Dan Hinkin
An educator and tabletop game lover.



Following the trail out of camp, you come across a riverbed with something glinting in the distance. As you investigate, it looks like the jewel from your lost comrade. Suddenly, out of the brush a giant form appears and hungrily looks towards your party. You draw your sword and ready
by Dan Hinkin
The trading card game space seems to be a bit crowded these days. From your big hitters like Pokemon and Magic the Gathering, to newcomers in the last year like Lorcana and Star Wars Unlimited, to others like Flesh and Blood and Yu-Gi-oh, it seems like there are enough trading
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It’s not very often that I get to see a game go from conception to prototype to finished product. Back in the spring of 2023, the GamingTrend crew got a firsthand look at the Gnome Hollow prototype and had a great time collecting mushrooms and building paths. At Origins
by Dan Hinkin
The end is upon us. The end of the remastered core books, that is. Player Core 2 (PC2) is finally here and chocked full of new ancestries, player classes, archetypes, feats, and spells to add to your Pathfinder campaigns. I personally have been waiting for this book to see what
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Back at Origins Game Fair, I was able to get my eyes on Shuffle Dungeons when the boys from Zero Strategy Games stopped by the GamingTrend booth. After a quick demo, featured in the video above, I was intrigued by the game and wanted to get it to the table
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Check out the press release from Darrington Press about a new stand-alone expansion for Queen by Midnight called Quarter Past. It is by royal decree that Darrington Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role, officially announces the upcoming release of Queen by Midnight: Quarter Past, a standalone expansion to the
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Deep in a dingy and dark prison, a group of goblins wastes away and needs something to pass the time. Board with playing Goblin Vaults, a new dice rolling game has been introduced, much to the pleasure of a bunch of bored miscreants. Surrounding a board in the shape of
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Back in 2019, Alexander Pfister released Maracaibo to the board gaming world. When I started into the tabletop hobby, I was coming off of a year spent on the island of Jamaica and was basically sailing every weekend. Maracaibo and other sailing games were instant additions to the collection. Maracaibo,
by Dan Hinkin