Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing too many Magic cards
Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing too many Magic cards: In a 76-page lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Rhode Island last week (via GoLocalProv), a group of investors...
View ArticleThe RPG industry is like a water pipe
Ken “Whit” Whitman explains how he learned TSR was dying: A lot of people ask me: “If you were just the Gen Con coordinator, how do you know so much about TSR’s internal strategy?” Fair question....
View ArticleWhat can be seen can be destroyed, so don’t be seen
As NATO prepares for a potential Russian invasion of the Baltic region, planners wonder how drones, hypersonic missiles, and modern kill chains might play out there. A new tabletop game, Littoral...
View ArticleThe modern battlefield requires split-second decision-making, seamless...
The modern battlefield requires split-second decision-making, seamless coordination among distributed teams, and processing vast amounts of information, all under extreme pressure: As I have learned...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons enters its stadium era
Dungeons & Dragons started with small groups of friends playing at home, but now it is entering its stadium era: But in the past decade or so, D&D has emerged as a popular form of spectator...
View ArticleThe VR game was designed to give the eye muscles a workout
Researchers at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan developed a VR game that aims to improve players’ eyesight: It’s a relatively simple target shooting game developed in Unity for Meta Quest 2. The game...
View ArticleBoth “Elton” and “van” were added much later
I recently went back and read “Black Destroyer,” a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939 and later combined with several...
View ArticleTaiwan’s presidential office runs first ‘tabletop’ simulation of Chinese...
Taiwan’s presidential office Recently ran a war game, or tabletop simulation, of Chinese military escalation: Unlike traditional war games by the military, the tabletop exercise was aimed at testing...
View ArticlePlay life like a game
In 2021, Walter Isaacson explains (in his biography of Elon), Musk became obsessed with a new multiplayer strategy game on his iPhone, Polytopia: In it, players choose to be one of sixteen characters,...
View ArticleMonopoly Go! made $3 billion in just over a year
I can’t say I even knew that there was a Monopoly Go! game: On Hasbro’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday, the toymaker revealed that the mobile video game has grossed more than $3 billion in...
View ArticleMaybe fire forces growth, and stabbing them only stuns them
Back in August, 1979, issue #29 of Dragon magazine included a game called The Awful Green Things From Outer Space. I never played it, so I didn’t realize it included this interesting game mechanic:...
View ArticleA powder keg’s more thrilling when it hasn’t blown up yet
When Dungeons & Dragons was young, it had a western counterpart called Boot Hill that I only knew through the crossover rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Adam Rutskarn went back and gave this...
View ArticleStorytelling needs to be practiced, just like flying or marksmanship
Ian Strebel and Matt McKenzie are intelligence officers in the United States Army and Navy, respectively, who have found that creating a compelling narrative takes practice, which traditional military...
View ArticleAnything can become a full-time job if enough people are paying attention
Matthew Mercer is the most famous Dungeons & Dragons player in the world: Critical Role is a miraculous success, with 2 million YouTube subscribers and an additional 1.3 million followers on...
View ArticleThe classic dungeon crawl promotes a play style that is very cautious,...
Yora of the Spriggan’s Den feels that classic dungeon-crawling is a fascinating and fun form of gameplay, but the archetypical dungeon crawl is not a good basis for a Sword & Sorcery campaign: The...
View ArticleDr. Raymond Kuo shares the Statecraft and Negotiations simulations he created...
Dr. Raymond Kuo created a Statecraft and Negotiations course when he was a professor, and he has shared his Statecraft and Negotiation Simulations: I created about a dozen original simulations that:...
View ArticleThe lure of the grandiose explains the pull of Terraforming Mars
The lure of the grandiose explains the pull of Terraforming Mars: Although the topic is formidably complex — how many people do you know who are qualified to renovate planets? — the game is not a...
View ArticleHow Harpoon V would model the Ukrainian attack on the Moskva
Ian B. of the Rocky Mountain Navy looks at how the latest version of the table-top Harpoon war game, Harpoon V, would model the Ukrainian attack on the Moskva: Given that Moskva is a major combatant...
View ArticleIf this wargame had been played at the Pentagon or the White House in the...
In the two weeks prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marine Corps University ran a four-day wargame to simulate the first several days of just such an invasion: The hope is that students will...
View ArticleGygax was surprised to find both of the Blume brothers in attendance
In the fall of 1985, Gary Gygax was the most famous and powerful figure in hobby gaming, Jon Peterson explains: October 22 was a Tuesday, and Gygax was wrapping up another day at TSR corporate...
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