Anyone else around here playing this? Here's a little background for the uninitiated. Just after a little-known card game named Magic: The Gathering appeared on the scene, another card game by Richard Garfield came out called Netrunner.  The game features two sides that played vastly differently from each other, so differently in fact that you could not use one side's cards in the other side's deck AT ALL.  This was a collectible card game. Fantasy Flight Games rec...

I realize this is 'Gaming' and that nobody on this site seems to think there's anything except electronic gaming, but come on. Why can't we at least have a pity 'Board Game' subcategory here? The following is a session report I wrote for Board Game Geek, but since this is where I actually blog I want it posted here too. I will continue to write these as more missions are run. And now, the story: I was on the ground when we got word - the English were coming, a couple patrollers it ...

To summarize Wings of War does not take long. Wings of War is a game about World War 1, specifically the planes of World War 1. The game is primarily played with cards, representing planes, maneuvers of the planes, and cards representing hits, misses, and damage. The brilliance of this game is clear as soon as you see the maneuver cards. Each plane card has an arrow the bottom, and a line on the top. The maneuver cards have a line clearly showing the maneuver, and an arrow where it ends....

First of all, I'd like to say that the anti-social behavior this article is talking about has nothing to do with violence. Violence and video games is a completely different argument. Video games allow a person to feel as if they have accomplished something without doing anything. So you beat every Final Fantasy. Nobody really cares, except other people that have played Final Fantasy, and even they don't care that much. A huge problem is that a lot of women are not gamers. Some are,...

WizKids is a board game publishing company. Recently, they have decided to switch from using many distributors, to two - Alliance and Diamond. These two distributors are owned by the same person. They are also the two distributors who give discounts to retailers based on volume. Most distributors give discounts to retailers based on the discount given to them by the publisher. Alliance is also the distributor that passed on WizKids games when they were starting - WizKids is now abandonin...

Europa 1400: The Guild. This game is pretty close to perfect for me. I love the idea of owning my own business, making stuff and selling it, and that's what Europa is all about. But that's not what it's ALL about, that's just one thing it could be about. You start as a 'Citizen' in a city (more of a village at the time, though) and must slowly build yourself up in wealth and political power. Part of this is the fact that you are going to die, and you have to have a child in order to ...

Big Brother is a reality TV show. I like to think of them as today's game shows, myself. They have play at home games for those, so why not play at home survivor or Big Brother? There are a couple problems with the setup, though. After all, once you are evicted, that's the end of the game for you. Also, keeping people locked in your house for 13 weeks is generally frowned upon. So there would be some timing issues to work out, maybe every half-hour or hour instead of a week. The ma...