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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →