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Store Championship season is finally upon us in Netrunner land which means the competitive side of the game is starting to ramp up towards Nationals later in the year. Winner’s...
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The winter season of Netrunner is coming to a close and the Common Ground Games tournament is the last one before the Most Wanted changes hit and Store Championship season...
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Not the most inspiring name for a deck but I was looking forward to playing a Runner I had yet to experiment with. Maxx always struck me as awesome but I had never found... The...
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I’m back on the Testing Grounds, a little later than I intended, but I quite enjoyed this weeks deck and it has given me some inspiration for a build of my own, more on... The...
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Yesterday saw the second meetup of the Edinburgh Playtest group at Tabletop Cafe in Edinburgh. A good time was had by all and I we got some new faces along which was great...
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Venturing into the snowy lands of the West of Scotland myself and a bunch of friends rocked up to the Winter Game Night tournament at Knightley gaming in Lanark. It was my...
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I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and I hope that Santa was good to you. Towards the end of last year I started writing a series called ‘The Purge’ where......
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There are loads of lists going round at the moment of game recommendations for christmas so I though I would get in on that action. As should be clear by now I love sitting......
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This week’s Testing Ground sees me returning to my first love, NBN. I haven’t had a chance to try out the Sol ID yet but I saw its potential with things like Enhanced Login......
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This weeks Testing Ground is brought to you by the letter Q for Quetzal. This is one of those runners that I have always thought about building a deck for but just never...
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I’ve been lacking a playtest group for a while, which is one of the reasons that I have stalled so much on my own designs, including my complete failure to progress any further...
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The challenge this week was to play a Jinetki: Personal Evolution deck that had done pretty well at worlds. I hadn’t played Jinteki in a long time so was looking forward to...
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I won’t be doing this for every NRDB deck I review but on occasion I’ll follow up with a look at my own take on the same deck and see if I can make... The post Beta Test:...
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Netrunner is a game I have probably played more than any other of the last few years. An intense, cerebral and difficult game I find much joy in playing and have recently been...
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read this review then buy one or both of these games. This message will self destruct. Today I bring you not 1 but 2... The...
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We’re back! This time with a tournament report from a game I have easily played more than any other EVER: Netrunner. If you know nothing about the game you can check out FFG’s...
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A couple of nights ago I wrapped up my first Feng Shui arc, running the introductory adventure out of the core book. We had an absolute blast, kicking it action movie style. My...
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The Game Chef competition is in it’s review and nomination phase at the moment. I have just had all my feedback in an email so I thought I would post it up here and... The post...
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You can find all the files for this game here: Download ‘From Order Comes Chaos’ The post From Order Comes Chaos appeared first on The Giant Brain.
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For the last couple of years at Games Expo they have had a Board Game Redesign competition, and this year I decided to give it a shot. I’m trying to set myself some targets......
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Well Game Chef is over and my entry has been submitted. Below you will find links to the 3 stages of the writing process that I roughly go through with any game. The first......
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We got our first session of Feng Shui in tonight and it was a blast. There was a bit of rules checking but basically the game went so much smoother than the original ever......
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Every year a bunch of folks run a competition of sorts called Game Chef. The idea is to take a bunch of ingredients and design a tabletop game with them based on a...
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I’ve already done a first reaction for X-Com, which you can find here, and followed that up with this actual play report. I’m going to try and do that for most games I...
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After a year or so away from any kind of playtesting I decided to dive back in at Games Expo. I had taken the decision to not play in the Netrunner nationals and knew... The...
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Saddle up pardner cause yer going to be in for a bumpy…..yeah that’s enough of that. Colt express is a game of train robbers in the wild west. Each of you takes a different......
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I’ve been wandering the trade halls this afternoon and sat down with a bunch of friendly folks for a game of 5 tribes, one of the more recent releases from Days of Wonder....
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I gave netrunner nationals a skip but decided to dive head first into some competitive doomtown, having played about 15 games since the game was released under it’s LCG model....
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The first truly new game of my con so far from Triple Ace Games, is a small bluffing game of raiding tombs in the setting of the Arabian Nights. Had a couple of turns... The...
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I stopped by the Mayfair Games stall to get a demo of Villainy, a game I believe has just been launched. The premise of the game is that you are starting out in your... The...