Some nice projects this week, but most of them have forgotten about international shipping, and a lot more rpg’s this week. Also, some updates… My copy of Get Bit arrived yesterday, albeit it with a broken red robot hand, I’m pleasantly surprised given what i’ve read about Mayday Games. Creatures, which I reviewed last week, reached their …
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Random Thoughts & Kickstarter News
Kickstarter Games Summary – Fri 30th Sep 2011
This week has certainly been an interesting one for games on Kickstarter, with several i’ve covered previously set to finish this weekend. Its also seen projects like Kingdom Builder come and go (more on that later) and several newcomers almost hit their funding in 1 or 2 days… So… Kingdom Builder. I saw this and …
Skilled with Skills
There has been a lot of talk about skills lately on Twitter and the WotC site which has led to a few blog posts by members of the community as well. The first starting point is of course the Legends and Lore column with 2 articles by Mike Mearls and this week’s one by Monte …
Kickstarter Games Summary – Fri 23rd Sept 2011
When I started this weeks reviews, I was struggling to find anything new, and presumed it was a quiet week on Kickstarter for games, but nope, it’s just their website sucks for finding stuff: Name: Imperial Crusade Armada Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/139696320/imperial-crusade-armada-a-unique-space-combat-game?ref=category Type: Board/Card Game Goal: $2000 Current Status: Funded End Date: Nov 15 Minimum cost for …
Kickstarter Games Summary – Fri 16th Sept 2011
Whats new (or I missed last time) in the Kickstarter Games category this week: Name: Shelter In Place Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1034531507/shelter-in-place-a-live-game-of-zombie-horror?ref=category Type: LARP? Goal: $2500 Current Status: Funded End Date: Oct 13 Minimum cost for a shipped copy: $30 International Shipping: Not specified Comments: Shelter In Place is a ‘Live Game of Zombie Horror’. Not quite …
Kickstarter Games Summary – Thurs 8th Sept 2011
Hi, each week, i’m going to brave the Kickstarter site, struggle with its randomly changing pages, and bring you a summary of all the new rpg and card games added to it. First up, lets take a look at about half of the current projects in the Games category: Name: Alien Frontiers: Factions Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clevermojogames/alien-frontiers-factions?ref=category …
Thoughts on Lair Assault
I was fortunate enough to spend Friday evening and most of Saturday playing and observing other people playing Lair Assault, WotC’s new in-store play program. First off, we were fortunate enough to have the event run by Adam Page. He had received an early copy of Lair Assault from Mike Mearls so that he could …
Essential Roleplaying Products
My inaugural post to Daily Encounter… With my tastes in Roleplaying changing, partly down to playing way too many D&D 4e delves, and partly down to me growing older, and my home/family situation changing, I decided to look over my rpg collection, both physical and digital, and tried to determine what books in it are …
Where is the new classic?
Digitial Age Pondering Steve Winter, in his Dragon 401 Editorial, asked questions about the state of Dragon and Dungeon magazines and what more WotC could be doing about digitial publishing. At the time of my writing this there are 99 comments directly below the editorial, most asking for compiled issues to be returned, but in …
Why DnD?
This week I’ve been a bit busy, hence why there were no updates this week, and this morning I was relaxing reading my twitter feed and two things came across my screen that prompted me to ask the question “why dnd?”. The first thing was this excellent little article on making Epic Tier better in …