Previewing: Chaos & Alchemy

It always seems that no matter what happens, if you get too deeply involved into alchemy, bad things happen. It’s this fascinating old wives’ tale that must have been started by Moirai themselves during a period of downtime, because the...
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You Should Be Playing Lacuna

You Should Be Playing… Lacuna, Part I: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from the Blue City   Human consciousness was never quite what it seemed. The legends of ancient Greece posited our cognition was a cruel joke...
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Commander Spotlight: Ragged Veins

Quiz Time! Explain to me the entirety of Newtonian Physics, with diagrams. You have 20 minutes until pencils down… Okay fine, I won’t actually ask that of you – today. But you do remember Netwton’s Third Law of Motion at...
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Pixel Lincoln

To the Desk of Abraham Lincoln, Your hat is mine and there’s nothing you can do it about it! Muwahaha! -Sincerely Yours, John Wilkes Booth P.S. Yes, writing out ‘muwahaha’ was necessary!   The Premise Pixel Lincoln is a board...
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Vox Republica 003: How to Make Horror Games Scary

Episode 003 Length: 24:26 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. I talk...
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Weekly Roundup 7/25/13

Weekly News 7/25/13 New Games: There’s a Cryptozooic game coming out that’s based on True Blood . . . so that’s happening. Sorry. (via BGG) Le Fantome de la Opera, which is based mechanically on Mr. Jack, will be premiering...
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Luck and the Modern Gamer

Last time, we explored how our brain’s behavior can affect our gaming behavior, but that’s hardly the only factor. We all know that luck plays a role too. It always seems like some of us are luckier than others, but...
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Previewing: Incredibrawl

“Physical Zombie loses to Energy Dinosaur.” Take a moment to fully register that sentence. Let the gears turn for a minute. …Physical Zombie… …Energy Dinosaur… Do you follow yet? No? Good. Welcome to Incredibrawl: the fantastical knock-down, drag-out card game...
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Commander Spotlight: Phyrexian Tyranny

Unless you’ve never played Commander before, or you’ve only delved into it through the preconstructed decks, you’ve had the experience of building an EDH deck. The selection of a Commander aside, we all know it takes time. There’s only so...
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