With a recent comment on my post about the Little Tin Soldier, I was curious what else I could find about Don Valentine on the net. With the exact search terms “Don Valentine” and “Little Tin Soldier”, Google returns just … Continue reading
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Like a lot of general-purpose SF conventions, I didn’t do much actual gaming at Convergence. There’s a lot of gaming on the 22nd floor, but a) getting there, with the long lines for the elevators, is a major hassle and … Continue reading
My last panel of Convergence. This one also went pretty well. We started by discussing how different types of gaming are socially sanctioned. Are social games more acceptable somehow? What about games that are easier to interrupt with other activities? … Continue reading
This panel was much more practical and much less political, and also much more narrowly focused on gaming. (Though perhaps not narrow enough; the panel was written to address all gaming, from electronic to board, card and book. We had … Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking about Search for the Emperor’s Treasure, and last Saturday night, I played it with a few folks. I’ve been hankering for it since I looked into Gaming Hoopla, and since Matt mentioned wanting to play it. … Continue reading
Something I forgot to note in my slew of Con of the North posts: a couple weeks from now (April 19-21), there will be a pretty nifty gaming convention in Wisconsin called Gaming Hoopla. They now have their event listing … Continue reading
Quite soon after Ace of Aces ended, I got into a game of Hansa Teutonica. I’d actually just played my first game of it a week before, and liked it. Hansa Teutonica is a game of building trade routes in … Continue reading