The Digital Tabletop

Published by Fantasy Flight Games (http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/), Tannhauser (http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tannhauser.html) is, at its core, a tactical miniature combat game.  Players take control of  soldiers either from the Army of the Union or the Reich’s Obscrura Korps in a paranormal infused alternate reality in which WWI never really ended (refer to the promotional video released by Fantasy Flight [...]

Myself and Brian Magerko are organizing a session entitled “From the Keyboard to the Game Board: Exploring Non-Digital Tabletop Games” at the Meaningful Play conference (http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu) in the fall. As a result, we’re looking for session participants. Here is the *very* preliminary session description:
“Non-digital tabletop games have been an entertainment and education medium for millenia. [...]

Written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic (of Dork Tower fame), Munchkin is a card game (of the non-collectible variety) published by Steve Jackson Games that takes a humorous and cockeyed look at the D&D, dungeon crawl setting. The game is appropriate for 3-6 players, and usually runs about an [...]