Coming in 2019
Let me start by wishing you a Happy New Year.
Let me start by wishing you a Happy New Year.
It has been a couple of months since I last updated my tabletop player profile, as per Quantic Foundry's online form.
Christmas is just around the corner, in case you hadn't noticed, and soon it will be time to visit family and be merry together.
Inspired by a recent, and very brief, discussion on Twitter (nod to Kathleen Mercury and Paul Grogan), I decided to investigate the age old question of what makes a role-playing game a role-playing game.
Tabletop games tend to encourage people to come together and enjoy some time together.
A lot of games now come with an option to play against an artifical oponent - often called an AI, or automa.
In my view, the tabletop games community is generally a friendly, welcoming group of people.
The tabletop games industry has been booming for some years now.
Imperfect information games have been around for a long time.
Prompted by my recent review of Lincoln by PSC Games and Worthington Games, I wanted to discuss the topic of war as a theme in modern tabletop games.