by Will Hindmarch | Sep 19, 2008 | Fantasy, Horror, Musing, RPGs
I know it’s nostalgia because it aches a little. It’s something about the time of year. This is when, longer ago now than it seems, I’d sink into the thick of the school year. The air mellowed out, it got dark sooner, and summery shirts gave way to...
by Jeff Tidball | Sep 5, 2008 | Conventions, Musing
One of the things that struck me about the dealer’s hall at GenCon this year was how much it seems to have evolved over the years from a place where the emphasis is on publishers selling their wares direct to consumers into a strange flea market of, yes, some...
by Jeff Tidball | Aug 14, 2008 | card games, Musing
The art for collectible card games has always bugged me a little, but I only recently figured out why. Most CCGs—and all of them that I’ve played—have different card classifications as a core element of their gameplay. By “classifications,” I mean...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 21, 2008 | Musing, Promotion
Lots of things happening this summer, with just one little post to plug them all. First, as you can see, I’m experimenting with some graphical and organizational changes to the site, as we need a way to display the site’s pages that’s a little more...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 2, 2008 | Conventions, Musing, Writing
Origins was last week; I wasn’t there. On the subject of Origins, a shout-out to FFG co-worker Corey Koneiczka, the designer of StarCraft: The Board Game, who earned a well-deserved Origins Award for his work on that game. Corey is the best hobby board game...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 18, 2008 | Books, Musing, RPGs
While I don’t always agree with Alt Text’s Lore Sjöberg, today he’s got a stellar parody of RPG forum behavior (in some circles) rendered as a reaction to a cookbook, so today I do. It stings with familiarity. We’re not all like this, but...
