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Author: Alex Lucard

  • Tabletop Review: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Wrath of the Righteous Box Set

    Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Wrath of the Righteous Box Set Publisher: Paizo Cost: $59.99 ($47.48 at Amazon.com) Release Date: 05/27/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com I was kind of surprised when Amazon asked me to review the third incarnation of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game a month ago. After all, it came out in late May…

  • Tabletop Review: Batman Fluxx

    Batman Fluxx Publisher: Looney Labs Cost: $19.99 ($14.41 at Amazon.com) Release Date: 08/07/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com I’ve never played a Fluxx game before, but I know they are fairly similar and that there are a LOT of options out there. There are five different versions of the core game and spin-offs like Monty Python…

  • Tabletop Review: Call of Catthulhu Deluxe, Book III: Worlds of Catthulhu

    Call of Catthulhu Deluxe, Book III: Worlds of Catthulhu Publisher: Catthulhu.com Cost: $7.95 (PDF)/$9.95 (Physical) Page Count: 128 Release Date: 08/07/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com One of the most popular games in my household is Call of Catthulhu. Even my wife and her friends, who do not roleplay, love the game and find it creepy…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Wolf & Buffalo

    Shadowrun: Wolf & Buffalo Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 23 Release Date: 08/20/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Every runner has an origin story; we just rarely ever hear them. Established characters in the Sixth World canon are generally introduced to us after having been veterans of the shadows for many years. It’s…

  • Tabletop Review: Wyrd Chronicles, Issue #19 (Malifaux, Through the Breach)

    Wyrd Chronicles, Issue #19 Publisher: Wyrd Miniatures Cost: FREE Page Count: 68 Release Date: 08/20/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m extremely new to Malifaux. I’ve read through the Through the Breach RPG manuals and have even felt confident enough in the rules to review a Penny Dreadful adventure, but I’ve yet to play Malifaux. I…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #82 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Chaos Dreadhold, Warhammer: 40,000)

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #81 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer: 40,000)

    White Dwarf, Issue # 81 Publisher: Games Workshop Cost $3.99 (Physical)/$2.99 (Digital) Page Count: 32 Release Date: 08/15/2015 Get it Here: The White Dwarf App (Or your local Games Workshop Store Another week, another White Dwarf Once again, this issue focuses primarily on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar with very little on Warhammer 40,000. This means…

  • Tabletop Review: Occultism (Shadows of Esteren)

    Occultism (Shadows of Esteren) Publisher: Studio 2 Publishing Cost: $25 Page Count: 140 Release Date: 07/26/2015 (Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: Pre-Order on Backerkit! After a long dry spell, Shadows of Esteren saw not one, but FOUR releases in July. For foodies, The Esteren Culinary Journey was released. Ghost Stories was actually released…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #80 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000)

    White Dwarf, Issue #80 Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 (Physical)/$2.99 (Digital) Page Count: 32 Release Date: 08/08/2015 Get it Here: Games Workshop.com Okay, so in last week’s review, I mentioned I was going to take a break from White Dwarf for a while since I’m not interested in Chaos troops. Then something wacky happened the…

  • Board Game Review: Magic: The Gathering –Arena of the Planeswalkers

    Magic: The Gathering –Arena of the Planeswalkers Publisher: Hasbro Cost: $29.99 Release Date: 07/01/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com Once upon a time there was a company called Milton Bradley that had a collectable board game called Heroscape. It ran from 2004 to 2010 and had mild success, primarily due to using licenses like Marvel Super…

  • Book Review: Hauntings (Shadows of Esteren)

    Hauntings (Shadows of Esteren) Publisher: Agate/Studio 2 Publishing Cost: Free (to Kickstarter backers) TBD (Everyone Else) Release Date: 07/22/2015 (Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: Studio 2 Publishing (Eventually) Hauntings is a collection of short stories that was part of the “Ghost Stories” side project that came about in a set of Shadows of…

  • Tabletop Review: The Black Moon Handbook (Shadows of Esteren)

    The Black Moon Handbook Publisher: Studio 2 Publishing/ForgeSonges Cost: Free (to Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Release Date: 07/22/2015 (Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Page Count: 75 Get it Here: Studio 2 Publishing (Eventually) The Black Moon Handbook originally began its existence as Ghost Stories a free bonus for various Shadows of Esteren Kickstarters like Travels and…

  • Board Game Review: Game Election

    Game Election Publisher: Naturalist Games Cost: $9.95 Release Date 06/09/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com Game Election is a game about deciding what game you want to play. Does that sound odd? Well it’s also a game about the inherent corruption in the political process of American Democracy, but that’s a little more subtle than the…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #79 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000)

    White Dwarf, Issue #79 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 Page Count: 32 Release Date: 08/01/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library (Or your local Games Workshop store) Another week, another issue of White Dwarf. I’ll admit, last week’s issue was bad enough I considered not getting this week’s release.…

  • Board Game Review: Cthulhu’s Vault

    Cthulhu’s Vault Publisher: Jolly Roger Games/Ultra Pro Incorporated Cost: $20 (Kickstarter Backers)/$40 (Everyone else) Release Date: 06/17/2015 Get it Here: www.ultrapro.com It’s taken me a while to get to Cthulhu’s Vault for a couple of reasons. The primary one is that the game is for 3-6 players, a fact that was not advertised in the…

  • A Look at the Esteren Culinary Journey (Shadows of Esteren)

    Earlier this year, we did an exclusive reveal of the $100,000 goal for the Shadows of Esteren: Occultism Kickstarter -An authentic Shadows of Esteren meal done up by the Gastronogeek crew. Well, 1,066 of you made that goal happen and on July 26th, a PDF version of the Esteren Culinary Journey was released to the…

  • Tabletop Review: DC Deck Building Game Crossover Pack 2: ARROW: The Television Series

    DC Deck Building Game Crossover Pack 2: ARROW: The Television Series Publisher: Cryptozoic Entertainment Cost: $10 ($6.90 at Miniature Market) Card Total: 27 Release Date: 07/21/2015 Get it Here: Miniature Market It looks like we’ll be getting an expansion pack for the DC Deck Building Game once a quarter at this rate. In late March…

  • Fantasy Booking: A Year’s Worth of Batman Miniature Game Releases.

    As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of the Batman Miniature Game by Knight Models. At the time I am writing this up, I have thirty-four figures from the game painted up and another twenty-eight more to go. Of course, every month there are new guys I want, so who knows when I…

  • Tabletop Review: Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Campaign Book

    Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Campaign Book Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $74 (Physical)/$130 (Limited Edition)/$49.99 (Digital) Page Count: 264 Release Date: 07/18/2015 Get it Here: Games Workshop It’s hard to believe that the Age of Sigmar only began a fortnight ago on July 11th. Well, July 4th if you count the preview issue of White Dwarf…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #78 (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar/Warhammer 40,000)

    White Dwarf, Issue #78 Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 Page Count: 32 Release Date: 07/25/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library (or your local Games Workshop store) Issue #78 of White Dwarf marks the fourth straight week devoted to Age of Sigmar coverage. Since releases have gotten a lot sparser each week with AOS, it…