James van Tonningen

The oldest school of war-games.

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In 2019, Stonemeier Games released Wingspan. Wingspan was an event in board gaming, selling over 1.4 million copies over the course of its first 3 years, meaning most people in the board game scene have at least heard of the game. More and more have played it, dropped its

Cars roar across the blasted wasteland and broken highways. The retort of heavy calibur gunfire rings across the salt-wastes. The greatest, and only, entertainment in the post apocalypse is the Thunder Road Rally, a last man standing race across the blasted desert. If you wanna win this thing, you gotta

In 1972, one of the nation’s greatest scandals occurred. A sitting president was accused of illegally wiretapping and spying on his political rivals, looking for dirt to win the next election. That president? Richard Nixon. And the ones that broke the scandal? The press! Watergate is a 2 player

In old Paris, there is a place where the crippled walk, the sick are cured, where gold appears like magic and beggars become kings. That place is the Court of Miracles. Of course, the only miracles that occur there is that the beggars and thieves that populate it can walk

Something not of this world arrived.  Initially, it was the size of a city, but it quickly shrank, and shrank, and shrank, until it was no more than a small cube with cryptic symbols floating in space.  Scientists the world over gathered to study it, but soon realized that there

In the sheer amount of stuff available to see at a major board game convention like Origins, it’s easy to overlook the little guy. That’s where the unpub section of the con comes into play.  In it, intrepid independent board game developers all sit eager to show off