We used the same battlefield as last time (http://bradfinlayson.com/heroscape-battle-02-mountain-fate-vs-batcastle/), Ice Mountain vs Castle with a wide river in the middle. There is a bridge crossing the river, and ruins on the flanks. We did a 2v2 team battle this time. Here are the armies: Team Thanos Justin: Thanos (360) + Krav Maga Agents (100) + […]
Shannon Lentz (the founder and organizer of Terminal City Tabletop Convention) and I were interviewed on CBC radio about playing and making games. Check out the awesome article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-people-get-addicted-to-board-games-according-to-a-game-designer-1.4009643 AND the full audio interview here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/889866819549
It had been a while since we played Heroscape, and my brother Grant, who had found most of my collection at thrift stores for me, was coming up for visit, so it seemed like a great reason to get a battle in. I still had the castle and ice mountain I had built for a […]
I have weekly game nights at my place, and there is usually one other game night somewhere else another day of the week as well. At my game nights we change between BYOG random tabletop games, and an RPG night where players involved in a campaign show up and we play that exclusively. Currently I […]
Upon introducing Mage Wars to my play group, who are mostly Magic: the Gathering & strategy card game players, they immediately fell in love with it. It’s embodies the total feeling of being a mage in combat, with brilliant, balanced, and easy to remember rules. There was also no losing to bad draws: you pick […]
Heroscape Heroscape is a fully 3D tactical miniatures game released by Hasbro in 2004, but discontinued in 2010. It has been revived and rethemed as their Magic: the Gathering battle board game, Arena of the Planeswalkers. Heroscape always piqued my interest as it had a couple things in common with the G-Aim system I am […]
This is a story about game designer Brad Finlayson on how Magic, and other games, have changed his life in profound, and dare we say, ‘Magical’ ways. Hey readers, my name is Brad Finlayson. I am a game designer, healer and martial artist from the Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada. I will be writing game design and strategy articles for my […]
A little something I wrote in 2006. It has definitely amplified since then… Gaming is a language. Each game has a different language. When gamers are discussing a particular game, it becomes a secret, coded language that a non-player wouldn’t understand. This is special, not from its exclusion, but its inclusion, and connection of thought […]
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