The Arkham Horror line of games from Fantasy Flight is constantly growing. The latest game to join the line is Arkham Horror: The Card Game, a living card game. A living card game means that all the expansions and packs released are standardized. With an expansion and new scenario pack already announced, Fantasy Flight seems …
At GenCon 2016 Nika Howard, Brad Brockway, and I were fortunate enough to be invited to a press event for Mythic Battles: Pantheon, where we got a sneak peak at this intriguing upcoming miniature based tactics game. Mythic Battles: Pantheon is an miniature based game made by Mythic Games and Monolith Board Games, who you …
River Page wants to be a Grace. Within a few weeks of moving to a new town on the edge of the sea, it’s all she wants and all she can think about. She plans her days around them and daydreams about what it might be like, to be accepted by the mystical, magical children …
Marie Brennan is a true chameleon. I would never have guessed that this tough, relentless story was written by the same woman who gave us the intensely High Victorian Natural History of Dragons (plus sequels), but here it is, fast and furious. An unidentified protagonist—let’s not be too creative and call her Nameless Warrior—is brought …
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to your newest obsession. There’s murder. A lot of murder. And there’s mayhem. So much mayhem. Sex and drugs and–well, okay, there isn’t any rock and roll, but there are a bunch of teenagers who do rock. And roll. And poison, stab, seduce, and steal. From each other, from the faculty …
A girl is missing. A student has fled from her rooms in the middle of the night after or with a young man. At first this means only—only!—that the Women’s College might be in jeopardy, a serious enough fate to force Vellitt Boe into action. But this is a world scaffolded by Lovecraft, and the …
There was a moment when I finished this book in which all I could do was sit and stare at the last blank page. I was physically disturbed and awed into stillness. “Holy shit,” I said, somewhat to my husband, mostly just to say it. “This book…” I didn’t finish my sentence. I couldn’t. This …
There are a few elements to a video game that will ensure I will want to play it. One is if I can date in the game; preferably date humans, but I have settled for pigeons before. The second is if it has any dealings with a period of history that I find interesting, I …
I first encountered Paul Kearney in the most tragic way possible: I began his Sea Beggars trilogy. Oh, the trilogy itself isn’t any more tragic than any other quality fantasy novel. The tragedy is that, because of some shadowy dispute with the publisher, the third book doesn’t exist. It will probably never come out. It’s …
Lin wakes up in a pile of freshly murdered bodies, with a madman screeching overhead and an army on the way and magic all around and gems—which are different from Jewels—and magic threatening everyone sanity and oh my! There’s nothing wrong with dumping someone in the middle of a narrative, but it takes a judicious …