Another exciting Memoir 44 game, playing scenario 40: Breakout at Klin, part of the Eastern Front expansion that classicaljunkie got me for Xmas ( Read more... )

Arrived at Fairfield yesterday. Sometime after I made the Zipcar reservation I became determined to shift my mind into a more graceful posture for this visit, a loose kung-fu pose of good cheer and readiness to casually flip any bad crap over my shoulder and onto the mat behind me. And really, I've been having an okay time! And truth to tell, it ( Read more... )

Last night's random game thing was a nice success. Lots more people showed up than we expected (not complaining)! We may start doing this more often...

Finally played Goa, with classicaljunkie teaching it to three of us newbies. I loved it, feeling completely engaged for the entire two hours or so that we played. Managed to squeak out a win (pulling a tiebreaker ( Read more... )

Those missing my liveblogging (coz I didn't watch the debate) can read Defective Yeti's take on it, or Todd Alcott's thoughts if you'd like less snark ( Read more... )

Is it wrong to feel vaguely disenfranchised that Settlers is now officially known as just "Catan", according it its publishers (and, more to the point, the publishers of its sundry electronic editionsIn their position, I would probably have done the same thing. But now I anticipate a future where I unconsciously judge myself as superior to anyone ( Read more... )

Deletionpedia is a machine-generated website, built entirely from Wikipedia articles that have been deleted. It itself is not a wiki, even though it copies Wikipedia's page layout. The result is somewhat fantastic.

Its current featured article is this exhaustive list of all the weapons found in the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000, complete with ( Read more... )

OK I have heard enough about the nu-wave tabletop rolly-hitty RPGs of the last coupla years to wanna play one.

I would love to try either Descent or D&D4 sometime. Any action around here I can get in on? Anything else I should be playing?

JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL was my train-riding book today because I had no other, and I found that the very next chapter addressed the continuing fates of the characters I had taken for forgotten. I stand by my earlier criticism, because there is a very real difference between a reader anticipating missing characters' return, and wondering if ( Read more... )

I am in a very Memoir '44 mood. If you would like to challenge me to a game this weekend I would likely be all over it. I have the basic set and the Pacific Theater expansion, the latter of which I haven't explored nearly enough of.

I have been playing it again via classicaljunkie. After much bugging I finally got her to play BattleLore with me. She didn't like ( Read more... )

I've been posting the YouTubey Gameshelf excerpts to BGG and getting lots of hits as a result. Yay. I have also discovered that comments are broken on the new site. Boo. Firebug will help me root it out.

Here's an oldie from 2005. The quippy gameplay between mrmorse and taskboy3000 makes still makes it worth watching, even though the clip's production values are so ( Read more... )