With a feature named “Tim on (table)Top”, it was only a matter of time before he brought up the dirty deed as a subject…though he could have lasted longer than just one week. Join Tim in pondering his inadequacies and hesitations at confronting the mommy-daddy dance in Monsterhearts.
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When I was little, the bulk of my PC gaming came from downloading shareware titles from the considerable libraries of Apogee and Epic Megagames. It’s was from Epic’s collection that I encountered first roguelike game: Rick Saada’s Castle of the Winds. CotW had all the hallmarks of the genre, such as tile-based, turn-based movement, unidentified magical items,
Cracking open the box of figurines and sliding out the tray, I suddenly felt my legs turn to complete jelly. In the spirit of trying new things, I had brazenly volunteered myself to take part in a HeroClix tournament at my friendly local game store mere days after learning to play the game for the
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Fantasy General is a somewhat obscure offshoot of SSI’s venerable Panzer General series. It’s a game I’ve been playing on and off since I was very young, but have yet to play to completion (maybe this time!). While I wouldn’t characterize my relationship to the game as “love/hate,” I do have mixed feelings about it and
In preparation for our annual Extra Life Charity game, Seth and I decided to run a few online RPGs with our various crews, just to make sure we kept those role-playing muscles nice and loose-like. Immediately seizing the opportunity to chose the game that I would lead, I thrust the rulebook for “Monsterhearts” into everyone’s
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Yesterday’s Expansion Pack has me thinking a lot about technological advancement, so come with me as I muse about that classic 4X space strategy game, Master of Orion II. MoO2’s “tech tree” is really just eight parallel lines representing different fields of scientific advancement, from biology to physics to sociology. There is no cross-pollination between
This feature is a companion to my board game reviews on the Extra Life Community Blog. You can find my review of Timeline: Inventions here. One of the interesting patterns that arose as I was playing Timeline: Inventions was the way in which people would be wrong. More often than not, when someone guessed at
