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What is best in board gaming? To roll you dice, count the damage, and hear the lamentations of bad luck! It’s been a while since I had played Conan the board game from Monolith games, so I was up for it when it got brought out at the table. The pitch – you get to Read more
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Author Peter McLean has written a grimdark fantasy noir series, following a crime boss turned soldier returned crime boss and eventually embroiled in the political machinations of kingdoms at war and revolutions. Overall, I liked it, the first book in particular. As the series goes by, we watch the rise of Tomas Piety and his Read more
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I’m a big fan of two of the three other Forbidden games* and I was eager to see if Forbidden Jungle was going be among the better ones. TLDR – yes, I enjoyed it as did the others at the table. Though it can be said that there is a series with the Forbidden games, Read more
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Like so many GMs, I’m prone to world building the little bits and pieces that my players may never actually care about but dang it, I remain proud of putting those details out there. The default world I’ve been adding to for several years now is a pastiche of historical periods with a fantasy overlay Read more
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Every decade or so, there’s a new animated Batman series. This isn’t a bad thing. Each has had some interesting takes on the classic lore stirred in with new interpretations. So far, I’m enjoying this one. The look of it is close to the Bruce Timm original animated series (no surprise as Timm is an Read more
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New Game to my Table It’s a semi cooperative game for 2 – 4 players and it does nicely capture the feel of being evil masterminds bent on global domination that must work together to commit schemes but still establish who gets to be Number 1 of SPECTRE. Seriously, the rules encourage that the current Read more
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