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Millennium Blades

by Mike Bon July 12, 2016

WDR Essential

Millennium Blades, when described, sounds like a game about to perform the most extravagant Shark Jumping ever. It’s a card game that seeks to simulate the length and breadth of Trading Card Games (henceforth referred to as TCG) ala Magic The Gathering complete with the buying of boosters building of decks and the tournament scene […]

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Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn

by Mike Bon August 5, 2015

WDR Essential

The duelling card game arena is sodden with choices. There is the behemoth Magic system with its thousands of cards and ferocious tournament play, an intimidating prospect for new players. Netrunner has its riveting asynchronous matches marred by a ridiculously steep learning curve enough to send a casual observer into spasms and investing into it […]

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King Of Tokyo

by Mike Bon July 2, 2014

WDR Silver

This game is so much fun! If you love the old Godzilla movies or ever played Rampage at the arcades then this is for you. The game is simplicity you play a monster and you have to either kill all your opponents or get 20 victory points. How you achieve this is by rolling dice. […]

Well, this February sees the launch of the Kickstarter for Good Society, a Powered by the Apocalypse Jane Austen game. I am about literally everything in that phrase. Storybrewers made the fascinating-looking Alas for the Awful Sea, which shows their love of their subject matter and the research which took place. I can’t wait to see what this is like.

As part of the Kickstarter for Grant Howitt’s Goblin Quest, he promised a hack of it called “Regency Ladies”, which ended up becoming its own different game in the book. He’s also talked about an Unbound setting where regency ladies come out to society and are given their families warmechs. I want to see a print version of this one day.