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Origins 2010: Final Round-Up

July 1, 2010 by Dave

Origins has once again come and gone. Due to various scheduling mishaps with the convention and technical problems, we didn’t get to do much in the way of scheduled gaming, and spend our time looking for things to do. Here’s just a sample of some of the stuff that we did do and I was excited about in the convention.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, News, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: 4e, clerks, crokinole, dominion, dresden files, dresden files rpg, evil hat, exhibit hall, fiasco, legedermain, litko, mayday games, microsoft surface, origins, Origins 2010, rogue, rogue-like, rowboat, settlers of america, settlers of catan, shear panic

Origins 2010: “Game Design is Mind Control” Seminar

June 29, 2010 by Dave

During Origins 2010, I dropped by a packed seminar run by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen. Luke Crane is the designer of Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard RPGs, of which we (mainly ChattyDM) have spoken of on many occasions. Jared Sorensen is the game designer behind a number of games including Action Castle and the […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, News, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: action castle, Burning Wheel, game design, jared sorensen, luke crane, Mouse Guard, origins, Origins 2010, parsley

Origins 2010: Origins Awards Winners

June 26, 2010 by Dave

Due to massive, systemic techfail, we were not able to live cover the Origins Awards. But we do have all the winners of the 36th Origins Awards below, with all the nominees.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: origins, Origins 2010, origins awards

Origins 2010: “Back to the Future the Card Game” and “Pirate Fluxx” by Looney Labs

June 25, 2010 by Dave

Origins is, without a doubt, the biggest convention for Looney Labs. Between a gigantic demo space (which this year you can follow a path of multicolored daisies to), a decent-sized booth in the exhibit hall, and dozens of excited volunteers in lab coats, this is the show to be at if you’re a fan of Fluxx or their other games.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, News Tagged With: back to the future, fluxx, looney labs, origins, Origins 2010, pirate fluxx

Origins 2010: Get the One Page Dungeon Codex

June 24, 2010 by The Chatty DM

For those attending the Origins Game Fair over the weekend, you can mosey on down to Tabletop Adventure’s booth (#422) and purchase a copy of the Codex on CD-ROM (includes the color PDF Codex in both screen and print resolution formats and all 112 One Page Codex entries) for just 5$. The CDs look awesome and makes for a great, crash proof and portable reference!

Filed Under: Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: One Page Dungeon Codex, Origins 2010

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