About a month ago, I was going through Duluth again, so I stopped at another well-known FLGS: Rogue Robot. Don’t let the basement location fool you. Rogue Robot is quite a large space, with multiple rooms. The store is connected … Continue reading
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I have gotten the message, at times, that one of my biggest potential selling points for my game(s) is that they’re written by a trans woman. I feel pressure to publicly appeal to that fact in order for them to … Continue reading
On my way through Duluth yesterday, I stopped at an FLGS I’d heard of: Dungeons End. (No apostrophe.) Seems like the Duluth area has several FLGSs; I think I decided to check this one out more or less at random. … Continue reading
Tonight before gaming, John texted me to let me know that Classified, the James Bond 007 retroclone, was back in stock at the Source. As I walked into the store, Burl greeted me with a friendly, “You must be here … Continue reading
All ten of my items are posted now. For the record, they were: Dinosaurs! A couple nice plastic dinosaurs. Stance markers for Blade & Crown. Glass beads as cheap as they come. Die-cast vehicles for use in SF games. Chess … Continue reading
The last item in my Dollar Store Dungeons project: a whiteboard. Or, as the package says, a Dry Erase Board: And I suppose it really is a dry-erase board rather than a whiteboard, because the surface is actually a silver … Continue reading
This was the simplest, most practical, most directly usable purchase for Dollar Store Dungeons: a set of mechanical pencils. There’s not much to say about these, really. Just that people often don’t seem to have writing instruments, or enough writing … Continue reading
My next post for the Dollar Store Dungeons project is a three-for-one. Three items that, once I saw them, I knew I’d need to use together. Item #6: Paint The first part of this mini-project is paint. For $1, I … 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
My next Dollar Store Dungeons purchase was a pretty easy choice: one of the world’s oldest wargames, chess. Not that I intend to play chess, that is. (If I’m going to go that old-school, my preference is 圍棋 Wéiqí.) Instead, … Continue reading