Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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The contributors for this list were Byron Campbell, tabletop games editor at Entropy; Chris Holly, writer of the gobsmacking Playing Detective series; and Benjamin Tiemann, Byron’s regular gaming companion. Best…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. Zimby Mojo is…
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The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming by Teri Litorco Adams Media, 2016 Amazon | Adams Media I’ll be frank: for the first few sections, I didn’t much care for Teri Litorco’s Civilized…
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Welcome back to Dungeons Mastered, a tabletop roleplaying column from someone still figuring this shit out. I’m Tyler Crumrine, your RPG concierge and game-master-in-training, and this week we’ll be taking…
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This game design article comes from Brad Lawrence, co-designer and -publisher of Victoriana, the cooperative board game of intrigue and investigation in the world of Victorian literature. Play-us Ex Machina My design…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. Somebody has created…
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Welcome to the first installment of Dungeons Mastered, a tabletop roleplaying column from someone still figuring this shit out. I’m Tyler Crumrine, your RPG concierge and game-master-in-training. I’d wanted to…
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2015 was a big year for the board game hobby. Games like XCOM: The Board Game brought a renewed focus on integrating games with technology, while titles such as Pandemic Legacy or T.I.M.E Stories…
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The final category of the Tabletop Games Curriculum, science, is also a sort of catch-all in the sense that “science,” in one of its many branches, can represent any topic…
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As most board games’ choice of theme is inevitably historical, the mechanisms driving these games can’t escape being mathematical. If the game features any form of scoring, I can guarantee…
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Classic word-building games like Scrabble and Boggle might seem like they offer great educational value, but they actually do little to enhance one’s vocabulary beyond a certain highly specified world pool. Any Scrabble…
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If we accept “history” as the sum of human achievement up to the present day, then this is the most widely represented subject in analog gaming. In the genre of…
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