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For those aspiring game designers out there. Here are two articles written by Mark Rosewater. He is the lead/head/senior designer for one of the biggest and longest running card games ever, Magic the Gathering. He wrote two articles summing up the 10 rules, or guidelines if you ( Read more... )

So this weekend was good overall. Friday night was spent finishing up the Dominion dividers while I introduced Codie to Battlestar Galatica. We watched the entire miniseries while I cut out and sorted cards. Towards the end Jennifer showed up as we had a Dresden Files game on Saturday and we got to catch up, which was fun ( Read more... )

So I realized my glasses are old. Like at least five years old because I think the last time I went to buy frames and lenses, I was still in college and my parents paid for them. Which would make it somewhere in 2002 or 2003. I had a stint around 2004 where I got contacts again but didn't wear them for very long. The hassles in the morning just ( Read more... )

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Making Magic: The Walking Dead by Mark Rosewater [Daily MTG]

This is an article on the Magic the Gathering website. Their theme of the week when this article was posted was “Undead Week” celebrating the horror theme of the latest Magic expansion. I’m sharing this article because ( Read more... )

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Dork Tower: 2011-10-31: #1000

Read the first comic, then read the comic below it. I remember reading the second comic for the first time as a kid in a gaming store and thinking how glad I was to be growing up after the whole “roleplaying is evil!” phooey. It is kinda amazing now ( Read more... )

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Fantasy Flight Games, the publishers of the rather famous board game Arkham Horror and one of my newest favorite games Mansions of Mandess, is coming out with a new Lovecraft inspired board game: Elder Sign.


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Fantasy Flight Games is releasing another expansion for the board game Arkham Horror. Titled Miskatonic Horror Expansion, this expansion is a full-sized box expansion but unlike prior full box expansions, this one does not contain a new area to travel to or new investigators to ( Read more... )

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I recently attended the Dallas Games Marathon this past weekend. The marathon runs from Friday to Sunday, although I only attended Saturday. It takes place monthly in Dallas at a storefront location that looks like it was converted from a dance studio.

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Hi All.

So for the second time since I started this blog, I’ll be attending a convention. Unlike the prior convention I attended, I will be attempting to make a bit of a show of on this blog. That is, daily updates of what I’ve done around the con, what I’ve seen, etc.
ConDFW


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Kotaku is reporting from Toy Fair that there is a prototype Plants Vs Zombies board game being shown off. Which could be awesome, fun or terrible.


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