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Unboxing: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game

I have been dying to get my hands on Wizards of the Coast‘s newest dungeon tile board game, The Legend of Drizzt.  Not only am I a fan of the previous games, Castle Ravenloftand Wrath of Ashardalon, I...

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2012 Geek Resolutions

I love the new year.  My type A, OCD-addled personality loves how perfect January 1st looks on the calendar.  We all have resolutions, even if you’re the type of person who doesn’t “believe” in them,...

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New Year, New Game

The brilliant minds over at Gnome Stew have offered a challenge to GM’s: Run a new game this year! Their reasoning behind the challenge is, “To inspire game masters to run at least one new game each...

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I think I broke my back: Ramblings of a mad man.

This is what happens when you tweak your back on post day and can’t move much without shooting pain.    So to my surprise the long thought dead (By me at least) MMO Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO)...

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Episode 15 – Dungeons & Dragons Movie Review

As gamers and as geeks, we love the fantasy genre.  We’ve spent countless hours reinventing ourselves around the table, rolling out polyhedral dice whilst performing heroic deeds and living out the...

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Episode 17 – Co-Op Experiences

In this day and age of online gaming and social media, we geeks have it sweet in the ability to jump on our PC’s or consoles with people from around the world and wreak havoc upon AI foes or one …...

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Episode 19 – The Walking Dead

Join us this week as we “talk the walk” and look at one of our favorite subjects of entertainment, The Walking Dead.  We jump right into the zombie apocalypse and discuss the things we both love and...

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A Call to Arms – Support Your Local Gaming Stores

Okay.  So I really try not to get up on a soap box (often) but this past week has really made me feel that it was necessary to put the word out.  Gamers of the world, we all really need … Continue...

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Episode 22 – Board Games: Traditional vs. Niche

Do you love being a Slum Lord and driving everyone into bankruptcy?  Perhaps you prefer attempting to save the world from simultaneous E. coli, Bird Flu, and Gonorrhea outbreaks? Or is a night of...

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Unplugging a New Generation of Gamer

Back in December of 1999, my sister gave birth to my oldest nephew.  That evening at the hospital, I can almost guarantee that my brother-in-law and I had a discussion that one day, we would have a...

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Rules To Play By: My Attempt To Break A Board Game Pt. 1

  So after a few play sessions of the three Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons board games (all based on the fantasy adventure ruleset) I decided to take on the task of extending the ruleset...

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Rules To Play By: My Attempt to Break A Board Game Pt. 2

  When I last left off I was talking about the my visions for the character classes  in modern D&D board games. This time I shall talk about adding item levels along with a few additional cards to...

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Rules To Play By: My Attempt to Break A Board Game Pt. 3

When I last wrote and you read I detailed my ideas for updating the treasure deck and adding item levels. Today it will be all about the maths. The whole point of the exercise is to allow a campaign...

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Episode 36 – Hey, I Just Met You

Have you ever had one of those days where you just feel like doing whatever the hell you want, talk about whatever the hell you want, and listen to pop music?  We do too!  Join us this week as we …...

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Are Fantasy Settings The Best Settings?

With the multitude of tabletop gaming systems and settings out there for mass consumption, it can be easy for Players and GMs, those new to the hobby and veterans alike, to get lost in the maze of...

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DnD Next – Keep “Nexting” and Driving (Things Forward)

Articles abound these days about the buzz that is DnD Next.  From analysis of the core rules to speculations about the future, every play-tester has their opinion and each one is valid in its own...

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DnD Next, GenCon, and the End of the Edition Wars?

Now that I have seen GenCon come and go another year without getting even remotely close to Indianapolis to get my game on, there is no lack of buzz on the internet in regards to the keynote address...

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Where Are We Now? – Maps, Tabletop RPGs, and You

As I’ve been working through the backlog of Gamerstable podcasts, a recent episode on maps in gaming really got me thinking of their importance and impact on me.  While I am definitely no...

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Episode 69 – Mundane vs. Powered

When it comes to tabletop RPGs, the world the game is set in usually dictates the choices a Player has for their characters (We all like to break the rules - and game - sometimes). Seeing as their are...

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Episode 74 – TV Character Deaths

It seems like not that long ago, the characters on our favorite TV shows were untouchable. Sure, most have been far from infallible, some not even remotely likable, but they definitely seemed to be...

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