Weekly Roundup 11/21/13

Weekly News 11/21/13 New Games: Shadowrun: Crossfire is a deck-building game based on Shadowrun and put out by Catalyst Game Labs. (via Meople Magazine)   Expansions: What is Fantasy Flight up to this week? They’ve actually been pretty quiet. Just...
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The Trouble With Science Fiction and RPGs, Part III

Part Three: Science Fiction Fundamentals In the previous two installments of this discourse (found here and here), I discussed roleplaying game settings which are not actually science fiction, and science fiction games that have been less than successful for a...
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Commander Spotlight: Sapphire Charm

Celebrating it’s 20th anniversary, the game of Magic: the Gathering has certainly been around for a long time. Not only is it one of the most successful games ever created, it continues to be relevant by constantly improving upon itself....
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Forbidden Desert

So, hypothetical question: if you and three other people were stranded in an ancient city in the desert, and your only hope of survival before the landscape did you in was to explore said city, uncover lost treasures, assemble a...
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Weekly Roundup 11/14/13

Weekly News 11/14/13 Site News: So, a note about the news: We’re now once again covering some crowd-funding releases in the roundup – but only those that I think are interesting, innovative, or otherwise worth your time. If you come...
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Vox Republica 019: A Miniatures Primer

Episode 019 Length: 30:10 Subscribe to Show Link:   Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast! We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 – 30 minutes long. This week, I talk...
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Previewing: Call of Catthulhu

The world built by humans is a comfortable, yet fragile place. It is filled with warmth and food, kindness and comfort. Alas, lurking beyond its borders, in its shadows and at its edges, terrible things wait. Ancient spirits and gods...
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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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Commander Spotlight: Aether Flash

A long, long time ago – eons really – I used to have a Red / Black that I was proud of. It wasn’t terribly fast, but given that my domain in the vast majority of my nearly two decades...
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Weekly Roundup 11/7/13

Weekly News 11/7/13 New Games: Oh, hey, there’s a True Blood game. I’ll give you three guesses to figure out who’s publishing it. Yeah, you know, we’re all going to get this one right. It’s Cryptozooic guys. The name of...
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