I love expansions!

As a company making fewer new games I also felt that I should also talk about expansions to those games.  I personally love a good new expansion for my games. It is a great reason to bring the game back to table for a fresh and interesting play.  I alsoRead More →

Larkstone 2019.. That is a Wrap!

It’s 5:30 AM and I just dropped off the last visitor to the Larkstone house for 2019 at the Airport.  I know I have talked a lot about Larkstone this year but there is a good reason. Setting up this house has been one of the best decisions we haveRead More →

The Day of Thunder Part 1: THE HISTORY OF AEG #11

The Day of Thunder was the Gencon 1997 storyline tournament.  It was the culmination of the Imperial Edition story arc. The story resolved around The Seven Thunders, (Champions) one from each major clan and Fu Leng the evil god who had taken over the body of the dying emperor. EmperorRead More →

Unconventional Convention Thoughts

The final show of the year is behind us and as with every year we need to be thinking about the year ahead.  At PAX Unplugged this year I had about 10 conversations with near-peer companies and start-ups about convention planning.  There are so many shows now you could attendRead More →

L5R RPG First Edition: HISTORY OF AEG #10

Show Me Your Stance  At AEG, our role-playing roots are deep and we always intended to do RPG’s as supplemental material to our storyline worlds.  In the case of Legend of the Five Rings, the RPG material strengthened the connection players had to the story.   The core L5R RPG bookRead More →

War Chest Nobility Design Diary

We have been incredibly happy with War Chest’s reception over the last year. Following the reviews, the comments, and the discussions has been a real treat. One thing that came up again and again was how expandable people thought the game was. Of course we agreed—we had lots of differentRead More →

Be Prepared to Dig Two Graves: HISTORY OF AEG #9

L5R Story, Game of Thrones, and Dragonlance story spoilers in this post. Running a storyline CCG the way AEG did it is not an easy task.  As I had mentioned earlier we looked at our storyline games as a hybrid card game/rpg.  We created factions for players to identify with,Read More →

ECOS: First Continent

Anyone close to me knows how excited I am for this release.  Ecos is a John D Clair design that brings together a unique combination of mechanics so that up to 6 players can play simultaneous turns building the world and populating it with mountains, forests, and animals.   I firstRead More →

WE ARE GOING TO RUN YOUR MONEY TOWARDS A CLIFF . . .: HISTORY OF AEG #8

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PUBLISH FEWER GAMES- AUTOPSY #1 DO YOU BELIEVE IN THIS THING?

Yes, I do wake up every day with doubts about our plan to do fewer games.  It has been over a year since we started down this path and it has been exactly as hard as we expected, but it has also been very rewarding.  It is time for usRead More →