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12 Cheaters and how to identify them. Cheats come in all shapes and sizes in gaming. If you've played games for any length of time you've run into at least one of these cheaters at some point in your gaming career. Knowing their tactics is the first step in identifying and combating them at...

Monte Cook and Shanna Germain attended the first of their Ultimate Retailer Events at Astral Games in Medford, Oregon in which they talked about Numenera and answered audience questions. A video of this event will be up on EN World later this week. They were both kind enough to sit down and...

Five Games to help while away those long weekends. It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally you are allowed an extra day of respite from your place of gainful employment. Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes of your normal five-appearances-with-occasional-filing work week and look with...

The Age of Rebellion beta book went on sale today at GenCon. We've got a look at it for you on The GSA http://gsa.thegamernation.org/2013/08/15/first-look-star-wars-age-of-rebellion/

Fantasy Flight Games has announced the next core book in their Star Wars Line, Age of Rebellion. We've answered a few questions about it on The GSA.

GenCon is a big Con, what games should you check out and how can you make the author jealous? You're heading to GenCon soon, I can tell. I won't be for...reasons. Much as I would like to go, I just can't. In order to promote more efficient gloating on your part, here are the board games that...

Facebook the Board Game was recently announced. What could possibly be bad about that? Each one of these news items, and several others, appeared in my board game news feed over the weekend. All about the Facebook Board Game and all assuring me that the game would bring an unheard of...

Gaming pieces. Plastic, Wood, or Cardboard? Which one makes a game sing for you? I picked up Agricola this week. I know, I know, it came out ages ago and I'm behind the curve. Everyone who was interested in it has already got it. Except me, of course. So, why do I mention it? Because...

In attempting to get a count of my Do Not Pass Go articles, I went to my profile and clicked on the Articles link on the right under my name. Instead of taking me to page displaying all articles I have written, it throws an error at me as follows: I've tried on two successive days and...

I wanted to write an article about Sexism in Gaming, because that seems to be the big theme at ENWorld this week with @morrus and his newly launched video series from UK Games Expo. It seemed like the thing to do and is a fairly hot button topic across the gamescape. So, let's talk about this...

So there you are, in the cavernous deeps of the Lady Teradyne's slave mines. You've vanquished the Keeper of the Keys, destroyed Slavemaster Grobulus, beaten down the Doors of Penance, and set thousands of slaves free to go back to the cool night air of the surface world. All that lays before...

We’ve all been playing games for a while now, or at least, most of us have. If you are new to Table Top Gaming, then welcome, it’s nice to see you here. Grab a chair and scooch up to the table. We’ve got lots to talk about. Most of us know the basic advantages face-to-face gaming has over...

Every once in a while you meet the Perfect Gamer. Not the guy who plays a game perfectly or has perfect knowledge of a game’s rules, but the guy who is perfect to play any game with. What makes the Perfect Gamer? Let’s see if we can figure it out. 1. To the Perfect Gamer all games are...

I’ve got a reasonably large collection of board games. Somewhere in the neighborhood of three or four hundred. For people deep into board gaming, this isn’t really as large as it seems, but for most of the general public that represents more special editions of Monopoly than currently exist...

Oh boy! Oh boy! It's that time of the week, again. Yes! Board Game Night is finally here! Thank goodness. Work has been dreadful. The sort of drudgery and frustration that only Cinderella seems to understand. You've been looking forward to this all week long and tonight's the night at last...

Here is the problem with game design: It is ridiculously easy to come up with an idea for a game, but also, monstrously hard to figure out how to implement that idea. This is made only more complicated if you want your game to be fun for anyone besides you. I was recently asked to come up...

As the provider of Board Game News for the front page, I wanted to check to see if anyone was interested in miniature news. In particular, I get lots of news across my desk that deals with what I am going to cal 'Spare Part' companies. Manufacturer's who provide, say, different kinds of hats...

Last week, io9.com posted a list of the 10 Greatest Science Fiction Games of All Time. We like lists, on the internet at least. They're easy to assemble, quick to read and, more often than not, very hit friendly. They drag eyeballs to a page because people want to see what you think the best...

A week ago, I was perfectly willing to open with a discussion of Games Workshop, copyright/ trademark law and the difficulty of claiming to own words and concepts that have existed for at least 50 years prior to your sudden decision not to let anyone else use them. That was a week ago. I'm...

I'm playing a 6th level Rogue and my GM has just given me what may be the laziest treasure reward ever... I can pick one Magic Item of my choice of less than 5000 gp in cost... and that's my reward. So.... Any good suggestions? I'm willing to pick something solely on the basis of how much...