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Egg Shen
October 02, 2015
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Welcome to the Crank File. Whenever I don't have a game review to share I'll take a topic out of the Crank File and craft it into an article for yo...
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Egg Shen
September 01, 2015
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I’ve been coming to this website for many years now. I’ve decided that instead of constantly suckling off of the F: AT knowledge teat, like a glutt...
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san il defanso
November 04, 2014
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Once you have been in the hobby five years, you begin to look at your game shelf and say, “I have too many games.” This doesn’t actually mean you’r...
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InfinityMax
September 03, 2014
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Ah, it’s that time of year again – GenCon week. You can smell the excitement in the air. For those of you who have not been here before, it smells ...
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san il defanso
August 05, 2014
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Even at my best I don’t like change very much. Be that as it may, I’ve got a big one around the corner. I’m preparing to move from Kansas City to D...
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February 18, 2014
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Last August I made a trade for Conquest of Nerath, the D&D-themed conquest game from Wizards of the Coast. For months it sat on my game shelf, most...
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Matt Thrower
December 23, 2013
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bolt-throwerDoes a spear travelling at terminal velocities toward an unsuspecting target make any noise if there's no-one around to hear it? And if...
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san il defanso
November 04, 2013
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It was just over nine years ago that my friend introduced me to The Settlers of Catan. As much as any game I’ve played, it was love at first sight,...
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October 15, 2013
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protoI hate playtesting games. A big part of this is because 90% of all designed games aren’t worth publishing in the first place, and I frankly do...
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san il defanso
July 08, 2013
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Anyone who claims to have any authority on a subject needs to do their homework. Would you trust a film critic who had never seen The Wizard of Oz...