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Continue reading →: The Best 5 Board Games for This Holiday SeasonI do not receive any money from any links. The year is wrapping up and Hanukkah and Christmas are right around the corner. Here are a few my tabletop game gift recommendations for 2025. 1. Heroes of Barcadia Grab a drink and hunt for the Drink Hoard. This is one of my personal favorites this year and a perfect gift for anyone over the drinking age. I was skeptical as games like these can be unnecessarily difficult but it was a load of fun. 8 candles out of 8. 2. Call of Cthulhu An elder god made flesh. This is…
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Continue reading →: Dev log #1 Corrupted Frontier – Welcome to ColoradoThis is not my first project. A couple of years ago I worked on a game called Hero Within, but it self-imploded after changing my design goals. Lesson learned. After taking a break on game design, I decided to start working on my current project, Corrupted Frontier. Seven-ish months of work and it’s in a playable state. What is Corrupted Frontier To put it simply, it’s the Wild West meets cosmic horror. Or at least my take on it. Taking a gunslinger and having them face off against unspeakable horrors and attempting to hang onto their humanity. It’s been a…
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Continue reading →: The 4 Play Styles Every Game Designer Should KnowFun is very subjective. This is why we have hundreds of thousands of games. Unlike a single-player video game, tabletop games require multiple people, so you need to try to appeal to a larger group of differing play styles. I recently re-watched a view by Deficient Master D&D players SUCK. This is why. He dives into a few player archetypes he has come across and provides tips on how to better game master for those types of players. This started to make me think about how a game itself accommodates these players. As game designers we can’t make a game…
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Continue reading →: What Everybody Ought to Know About RPG DiceDice systems are more than just what math rock you are rolling. It affects your game’s skills, stats, player success rate, and more. Replacing Dungeons & Dragons’s D20 (20-Sided Die) with a D100 would greatly change the game mechanics and balance.
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Continue reading →: I Know What Your Tabletop RPG is MissingI am a believer that there is no such thing as a bad game. There are games that I will never play and I think are not that well designed. Despite that I see it on target shelves so obviously people are buying it. In the end, your game could still suck to the point where only people who “get the idea” will play it.
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Continue reading →: How to Create a Tabletop Game LoopOne of the biggest problems new tabletop game designers face is making a good game loop. While game loops are important for any kind of game. Video games can have more leeway with a bad game loop while a tabletop game will lead it to no one playing.
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Continue reading →: 5 Reasons Your Tabletop Games FailWhen you look at how a tabletop game fails, it’s never as simple as the game is not fun. Almost any idea you have has an audience. The real killers to that game idea you have can be subtle and won’t emerge until it feels like it’s too late.
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