The Excessive Gamer

A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a stroll.  The harvest is upon us!!  Well it has been a wond...

Is it really just schadenfreude?  For me I don't think so, for many out there probably.  I know many people felt betrayed/burned by...

As they say:  Disappointment = expectation divided by reality ...  This sums up where I am with GW these days!  Ok so the world of m...

Well a great local game convention has come and gone, it was a BLAST!!!  I played wall to wall games from early Friday morning until Sund...

Well this just looked interesting enough to take the plunge.  It looks like a fun sort of light RPG/story telling game.  It just sound...

Slightly unrelated topic here, but then again maybe not.  I mean perhaps one has interest in gaming in the old west, right? So today wa...

So I tend to be pretty excessive when I go in on a Kickstarter.  I'm in at the Frenzy level of Dreadball.  I ended up optin...

So last night we fired up a game of Eldritch Horror ( Fantasy Flight Games ) and it was surprisingly fun!  I thought I'd just do a...

The Single Most Important Lesson I've learned from playing D&D ... This is a very challenging question to be honest.  It is...

D&D ... if I had it to do all over again what would I do anything differently when I first started gaming? I think I have no reg...

Today I got a cool package from the UK, my Kallistra Pygmies arrived! Somehow 2014 has become the year of jungle gaming for me for what...

Sadly I've gone it my own way.  My first group I played with were a bunch of great guys.  I was twelve the last time I played D...

So all of a sudden we have this glut of blood bowl clones on Kickstarter!  What is up with that! I'm calling unnecessary roughness ...

A years long D&D campaign is sort of like a marathon in the snow, but up hill both ways. Well.  I have honestly been in far mor...

Really very sad to hear that Harold Ramis passed away yesterday.  Sad news. Rest in Peace Egon ... rest in peace ... if you don't y...

Gamer ADD does it exist? Having read a really cool article from of all places Vice Magazine  with Dr. Richard Garfield the creator of...

So as a very small child, around age five I was for the first time exposed to the classic (either classic bad or good depending on yo...

The first D&D related books I ever read were the endless quest books.  The very first of those I read was the classic Dungeon...

So I got a package in the mail from my friend in Las Vegas, Will   who I am trading off some sedition wars stuff and some other random ...

So FRP games was having a sale on a few things so I picked up my first Malifaux, Kabuki and Scibor minis.  I've been eyeing them f...