Column Yipee-Ki-Yay. Die Hard Is Getting a Board Game There have been eight video games based on the Die Hard films, but the landmark action series has never had a tabletop adaptation ... By Samantha NelsonApril 15, 2019
Books Writing At Midnight: How We Made Lancer, A Tabletop Mech RPG I want to talk about Lancer’s development not as a nuts-and-bolts triumphant-engineering story — that’s my design partner’s purview — but from a ... By Miguel LopezApril 12, 2019
Column The Reckoners Board Game Lacks the Twists of Brandon Sanderson’s Series Brandon Sanderson’s bestselling The Reckoners YA series is set in a post-apocalyptic future where people started gaining superpowers and almost universally became villains. ... By Samantha NelsonApril 8, 2019
Column Settle in the Wasteland with the Upcoming Fallout Tabletop RPG The Fallout video game series may have fallen on appocalyptically bad times, but players in love with its setting and characters have some ... By Samantha NelsonApril 1, 2019
Column Conspicuous Consumption Gets Competitive in Mercado Rob was perusing the wares at the market, a sparkling spectacle of jeweled goblets, gilded books, and fine clothing available for purchase to ... By Samantha NelsonMarch 25, 2019
Column Exceed Street Fighter Is a Battle of Wits Sagat was in bad shape. Ryu had just hit him squarely with a Hadoken and was ready to do it again. The Muay ... By Samantha NelsonMarch 18, 2019
Tabletop Exalted’s New Lunars Fight the Concept of Barbarians With tabletop roleplaying games, new editions — new versions that reboot or refine the game’s system and setting — seem inevitable. Whether you’re ... By Robert VanceMarch 15, 2019
Column Why I’m Not Excited About Pathfinder Second Edition In many ways, I’m the ideal Pathfinder customer. I own almost all the major books that Paizo has published for its tabletop roleplaying ... By Samantha NelsonMarch 11, 2019
Column Loop Gamifies the Perils of Public Transit Living in Chicago exposes you to plenty of ads that were clearly developed by agencies in New York or Los Angeles desperate to ... By Samantha NelsonMarch 4, 2019
Column 5th Edition D&D has Gotten Wonderfully Weird Our party had entered the woods searching for a way to defeat a hag that had all but taken over a nearby town. ... By Samantha NelsonFebruary 25, 2019
Tabletop Fortune Favors the Bold in Broom Service When my friends first started getting into strategy gaming, one of our go-tos was Z-Man games’ Citadels. It’s an elegant game about amassing ... By Samantha NelsonFebruary 18, 2019
From the Developer The Making of Defense Grid: The Board Game This piece was originally sent to backers of Defense Grid: The Board Game’s Kickstarter. It has been copyedited for clarity. I have gotten ... By Anthony HansesFebruary 15, 2019