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 | As promised last month, Chris Pramas agreed to do an interview for F:AT. Chris Pramas worked with Wizads of Coast. His work for Dungeons & Dragon include: Slavers, Guild to Hell, Apocalyse Stone, ... |
September 18th, 2012
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 | One sign of a truly great script is that there is no bloat. No excess. Everything is ripped away except for what is absolutely necessary. Glengarry Glen Ross is a sterling example of this. It crams into ... |
September 17th, 2012
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 | The second annual UK festival of trash didn’t get off to the best of starts for me. On a cold and brittle autumn morning, we stopped in a garage atop one of the many steep hill surrounding my home city... |
September 17th, 2012
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 | 20 years of this? Really?.
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September 13th, 2012
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Stagger (with pirate swagger) on in for Next of Ken, where this week it's pirates and goth chicks with reviews of Libertalia and Hemloch. What's a pirate's favorite restaurant? Arrr... |
September 12th, 2012
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 | We tend to become very good at classifying stuff. It’s the easiest way to filter out things we assume we won’t like. Gamers are no different from everyone else. We all have some kind of mechanic or t... |
September 11th, 2012
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 | I have written in the past about the physical limitations imposed on board game designers through the need to track everything with board and card. Similarly there’s often been speculation about what, ... |
September 10th, 2012
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 | If I told you that this movie is about a Sheriff in 16th century Spain who is investigating a series of murders of local noblemen and that his quest for the truth leads him afoul of a sinister Hungarian ... |
September 6th, 2012
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 | This ain't rock n' roll...this is board games! |
September 6th, 2012
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It's hip, it's zen, it's late-off-the-presses with Next of Ken. This week, I'll talk about The Hunger Games, review AEG's latest offering Smash Up!, and look back at Yomi and a handful of... |
September 5th, 2012
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 | On my first date with my wife, we went to a coffee shop. It was the usual chit-chat, just asking about interests and so forth. Since I had just started playing hobby games, I mentioned that I liked to pl... |
September 3th, 2012
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 | Traders of Genoa (also published under the name Genoa) is a fairly interesting Eurogame. It’s got a fair depth of mechanical strategy sat under a layer of finely-tuned verbal negotiation and the whole ... |
September 3th, 2012
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 | There are few car chases. There are no gun fights where hundreds of rounds are fired but nobody is hurt. There isn't a different femme fetale crossing the screen every week attempting to lure our hero of... |
August 31th, 2012
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 | Walruses, attack!
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August 31th, 2012
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 | Ninjas team up with zombies to battle futuristic robots and dinosaurs with lasers.
If that sounds really stupid to you, you can stop reading. If, like me, you think that sounds like a buckshot blast of ... |
August 30th, 2012
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 | Every game store I’ve ever been to has stacks and stacks of all of the different variations of Steve Jackson’s Munchkin. It’s a perennial seller, one that has spawned countless expansions and legio... |
August 28th, 2012
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 | It's a romantic comedy and it follows all the rules and cliches of romantic comedies. But wait, here's the thing, it knows it's a romantic comedy, it knows romantic comedies are cheesy, and it wants you ... |
August 27th, 2012
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 | Last week, I got to play Stronghold for the first time. I liked it, more than I thought I was going to, although I think there may be some question over its long-term replay value. It wouldn’t be fair ... |
August 27th, 2012
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 | A great game, just expect more "kaching" than "pew pew"
Sorry for the late edition- today was my daughter Scarlett's first birthday so I was occupied with festivities.
On the Table
As my review at NHS... |
August 24th, 2012
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 | If a game is successful enough, it will probably catch a bad case of DKS (Das Kartenspiel). That means the there will be some card game version of the game, usually simpler and in a smaller box. It’s h... |
August 22th, 2012
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