Tag: board game

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop’s AI ban, says ‘it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort’

Blood Bowl creator Jervis…

Jervis Johnson is a legend in the world of tabletop game design. During almost four decades spent at Games…
Finally, some good news: The world’s only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like ‘The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order’

Finally, some good news:…

Last year, I had the pleasure of covering the existence of the Warhammer Conference, the world’s first academic conference…
D&D’s artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times

D&D’s artificers are getting…

The D&D supplement that sees the most use at my table is Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, which gets referenced…
The creators of Wingspan are ‘suing the president’ to try and save board game publishers from tariff annihilation

The creators of Wingspan…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how devastating an impact a 54% tariff on imports from China…
The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material

The core of the…

Last year, Wizards of the Coast announced that when the three core books that formed Dungeons & Dragons’ updated…
Gloomhaven: Second Edition on hold due to Trump tariffs causing a ‘ripple effect’ on the board game industry, says publisher: ‘Our products are no longer retail viable’

Gloomhaven: Second Edition on…

Cephalofair Games, and other board game publishers like it, are in dire straits thanks to Trump administration trade tariffs,…
Games Workshop celebrates the birthday of its killer parallelogram, the Land Raider

Games Workshop celebrates the…

What do you get a tank for its birthday? A new set of treads? One of those aftershave gift…
The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe

The mechs of BattleTech…

Tabletop wargame BattleTech is getting its first real alternate universe in its 40 year history, and it’s a pretty…
The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last

The Tomb Raider board…

Board game publishers may be lamenting the end of the tabletop boom—the golden age of board gaming that has…
I wish Darktide’s progression mechanics were as straightforward as the miniatures game

I wish Darktide’s progression…

Ordo dockets aren’t the same thing as ordo ingots. Ordo dockets, you see, are earned by doing missions, along…