Category Archives: Gaming

Welcome to Father Bento’s Wondrous Traveling Circus!  For the past five years or so, this collection of wagons has traveled the villages and towns of the local three kingdoms of the Midlands; Cambria, Estarra, and Gwynedd.  Over those years, the … Continue reading →

Very little is known before the founding of the first cities, which coincided with the earliest systematic keeping of records.  Aekania is today recognized as the first city, bolstered by the records kept in its Bardic College, Library of the … Continue reading →

Let me preface this by saying that I try to write game reviews as spoiler free as possible.  I will touch on the plot as little as I can, but it’s still possible that little spoilers might pop up here … Continue reading →

Back in the summer, I happened to catch some talk about an upcoming MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online for anyone who may not know) called The Secret World.  I believe I first heard about it via Link Dead Gaming, and I … Continue reading →

Before I get into this, I suppose I should note that this will probably contain spoilers, though I have hard time believing anyone who ends up reading this won’t have already encountered anything I could spoil. So . When Mass … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I found myself sifting through a stack of my old D&D sourcebooks.  If anyone asks, my story is that I was cleaning.  As if I were doing real archaeology, I uncovered something of a lost world among … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago I read about a game called “Legends of Grimrock” over at the Penny Arcade site.  It sounded interesting, described as “a classical dungeon crawl”.  I’m fairly skeptical towards online opinions in general, and especially when it … Continue reading →

So, with my tax refund I figured I’d buy myself a few tabletop games.  One of the ones I decided on was The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (excess use of “the” in my opinion, but that’s how they … Continue reading →