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Review: “Conquest of Nerath” D&D Boardgame

June 21, 2011 by Bartoneus

Today we see the release of Conquest of Nerath, the newest D&D board game from Wizards of the Coast. Unlike the last two D&D board games from WotC, Castle Ravenloft and Wrath of Ashardalon, which focused on heroes and dungeon crawling this new game is a take on large scale strategy board gaming along the lines of games like Risk or Axis & Allies. At the same time the game includes heroes that can fight alongside your larger armies and delve into dungeons to uncover powerful treasure that will help your armies attain victory over the other factions.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Axis & Allies, board game, boardgame, boardgames, castle ravenloft, conquest of nerath, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, preview, Reviews, risk, roleplaying games, strategy, wrath of ashardalon

Chatty’s Tales of the Arabian Nights

February 1, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Instead of providing another review of the game, I thought I would tell you the story of my ‘character’ to showcase how rich the game is. Note that while I may flourish the prose of my tale a bit (that’s what being a storyteller is all about), what I will present actually happened during the game.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: boardgames

Inq. of the Week: Non-RPG Content?

August 3, 2009 by Bartoneus

Well voting for the ENnies closed over the weekend, first and foremost I’d like to extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who voted for us! No matter what you ranked our site compared to the others, they all help and hopefully we will be pleasantly surprised at the ceremony during GenCon.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: Anime, boardgames, Comics, content, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Poker, Roleplaying Games, videogames, webcomic

Chatty’s Break: Game Night Report

November 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

We had fun last night playing card games and board games.  I needed the distraction and it was really enjoyable. See here for a description of the games we played. We played two shifts of Lord of the Fries and its a fun Card game… Although when played with several players (we were 6 for […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: boardgames

Chatty’s Break: Board/Card Game Night

November 28, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hot on the heels of me declaring myself a burnt out DM, some of the gang has agreed to secretly meet in the depth of the Northern Suburban Jungle of Montreal tonight. As the title subtly hints at, we’re going to play some card games and Board games. Anything but D&D and Magic the Gathering! […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: boardgames

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