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Warpath Open Day
Well I was intending to do a proper event report on Mantic’s Warpath Launch Party, but my camera decided to die, so no pictures from me, I’m afraid đŸ˜¦ However, there were a number of more technically savvy folk about … Continue reading
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Foundry Miniatures Launch New Website
Tribes of Legend may not be the first fantastical product from Foundry, but it seems to have been a catalyst for them to launch a new Fantasy-focussed website. Whilst Foundry are known as a producer of historical figures, they actually … Continue reading
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Lego Dungeons
I was recently discussing different types of games and the Lego dungeon game Heroica came up. So, being something of a game junky (and just finishing DKH3) I thought that would be an amusing change of pace to have a … Continue reading
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Design Theory: Keep A Notebook
If you are like me, your ideas will come tumbling out of your subconscious in a random sequence. Sometimes there will be clumps of notions on a similar theme, sometimes not. However they appear they need to be captured and … Continue reading
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Armourfast Goodies + Secret 15mm Project
The nice people at Armourfast sent me some of their tanks to review, which is always welcome. It helps with the addiction as I don’t seem to be able to choose a single scale for WWII gaming đŸ™‚ Speaking of … Continue reading
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Review: Carnevale – Rhinos Can’t Jump!
This review is based on a pdf of the complete rulebook rather than the printed item as that’s what was given to me. You can see a lot of this on the downloads section of Vesper-On’s website. Not everything is … Continue reading
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Foundry Christmas Open Day
I don’t normally promote such things in advance, but I’m going to be at this one and it looks like fun. Among other things we’ll have the first public run out of the Tribes of Legend game. Speaking of which, … Continue reading
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Tribes of legend – Look Inside
Tribes of Legend is up on Amazon with their shiny look inside feature, which is cool. This is the first time I’ve seen most of it in its finished form, so it’s fun for me too. One of the things … Continue reading
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Design Theory: Less Is More
Just because an idea is good, doesn’t mean it’s good for this game. All of the designers I know have more ideas than they can get finished, and this is a good thing. It shows a fertile and creative mind. … Continue reading
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Design Theory: Murder Your Darlings
Murder your darlings is a phrase that was first used by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (the dapper gent illustrated here) in a 1914 lecture on writing style at Cambridge University. What it means is probably best put by saying that if … Continue reading
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