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Though there were a few newsworthy items--Majel Barrett Rodenberry's recent passing chief among them--we've decided in lieu of news updates today or next week, it would be a good time to do a retrospective of this site--and Fortress: Ameritrash in general--as the year winds down.

Well, Michael Barnes said that the way to fool everyone into thinking that I was writing proper introductions to externally-linked articles was to put a big image in front of it. As you can see, I tried, but I just wasn't quite up to the task  - I guess my web design sensibilities kicked in. I'll have to try harder next time. Anyway for those of you who don't recognise the lady in the picture, it's Britannia, one of the many personifications of the spirit of the British Isles - derived in this case from the...

This year's Spiel convention in Essen went from Thursday October 23th to Sunday October 26th. Was it hot or not?

Unfortunately I'm not very well today. So I'm not really feeling up to writing the piece I'd planned to put up. But in the best F:AT spirit I've dragged myself off my sick bed long enough to dig up this old Arkham Horror session report for you - enjoy.

If there are errors in this I apologize but… I have just returned from my first Gen Con, and my brain hurts from sobering up from the four days of drunkenness, my eyes hurt from getting almost no sleep, and my feet are in agony from standing on concrete for what seems like forever.  But I could not be happier after having spent four glorious days among gaming nerds (both my most-liked and least-liked people on earth).

Editor's Note:  One of our users was lamenting the lack of Gencon coverage on many of the gaming sites, ours included.  However, instead of just complaining, Metalface13 did something about it--rounded up a metric ton of news updates and posted them.  If you needed proof why our readers rock, here you go. So you may have noticed I've been complaining a lot about how difficult it is to get news from Gen Con. So in case you haven't been diligent enough to snoop around on your own, I attempt to present...