This year, I attended Pax Prime as a civilian—that is to say, free of responsibilities like hosting The Future of D&D and our annual Ask the DM panel (note that if you’re watching these panels on Twitch, you need skip ahead in the video; there’s some dead space at the start). Instead, I spent the convention [ Read More ]
A couple weeks ago, I played Chaos in the Old World by Fantasy Flight Games. In the game, you adopt the role of one of the four gods of ruins: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh. Not exactly names to inspire fear. Then again, the game is based on the world of the Warhammer, so I [ Read More ]
This last weekend at Rodney Thompson’s birthday party, I played Shogun, a board game about warring states in feudal Japan. Not to be confused with the 1986 Milton Bradley version of Shogun, this game is a sophisticated war game that combines the territorial components of Risk, the resource and population management of a game like [ Read More ]
