Women in Gaming

I am very grateful for you horrible nerds. Thanks for making me laugh and for reading comics and listening to me rant about board games and kaiju.

The BattleTech community has been impossibly welcoming, especially considering I haven’t even played the game yet. No worries.

In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc

Okay, I’m going to need a few years just to play board games and drink tea and eat cheese off a sword, please. Thank you for understanding.

So, the great Bryan Young, author of 834 BattleTech novels, aka @swankmotron.com, sent me some cool stuff to start with learning the game. I am told a bunch of new stuff is coming from @catalystgamelabs.bsky.social in a couple weeks and th…

I like the board game community, they just seem nice and seem to actually enjoy their hobby. I could be missing the bad element but they seem pretty cheerful.

I was afraid my endless need for more dice had been replaced by a similar one for game playmats, but I needn’t have worries. Turns out I need both.

Incidentally, I get asked this all the time, I don't get paid to endorse games or comics or any of that stuff. I just like games and comics and get excited when cool stuff comes out!

after ten years, for the first time, Hollandspiele is putting the "board" in "board game"

Holy crap, you beat me at my own game! BABADOOK OF EARL

Folks tanking the rating for our game (which isn't out yet) because Aragorn is depicted as a Black man. 🫠 But, if nothing else, it's too bad because their anger is gonna prevent them from playing a really awesome board game. It's their l…

Well, I just had someone email us to request missing components... that don't exist for the game. He used a chatbot to "research" what might be missing from a used copy of the game and it hallucinated new components.