Weekly Roundup 5/31/13

Weekly News 5/31/13 New Games: Augustus, a 2013 Spiel nominee, will be available for play at Origins, though it won’t be on sale until Gen Con (in August, appropriately). (via BGG) Dungeon Twister is back! In card form! And it’s...
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Fallen City of Karez

Journal of Arnton Fennif, Royal Surveyor Field Notes, Day 3: As we continued our expedition through the former city of Karez, we were surprised to discover that it was not entirely uninhabited, as was previously thought. While much of the...
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Games of Love

Games of Love Or, If Games Were Relationships   Once upon a fairly-recent time, in a city not very far away, there lived a young gamer. She was, as they say, at a crossroads. Her gaming experience up to this...
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Previewing: Princes of the Dragon Throne

Welcome to Lo’en, a land ruled by us dragons. Sure, there are other kingdoms of humans and goblins and the like, but they all answer to us. We control the Dragon Throne, and our lordship is not in question. However....
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ABCs of GMing – Energy

The ABCs of GMing The ABCs of GMing is an ongoing series about the different skills and ideas needed to run a successful tabletop game.   Energy I’ve mentioned in previous articles that GMs are responsible for the pacing of...
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Our Thanks

Monday, May 27th in the US is the observance of Memorial Day, a holiday to commemorate those who have fallen during military service. We want to state our thanks to those who have served, and lost, in their duty. We...
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Gloom

Editor’s Note: We had a nice, moving soliloquy planned to accompany this piece, done by Lord Wellington-Smythe. We heard an early draft, and it was truly sorrowful and full of beautiful prose. Unfortunately, it seems that Lord Smythe has met...
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Weekly Roundup 5/24/13

Weekly News 5/24/13 New Games: Duel of Ages II will be available in July, with pre-orders through going live on June 15th. Watchtower Games has announced its new dungeon-crawler Fallen. It’s designed for two players – one to play the...
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Magic 2014 Rules Changes

In addition to their normal quarterly updates for banned and restricted updates, Wizards occasionally makes more sweeping rules changes that are unveiled during their core sets. The last such major rules update was during the release of the Magic 2010...
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