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Board games vs. video games and my progression into table top gaming

Posted in Board Game Dialog on August 31, 2010 by Michael Schroeder Each type of gaming has it’s place, be it, table top gaming (as my friend coined, “analog games”) or video gaming.  I most certainly enjoy board gaming more than video gaming, hence, why I have a board gaming blog and not a video…
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Tomes of Antiquity: (The) Dragon Magazine

Dragon magazine, originally launched as The Dragon magazine, was published for 31 years. The Dragon debuted in June 1976 as a publication of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) as a replacement for The Strategic Review‘s brief run. At some point, the publication was renamed Dragon Magazine from the original The Dragon magazine. In 1997, after the purchase or TSR by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, publication was of the magazine was shifted to Washington state from Wisconsin. In 2002, WotC licensed the rights to publish both Dragon and Dungeon magazines to Paizo Publishing.

Age Past Interview

Recently someone approached me asking if I’d feature his game in this magazine. I always pay attention to this type of request as Indie and new games and sometimes games are better than others, but few times looked as good as Age Past. Although the game is still in production and some work needed to…
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Pathfinder Vs. 4e

Pathfinder versus 4e: the battle for the heart of D&D Have we finally reached that point of schism, that Reformation moment when a religion splits apart into two distinct camps? Has the creative force behind the D&D game finally got to that Martin Luther point, that hammering of the 95 Theses into the door of…
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Interview with Graeme Davis

If you have been playing games and you pay any attention to the names of the people who write them, you will have read Graeme Davis quite a few times. Born in London with degree in Archaeology, for nearly 30 years, he has produced material for electronic and tabletop games, books, magazines, newspapers, electronic publications,…
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