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Video killed Playing Board Games?

(with advance apologies to Songwriters: Geoffrey Downes / Trevor Charles Horn / Bruce Woolley and The Buggles for repurposing their song) Video games have certainly become a part of our cultural egregore since the release of “Periscope” by Sega in…

Gaming under the Corona(virus)

As with many social groups, our gaming group is dealin with self-isolation during this outbreak. All of our members are in one risk group or another, due to health,age, or a family member in such category 00 many of us…

Wandering about in DragonQuest

So, we have now been back under DQ rules for a while. I do enjoy the DragonQuest system, but my gods, it is math-intensive. Fortunately, one of our players is a wizard with Excel, who has graciously prepared spreadsheets for…