Looking to get into the gaming hobby? Looking to create a gaming group? Here you’ll find a series of articles including reviews, suggestions, and tips for building your collection/community.
In the movie The Hudsucker Proxy, the main character spends the bulk of the narrative holding up the drawing of his fantastic new invention. What is that invention, you ask? The Hula Hoop. But he doesn’t call it the hula hoop. He doesn’t have a sales pitch or explanation. There is… Continue reading
I love gaming conventions! Being around a bunch of people who all love the geeky arts is amazing. My favorite thing to do at Cons is run games. I love to spread my hobby. I have this amazing thing, be it Shadowrun, DnD Next, or some other game, and, I… Continue reading
An article by Thomas Kolar There are two things you should know about my life in order to understand why my wife and I made a rules adaptation of Pandemic to play with my 3 year old son, Billy. The first thing is that my wife is also a tabletop… Continue reading
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the… Continue reading
When Tee Morris emailed us to ask if he could talk about a game he’d recently discovered, naturally we were excited. It’s one that both taught him that card games can be amazing, and that he could have fun whether he was playing with his friends or his young daughter.… Continue reading
Much like our first installment of the Gamer Glossary – this will be a brief overview of overarching terms for those looking to get into tabletop role playing games. While each RPG will have its own specific terms – this list will cover terms that are used across multiple games.… Continue reading
Feature photo credit: Jeff Belmonte via photopin cc We love welcoming new gamers into the hobby. However, we also know we can get so caught up in esoteric terminology that we forget some people don’t know what we’re talking about. Thus – we have the Gamer’s Glossary. In this… Continue reading
Play by Post & the Paizo Forums The idea of play by post is often met with doubts, jeers and in some cases the question; “What in the world is play by post?” Let’s start with the last. Play by Post (PbP) is a method of using website forums to… Continue reading
The gaming market is going at such an intense pace that it seems like hundreds, if not thousands, of new titles are hitting the shelves every day. This sort of environment is both a boon and a danger. Game designers are striving harder than ever to design THE game. The… Continue reading
In a previous article on the site, we gave you some tips for starting a new game group. In that article, we said that you don’t need a vast gaming library in order to run a game night in your house or church. While this statement is true, it is important that… Continue reading
