Sailor Moon has returned, no small part in thanks to you amazing people out there! We’re really sorry for taking so long, but unfortunately real life got in the way of us pretending to be magical high schoolers. Join GM Steph Kingston, Sailor Bear (Dave Rollins), Sailor Rainbow (Christina Ladd), and Sailor Sunshine (Sam Brady) …
Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last time I regaled you with stories of Tim Lanning’s and my struggles at the Magic Origins prerelease. By now, though, Origins has been street-legal for two full weeks. At the same time, players around the world have been drafting Magic Origins—it’s been very popular at my local store—so we’re getting a better sense of …
The off season is here listeners, and we have many goodies to keep your thoughts dreadful all year round. We played a fantastic game of Bully Pulpit’s “Fiasco” with a Penny Dreadful theme, and this is the first part! Creatures are raised, accents are attempted, and loins are stirred! Your hosts are: Ashleigh Shadowbrook (@ShadowbrookAsh), …
Playing Dungeons & Dragons can be tough, especially on the internet when you fellow adventurers are in different time zones. Luckily, technology has been inching closer and closer to recreating the mythical, if not stereotypical, gaming dungeon with online apps. Michael and I have been tooling around with Fantasy grounds for a bit and we …
Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last week, we took a look at the new set, Dragons of Tarkir, and tried to figure out what sorts of limited strategies its cards would encourage. Today, we’ll have a bit of a grab bag: first, having actually now played the cards at the prerelease, we’ll refine our picture of …
We are proud to announce that our International Tabletop Day charity stream will benefit The Trevor Project, which is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people from ages 13-24. You can find out more about this organization on their website www.thetrevorproject.org For more information …
International Tabletop Day this year falls on Saturday 11th April and to celebrate this event we will be hosting a 24 hour live stream of tabletop gaming on the Geekly Inc Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/geeklyinc). This will be a charity driven event and we will be announcing the charity very shortly. The stream will begin at …
Last weekend, South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming announced the recipients of the second annual SXSW Gaming Awards. Star Realms, a new deckbuilding game designed by former Magic pros Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle, won the Table Top Game of the Year award, a new category for this year. The game was nominated by fans, selected …
We here at Geekly Inc. have previously written about the Kickstarter for Thunderbirds Co-operative Board Game . Now several of the stretch goals have been funded allowing for four expansions and a role playing aspect! Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to Chris Birch from publisher Modiphius Entertainment and designer Matt Leacock about Thunderbirds …
Explaining the rules of a new board game to other people can be one of the most challenging aspects of board games for players. The task usually falls to the owner of the game in addition to the blame if a minor rule is forgotten or misinterpreted. The following are some tips to help improve …