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It has been just over a month since I started writing for the site. There’s been a lot of things that have happened in that month, from the 5th edition of D&D finally going OGL to a number of interesting Kickstarters being launched. The end of the year/beginning of the year time can be quiet...

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I can take plenty seriously that you have different tastes. That's not what I said. Having different tastes is fine, dismissing things that you don't know anything about because they might not jibe with your tastes? That's what I don't take seriously.

There's a couple of reasons why I can't take your post seriously. First off, it is purposefully, and willfully, ignorant of anything that has happened in the last 30 years, also it pretty much ignores the creative output of all of the people that I wrote about. As a critic, if I said something...

I just can't take a comment like this seriously.

Sorry about the quality of the Lusus Naturae pic. It looked nicer on my screen before I uploaded it.

My two favorite types of supplements for fantasy games are books of magic and bestiaries. Settings and adventures don’t really get me going, but I will get books of spells and monster manuals until the cows come home. Now that I am preparing for to start a new fantasy campaign (at least it will...

And now we know what the redacted title was.

The decisions of billion dollar corporations rarely take the needs of consumers into mind. Ultimately, this is a leisure industry. People will either continue to buy, because that is what they want, or they will find something else.

I reported on Asmodee acquiring Days of Wonder in August 2014: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/08/25/asmodee-acquires-days-of-wonder-as-board-game-subsidiary/ And Fantasy Flight in November of 2014...

Big news out in the larger world of tabletop gaming, as Mayfair Games announces that Asmodee North America has acquired the English language license for Catan from Mayfair Games. Asmodee North America is the umbrella company that consolidates the productions of previous Asmodee acquisitions...

I will say that [redacted] is all that I can say. It is a cool adventure. :)

If you’re a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, there’s a good chance that you have seen the walk-through poster maps that Wizards of the Coast has made for a variety of classic and recent D&D adventures. You may not know much about Jason Thompson, the artist who creates these walk-throughs. A gamer and...

One thing that gamers love is having the favorite media properties made into role-playing games. They talk about how well the official games do at adapting the source material. They make lists of the properties that should have their own games. They also do unauthorized, unlicensed adaptations...

As long as we’re exploring the lighter side of gaming, let’s go into a genre that is near and dear to my heart: super-heroes. Last year at Gen Con, I picked up a copy of Steve Kenson’s latest super-heroic role-playing game Icons. One of the big Gen Con releases (for me at least) was a new...

I picked up GURPS when it came out in 1986, and played it almost exclusively from about '98 or until probably around 2003. I had drifted away by the time Fourth Edition came out (although I do have a playtest credit in GURPS Powers). At no point in that timelime would I have said that GURPS was...

The problem with doing that is that you then lose most of what makes a game individual.

Mostly I'm not a fan of class and level games, a lot of the time they make me feel hemmed in conceptually. I think that the pendulum swings back and forth with "rules heavy" versus "rules light" designs, it might be that we are just in a swing towards lighter games now. I'm sure that it will...

I like light systems, and I cannot lie. Sunday I moved all of my comics and games out of the storage unit where they’ve been for the last month. One of the things that unpacking and organizing all of these boxes of games has pointed out to me is how much I have changed as a gamer over the years...

I reported on the acquisition of White Wolf by Paradox at my last job: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/31/paradox-interactive-acquires-white-wolf-publishing-2/ Tobias Sjögren even answered a couple of questions for me.