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Conspiracy Rules (Dark Conspiracy III)

Posted on by Ron McClung

Old school rises up again in a new release by 3Hombres Games. Dark Conspiracy is an old game once published in 1991 by the now defunct Game Designers’ Workshop, and has floated around in different hands since GDW’s demise in 1996. A second edition was published which updated the rules and a few adventures were published by it slowly died after that. A couple of fans worked hard to revive it and after some difficulties, the 3rd edition was put out in PDF form. The results of their labor is now available on DriveThruRPG.

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Blood Moon Expansion for Talisman 4th Ed. Rev.

Posted on by Ron McClung

When Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) took over the Talisman license back in 2008, I was more than excited. Being a fan of the game since the 1990s, I was really looking forward to seeing how FFG can improve the game. 2008 was the first year I got to go to GenCon and while there I talked to some of the writers of the game. I was really encouraged by their vision.

Since then, they have done what FFG does a lot – put out expansion after expansion. Not satisfied with just reprinting the classic expansions (of which they have done a few), they have put out a few small box expansions, some of which have some very original and innovative ideas. Talisman: The Blood Moon is one of those small box expansions that has some fairly innovative ideas; however they had already done something similar with Talisman: The Reaper. Blood Moon uses similar rules introduced in The Reaper expansion with a few new additional aspects mixed in.

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SCARAB 2013 – Columbia, SC

Posted on by Ron McClung

SCARAB is something that is taking the gaming community by storm in the Carolinas. Del Collins and his team have put on a gaming con in Columbia, SC for the past 3 years. With a clear vision, solid staff and good leadership, SCARAB has developed a solid foundation that is going to do nothing but grow and flourish over the next several years. However, SCARAB is more than just the con. SCARAB is actually the organization behind the con as well as dozens of game days throughout the year, throughout South Carolina and northern Georgia. So the SCARAB Convention is just one facet of what they do for the gaming community but it’s the culmination of all their efforts the previous year.

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