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Apr
Narrating General Ability Spends
Although the rules donāt call for it, some GUMSHOE groups add a narrative wrinkle to the spending of pool points from ge...
15
Apr
Designer Diary: Super Boss Monster | BoardGameGeek News
by Hayden Dillard
Super Boss Monster is the 2025 sequel to Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game. It's a great e...
15
Apr
Teasers from Days of Wonder, Elzra, Delicious Games, and Underdog Games | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
āŖļø On April 6, 2025, Days of Wonder announced "a brand new design" for Richard Borg's Memoir '44, whi...
15
Apr
Designing a logo for Carouse, Carouse!
Education How I made the branding for Carouse, Carouse! A monthly party of an rpg newslette...
15
Apr
Not my space zoo. Not my alien monkeys.
Welcome to Skeleton Code Machine, an ENNIE-nominated and award-winning weekly publication that explores tabletop game me...
15
Apr
REPOST: The Articles of Dragon: “For NPCs Only: The Death Master”
Ah, that staple of Dragon from back in the day: the "NPC only" class. One of the oddities of the magazine was that, whil...
15
Apr
Precursors and Tangents to the Trading Card Game – Benign Brown Beast
There are no novel insights here, but I needed to sort these things visually to get a handle on them. Dashed arrows indi...
15
Apr
Villains Who Shape the World: Developing Antagonists Like Vekāth and the Grind Barons
Villains Who Shape the World: Developing Antagonists Like Vekāth and the Grind Barons āThe best villains donāt j...
15
Apr
Saga of the Ortegids: Other Pantheons
The Nine Gods comprise the main pantheon of The Saga of the Ortegids. These are the gods you can expect to be worshiped ...
15
Apr
Skald: Against the Black Priory – Finished
I finished up Skald yesterday. It's a fun game - well worth the ~$10 I paid for it. It's a low-res retro-style game. I ...