First off, if you’re not playing board games on boardgamearena.com, why aren’t you? It’s free, it’s browser-based, and it’s awesome. All of this was true prior to the pandemic, and seeing as that’s still going on, all the more reason to play games online. I love how it sets up and records everything for you …
Author: roman
Epic duels guy turned blogger and reviewer turned designer and publisher of original games
Star Wars Outer Rim and Space Piracy
We’ve finished up our Fearsome Wilderness campaign, including the late pledge portion, and thanks again to everyone who helped make this a success, it means we can keep going and making games and continue to provide helpful content. For fans of Fearsome Wilderness, there’s more to come! Stay tuned. As for our Curse of Strahd …
Out of the Darkness: Fearsome Wilderness Kickstarter Review
Fearsome Wilderness is looking great and it’s not too late to get in on late pledge at MyMiniFactory (Edit: ok now it’s too late). At Geektopia Games, we’ve made a lot of progress from being just a group of guys adding on to existing games. Just since 2019, we’ve figured out how to design prototypes …
Fulfilling the Fearsome Wilderness Print and Play
Just a general update on things at Geektopia Games: Late pledge is still available on MyMiniFactory for those interested in print-and-play including the 3D print files: https://www.myminifactory.com/campaigns/fearsome-wilderness-131 Fearsome Wilderness Print and Play has been fulfilled and it’s on! If you’re backing, join our Facebook Group if you haven’t already, and share what you’ve been doing …
Converting LOTRED decks to SWED
I’ve done this twice recently with the Freedon Nadd and Ahsoka, Defender of Corvus decks, so I thought I’d explain briefly. I make a lot of SWED decks. I get ideas and sometimes they come together really well and really elegantly. Sometimes they don’t. In making decks for LOTRED, it has been no different. Some …
A Vast Space-y Feeling
This old blog post gets at what I was looking for in a space game, and explicitly why current space games like Xia and Firefly the Game fall short. I was looking for a mix of those 2 games along with Merchants & Marauders, the best pirate board game I’ve played so far. But, as I …
Monday Morning Quarterbacking a Kickstarter Success
At Geekopia Games, we are humbled and flattered and overwhelmed with the success of Kickstarter for Fearsome Wilderness: a tabletop gaming experience crafted for gamers, hobbyists, and horror fans alike! A sincere thank you to all who contributed or even just checked out our campaign, we really appreciate it. I kept certain things under wraps …
Fearsome Wilderness Kickstarter is Live!
Hi everyone, it’s been a long journey but we’ve launched our first Kickstarter in Fearsome Wilderness, a tabletop gaming experience crafted for gamers, hobbyists, and horror fans alike. Back it now! Fend off the unnatural Fearsome Critters of folklore. Endure grueling days and tormented nights in the forest. Time is short. Can you survive with …
Cattle die, kinsman die; the self must also die: Raiders of the North Sea review
I recently picked up Raiders of the North Sea and it’s just a great game from a game design perspective, and that’s the view we’ll be taking of more games as we continue to review them. There’s a lot to like about the game, especially a simple, beautiful rule set: Place a worker, take an …
Making new decks in Unmatched vs. Epic Duels
If you haven’t seen, I’ve got a draft up of a Paul Bunyan deck for Unmatched that I think came together really well. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t, but this one did in a tree-planting-and-chopping-to-power-up deck that is unique and hopefully interesting and fun. I haven’t tested it yet and am still taking …