DMG? More like OMG, this book is actually useful. My thoughts on the new Dungeon Masters Guide for Dungeons & Dragons, published by Wizards of the Coast.
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Let's get dangerous and take a look at the huge amount of stuff that comes in the Dragonbane Core Set from Free League Publishing.
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You've got to "Hand" it to Wizards of the Coast, this new book is going to generate a lot of talk. My review of the 2024 Player's Handbook for D&D
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From Crazy Crawfish to making great gaming movies, there’s a lot going on this week in crowdfunding. Just in case “Pass the Box” doesn’t seem appealing to you this week, here’s 5 other campaigns you should check out
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Monte really “Cook”-ed up a horrific adventure with The Darkest House, a haunted house “megadungeon”-style game published from Monte Cook Games.
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Looking for a new Magic Deck that has a 50/50 win rate? Except when you lose, it’s the end for your D&D character? Today, I take a look at “The Deck of Many Things” one of the recent Dungeons & Dragons releases from Wizards of the Coast
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There’s a 2.5% chance you get a papercut reading this review: A look at the Dungeon Crawl Classics Core Rulebook from Goodman Games
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Does this keep you from bringing two tons of books to game night? Find out in Chris’ review of “Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse”, a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Supplement from Wizards of the Coast
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It was really only a matter of time before I had to change the title to replace "Kickstarter" with "Crowdfunding". I really should have thought better and used Crowdfunding from the beginning. This week, we have our first Gamefound campaign to talk about, birds flocking together, a horde of the rings, and a reference to a Cards Against Humanity box. Let's get started!
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This week is another random assortment of picks from me: another gaming table, some people looking to open a gaming store, a non-werewolf game from Bezier, wallet-sized barnyard fun, and a small party D&D5e compatible adventure. Let's jump right in!
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Another week, another set of Kickstarters: AR gaming, Dead by Daylight and another custom gaming table!
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Chris takes a look at the Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook from Paizo and gives his opinion on this major role playing system.
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Chris reviews The Summit of Kings, an adventure set in the Afropunk world of Swordsfall.
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This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with 2 creators of another Kickstarter in the Roleplaying Game (RPG) genre, Richard Kreutz-Landry and Rich Howard of Descent into Midnight (DiM). Based on the popular Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) engine, this Kickstarter still has a couple of weeks to go and is already well above its $25,000 goal.
In DiM, you play as characters in an underwater society, one that has not interacted with any type of human society. It is your responsibility to create this community and defend it from some type of threat. The exact nature of that threat can vary between games, as the game is centered around how the characters respond to these varying threats. I’ve kept an eye on the development of DiM for a while now, ever since I played in a couple of games with Richard at Acadecon a few years ago.
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First episode recorded in 2020! We talk about what we are expecting this year, then we go into lots of board game reviews such as the Adventure Games from Kosmos, Cat Cafe from Alley Cat Games, and the Pickle Rick game from Cryptozoic.
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Caveat: Not a real professor. I just play one on TV….if your TV is looking at my YouTube videos. Also my grandfather used to call me that when I was in college.
Now that I am back to blogging more often, its time to revisit this column. Got a question about board games, roleplaying games, comics or pop culture? Send me an email Chris@ocdcast.com or tweet me @ChrisTheProf on twitter with the #asktheprof hashtag and I may answer it in a future column.
Pulling from my archives, @BKfishen4Games asked on Twitter:
"How can I teach young gamers that it’s not all about winning?"
Brandon from the Brawling Brothers podcast (@BrawlingBros) asked:
"How do you loosen up the 'stiffs' at the table and have them fall into character?!?"
First of all, calling them stiffs is probably not helping your cause. Secondly, I totally know where Brandon is coming from. One of the first games I ran as a GM was the Star Wars Saga Edition RPG from Wizards of the Coast (basically D&D 3.5 but with Star Wars). I was trying to get a new group of friends into RPGs and as such pretty much everyone in my game had never played in a RPG before. A couple of players got into it, but there was one or two people that basically acted like we were playing Zork:
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We’ve had to reschedule some recordings for various reasons, so Episode 143 was going to be super huge (spoiler, it was huge anyways). So I decided to write a few more jokes than normal and put out a special bit to hold you over until the full up episode drops. Oh, and Collin and Cindy were there too.
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It's the last podcast of 2019, so how was the year? Also, we've got a stack of various board game inserts from GameFit and The Broken Token and we talk about what we think of them.
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We are back from Pax Unplugged! What board games did we see? What did we do? What didn't we do?
News
5 Minute Mystery on Kickstarter
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/5-Minute-Mystery-Up-On-Kickstarter
Romans coming to Empires of the North
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/Portal-Games-Announces-Roman-Banners-Expansion-For-Empires-of-the-North
Gloomhaven 2: More Haven, Less Gloom
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/Cephalofair-Announces-Gloomhaven-2--Frosthaven
The Purrfect Game for Chris
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/Fantasy-Flight-Announces-Barkham-Horror--The-Meddling-of-Meowlathotep-LCG-Expansion