Future Tactics: The Uprising Released: May 10, 2004 Zed Two Now here’s one I can almost guarantee that you’ve never played. As a former employee at a large nationwide video game retailer, I literally could not give this game away, even at the more than reasonable price of 99 cents. Future Tactics: The Uprising [...]
It’s a board game, a deck building game, and a dice game. It’s the Swiss army knife of games. And it is awesome. Quarriors is a 2-4 player dice pool building game published by WizKids, that is pretty quick to play at around 30 minutes or so. For the full break down you can check [...]
I’ve always been a bit skeptical of modules. The only exclusion to this being the Tomb of Horrors, because let’s be honest, IT’S THE MOTHERLOVIN’ TOMB OF HORRORS PEOPLE! But I digress. I’m not a pre-made DM\GM sort. Part of what I’ve always found appealing is the creative design process of developing a fantastic [...]
(Extra Life will be a weekly column highlighting a game that you may have missed when it was first released, and deserves a second chance at being played.) Blade Runner (PC) Released: November 21, 1997 Westwood Studios Why you probably missed it: Blade Runner kind of got lost in [...]
SCARAB Gaming Convention is a relatively small con that is held just a few hours from my current hometown every January. This was my second time attending this con, because it was only the second SCARAB they’ve held. I don’t want to pretend this is a full review or “after action report” of the con, [...]
Better Late Than Never I’ve been running tabletop games almost continuously since 1981. I haven’t always been very good at it, but I truly enjoy it and have invested a great deal of time and energy into it over the past 30 or so years. Unfortunately, for a large portion of that time, I was [...]
So this just in from the crew over at Spartan Games. Big models for February! Check them all out at our Flickr page, but here are some quick highlights!
I stated playing D&D with the original blue books (can’t even say boxed set these days anymore, else some kid will think we’re talking Essentials). My friend Rodney introduced me to the wonderful world of sword and sorcery. Halflings were a class, fighters simply smashed stuff, and everyone knew mages sucked until level 3 or [...]
It seems that H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu mythos has seen an incredible revival in past few years. It’s everywhere. Fantasy Flight Games (FFG), creators of the card\board game Elder Signs has made an app version of the game available for iPad\iPhone called Elder Sign: Omens. As the license holders for Lovecraft’s works this is another in [...]
Just as a quick FYI before I begin - Bittorrent networking is the most popular form of modern P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing. Since 2006, bittorrent sharing has been the primary means for users to trade software, music, movies, and digital books online. Torrents are very unpopular with the MPAA, the RIAA, and other copyright authorities, but [...]
