Two questions which have weighed heavy on the minds of Star Wars fans around the world have finally been answered this weekend: Could the Walt Disney Company recapture the magic Lucasfilm created nearly forty years ago?
One topic which tends to terrify beginning fiction writers, as well as fledgling roleplaying game designers and Game Masters, is that of world building.
The Wizard World Comic Con tour had its last stop of the year at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center (November 17th-19th). As for their second year, the convention had a lot to live up to after a successful kickoff and had the Northern Nevada area showing up with high expectations.
Ares isn’t exactly a company known for lighter fare or card games, yet there aren’t too many games designed for as many as ten people on the market.
Frequent visitors to TGG know I’m a pretty big fan of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and a huge junkie when it comes to anything having to do with H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos. CofC (as we’ve always liked to abbreviate the title) has been a long time favorite RPG of mine as I spent nearly two decades running adventures using the system.
Humanity has taken to the stars and established colonies throughout the galaxy and, as in just about all science fiction, mankind finds they are not alone.
The Last Rail is an abstracted look at the building of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States.
The premise of The Village Crone is that each of the players represents an old, witchy hag who is vying to become the self-appointed crone of the village of Wickersby.
Jeff reviews the Victorian era Steampunk mech game Heavy Steam.
While plenty of folks will be thrown for an uncomfortable loop by the amount of sex and swearing in the series, as well as the dark tone and nature of the story, Jessica Jones is an excellent addition to the Marvel/Netflix partnership.
Jeff takes on the last player standing card game Exploding Kittens.
The Man in the High Castle is loosely based on the classic Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. It’s an alternate history tale in which the Allies lost WWII and the United States has been partitioned between the two main Axis adversaries: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Jeff reviews the deck building game Martial Arts – The Card Game from Artistic Justice Games.
Cubicle 7 has sliced out a very nice niche for themselves with their line of Cthulhu Britannica releases over the past few years and titles such as Shadows Over Scotland, Folklore, Avalon, and the initial adventure book (bearing the series name) have not only been exceptionally well received by gamers but have won a slew of awards too.
One of the big Cubicle 7 releases at this year’s Gen Con was the Lone Wolf Adventure Game and the boxed set was certainly doing brisk sales.
