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  • 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)

  • Board Game Review: Costume Party

    An amusing bluffing game where you try to make sure you’re the only one in a cheap robot costume.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Board Game Review: Fish, Fish, Squish!

    Fish, Fish, Squish! Publisher: Winning Moves Games Cost: $13.99 ($10 at Amazon.com) Release Date: May, 2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com As many of you know, I am an official reviewer for Amazon.com as well as the main writer here at Diehard GameFAN. Sometimes they send me things to review that crossover with what we cover…

  • Tabletop Review: Kings of War, Second Edition Rulebook

    Kings of War, Second Edition Publisher: Mantic Games Cost: Free (For Basic Rules/$24.99 (Gamer’s Edition)/$39.99 (Full Rulebook) Page Count: 208 Release Date: 07/13/2015 (Kickstarter Backers)/August 2015 (Everyone Else) Get it Here: Mantic Games! With the Age of Sigmar upon us, this leaves Kings of War as the only traditional mass fantasy wargame on the market.…

  • Tabletop Review: Worlds of Pulp: Vampire Construction Tables

    Worlds of Pulp: Vampire Construction Tables Publisher: Scaldcrow Games Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 23 Release Date: 07/17/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I was one of 49 backers for Scaldcrow Games’ newest RPG, Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire, and since that won’t be out for another nine months or so, I thought I’d pick up their latest…

  • Tabletop Review: The ShadowPunk GM’s Cyber Hand

    The ShadowPunk GM’s Cyber Hand Publisher: Black Shark Enterprises Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 20 Release Date: 07/16/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Well, I haven’t received any Shadowrun review copies in a while and I’ve been itching for some Cyberpunk, so I picked this up on a lark. The ShadowPunk GM’s Cyber Hand is a system…