons Senior Brand Manager Scott Rouse, are currently floating all over the web, wherein Rouse asserts that the 4e GSL revision promised a month ago “has not been shelved”. Rouse stated that “The draft is done. The changes are approved and it
Formula D floors it with exclusive Porsche model
As I first learned at this year’s KublaCon, the popular, out-of-print Formula One racing game Formula De is being tuned up and given a new coat of paint in Formula D from Asmodee. Now there’s news that the new game, which will feature driver character cards and prepainted cars, will
Call the Maid
As Mike mentioned a few weeks back, there’s a little game crossing the Pacific from Japan this year. A hit at Gen Con ’08, the Maid RPG is . Have a look if you dare, and see how this translation of a Japanese RPG about anime maids entertains – or