Next time you’re in Taibei, Taiwan and looking for a good FLGS, Alchemy Games is the natural place to check out. There are several locations around the city with different strengths. The one on Xinyi is more about M:tG; the … Continue reading
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There are a lot of movies that feel like RPG adventures — Ladyhawke, for example — and there are even a pretty good number of movies directly about RPGs, like the second D&D movie. But I just discovered that one … Continue reading
Through a thread on Story Games, I found out about a nifty game app available for iOS or Android: Road of Kings. It’s a sort of hexcrawl, where you’re out to prove your worth as a barbarian chief by accumulating … Continue reading
Recent discussion of the Tin reminds me of Car Wars. Starting sometime in the late 80s, my interest in Car Wars paralleled my interest in RPGs. For a few years there, I gave both an equal share of my free … Continue reading
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
If I had $2000 lying around, I’d be buying this right now: the original cover art for Darklands, one of the best CRPGs ever. The thumbnail to the right shows the cover as it was published; what’s on sale is … 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
The “Minneapolis Ties to Gaming” panel that I mentioned before went pretty well. We went through local gaming history pretty much chronologically, starting with boardgames published in the area nearly 100 years ago and ending with the potential future of … Continue reading
This weekend, I’ll be at Minicon, the Twin Cities’ longest-running SF convention. No scheduled games, but I could certainly run something if there’s interest! And I’ll be on a panel that promises to be really interesting: “Twin Cities Ties to … Continue reading
I got to the con later than I’d hoped, Friday afternoon. Lots of games were already in progress. I found my friend Alan, and we chatted a bit; he’d already been at the con for a few hours. He’d earlier … Continue reading