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The Deck of Many Things—Now with more things!

One of the original high powered magical artifacts dating back to first edition Dungeons & Dragons, The Deck of Many Things has long been a favorite of players and Dungeon

By Mike Dunn

/ 19 Oct 2023

The Deck of Many Things—Now with more things!

Sabrina Culyba wants you to get excited about microscopic algae mosaics

Sometimes a game really starts to come together once the perfect theme is discovered, and for Sabrina Culyba that moment came after a trip to the aquarium. Diatoms may have

By Mike Dunn

/ 12 Oct 2023

Sabrina Culyba wants you to get excited about microscopic algae mosaics

Bringing a narrative experience to the drinking experience- Matthew Lillard talks Quest’s End Whiskey

Matthew Lillard has been making a name for himself outside of Hollywood for a while now with Beadle & Grimm’s high-end D&D products, and his next collaborative

By Mike Dunn

/ 27 Sep 2023

Bringing a narrative experience to the drinking experience- Matthew Lillard talks Quest’s End Whiskey

Designer Connie Vogelmann reveals core question at the heart of the Apiary: “What if your workers aged and died?”

Earlier this month, Stonemaier Games announced their next game release, a totally new property by first-time designer Connie Vogelmann: Apiary. A 1-5 player competitive worker-placement game about spacefaring bees from

By Mike Dunn

/ 22 Sep 2023

Designer Connie Vogelmann reveals core question at the heart of the Apiary: “What if your workers aged and died?”

D&D is now everything, everywhere, all at once in the new Planescape box set

On October 17th, Dungeons & Dragons finally wraps up their multi-year multi-versal romp through the various iconic settings that have been a part of the game since, well, the eighties

By Mike Dunn

/ 21 Sep 2023

D&D is now everything, everywhere, all at once in the new Planescape box set

Best of Gen Con 2023

There’s quite a few things you could say about Gen Con this year, but the one thing everyone can agree on was that it was the biggest it’s

By Mike Dunn

/ 5 Sep 2023

Jeremy Crawford talks Planescape, the multiverse, and next year’s rules revisions

It’s been a while since Dungeons & Dragons made an official appearance at Gen Con, and while this year it wasn’t a very loud or splashy presence, Jeremy

By Mike Dunn

/ 31 Aug 2023

Jeremy Crawford talks Planescape, the multiverse, and next year’s rules revisions

Mistwind preview — Come for the flying whales, stick around for the clever action system

The first time we played Mistwind was a year ago at Gen Con 2022. Even in that early state it had quite the table presence — the flying whales, a large

By Mike Dunn

/ 20 Aug 2023

Mistwind preview — Come for the flying whales, stick around for the clever action system

Le Fou Games sets the table for us and answers some questions about their debut game Picky Eaters

A startup CEO of an AR/VR company and a tech journalist may seem like unusual backgrounds for a design team for a board/card game, but Avi Setton and

By Mike Dunn

/ 8 Aug 2023

Le Fou Games sets the table for us and answers some questions about their debut game Picky Eaters

We get lost in Stonemaier’s Expeditions—GAMA Expo 2023 preview

One of the most hotly anticipated games of the year is Stonemaier Games’ Expeditions, the standalone sequel to Jamey Stegmaier and Jakub Rozalski’s 2016 monster hit, Scythe. While Expeditions

By Mike Dunn

/ 2 May 2023

We get lost in Stonemaier’s Expeditions—GAMA Expo 2023 preview

An Age Contrived preview — A triumph in form and function

I will be the first to admit that I am drawn into a game’s aesthetic to a fault, at times. That the way a game looks can sometimes override

By Mike Dunn

/ 22 Mar 2023

An Age Contrived preview — A triumph in form and function

Become the change you want to see in the realm — An Age Contrived’s Transmuter Device

We take another deep dive into the mechanics of An Age Contrived, this time with the player board/transmuter device. The transmuter device is the primary means by which players

By Mike Dunn

/ 21 Mar 2023

Become the change you want to see in the realm — An Age Contrived’s Transmuter Device