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Pete Ruth
Written by: Pete Ruth
#Alright, Circus fans, this is going to be a good one, so strap on your seat belt and let me take you downtown where the hookers and cheap heroin is. You see, there are very few games that I think are a s...
May 8th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
I was a very late adopter to some of what is now called "German Classics", such as Settlers, because I was pretty much brainwashed into believing that many European-style games were dry, boring, and to...
May 7th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#Many, many moons ago, I was an RPG adherent, drawing detailed topographical maps on graph paper and using Ral Partha miniatures that I'd painted when I was ten years old. I loved the idea of Dungeons and...
May 3th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#  I'd heard about Settlers of Catan a hundred billion times, at least, as it's widely called "The Fazzer Of Ze Euroz Gaming", and I've heard it panned by Ameritrash folks as a gaming atrocity. Alth...
April 21th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#  I started out thinking that Dungeon Command wasn't all that hot, that the system itself lacked tension, and that it simply wasn't much fun. I played with people who liked the same kinds of games ...
March 28th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#WotC is releasing updated versions of classic AD&D modules.
March 19th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
I'm not sure if it's because I'm cheap or because I'm a natural-born skeptic, but when it comes to gaming, I'm what one might call a "late adopter". I didn't get an Xbox 360 until 2010, I didn't start ...
March 17th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#  I love to play with my family, but with the range of kids I have, not to mention a picky wife, it's not always easy to put something in front of them that will work for everyone. Too difficult ...
March 1th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
Anyone who has read my articles for any length of time knows that I'm not a huge fan of solo games that don't involve an electronic device. Long have I held the stance that board games are made for peop...
February 26th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#I first reported on Quarriors! a long time back, when it was first released at a GenCon 2011. Anyhow, I played it three times and I talked to a bunch of people who had just dropped fifty bucks on it; una...
February 15th, 2013
Written by: Pete Ruth
#  Every once in a while, a moment of clarity will occur in your life where you have to kind of sit back and re-evaluate just what the hell it is that you think you're doing. For some people, it's s...
December 20th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#The Circus is BACK! Well, no, not really. Just for a minute. Maybe more.
December 11th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#Remember when you were around 8 years old, wearing a blanket as a cape while chasing your friend with a sword made of Christmas wrapper tube or a whiffle ball bat, and wielding an aluminum trash can li...
October 18th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#My first brush with Jeff Siadek was at Origins 2011, where he was next to the Ninja Magic booth, selling copies of Battlestations. I introduced myself and told him I was a big fan of Battlestations. We c...
September 5th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#For almost 25 years I've been playing Star Fleet Battles and its derivatives, and while I'm still no expert, I know as much about them as anyone who has played them for any length of time. Iron...
August 22th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#Lots of pics here: http://superflycircus.blogspot.com/2012/08/twilight-imperium-ii-4x-because-xxx-is.html
August 11th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#The key to every successful miniatures game ever made has been that it has the innate ability to create tension, to excite the players, and to draw them, as generals into the flames of the battle they ar...
July 17th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
I am still learning this interface, so forgive me. Go to the article at: http://www.superflycircus.blogspot.com/2012/07/banditos-if-quentin-tarantino-made.html if you want pictures. The "Copy From Notepa...
July 15th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#There's this truly brilliant investigative journalist who creates a career out of learning about others' experiences and then writing novels about them, but unlike other journalists, he embraces the subj...
July 11th, 2012
Written by: Pete Ruth
#There has been a great deal of hand-wringing about the lack of what people are calling "true criticism" in the board game industry, of late. What the hand-wringers are wringing wildly about is the idea t...
July 2th, 2012
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