There are a lot of games out there with interesting mechanics, deep strategy, potent themes, and plenty of replayability. Flying Frog’s Last Night on Earth does not meet all of these criteria: the mechanics are fairly simple, and while some strategy exists within the game, luck can play just as big a role, if [...]

Wizards of the Coast have written a formal response to Mr. Goldfarb, and mailed it off to him. I say, “Great job.”

On Thursday, I went ahead and ordered Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game. I liked it so much when I played it that I just couldn’t resist. It’s slated to arrive on Tuesday, and I’ve already got plans to play it with a friend on Wednesday. Awesome.

I mentioned yesterday that Wizards had created Tiny Adventures, a D&D app for Facebook. I also mentioned that it was a bit buggy; specifically, adventures were not updating for me, and I kept on getting errors. Well, here’s the response that Wizards posted to yesterday’s antics, and it is awesome:
5pm Thursday, August 21st
Your [...]

I went out for a marathon gaming session last night, and managed to play four games, two of which I’d played before. In the order that I played them:
Settlers of Catan was the first game I played, and it was the second time I had played it. It was fun. I like [...]

Okay, so Wizards of the Coast has created a D&D Facebook app. It seems interesting, if a little buggy and slow. If you’re signed up on Facebook, you might want to go check it out. If you’re not, maybe this will get you to sign up.

Followup: Michael Goldfarb apologized for his remarks today. While the apology does not immediately strike me as being all that sincere, I’ve decided that, since intent and tone is hard to read on the Internet, I’ll take it at face value and accept the apology. Hopefully this is the last time I’ll feel [...]

. . . they remind me that they can still be fun.

I try to keep politics out of this blog, because honestly it has no place here. But they threw the first stone. From John McCain’s website:
“It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans [...]

I’ll start with The Dark Knight. I saw it last night, and it was fantastic. Lots of great characters and a well-written storyline, as well as some nice action sequences. I must say, though, that the Joker stole every scene he was in; he was easily the strongest, most interesting character in [...]