Category: games
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Elizabeth Bear Interview
Elizabeth Bear — The Hugo Award winning author of Ancestral Night and other books — sat down for a wide ranging interview about Rockapella, DOOM mods, RPGs, and death or glory stands to defend this run. Elizabeth won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Tideline“,…
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Gen Con 2024 day 004 — Banana Dragon, Poetry, and Legacy at Sea
Day 003 of Gen Con I FINALLY slept in a bit. And by a bit I think I was up at 6:30am or something. I showered and ate my morning sausage and eggs that I’d been frying up. What shocked me the most about staying with those four guys is that NONE of them eat…
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Gunfights & Gamblin’ game review — Gen Con 2024
Larry got a copy of Gunfights & Gamblin’ after trying it out at the Mid Level Meeple table. They were super sweet and I ended up taking over for a guy who left early. It was late on Sunday, so I was done but we still got it down to a 9-to-10 loss. Literally ended…
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GenCon 2024 — day 003
Day 003 of GenCon was a very different kind of busy. I felt fried by the end. 4:50am — Well I woke up really early. After waking, I felt fried. I blame the glorious late night puppet thing. Wrote several hundred words and read a bit. 7am — I headed to a downtown meeting with a cinematographer…
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Pirates of Maracaibo board game review — Gen Con 2024
The fellas I’m staying with for Gen Con 2024 got a copy of Pirates of Maracaibo from their launch here in Indy (in addition to some con-specific promo bowsprits). It’s a nautical exploration game with a pirate theme. The mechanisms are dice rolling, increase value of unchosen resources, multi-use cards, pieces as map, and a…
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First time trying a puppet at Gen Con 2024 puppet workshop
This was the first time I’ve ever touched a puppet as an adult so thanks to everyone who encouraged me to try it and helped me get up the courage to get on stage. Thanks to the encouragement from the Sesame Street puppeteers (I don’t remember all of your names) and to the encouragement from…
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Legacy at Sea board game review — Gen Con 2024
Legacy at Sea is billed as “The Ultimate Sandbox Pirate Adventure” by DPH Games Inc. I had the privilege of playing it with one of the fellow staff members here at GenCon 2024. Since I’ve never reviewed boardgames here before, I wanted to go ahead and post my first board game review with my experience…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 002
Day Two of Gen Con 2024 — Woke at 4:50 am again. Looks like this is a trend. Got a letter written to my son and bride again. Tried to creep in to fry some eggs and sausage but turns out my housemates are sleeping at that time of evening. Morning. Whatever they call it.…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 001
Just landed in Indy for Gen Con 2024 and can I say that Indianapolis’s airport always feels very Exit Through the Giftshop to me? I love having a post/pre security section to chill if there’s some wait time involved. But this time did remind me of the Banksy piece. And a slew of other things.…
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Gabriel Kellman Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gabriel Kellman. How’d you get into speculative fiction? Gabriel Kellman — Well, I was a vividly imaginative kid, so I spent a large chunk of my childhood with my brain in other universes. I also read a lot as a kid, and most of it was fantasy or sci-fi, so…
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Anthony Cirilla Interview
A Dialog Between Editor Lancelot Schaubert and Three-Time Contributor to OF GODS AND GLOBES, Dr. Anthony Cirilla : * * * Ed. Lancelot Schaubert: So this Of Gods and Globes series isn’t astrology, or isn’t supposed to be, so what the heck are we doing here — enough for a third volume? Dr. Anthony Cirilla: As…
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Urban Scavenging and Falling Fruit for Freegan Folk
Bit blurry, but these Juneberries hanging from a lone couple branches underneath sheet scaffolding in a construction project down the block illustrate the urban scavenging I’ve dipped my toe into. It started recently with mulberries we remembered in the Bay Ridge community botanical garden (a rather huge installation of neighbors that rivals many government-backed and…