It’s been almost a year since Adam and Nate (not me) of Roll2d6.com got together with some high school buddies to attend KublaCon 2009 and they’ve finally gotten the editing done on the podcast from that Con (and just in time for the next one!). I was listening to these guys pretty regularly for a long time, and had really missed the show. If you haven’t heard of them, they do a nice job of summarizing the various games they’ve played and relating the pros and cons of each. Each podcast is supplemented by their Flickr stream and links to the games on boardgamegeek.com. It’s a great way to learn about new games and get a feel for them before plunking down a bunch of hard earned cash. Check them out:
Roll2d6 Episode 22: Kublacon 2009!

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I’ve been playing Warhammer Fantasy Battle (See my WFB Pics) lately and had a vague idea of adding in some roleplay aspects to the games (to flesh out the time between battles). The only roleplaying I’ve done recently has been some few D&D 3.5 games which have left me sort of flat and thinking back to some of the epic Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFR) games I’ve had in the past I wondered if maybe I should just go back to that. The WFB games would certainly dovetail better into the WFR milieu. The WFR I’ve played in the past was 2nd edition. Aspects of that system I loved included the career system and the use of percentile chance dice. The writing was great and the fantasy world was well fleshed out. That’s what led me to look into the new WFR 3rd edition recently rewritten and released by Fantasy Flight Games (FFG).
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Army Builder is a windows program that helps you build an army for use in playing Warhammer Fantasy Battle that conforms to the rules of the game. This simple program took all the pain out of building my little Dwarf army and got me playing much faster – I highly recommend it. As there is only a Windows version of the program, I have to run it in a virtual machine (VM), but that has turned out to be a good decision anyway as we’ll see later.
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Mostly on a recommendation by Wil Wheaton I got Dominion [buy at amazon.com] for Christmas this year. Luckily Ned was around and was into playing or I might not have opened it up right away! Dominion is a pretty good card game. I’m calling it a card game because the big box it comes in houses only the 5 decks of cards which are this game’s only components if you don’t count the rules sheet.

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