Previewing: Conglomerate

I’d like everyone to meet Victor. Victor was very much like your average kid at that time. He probably liked to run around pretending to be cowboys and Indians, getting into snowball fights, playing baseball, and picking on his sister....
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Previewing: Magnum Opus

Magnum Opus is a challenge in your alchemical prowess. You can try for immortality! But don’t quit your day job just yet. You’ll need the income to supplement your research. It’s been amazing in the last couple years both in...
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Previewing: King’s Forge

For quite some time, the prevailing thought with dice games was that the only mechanic that worked was the variety. That notion is changing. In the last few years we’ve seen, slowly, a rise in a new breed of dice...
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Previewing: Mechanika: Empires of Blood and Steam

E.E. Cummings once wrote, “Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.” Mechanika: Empires of Blood and Steam picks this line of thought up and runs with it. Mechanika promises to be an ambitious and engaging...
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Previewing: Chaos & Alchemy

It always seems that no matter what happens, if you get too deeply involved into alchemy, bad things happen. It’s this fascinating old wives’ tale that must have been started by Moirai themselves during a period of downtime, because the...
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Previewing: Incredibrawl

“Physical Zombie loses to Energy Dinosaur.” Take a moment to fully register that sentence. Let the gears turn for a minute. …Physical Zombie… …Energy Dinosaur… Do you follow yet? No? Good. Welcome to Incredibrawl: the fantastical knock-down, drag-out card game...
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Previewing: Tsunami!

Hey – it’s halfway through 2013. If you haven’t figured it out by now, we all survived the Mayan Apocalypse! Well, except no such thing existed. It was a poor misinterpretation that sort of sunk into the cultural psyche. We...
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Previewing: Gothic Doctor

Editor’s Note: This preview pertains to the first Kickstarter campaign for Gothic Doctor. While there have been some small changes to the iconography and card examples since then for its relaunch, the game largely remains unchanged. This article should still...
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Previewing: Civility

Since time immemorial, dreamers, philosophers, conquerors, and scholars have remarked on one of humanity’s fundamental traits: our drive to explore. Whether it’s the depths of the oceans, the cosmos beyond, or the inner workings of our own minds, the human...
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Previewing: Euphoria

At some point in the future, something really bad happens to society. Chances are we did it to ourselves, but regardless of the cause, our world – this world – is no more. From the ashes of civilization grew a...
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