Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsGary Gygax has passed away. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html He is, and will continue to be, known best as the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, three little books that became a whole new world of gaming. Like many fans, however, “I would like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GMT recently put out a tentative schedule of what will be released over the next several months, going into next year. Of especial interest to me are Blackbeard, due out in April/May and Successors III (which I preordered) due in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The long-anticipated Valor of the Guards just arrived today. Contents: Two very nice poster-maps covering central Stalingrad. Five countersheets. Damn, but punch registration has gotten good. One new vehicle type: the German SdKfz 10/5. Which seems to be a late[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From ADB: NAME A STARSHIP FOR YOUR LADY! Show someone how much you really love them by naming a starship in the Star Fleet Universe after her! For $9.95, you can name a starship after your wife or girlfriend, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And now for my long-delayed post on what is possibly the biggest current player in board wargames. GMT has been around since the late ’80s and has a very healthy publishing schedule. Historically, I haven’t paid as much attention to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pity I didn’t see this sooner. Voyager 2 was launched 30 years and two days ago. According to JPL it is currently 7,653,000,000 miles from Earth (approaching 80 AU; double Pluto’s average distance from the Sun), and moving at about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I still need to examine the GMT Games pre-order list and talk about all the things I’d salivate over if I had the money and space (who am I kidding? I salivate anyway). MMP got another nasty shock when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Origins is over, and the post-show discussions are abounding. ^_^ MMP did indeed release Few Returned. As I’m one of the later pre-orders, I figure I’ll get my copy late this month, maybe early August. ADB apparently had a good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m starting with some wargaming news, but everyone should still take a look at the second part starting with “Last Thursday”. With Origins only a couple days away, MMP finally announced what’s going on. On the ASL front, they got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I still need to write Part III on GMT Games, and maybe IV on ‘other’, but it’s Origins season, so things are happening. ADB likes to keep a presence at Origins and release major new products there. Right now, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…