By Josh
September 28th, 2008 Running Into Trouble
We had our first actual Shadowrun game yesterday and boy was it a bumpy ride…
Archive for September, 2008
By Josh
September 28th, 2008 Risk Revisited Edition - More on House Rules and their Biggest Design Mistake
Our group has been playing the Risk Revised Board Game for the past few weeks and I wanted to do another post about about the game. I have done fairly well at winning this game so it may have skewed my opinions on but I do feel it is a solid game with solid rules.
By Josh
September 19th, 2008 Review of Risk Revisited Edition
In case you missed it Hasbro has a new version of their classic Risk game. This game is being called a reinvention as it is not the same as Risk 2210, Lord of the Rings Risk, Godstorm or any of the other versions of the game but is instead a new version of classic Risk and is being distributed by Hasbro as a mass market game and not by Avalon Hill as several of the other versions have been.
By Josh
September 17th, 2008 Ticket to Ride: Marklin Edition - Game Review
Before I get into the review I feel I should mention that I haven’t played any of the other versions of Ticket to Ride. This review will reflect that and those who have played other versions of the game are welcome to comment on the differences, but as I only have second-hand accounts of the differences I will not be discussing them.
By Josh
September 17th, 2008 Partying with the New Party
We had our first session last night after our near party wipe. Things went quite well and the players were able to see the usefulness of having two defenders as they were surrounded by a group of orcs.
By Scott
September 13th, 2008 Magic Evolves in a Struggle to Remain Relevant, Part 2: A Brief look at the Business of Magic
Continuing from Part 1: Magic’s Evolution, here I’ll briefly examine the business side of gaming that these changes to Magic: the Gathering expose.
By Josh
September 11th, 2008 Fun and Games
This isn’t a recent post by Yehuda but it’s one I hadn’t read before. I had been meaning to pop over there are start reading through the posts and as I was sitting here thinking about getting my paperwork done I realized this was a perfect time to do just that!
By Josh
September 9th, 2008 D&D: Wipe Out
So, we had our first character death in Dungeons and Dragons today. Actually, we had our first, second, and third character deaths and a fourth character who was so disgusted with the whole ordeal that he went off into the unknown.
By Josh
September 9th, 2008 A Great, if Silly, Idea for a Shadowrun
Most days I glance over the top news stories on Yahoo and today was no different. I try to keep myself informed on a variety of topics but I admit that I only read the articles that look as though they will be interesting or humorous.
By Josh
September 8th, 2008 A Shadowrun Idea for the Spatially Impaired
I’ve mentioned before that I have trouble with locations in my role playing games. I’ve never been good at picturing things three dimensionally and when it comes to buildings I have trouble picturing room layouts (both where the rooms should be within the structure and what should be where in the rooms).
By Scott
September 6th, 2008 Magic Evolves in a Struggle to Remain Relevant, Part 1: Change
As they say, these changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary, yet Magic is indeed changing.
I’ll take a look at the new shape of Magic: the Gathering to come with Shards of Alara and beyond, and what it means to the game we know as Magic.
By Scott
September 3rd, 2008 Games Blog at Pair O’ Dice Games is One Year Old!
Today this blog turns one year old!
Time to look back at some of our favorite posts and then take a peek at what the future holds for Pair O’ Dice Games!
By Josh
September 2nd, 2008 Our One Hundredth Post, My Return from Vacation, and Hasbro Responds to Mr. Goldfarb
This is the one hundredth post here at Pair O’ Dice! How cool is that? I wish it was something cooler… but oh well.
