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The Big Bang–Making Space Dice a Reality

This week’s guest comes from Jon Wheatley, documenting the process of taking an idea from some rough notes in a legal pad to a finished prod...
Board Game News Special: Albino Dragon

Friend of Unboxed Tabitha “Tabz” Smith would like you to know about a soon to end Kickstarter by Albino Dragon . Synthesis is a design proj...
Board Game News 25 – Kickstarter, TableTop Day, Giant Crosswords and This Weeks Releases

Okay guys, I have a trio of Kickstarters for you here today… Torn Amour First up the guys from Torn Armour would like you to know about th...
Board Game News 26: Dragons, Mexicans, Foxes, Chickens and a World without Hope!

It’s that time again, this week we have even more Kickstarter projects including two from members of the UKGMN, a myriad of themes here, eve...
Elder Sign

A couple of months ago I went out and bought myself a nice Android Tablet. Primarily I was sick of carrying round my massive 17” laptop and ...

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G*M*S Magazine

Haiku of Horror: Autumn Moon Bath House - This pdf is 61 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page author's note/dedication, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us wit...
1 day ago
Metagames

Review: Libertalia - Libertalia is by Paolo Mori who designed one of my favourite games Vasco de Gama. Libertalia is a very different game to Vasco de Gama as it is a simple a...
1 day ago
The Little Metal Dog Show

Livin’ On The Edge – Deserted Animals review - It’s not often you get a game in the mail which has a story attached that wouldn’t look out of place in an animated movie. Imagine an island where all the ...
1 day ago
Meeples & Miniatures

Deadzone: A first playtest report - Following the release of the Alpha rules for Deadzone, I thought that I’d have a play with the rules. As you may have seen in my last post, I’d dug my old ...
1 day ago
Fantasy Quest

Crossfire: Riding Your Luck until it Explodes: Pacing and Tension | Shadowrun 5 - Crossfire: Riding Your Luck until it Explodes: Pacing and Tension | Shadowrun 5: 'via Blog this' Looks interesting - can't wait for this game!
1 day ago
roleplay-geek

RPG Blog Carnival - What Campaign do I want to Play Next? - This month's RPG Blog Carnival hosted by Age of Ravens is entitled "Campaigns I'd Like to Run". The short answer to which is always *"my next one"*. The ...
1 day ago
Fantasy Flight Games

Reinforcements for the Allies and SSU - *Four New Units Are Available for Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare* As the war continues in *Dust Tactics* and *Dust Warfare*, each faction races to gain the ...
2 days ago
Boardgames in Blighty

News – New Shiny Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice Arrive for UK Games Expo demos! -
2 days ago
Musings of the Grumpy GM

Akulzar "Twice Risen" - Level 24 Solo Controller (Leader) - Ormid and the gang are midway through their battle with the Blue Lord. Things are *tricky* at the moment, but I have (more than they do) confidence that th...
3 days ago
New to the Table

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Pt 1 - Concept and 'Actions' - I’ll just dive right in and try to make this brief. For the past couple of months I’ve been quietly, privately beavering away on the Garth Marenghi’s Dar...
3 days ago
Pretty Sneaky, Sis

Thunderstone Advance Strategy 4: Caverns of Bane – Heroes - Caverns of Bane is the first expansion into the Thunderstone Advance era. You can see the breakdows for Towers of Ruin here, here and here. Towers of Ruin...
3 days ago
A night on the game

Three Years Strong - To all our followers and readers, subscribers and fans…. THANKS
4 days ago
Board Game Reviews by Josh

Terra Mystica Review - [image: Terra Mystica board game by Z-Man Games] An insanely popular game right now is Terra Mystica. So, when I was offered an opportunity to try it out, ...
4 days ago
Duke of the Blood Keep

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5 days ago
The Little Metal Dog Show

Episode 58 - Epic In Every Way - A truly massive episode this time around, featuring some Epic games! First of all, from new British company Waits In Graves, Sam Lamont and Beth Hughes com...
5 days ago
Fantastic Diversions

Google+ Screw-Up! - I just realized that recent integration of G+ commenting was a big mistake; it locked out commenting (from what I could see) unless one is registered on G+...
5 days ago
G*M*S Magazine

Episode 99.9–Galactic Strike Force with Christopher Badell - The last episode before the centenary episode of the G*M*S Magazine Podcast. Episode 100 will be special. We’ve no idea how yet, but it’ll be special. Mean...
6 days ago
Nearly Enough Dice

Episode 96 - With your hosts, Liz and Mike! Website: www.nearlyenoughdice.com iTunes! Leave us a review! Rate us! Subscribe! Stitcher! General Podcasty stuff, includi...
1 week ago
Uploads by grimtreegames

Exodus: Proxima Centauri Overview by Grim Tree Games - Exodus: Proxima Centauri Overview by Grim Tree Games Grim Tree Games shows a game overview of the board game Exodus: Proxima Centauri from NSKN Games. Or...
1 week ago
Pulp Citizen

Welcome To Pulp City - Some of the Supremes that inhabit Pulp CityThe blog has been running for some time now, and while there are over 100 people Following, I realised it has be...
2 weeks ago
Playtest

Algonquin College uses Playtest Feedback forms - Following correspondence with Gerry Paquette, Professor of Game Development at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada, the faculty has been given permission to...
3 weeks ago
BrettSpiel | Boardgame Design

Playtesting: The importance of getting to the end - [image: BrettSpiel] Earlier this week I got the prototype for new territorial city-building game Angkor Thom to the table for the third time. On the first ...
5 weeks ago
Caution: Small Parts

Flashpoint: Fire Rescue - To write Flashpoin: Fire Rescue off as a Pandemic clone [...]
1 month ago
BoardGameGuru Blog

New Releases 25th March 2013 - All new releases can be found here ‘Batman : Gotham City strategy Game’. This solves the problem of who gets to be Batman? As players are four arch villain...
1 month ago
Russ Rant

These Tombs Aren't Going to Raid Themselves - "I hate tombs." - Lara CroftThere certainly have been a lot of bad Tomb Raider games over the years. I only really enjoyed the very first one as it was so ...
2 months ago
BrettSpiel | Boardgame Design

Systematic Wonder - [image: BrettSpiel] Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct p...
2 months ago
Kevin & Games

Games in a Pub – 17th February 2013 - *8 Year Old Holds His Own At Pub Games Night!* As the group gathered they kicked off with one of our most popular fillers, Straw. Straw is an excellent car...
2 months ago
shortymonster

How they met. - Like damned near every kid his age he wore sneakers. Not because he was sporty, or even the outdoors type at all. Who the hell would go out and get themsel...
3 months ago
GamInglorious

Race For The Galaxy Review - So he stepped forward to introduce himself thus, G@GI posts his first game review with GamInglorious, with a look at Race for the Galaxy, a game he is r...
3 months ago
Drunken Goblin

Minecraft Survival – Episode 4 - Here’s the fourth episode of our Minecraft adventure. Mike from Drunken Goblin and Rob from Checkpoint Reload continue their adventure of trying to surviv...
4 months ago
The Royal Society of Gamers

Episode 17: Hungry Mediums in Strasbourg - [image: Strasbourg][image: Divinare][image: The Hunger Games: District 12] A review-heavy episode this time around with discussions of Strasbourg, Divina...
5 months ago
Analogue Diversions

Discworld: Ankh-Morpork - “I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,’ said [Vetinari]. ‘You are wrong, of course. There ...
5 months ago
"Roll dice and kick ass!"

Infiltration: the game that almost got away - *Feel the hype, sigh* *Infiltration: are you* *up for a caper?*The social media advertising for *Infiltration* passed before my eyes registered but ignored,...
6 months ago
Exploding Robot

What kind of Board Gamer are you? - pQuarriors./p pQuarriors. /p pQuirriors./p pYeah. Quarriors is, to put it bluntly#8230; A thing./p pStay with me./p pIt#8217;s a sort of competitive deck-b...
8 months ago
GIVE ME A SIX

D&D Wrath of Ashardalon - Slowly you advance along the dimmly lit corridor, the smell of decay permeates the air, in the dark corners the sound of tiny feet scurrying out of the lig...
11 months ago
D6G: The Lost Chapters

D6G TLC Book 27 - Book Club: The Hunger Games - In this episode Dan Yarrington of Myriad Games joins Craig and Russ to have a book club style discussion about The Hunger Games. Warning, here be spoilers....
1 year ago

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