July, 2015 | Through Gamer Goggles

It’s Con Survival Week!

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Jul 212015

Hello gamers, and welcome to Con Survival week! What is Con Survival week? Well it’s my tips and tricks for returning home safe from your journey without the dreaded con crud that slowly gnaws at your soul once you’ve returned. No seriously, it is about how to survive without too many health issues.

Over the next week, I’ll be sharing with you all kinds of tips that I have learned over the years through one experience or the other. I will be pulling on memories from just about everything I’ve ever done – marksmanship, cross country, MMA, conventions, and judging several Magic events that lasted whole weekends. All of these will come into play as we discuss everything from the most basic safety tips to eating right and getting a good night’s rest before driving home. Oh and I nearly forgot, I’ll be sharing some recipes too!

Countdown to Gen Con T-8 and Counting Star Wars Force and Destiny From FFG

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Jul 212015

The Star Wars®: Force and Destiny™ Beginner Game is the perfect entry into the Star Wars: Force and Destiny roleplaying experience for players of all skill levels.

With its complete, learn-as-you-go adventure, players can open the box, ignite their lightsabers, and explore their destinies as Force users in the Star Wars galaxy. Pre-generated character folios keep the rules right at your fingertips, while custom dice and an exciting narrative gameplay system advance your story with every roll.

Countdown to Gen Con T-9 and Counting City of Gears from DTE

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Jul 212015

In City of Gears players are competing to see who will control the CITY OF GEARS!

Each turn, you will roll a number of Production Dice. Then, you will move your Workers and perform a variety of actions (such as drawing and placing Gears to reactivate areas of the city, Sabotaging opponents, and activating unique Steam powers), as determined by the Production Dice results. Finally, you will check to see if you’ve triggered the endgame. If not, play passes to the next player.

Once the entire city has been connected by any player, or the Gears are all drawn, the game ends and Victory Points are calculated based on tile ownership and other factors. The player with the highest VP wins!

Why am I looking forward to this game? In 2012 Chris Leder won the Steampunk game design challenge. Besides the fact that it’s a winner, it features a lot of great game mechanics like exploration, area control, worker placement, and strategy. Did I mention that you use tile placement to design the board? Beyond that that I really don’t know that much about the game, but it’s clearly enough to intrigue me.

Swing by Arcane Wonders Booth (741) and take a look at the game.

The Big Book of Madness From Iello

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Jul 202015

The Big Book of Madness

$39.99

Your first year at the Elemental College has been disappointing. They taught you to light a flickering flame at the tip of your finger, but you’ve spent much more time reading books than learning powerful spells as future great wizards like you should.

So when you heard about the Big Book of Madness hidden in the great school library, you couldn’t help but to sneak in and peek in this intriguing tome in spite of the warnings. When you slowly lift the cover of the terrible book, dozens of dreadful creatures rush out, threatening to destroy the world itself! This was your mistake, and only you can fix it now! Learn from the library to fight back against the monsters, and try not to sink into insanity…

The Big Book of Madness is a co-operative deck-building game for 2-5 players where young magicians defeat the terrifying monsters released, one page at a time. Can you survive the pages of this book of madness or will you fall to insanity?

2-5 players

Ages 10+

60-90 minute play time

Contains:

301 Cards

136 Elements

48 Curses

35 Madness

56 Spells

8 Wizards

18 Tome pages

2 Tokens

1 Game board

1 Cardboard lectern

1 Rulebook

Countdown to Gen Con T-10 and Counting HALO From Spartan Games

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Jul 202015

O.K. I’m so super excited about this. HALO has been a part of this family since my children were still in diapers, it’s actually hard to believe it’s been so long. That isn’t the only reason why I’m looking into this game. It’s being made by Spartan Games who has a licensing agreement with Microsoft to make the game. Spartan Games makes great models and all of their games have been excellent , in my opinion.

Spartan Games will be at Booth 2733 and their product will be available through The War Store at booth number 1831.

Here is the recent release of the 7 page PDF Overview of Halo.

Halo Fleet Battles overview

Countdown to Gen Con T-11 and Counting Nevermore From Smirk and Dagger

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Jul 192015

We know well the story of Poe’s Raven. But what came before?

Is it bird – or something more, forced to walk the earth in darkness evermore? You may yet learn the answer first hand. For in Nevermore, those who fall become transformed, turned to ravens, unable to win, as they struggle to regain their human form – yet able to bring doom to others. Will you rise to power or simply be Nevermore?

Nevermore is a casual-style, card-drafting game in which you quickly build your hand each round, collecting cards you want and poisoning your opponent’s hand by passing along cards you think they can’t use. Whoever holds the most of a given suit, gains the power of that suit to attack, heal, acquire Light or Shadow magicks and score victory points.

The Amega Weapon Review – Countdown to Gen Con T-12

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Jul 192015

The Amega Weapon

Published by The Amega Weapon

In The Amega Weapon, players race to build the ultimate weapon. This is done by flying through space and collecting parts from various space stations. There are several hazards in the game like navigating asteroid fields, novae tiles, your opponents, and the dreaded Black Star.

You might find this appealing if you like semi-cooperative games, space themes, and if you don’t mind sitting around the table with friends anywhere from thirty minutes to four hours. Since the game’s release at Gen Con 2014, the designer has added a set of tournament rules based off the feedback of people who have played the game.

I was introduced to The Amega Weapon at Gen Con last year and I had fun playing the game. Since then I have played it about fourteen times. I have discovered that it can be repetitive, it’s always fun, and Scott truly cares about this game. We’ll cover all of those in more detail as we move through this review.

RuneQuest: 6th Edition Core book From the Design Mechanism

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Jul 182015

RuneQuest: 6th Edition Core book

$64.95

RuneQuest is updated and expanded by Pete Nash and Lawrence Whitaker. Everything you need for fabulous roleplaying adventure is contained in a single volume that has been designed to support any genre of fantasy. The game retains all the key concepts and hallmarks of its earlier versions, but requires no familiarity with the previous editions.

Captain’s Wager From Grey Fox Games

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Jul 182015

Captain’s Wager

$24.99

In Captain’s Wager, players take on the roles of rogue airship captains sending their pirate crews off on adventures in search of treasure. Problematically, several captains often show up for the same adventure. So how shall we figure out who gets what loot? We’ll gamble for it of course. That’s the pirate way!

Wolsung: Extraordinary Voyages from Studio 2 Publishing

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Jul 182015

Wolsung: Extraordinary Voyages

$19.99

XIX century is the age of the last great discoveries. The last moment to explore places which no other adventurer has visited before. The world is getting more and more civilized. Nothing can stop the triumphant march led by the fearless explorers. These intrepid men and women are followed by others, acting not because of thirst for knowledge and adventure, but for massive profits. The fertile soil of exotic land is more and more often squashed by multi-national trading companies, and their skies are darkened by wings of metal dragons.

But what would these exotic lands be without temples lost in the jungle, tombs of ancient emperors, filled with gold and traps, and ruins of legendary cities? Treasures and cursed artefacts are guarded by unusual antagonists. In the colonies, explorers are threatened by hungry desert spirit, piranha-men from Amacunu and mysterious creatures of Purgatoria. This is the last moment to see these exotic wonders, before they become bland and banal. Are you ready?

In Extraordinary Voyages you’ll find:

-Complete descriptions of 12 colonies and 4 mysteries of the world

-Info about ancient civilisations, exotic dragons and the past of the contemporary colonies

-Additional rules for poisons, diseases and high noon duels

-9 organizations from faraway lands

-32 new Edges, 35 exotic gadgets, 10 cursed artefacts and 28 unusual Achievements

-13 new exotic opponents

-15 campaign seeds and 207 new adventure ideas

Wolsung: Steam Pulp Fantasy is a role-playing game of cinematic action about adventures of amazing Ladies and Gentlemen, set in alternate 19th century during the Magical Industrial Revolution.

Extraordinary Voyages is a supplement and requires Wolsung: Steam Pulp Fantasy core book.

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