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Tag: Thoughts on Gaming

A Guide to Painting Miniatures: Part Two – A Primer on Priming

Once you’ve been able to prepare your figures by removing flash and mold lines, it’s time to apply primer. It’s important to remember that acrylic paint doesn’t adhere very well to bare metal, plastic, or resin. If you’re going to devote time and energy to carefully painting your little miniature wonders you want to make sure that paint job is going to last a good long time.

A Guide to Painting Miniatures: Part One – Preparing the Figure

Everyone loves the look of sharply painted miniatures on the tabletop. Many gamers assume that the art of presenting stylish and eye grabbing figures are beyond their skills but those same people would be amazed by the results they can achieve by following some rather simple steps.

Where is Neuroshima?

So, you’ve played Neuroshima Hex and some of it’s expansions. Intrigued,you picked up a copy of the Neuroshima Hex: Duels expansion in 2009, and rushed out to get 51st State, the new card game just released in the USA from Toy Vault.

All of these games say “Based on the world of the Neuroshima RPG”.

What the heck is the Neuroshima RPG?

Playing with Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Themed Board Games

For those who enjoy a good list. Here is a by no means exhaustive list of the Cthulhu Mythos themed board and card games out there. I did not include the RPG, or the CCG that no longer is in print. Please lose 1d4 SAN after reading.

What is P500?

Many of our friends in the gaming industry utilize what’s known as a P500 preorder system. Companies such as GMT, Lock ‘n Load, and others

Happy 50th Anniversary to Strat-O-Matic Baseball

Hal Richman received an honor five decades in the making on Saturday, when his labor of love reached an impressive milestone of longevity. Richman, the creator of Strat-O-Matic Baseball, saw legions of fans descend upon the Community Church of New York to jointly celebrate the game’s 50th anniversary and its annual Opening Day party.

1001 Nights: Narrative and Games

When we think about games and their stories, we’re thinking about a nicely complicated interweaving of narrative and activity.

Over the River and Through the Woods: Visiting with Boardgames

I have a couple of issues I keep in mind when I’m putting together the list of games I’ll want to take along to visit friends and family. First, I don’t want to overwhelm our hosts, so I only take a few games. Somewhere between four and six seems like a good number. Second, I like to bring short games. Third, how big a family are we visiting? Do you need to pack some massively multi-player games for your sister with three kids? And if it’s your sister with the kids then you’ll need to think about ages, too. Lastly, I spend a little time thinking about theme.

The Real Investment in Gaming

I wanted to share a link to a short piece that Trent over on The Board Game Family had to share regarding the real investment involved in gaming. And it isn’t really about money folks!