Welcome to the second of our two Old School Paxcasts!  Podcast interviews recorded at PAX East in March of 2011.  Today’s episode features an interview with Curt Covert from Smirk & Dagger games. To read more...

Let’s face it. Four Edition D&D is unashamedly geared toward group play. This is a game which has taken a leaf out of MMORPGs (and, I would argue, the superhero genre) and each character has a...

Japon Brand is a diverse collection of designers and self-publishers from Japan. Their gaming portfolio is growing steadily. Their games look intriguing and many bring a unique Japanese perspective to game design. Several have been picked...

Donkey from sggc Cleveland Kids is a proprietary version of Spoons. Donkey adds a silliness card that imposes a rule on each round, like “when you pass a card, you must say a word that starts...

Given the simple nature of this product, this will be a very quick review but I figured it might be useful nonetheless, especially if you happen to be considering purchasing the map to use with the...

16 divers in turns played Sheepshead underwater for 125.5 hours, at least according to source . I know, incredible, right? You could never get me to play Sheepshead for that long.

The Art of Service , designed by Fred Sirieix and published by Northgate Training Games, is a pricey board game tool to teach service principles to restaurant wait staff. The box includes two games. The first...

I just had the chance to go up a few levels in the newest addition to the Mount & Blade franchise: Fire and Sword.  It was exactly what I was expecting and that’s a damned good...

The Don’t Ask card game by Beverly Mahone contains questions to ask. If you’re supposed to ask questions, why is it called Don’t Ask? It’s based on Beverly’s book Don’t Ask and I Won’t Have to...

Welcome to my first of two Old School Paxcasts!  Podcast interviews recorded at PAX East in March of 2011.  Today’s episode includes a brief overview of PAX East and Don Gusano Games’ Quack in the box....