Category: Link Plop

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Play for Millenials? Board Games – Learning English VOA News

board games are “making a comeback” – Play Without Fear

Hobby Game Retail Market Brings in $700 Million in 2013 – Dice Tower News

Tabletop Board Game Café to Open Late Fall in Ohio City – CleveScene.com

Cardboard Children – Jumanji (Robin Williams) – Rock Paper Shotgun

Street Scrabble tournament comes to Seattle – SeattlePi.com

X-Com the Board Game – FFG

Star Wars Armada – FFG

Mountains of Madness – Eldritch Horror Expansion – FFG

Imperial Assault – FFG

Hands-On With D&D’s New Digital Companion DungeonScape – Escapist

Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective from ShutUpShow on Vimeo.

DnDnG: A Short Documentary from Meredith Jacobson on Vimeo.

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Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life – The New Yorker

A Game as Literary Tutorial – New York Times

Got Your Back – This American Life

Playing Games Increases Brain Size – PsyBlog

How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students – The Atlantic

2014 ENnie Awards Nominees – Ennies

Preview of the new Baldur’s Gate Comic – IDW Publishing

Sometimes you have to make an example to get them to do what you want. (via reddit)

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Move Over Video Games, Board Games Aren’t Dead Yet – NPR

Libraries, Coffeehouses, and Third Places – Public Libraries Online

Board Gaming’s Vanishing History – Fortress AT

​The 20 Most WTF Magical Items in Dungeons & Dragons – io9

Game of Thrones fan creates board game based on one played in the books – Toy News

What Does Rik Mayall Have to do with Board Games? – Rock, Paper, Shotgun

HUGE Risk board – via Reddit

Dice Shaming via Cory Doctrow

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No Child’s Play: Board games for adults are gradually seeing an upward trend in India – DNA India

Why More People Should Pay Attention to Board Games. In One Chart – Clever Moves Games

Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game – Research Paper by Hai-Jun Zhou

Spiel Des Jahres Nominees – Speil Des Jahres Website

40 years later, ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ still inspiring gamers – CNN Tech

FULL D&D 5TH EDITION RELEASE SCHEDULE & COMPILED INFO PAGE! – ENWorld

Inside the Launch of the New Dungeons & Dragons With Designer Mike Mearls – Escapist

Mike Mearls & BGG reveal online support, new rules, sneak peeks for new D&D – Examiner

SU&SD PLAY… A GODDAMN MEGAGAME – Shut Up & Sit Down

South Carolina Attempts to Legalize Playing Games – Purple Pawn

Why the Little Guy is Actually a Lion – Clockwerk Warriors

Errational Thinking Magazine

More Info about Kings of New York – Board Game Geek

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High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again – New York Times

Microsoft Sees The Future Of TV In An Old-School Role-Playing Game – Forbes

The Creature that Ate the (Gaming) World – Mechanics & Meeples

Handmade Wooden Catan Board

Being An Awesome Game Master Is Not Something You Stumble Into – Gnome Stew

Board game journalism: Seven ways to raise the bar – Go Play Listen

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS AS A GATEWAY TO…WRITING – Fanny Pack Mafia

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire – Penny Arcade

Weird probabilities of non-transitive “Grime Dice” – Boing Boing

Top 5 . . . Favorite Game Components – The Cardboard Republic

Review: Mice and Mystics from ShutUpShow on Vimeo.

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Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophers – Existential Comics

A mathematical model of the Mafia game – Piotr Migdał

Ludology’s Most Influential Games 1900-1999! – Ludology’s Board Game Geek List

‘Shaun of the Dead’ Style Zombie Board Game Called “Pints of Blood” – Fearnet

Battlelore 2nd ed Strategy Article – Fantasy Flight Games

The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic – BBC News

Secrets From ‘The Tyranny of Dragons’ – Forbes

More Pics of the D&D Minis coming from Gale Force 9

Monopoly Sucks and This Will Make It Worse – Matt Forbeck

Board Games: Now Blind Accessible – Kickstarter

2013 Dice Tower Award Nominees – The Dice Tower

RAB’S TOP 50 BOARD GAMES OF ALL TIME – INTRO – Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Epic X-Wing

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Board Game Stores Thrive in 21st Century, Provide Customers With ‘Anti-Tech’ Activities – Arkansas Business

The Wil Wheaton Project Coming to Syfy – IGN

How We Won the War on Dungeons & Dragons – iO9.com

The History of Ticket To Ride – Game Trade Magazine

The Testing Games: Can Teaching Kids to Be Opportunistic Reduce Standardized Test Anxiety? – Forbes

Do Games Affect Memory? – Games for Educators

WIZKIDS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH ASMODEE FOR GERMAN BOARD GAMES – WizKids

Five Centuries of Board Games – Historie World Class

How Valve and Cryptozoic came together for a Portal board game (update) – Polygon

The Mood of the Room – Deadly Frendly

Honor and Remembrance – Fantasy Flight Games

Crazy homemade Civ building game from 1960 called “Big Chess” – Images Here – Reddit

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3-d printed Hexadecimal Die

In the world of role-playing war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero – The Washington Post

How Valuable Playing Board Games Is – Peace n Piece

New site to follow: Family Game Night Ideas

All I needed to know about life I learned from “Dungeons & Dragons” – Salon.com

Happy 40th birthday, Dungeons & Dragons! – Yahoo Games

Cardboard Children – Eldritch Horror – Rock Paper Shotgun

New 7-Wonders expansion Babel
Description of the expansion on Reddit

International Tabletop Day Date Announced! – Purple Pawn

Hasbro Signs Magic: The Gathering Movie Deal – Purple Pawn

D&D Yoga from 39forks on Vimeo.

Here’s what I’m reading/watching:

International TableTop Day for 2014 is April 5th – Twitter

Tom Vasel & The History of The Dice Tower – Scott King

Top 10 Reasons to Play Board Games With Your Kids – Geek Dad

Review: New Amsterdam – Shut Up & Sit Down

Six Questions That Will Help You Make A Better Character – Look, Robot

Top 5 Role Playing Games For Beginners – Across the Board Games

Inside Monopoly’s secret war against the Third Reich – Eurogamer

Chess In Movies & TV (debunks various shots of people playing chess) – via Reddit

Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarters – ICV2

10 Tips for Teaching Younger Players More Complex Games – Geek Dad

Drunkards & Flagons – (a strange roleplaying game)

Printable D12 Calendar – Purple Pawn

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Peace!