Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
Catacombs on Pyre Fading Suns Campaign Session at my place around noon. We’ll have a cookout dinner afterwards. This should be the finale of this whole campaign. The group has found itself in a huge facility called the Monastery of St Lauticus – the end of the Enigmus Collection. They now know what the Master…
OK, the big reveal is over. They made it to earth and it is a nuclear slag heap. Or IS it Earth? That’s the big question. On the bright side, at least it is not Earth in the 1980s. There is very little to analyze but I would say that this is not really Earth….
There was a scene in National Treasure 2 that really tweaked my historical and political sensibilities. I do not think anyone else would notice unless they were a student of history and federalism as our founding fathers intended. Gates (Nicolas Cage’s character) said that Lincoln (his favorite president) changed the way people saw the US….
Catacombs on Pyre This is the next session for our Fading Suns campaign as it comes to a close. The players stepped through an Ancient gate device and are now underground in the catacombs of a very hot world. All signs show that it is Pyre – from the heats to the sand make-p. But…
I have had a fleeting attraction to the steampunk genre but no game really grabbed me. Goodman Games donated a game to ConCarolinas called Ehterscope so I decided to look at it. I like it A LOT! Not only is it Steampunk, but it is alternate history, with the US and Britain entangled in a…
From: Rio Grande Games Reviewed by: Ron McClung Oregon is a new Board Game from Rio Grande Games. Where the American Frontier meets Euro-style board gaming, Oregon is a strategy game where players place tokens and figures in an attempt to maximize their point potential. I have been told that this game is similar to…
From: TC Digital Entertainment, Home Focus Development, Epic Cycle Interactive Reviewed by: Ron McClung Chaotic Trading Card Game is a new Trading Card Game from TC Digital Entertainment, Home Focus Development, and Epic Cycle Interactive. Based on an animated TV series from 4Kids Entertainment, Chaotic on the outset seems like it is just another kids…
From: Rio Grande Games Reviewed by: Ron McClung Manhattan is a new Board Game from Rio Grande Games. Manhattan is a building game that uses plastic skyscraper pieces and cards to challenge the players in an abstract race to build the most and highest skyscrapers in 6 cities – Manhattan, Sydney, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Sao…
From: www.daysofwonder.com Reviewed by: Ron McClung Ticket to Ride: Switzerland Expansion is a new Boardgame Expansion from Days of Wonder. Ticket to Ride (TtR)is one of those staple games you can always see at a convention. It is right up there with Settlers of Catan as one of the more popular games to play. Ticket…
A cybered assassin (and its equally cybered up war beast)