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The original collection · 2013
Interviews, reviews, and ideas from the first life of Terrible Gamers. Original publication dates and wording retained.
If you read Scott’s tale about our introduction to Dungeon World then you probably have a good idea of where this review is going. Terrible Gamers loves Dungeon World . We love it so much we are bringing you our initial review before our play test is…
Read the articleThe first time I heard anything about Dungeon World was during Gen Con 2013 . I was having a conversation with Brian Cross, a fellow UC Irvine PhD and one of the brilliant minds behind Eclipse Phase , about the resurgence of “old school” tabletop RPGs…
Read the articleBooks 0 serves as an introduction to both the game mechanics and to the world of Shadows of Esteren . The game setting, as written, is not too different than it was described to Terrible Gamers by Clovis Fremont. Players are told that the driving forces…
Read the articleTerrible Gamers first encountered Shadows of Esteren on the exhibitor floor during Gen Con 2013 . At that time we were very excited about Shadows of Esteren. Our first look at the game happened by accident. While Daniel and I were walking the floor and…
Read the articleTerrible Gamers is working on a campaign setting for a future game we might run. As such we thought we would share our creative process with you. Somethings you should note about the setting: Set in the near future Fallout esque post-apocolyptic world…
Read the articleIn our last article related to Fantasy Flight Games’ new Star Wars RPG line– Edge of The Empire and Age of Rebellion – Terrible Gamers reviewed Star Wars Dice . For those of you who are unfamiliar with Fantasy Flight’s new Star Wars RPGs, both games are…
Read the articleIf you have been following us on Twitter (you should be), you know that Terrible Gamers has finally gotten together a play test of Fantasy Flight Games’ new Star Wars RPGs – Age of Rebellion and Edge of The Empire (we actually did something!) And if you…
Read the articleAbout a week ago Adam floated the idea of doing an interview of Clint Vanderlinden –the actor who played Rhubarb the centaur in the gaming themed movie Unicorn City . Terrible Gamers was thrilled at the prospects of this, and what you see here is the…
Read the articleA few days ago Terrible Gamers published an updated review of the free to download Tunnels & Trolls 5th Edition rules. Our updated review was based on our extensive play test of Tunnels & Trolls as a GM led role playing game. We also let our readers know…
Read the articleI was pretty excited about taking a look at Firefly: The Role-Playing Game (Firefly: RPG) after our Gen Con interview with Christi Cardenas and Tony Lee (the details of which you can find here ). Not only was I genuinely intrigued by what I was hearing…
Read the articleOn the first day of Gen Con 2013 Terrible Gamers and Rentagamemaster were lucky enough to have the opportunity to talk to Margaret Weis Productions ‘ Out Reach Facilitator Christi Cardenas and game designer Tony Lee about their upcoming titles– Firefly:…
Read the articleDuring this year’s Gen Con I was able to get my hands on a BETA copy of the newest addition to Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars RPG line: Age of Rebellion . Though many of you are probably already familiar with the game system– Edge of the Empire has been…
Read the articleThe interview you are about to read is the nearly complete transcript of Scott’s conversation with Brian Cross of Posthuman Studios from Saturday, August 17th 2013 on the Gen Con floor. Brian is one of the three co-creators of the game Eclipse Phase and…
Read the articleA few day ago, Terrible Gamers brought you our review of the freely avaialable Tunnels & Trolls basic system. That review focused on Solo play. Since the publication of that review two things have happened, which we feel warrants an “updating” and…
Read the articleWe have been promising you reviews of Gen Con materials for two weeks now. Well the day is finally here. If you have should already be tacitly aware of the first game system that we will be reviewing– Tunnels & Trolls . For those of you who did not read…
Read the articleIn an almost a cosmic coincidence on Saturday afternoon of this year’s Gen Con (2013) Terrible Gamers ran smack dab into Flying Buffalo’s (publishers of Tunnels & Trolls ) booth on the retail floor. Just 45 minutes earlier, while engaged in spirited…
Read the articleI met up with Chris De La Rosa, lead designer of the zombie tabletop roleplaying game Outbreak Undead , and one of his community volunteers on Saturday August 17th, 2013 in their booth on Gen Con’s retail floor. Both Chris and the volunteers were…
Read the articleIt has been nearly a week since the public address system at the Indiana Convention Center announced the closing of Gen Con 2013 . We attended this year’s convention–our first Gen Con ever–not just as a gamers, but also as members of the press. Let me…
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