Battle Merchants: A Strategy Guide

The best merchants are those who understand the desires and demands of their customers long before those customers even ask. It turns, out the illegal arms trade works with a similar model. In Battle Merchants, players have to carefully manage...
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Designing Under Pressure: Creativity Through Limitations

Normally when people talk about hitting the ground running, it isn’t meant literally. But that’s precisely what we’re doing here today. See, during the few months I decided I was going to get into better shape through running, I read...
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The Numbers Game: It’s Probably Important

I’ve been playing a lot of Elder Sign lately because (a) it’s a great game, and (b) it’s one of the few really good, relatively quick co-op games I know (having played Pandemic just about into the ground over the...
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The Song of the Storyteller

In the world of tabletop gaming, the person running the game, the mastermind behind the screen, is referred to by a number of different appellations. The most common titles by far are that of Game Master, or in D&D parlance,...
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