This category is dedicated to posts about games, with a non-exclusive focus on tabletop roleplaying games, allowing for text reviews and actual play experiences alike.
This post is the first of two reviews of Tomb Raider (2013). We chose to review this video game because of the original marketing for the game, as well as the final result. The first review is by Brie, who is a casual video gamer, and the second will be from Melody, who is...
Read more →At our local indie game night, we played Itras By by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. Itras By is a tabletop role playing game with a very rules-lite system, not using dice, but descriptive cards to prompt the outcomes in conflicts and twists in the story, and giving the players a lot...
Read more →When we talk about technical colleges and particularly about engineering, a question rises quite often: why is the presence of women in these fields so low? Why, at engineering schools, we only find a handful of girls, among hundreds of boys? A lot of initiatives aims at reducing this gap, but the reason why...
Read more →The Book The Retrieval Artist series, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (A full series list can be found here. The series also includes the novellas The Retrieval Artist, an ‘origin story’ of sorts for Miles Flint; The Recovery Man’s Bargain, a countertext to Recovery Man; and The Possession of Paavo Deshin, a stand-alone story set in the same universe.) Synopsis...
Read more →Are you interested in wargaming, but are daunted by the time commitment? Games that can go for hours, weeks, months, even years if you play by email? Is it too much trouble to find more than one person to play with you and make the same commitment? Is a tome of rules too overwhelming...
Read more →One of the coolest things about the Google+ gaming community is hearing about all sorts of games I had no idea existed – and then getting to interact with their creators. Not too long ago I, along with the Fandible crew, got to have such an experience playing Maschine Zeit (brought to you in part...
Read more →It’s been a heck of a week folks. Not only is your erstwhile horror movie hostess dutifully making good on the challenge, but I’m also in pre-production on my horror movie short for film class right now. I’m excited…but exhausted. And running close to past my deadline. So this week is going to be a...
Read more →Last week I talked about what the October Horror Movie Challenge is, and gave you a rundown of some of my favorite films from the last couple challenges. This week we’re into the challenge proper! I’m writing this on Friday, so what you’re getting are my views for October 1rst through the morning of...
Read more →You are cordially invited to play a game with me this October. What game? Well let me tell you…
Read more →18 March 2012 Forgotten Realms 3 players in person, 1 player (out of state) via Skype – Characters: Rejanon – male aasimar paladin/cleric of Torm, god of battle, male player Dratsab – male tiefling rogue/warlock/crimelord, wannabe demigod of stirges, male player, via Skype Darvin – male human priest (monk/sorcerer/chosen of Mystra) of Mystra, male...
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