E. Gary Gygax (1938~2008)
Posted in Gaming, Roleplaying Games on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All my (A)D&D characters raise their tankards to you from their seats in Valhalla.
Rest in peace, Dungeon Master.
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Death Checkmates Fischer
Posted in Boardgames, Gaming on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the greatest and most troubled minds in gaming history has lost his battle with Death herself. Bobby Fischer is dead. Known equally for his erratic behavior and brilliant mind, Fischer was an icon of the Cold War, when the 64 squares of the chessboard proxied for the world as the battleground of the [...]
Boardgamers will chuckle at this…
Posted in Gaming, Humor, Videogames on January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How many did you say?
Posted in Boardgames, Gaming on January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Game night had been passed over a lot over the past weeks, due to myriad holiday and work commitments among the group, but also due to several illnesses that took all of us down at one point or another. While playing on the Frog’s Wii was fun, there’s still nothing like an organic tabletop game [...]
Wow, we played boardgames (Part III: Reiner Knizia’s Blue Moon City)
Posted in Boardgame Reviews, Boardgames, Gaming on April 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Reiner’s attempt to water down Magic: the Gathering into a game playable by the general gaming crowd was less than impressive. (Read: Blue Moon is underwhelming.) This attempt at franchise-building a-la Catan isn’t unusual, but the product has to measure up. On the heels of a Deutsch novel to further support the world-building of the [...]
Wow, we played boardgames (Part I: Reiner Knizia’s Taj Mahal)
Posted in Boardgames, Gaming on April 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Due to the influx of holidays and the D&D campaign, boardgaming time has been hard to come by. One of our team was stricken by illness this past weekend, causing the cancellation of murderous mayhem and allowing us time to relax and play nonviolent German games again.
It was just myself, Nix and The Frog to [...]
Reiner Knizia’s Samurai according to gaijin
Posted in Boardgames, Gaming on April 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I recently played several games of Samurai with Mary and Gerald over at MabiWeb. Going we, we all claimed to be piss-poor Samurai players. Hyperbole aside, I really struggle with this game. I think it’s due to the funky, opportunistic timing of the play and the stutter-step narrative.
I equate this cadence to one other game: [...]
I DO Know Jack!
Posted in Gaming, Tech, Videogames on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I was pleasantly surprised to find an online version of the old hit PC trivia game You Don’t Know Jack online! My wife (back before she was my wife) and I played all five or six versions of this on the PC back when we were in college. The online implementation is excellent, but it’s [...]
Dump Stat
Posted in Gaming, Humor, Roleplaying Games on February 25, 2007 | No Comments »
johnaugust.com » Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft
Posted in Film & TV, GTD, Gaming, Productivity, Screen Writing, Videogames, Work on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
This is cool. The tags of this post read: Gaming/Videogames, Film&TV/Screenwriting, and Work/Productivity/GTD. I never thought I’d have a post that cut across three interests like that, but here you go.
For the uninitiated, John August is a screenwriter. His best-known work is probably Big Fish. Anyway, the man is a geek, and while I read [...]
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