Frankenstein’s Monster Math

For BB, what do you get with Frankenstein’s Monster? A 0/1.
For 1BB?  A 2/1, a 1/2 or a 0/3.
2BB: 4/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4 or 0/5.
3BB: 6/1, 5/2, 4/3, 3/4, 2/5, 1/6 or 0/7.
4BB: 8/1, 7/2, 6/3, 5/4, 4/5, 3/6, 2/7, 1/8 or 0/9.
5BB: 10/1, 9/2, 8/3, 7/4, 6/5, 5/6, 4/7, 3/8, 2/9, 1/10 or [...]

Surrounded By Humans

A Battlestar Galactica board game session report
For this game of Battlestar Galactica, we have five players.
Little Man chooses to play Baltar. This seems to be his favorite character or something.
Mike chooses Adama. Therefore he is the admiral.
I decide that it would be fun to play Starbuck, since I haven’t played a pilot yet.
Jose picks Boomer, [...]

Three Fundamental Magic Strategy Articles

Of all the Magic strategy articles that have been written over the years, like grains of sand, there are three that stand out to us like lost silver dollars at the beach.
Anyone who wants to improve his game or even understand the game would be well-served by reading them. There’s more dreamed of in heaven [...]

What We Know About Dungeon Twister

Dungeon Twister is an amazing kickass game about adventurer groups in a dungeon. It’s like Dungeons & Dragons, sort of, but instead of playing with people, you’re playing against them. There’s almost no element of chance in Dungeon Twister, so it’s pretty much skill against skill.
There is knowing how to play Dungeon Twister, and there [...]

Tsabo Tavoc, Herald

Continuing our fun with the Strange Eons freeware, here is our Tsabo Tavoc herald for the board game Arkham Horror. This herald requires a special monster token. Take a mask or spawn monster not in the current game and use it in the monster cup as a proxy. You’ve proxied things before, right?

Gix, Herald

Continuing our fun with the freeware Strange Eons, here is our take on a Gix herald for the Arkham Horror board game.

Yawgmoth, Ancient One

Ever play Arkham Horror? Arkham Horror is a kickass board game where the players have to cooperate to stop a terrifying godlike being, the “ancient one,” from appearing and consuming everybody. Using freeware called Strange Eons, you can make your own Arkham Horror ancient ones, characters, monsters and so on. Here is our take on [...]

The Chaos List

Some friends of ours have asked us to post our favorite personal chaos list. Do you know what a chaos list is? It’s a goofy way to play Magic that makes any multiplayer game completely insane. Our particular chaos list has received a lot of praise from people in big group games where we play [...]

I, Rapebot

The new Race for the Galaxy expansion’s robot player is programmed to bend you over the table.
One of the goodies that comes in the new Race for the Galaxy expansion, Gathering Storm, is a rules set for a solitaire game against a robot player. Cool beans! Or, nuts and bolts! Space is cold and [...]

Rules to 421

These are the rules to a Magic format we invented called “421.” We’ve played it quite a bit and we hope you enjoy it.

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