A Bard’s Eye View: 70,000 Tons of Recap – Day Four

70,000 Tons of Recap Day Four For normal folk, the new year begins on 1 January of every year but for me, it doesn’t start until after the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise has completed its course.  I can officially say that we are now in the next season of […]

Digital Beard Stroking: Alien Worlds 2 – Xenomorality, Relativism on a Planetary Scale

Xenomorality, Relativism on a Planetary Scale Alien Worlds – Alternate Dimensions: A series of brief what-ifs meant to hold up a mirror against our own experiences and expectations by exploring alternatives built on different assumptions and presuppositions. While there is a tremendous debate about Moral Relativism, I don’t have quite […]

Boxed Culture: Finding the Time

Finding the Time We all have  lives outside of board gaming. This can sometimes make getting together to play our favorite games hard. So how do you make time for doing something you love? Do you have to leave everything you know behind and move to a country where board games are […]

Graphic Reviews: Alex + Ada

Alex + Ada The danger of artificial intelligence is one of those cautionary tales with which we humans seem to be absolutely enamored. How many stories have we created in which we use science to fashion beings who will make our lives easier only to have said beings turn against us, […]

A Bard’s Eye View: 70,000 Tons of Recap – Day Three

70,000 Tons of Recap Day Three For normal folk, the new year begins on 1 January of every year but for me, it doesn’t start until after the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise has completed its course.  I can officially say that we are now in the next season of […]

Boxed Culture: Gamers Teaching Gaming – Explain Your Self!

Gamers Teaching Gaming – Explain Your Self! Someone suggested the other day that I write an article about how to teach gaming. I was thinking about doing this for a bit but I was spurred to action with the confidence of another saying I was a fairly good teacher! I decided […]

Graphic Reviews: Beauty

Beauty Image Comics was kind enough to allow me to read a digital galley of this volume so I am pleased to review the series this week. For all that we might claim that “beauty is only skin deep,” we sure spend a lot of time pursuing it. Every age has […]

A Bard’s Eye View: 70000 Tons of Recap (Day Two)

70,000 Tons of Recap Day Two   For normal folk, the new year begins on 1 January of every year but for me, it doesn’t start until after the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise has completed its course.  I can officially say that we are now in the next season […]