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Gen Con 2024 – Chip Theory and Cephalofair

Posted on August 16, 2024 by Matt J Carlson

Today we put two big box retailers (the boxes to their games are big) into one big box article. Cephalofair was showing up the latest of their upcoming Gloomhaven RPG and they had a small side table showing off their … Continue reading →

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Gen Con 2024 – Slugfest & GameWright

Posted on August 11, 2024 by Matt J Carlson

To double your posting value, I’ll be combining publishers as I write up the convention. Today, it’s SlugWright or GameFest – I’m going with SlugWright… Gamewright  Sushi GO! 10th Anniversary Edition A special 10th Anniversary edition of the popular drafting … Continue reading →

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Gen Con 2024 – Wizkids Tales, Trails, and minis

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Matt J Carlson

Wizkids was back with their chimera of a booth showing off the latest in boardgames and miniatures. Tales of the Arthurian Knights A sequel to the narrative-driven Tales of the Arabian Nights, Arthurian Knights once again has players exploring a … Continue reading →

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Matt Carlson: First Impressions of Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Matt J Carlson

If there are any Holy Grails in the boardgaming world, it is to find the perfect civilization-building boardgame and the perfect dungeon-crawl/RPG boardgame. Euthia has nothing to do with civilization-building but is a worthy attempt at an RPG style adventure … Continue reading →

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Matt Carlson: Gen Con 2021 – RPGs

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Matt J Carlson

Gen Con started out in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin a little over 50 years ago. It focused on wargames until the mid 70’s when the first tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons, came onto the scene, quickly overtaking prominence at the … Continue reading →

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Planet Apocalypse – 5E D&D Sourcebook

Posted on June 7, 2021 by gamingleet

This review branches out a bit from the typical Opinionated Gamers fare. Planet Apocalypse originated as a board game from Petersen Games in 2020. This year the board game expansion has been Kickstarted along with the subject of our curiosity … Continue reading →

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