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Book cover to Philip Orbanes Monopoly book with Monopoly-patterned background
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Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way by Philip E. Orbanes

June 26, 2012July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1538 Views 0 Comments board games, books about gaming, monopoly

Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game & How it Got That Way is aptly named. Author and Monopolyphile Philip E.

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Hand holding HO-scale figure and locomotive on cover of Playing with Trains by Sam Posey
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Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale by Sam Posey

June 22, 2012July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1636 Views 0 Comments books about scenery, model railroad

Several years before my first D&D character ever cast his first Magic Missile, I had become enchanted with the world

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Geeky teenaged Mark Barrowcliffe on the cover of his memoir The Elfish Gene
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The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange

June 12, 2012July 5, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1390 Views 1 Comment books about gaming, mark barrowcliffe, the elfish gene

The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe is just as much about growing up in

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Variant cover for Games We Played showing 1800s cartoon characters wrangling over the American eagle
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The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games

May 15, 2012July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1925 Views 0 Comments board games, books about gaming

Aside from a two page foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson, there is little in the way of lengthy text in

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Image displaying horned skull Murtagh on cover of The Wild Hunt
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The Wild Hunt – The Game is Over

April 30, 2012July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 3039 Views 7 Comments LARPing, the wild hunt

The Wild Hunt has been on Netflix Instant for some time now, but is also available for purchase, which I

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Cover depicting a savage Kith cat person for Farmers and Mercenaries
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The Genesis of Oblivion Saga: Famers and Mercenaries and Deities and Mortals

April 18, 2012July 5, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1176 Views 1 Comment fantasy author, maxwell alexander drake

Craven Games will probably not review too much fantasy fiction in the future (unless it relates to gaming), but at

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