The Eclipse give away is officially on. You need to visit our facebook page and like the contest post. On Thursday at 10am Central Time I will collect all the likes and then we will select someone from that list and announce the winner on Friday. Please note liking this post is not entering, you [...]
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Pathfinder Minatures
January 16th, 2012 
Dan Over the weekend I opened a brick of these new collectible miniatures. You can view it after the jump.
A few site related items.
January 12th, 2012 Dan Hope everyone is enjoying there Thursday. We are getting our first snow storm of the season. Considering it is January 12th and it was 50 degrees yesterday I’m not complaining. The Eclipse contest is going very well, in fact we may hit my target by end of day. No worries, I am still going to [...]
GameWright announces 2012 line up
January 12th, 2012 Dan One of the things I’m personally interested in are family games. Having two daughters who are now just hitting the age where we can play games beyond Candyland and Trouble is akin to an artist looking at a blank slate. GameWright had two games last year that saw a ton of play time in my [...]
10 Questions with Rob Daviau
January 12th, 2012 Dan I’ve been pretty caught up in Risk Legacy lately and while pondering my thoughts for last weeks post I had some questions. Luckily one of the games designers Rob Daviau took some time out to answer them for me.
Want a Free Copy of Eclipse?
January 11th, 2012 Dan Here is the deal I ended up with two copies of the very popular and extremely hard to find Eclipse. This wasn’t given to me I paid full retail for one copy and got the other for the going price online. So average it out and I paid $80 a copy. I thought about selling [...]
D&D Next on the way
January 9th, 2012 Dan The big news today is on the rpg side of the industry and it is the announcement of a new version of Dungeons and Dragons. Right now being called dndnext you can find a lot of good information by following the hash tag #dndnext. As i find related articles I’ll post below the fold. What’s [...]
The boat has landed
January 6th, 2012 Dan FFG’s next boat has landed apparently as several products are now on sale today. The latest Battles of Westeros expansion has arrived in Brotherhood Without Banners. I know at some point I will break down and get this series. Lions at the Gate is a big box expansion for the Game of Thrones LCG and then we have [...]
My Top Games This Year
December 30th, 2011 Dan Welcome back everyone and sorry about the non-sense of the last few days. I hope everyone had a good Holiday and got lots of games. I’m not big on the whole year end list thing, but I get asked a lot what games I really like. Instead of repeating myself over and over in various emails [...]
Happy Holidays
December 24th, 2011 Dan I wanted to take this time to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. It’s been a good year for the site and I’ll reflect on that next week. I’ve been spending some quality gaming time with some very good titles as of late. It really has been a fantastic year to be in [...]
News Bag
December 21st, 2011 Dan Have a few news items and I’m going to put them all into one post. I’m trying to get Facebook comments plug in on the site to make life easier but lets just say I can’t get the moderation to work and well unmoderated comments are scary. On to the news which includes Titan
Holidays…
December 20th, 2011 Dan Received a few emails asking if something was up with the site and the answer is no. I’ve been very busy with work and the holidays. I’m also working on some site tweaks which is taking time away from writing. However that is about to change as I have a stack of new games to [...]
A Return to the Future with Fantasy Flight’s New Fortress America!
December 16th, 2011 admin It’s not every day that a tweet about board games makes you do a triple take, but when I saw this from FF today I was simply rocked and shocked: “It is the near future, and the U.S. is threatened on all sides by a global coalition. Can Fortress America survive?
D-Day Dice Kickstarter winds down.
December 7th, 2011 Dan With under 37 hours left this is your last chance to get in on the most successful kick starter campaign for a board game I have ever seen. I’m in at the $75 level but for $35 you can get in and get a lot of free goodies. If your new to kick starter it’s basically a [...]
Cosmic Alliance expansion for Cosmic Encounters
December 7th, 2011 Dan There is no stopping the expansion train that is FFG. This new expansion for Cosmic Encounter adds 20 new races which brings the total up to….well I don’t know let’s call is a “bunch”. It also adds a team game. I really enjoy Cosmic Encounters, not enough to own it but I enjoy it. This [...]
