Tag: Cheapass Games

  • Demo Monkey Rides Again!

    I may have mentioned this, but I am once again the Edmonton Demo Monkey for Cheapass Games. I’ve been a huge fan of their games since the company got going a few decades ago, so much so that I was one of their original Demo Monkeys in that program’s first incarnation. The company restructured and…

  • 3 Games to Kill Long Lines

    Anyone who attends cons knows about the scourge of long line-ups. They can plague any convention, no matter how well organized it may be. The negative side of long lines is…well, you’re stuck in a long line for an indeterminate length of time. The positive side of long lines at cons? You’re stuck in that…

  • CritSuccess and Dice Rings

    While I was at Gen Con I had a chance to volunteer at the Cheapass Games booth, which was a blast. I met James Ernest, which is something I’d wanted to do since I discovered Cheapass Games lo those many years ago, and I also met some of the fantastic folks behind the scenes at…

  • Like to game a lot? Come to GameAlot!

    Yeah, okay, time to let one of the other multiple personalities write blog titles for a while. But in all fairness the title says it all: if you like games and you live with reasonable distance of St. Albert, you need to be at GameAlot this weekend. GameAlot is the annual in-store gaming convention run…

  • Super Late Gen Con Wrap Up!

    I think the title says it all, really. Three and a half days home on a bus combined with multi-stage con crud equals me not posting about Gen Con until a week later. Since you’ve likely heard all the reviews already, I’m just going to hit my high (and low) points of the world’s biggest…

  • Humpday Links for January 30

    Another week another Humpday!  I promise, there are real posts that will start appearing soon.  But I’ve been battling illness and free-time entropy in roughly equal measure. One of the things taking up my time lately is fundraising for the Stollery Hair Massacure; you may remember me mentioning it before.  I did something nerdy in…

  • Gaming on a Budget

    It can be rough if you are a gamer on a budget.  To get the shiny source-books for your favourite RPG or the latest cool euro-boardgame, stores would prefer you traded them currency for their product.  And if you lack the required currency (say, because you were laid off seven months ago) you are not…

  • Speak Out with your Geek Out, Day Three: Links to Things I Love

    A little late in the day, but I thought I’d get a Speak Out with your Geek Out version of Humpday Links.  These links will take you to things that are close to my heart, and make my geeky heart happy.  Follow and enjoy! – Project Gutenberg is one of my favourite sites for reading…