We are family
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.
Are pea G's?
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.
Rise of Tribes
Rise of Tribes by Breaking Games looks like your normal area control game with the usual random terrain made out of hexagonal tiles.
Come together
Tabletop games tend to encourage people to come together and enjoy some time together.
Mystic Vale
Card games come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from the traditional games played for centuries throughout Europe to the modern card collecting, card drafting and deck building games.
I, Robot
A lot of games now come with an option to play against an artifical oponent - often called an AI, or automa.
Haspelknecht: The Story of Early Coal Mining
Haspelknecht: The Story of Early Coal Mining, to give it its full title, is a kind of action selection game by Quined Games set in the Ruhr region of Germany.
Human beans
In my view, the tabletop games community is generally a friendly, welcoming group of people.
Chai
I had the pleasure of trying the prototype PnP version of Chai by Deep Aqua Games, which is due to launch on Kickstarter on 4 December, so keep an eye out for it.
Small is beautiful
The tabletop games industry has been booming for some years now.