GamerDad's Boardgame Wrapup

The truly excellent site GamerDad has been featuring a good, hard look at recent releases to the boardgaming scene since Gen Con last month. Anything you might be interested in playing with little plastic pieces is covered in their great, family-focused coverage. "Publisher of the popular Settlers of Catan among other fine European imports, Mayfair Games was promoting the game Ragmortha with a giant game setup. Each player is a goblin sneaking into a wizard's lair in order to steal back the gold he owes them. Players rush around trying to gain gold and avoid the evil wizard by playing cards on each other. It is one of those silly family games where players can add to the rules making it more of an experience than a game. For example, a player might be required to begin playing while standing on one foot, and another player might not be allowed to say the word "card" anymore. Meanwhile everyone has to tap the table with their elbow whenever the word "turn" is said, and so on..." You may have also seen elsewhere that GamerDad recently suffered a heart attack. There's a way on the site to contribute something, if you can manage it.

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[eln (21727)]

It's a poorly done copy and paste troll. Seriously, the quality of trolls around here has really been declining. The GNAA guys used to change their stock copy and paste troll all the time to reflect the story or even just recent stories in the news. Now they can't even be bothered to change the name of the editor before posting. Trolling is truly a lost art.

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[hapycamper (731425)]

Actually, I wrote the above articles. While I actually submitted my entire GenCon series of articles to SlashDot when they were posted, they weren't accepted at that time. The above blurb comes from someone not associated with the GamerDad site (as far as I know...) -Matt (not GamerDad, but I write all the boardgame & RPG coverage for the site....)

Credit Where It is Due

[GWLlosa (800011)]

I'm fairly certain the 'heart attack' plug is something Zonk or someone added afterwards, and is not, in fact, an insidious profit-making scheme on the behalf of the "GamerDad" in question.


Unless, of course, "GamerDad" IS Zonk...

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[bar-agent (698856)]

Penny Arcade also mentioned the heart-attack thing, and is asking the community to help.

A record of some kind?

[OakDragon (885217)]

Will this story set a record for the lowest number of posts attached to a front page story?

(Maybe, if this meta-post didn't push it over the top...)

Too fancy for me.

[WeblionX (675030)]

I still prefer backgammon, especially when it comes in its own briefcase.

The *rest* of the article

[Txiasaeia (581598)]

The submitter failed to link to the second half [gamerdad.com] of the article, in which games from Rio Grande and Wizards of the Coast. An interesting mention by GamerDad was The Battle for Hill 218, including a playable version here [honte.org].

EULA

[TheLink (130905)]

"where players can add to the rules making it more of an experience than a game. For example, a player might be required to begin playing while standing on one foot, and another player might not be allowed to say the word "card" anymore. Meanwhile everyone has to tap the table with their elbow whenever the word "turn" is said, and so on..."

Are you sure those are the rules of the game? Maybe someone was reading the game's EULA instead ;).

Only a few of the articles...

[hapycamper (731425)]

Actually, the two mentioned articles are only part of the GenCon coverage over at GamerDad. The complete coverage is as follows:

Unplugged: GenCon 2007 [gamerdad.com] Indianapolis, invaded!
Unplugged: GenCon 2007 - The Video Games [gamerdad.com] All your board are belong to us!
Unplugged: GenCon 2007 - The Role Playing [gamerdad.com] Fear the brain in a jar!
Unplugged: GenCon 2007 - There's always a first time [gamerdad.com] Boardgamer and family man, Larry Baxter, describes his first visit to a game convention.
Unplugged: GenCon 2007 - Boardgames, Boardgames, [gamerdad.com]