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Has anybody attended the SoCal GenCon? Is it as big and/or cool as the midwest one is supposed to be? I've never been to any GenCon and was thinking of going to the one in Anaheim this November (because I can drive it and won't need to waste money on airfare or hotels). Advice on what to do there?

I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice And Fire series back to back: A Game Of Thrones A Clash Of Kings A Storm Of Swords Took me three weeks (one per book). Fantastic! Better than Tolkien or any other fantasy I've ever read. Just ordered Legends 1-2, which feature two prequels to the...

Land of the Dead did not LOOK, or more importantly, FEEL like a George Romero movie. That was something I forgot to mention before and is one of the main things that bothered me (besides the terrible cast and script). I do not count Land of the Dead as part of the Dead series. It's like the Star...

The movie looks horrible --- the mythic "avoid it all costs now and forever" type of horrible from the trailers I've seen. The Thing does not look right and neither does Dr. Doom (they both looked better in the unreleased Roger Corman version even though the film itself was unwatchable). I hold...

I just saw Land of the Dead and did not like it very much. I am a huge Romero Dead fan but this movie is just not up to snuff. The Dawn of the Dead remake was better and that was terrible by comparison to the Romero Dead films (including the Night remake from '90 directed by Tom Savini). Yes...

Reaper put out a great Roper mini. He was fun to paint.

It's not a deal if you scroll down the Amazon listing to read the many horrible reviews for this product, LOL. 60% of a piece of junk is still money ill-spent in my eyes. YMMV. :p

If you're looking for a World War II boardgame, I recommend Memoir '44 by Days of Wonder. Lots of cool American and German plastic minis (soldiers: green Americans, grey-blue Germans, tanks, artillery, sandbags, barbed wire, railroad tie thingies for the beaches) and counters (bunkers, terrain...

The CHALLENGE OF CHAMPIONS (or was it Contest of Champions? I forget) was an ongoing adventure series in Dungeon magazine. They were all puzzles, riddles and obstacle challenges with some monsters thrown in as part and parcel. They were a contest for adventurers with prizes for the winning...

Be careful ordering "Legends" online. Amazon lists three different versions (you have to check the "table of contents" from the online excerpt of each book to make sure it's got the George RR Martin stories in it!): 1) One version of Legends contains all 11 stories (including The Hedge Knight)...

I always preferred their cousin, the Storoper (aka Stone Roper) from 1e's Dungeon Module A3: Assault on the Aerie of the Slavelords. It paralyzed you with its tentacles, then reeled you in for the kill. Bill Willingham (one of my favorite 1e artists) had a beautiful B&W pen and ink illustration...

Here's a link to the ongoing A Game of Thrones discussion at the Mongoose Conan RPG forum. We're talking about the books and the forthcoming RPG, plus other systems that might be a good fit for the setting. Might prove interesting if you're thinking about reading the books or gaming the setting...

Anybody see this story about the Israeli military discriminating against D&D players in their ranks? The military says D&D players have "weak personalities" and are "detached from reality" and "easily influenced". Maybe they don't want soldiers who think creatively and therefore might question...

Admittedly, I can sometimes be overly blunt, but that review was my gut reaction to the game, written the very next day after purchase and playing two games back to back. I agree that Runebound is not a great game, but it is definitely capable of becoming a good or even very good game with extra...

Hadn't thought of that, LOL. It still doesn't change my initial rating of the game much, though (maybe to a B-), as the major problems with Runebound were still caused by the incomplete, very hard to read and understand rules, (not to mention all the problems reading the dice and board) that...

Some of the more "interactive" features of the new cards in the Shadows of Margath pack allow Heroes to turn into Vampires or Werewolves (not a good thing, LOL, but fun), stealing items from other players, bestowing pompous titles (with some perks) on the Heroes, etc. There are 29 new challenge...

Well, I just played three more games of Runebound this week (two using the Shadows of Margath Expansion pack, 29 new challenge cards for only $5.95!). I figured out we were playing certain aspects of the game incorrectly, due to the horrible and confusing way the rules are presented. All those...

Played HeroQuest and it is awesome! So simple yet fun, with room for expansion. Now I know why people are still playing it nealy fifteen years after it went out of print! Perfect gateway game to playing RPGs for young kids and newbies. Just pick a Hero and start adventuring! BTW: Runebound has...

I just bought a copy of the old Milton Bradley/Games Workshop fantasy adventure boardgame HeroQuest on eBay. Looking for advice and ideas on what to do with it, sites to visit for free resources, house rules, your experiences with the game, etc.

Avast there, ye landlubbers! This here thread be walkin' the plank into obscurity, so's I be bumpin' it back up, despite the best efforts o' the Royal Navy to stop me! Shiver me timbers, if Pirate's Cove isn't still the finest boardgame me ever set sail with. Get yerself a rough-n-ready crew o'...