One of the things that tends to come up in modern day games or more precisely any game where the environment is borderline “normal” is whether science works the same as it does in the real world. This is usually something I gloss over as part of the “suspension of...
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More Seasoning
In yesterday’s post I talked about Beyond The Rim for Star Wars EotE RPG. Today’s post I’m talking about why I purchased an expansion for a board game that I’d only played once… That board game is Seasons. As per the previous game report post the group came away from...
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Back in my post named “Expansive Gaming” I reflected on the nature of expansions for games. I’ve recently picked up a number of expansions for games I’ve been enjoying and wanted to share the reasons why I’ve picked them up. This post is about Star Wars EotE : Beyond The Rim...
Continue reading...Conventions: What do you want?
I can’t really speak to what makes a good gaming convention as I’ve only attended 3 different named conventions. One of those conventions I’ve attended on multiple occasions although it has changed a bit each time I’ve gone. I know why I attend conventions but that’s not the purpose of...
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Online Resources
In the quest to better my gaming I’ve been looking at how I can streamline certain things about the play experience. A lot of how that can be achieved is through using more resources to make things easier for me to prep for games and in particular RPGs. I’m going...
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Expansions are a big part of the hobby. For every board, card, role and war game that’s published there’s likely an expansion that goes along with it. Not a 100% situation obviously but it’s likely counter-balanced by some games which have multiple expansions. So what does an expansion bring to...
Continue reading...Gaming Accessories
The thing about tabletop games is that it’s not just about the games themselves. It doesn’t matter which format you play there will always be accessories that you can buy to improve, complement and protect your games. For Roleplaying Games the perennial accessory is more dice. You can never have...
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