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BGG.SPRING, an annual event in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, will be held this year over Memorial Day weekend from May 22-26 at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport. The spring verson of the long-running BGG.CON convention is geared toward families, with no minimum age requirement. There will be dedicated rooms for different...

It's a lovely time of year as a Hoosier, when the days are long and the evening is coming off the winter chill but not yet summer hot. And that means . . . bunnies. Since we typically walk at dusk, more often than not lately, we've been seeing rabbits...

It took me a while to come up with an angle for this article. I considered framing it as a conversation about manufacturing in the U.S., due to our ongoing concerns with what it might cost to print games overseas. I also thought this might be a good way to...

I play a lot of tabletop games that feature ongoing support, such as Marvel Champions, Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and ‐ of course – Munchkin. Since I sometimes can't come back to a game for weeks or even months, I've often built up a small collection of "new stuff"...

A while ago I wrote about the reasons you should make maps as player handouts. Here are some suggestions for using authentic-looking materials: You might be familiar with the process of "tea aging": Take your printed paper and soak it for some time (the duration being, basically, "until it looks...

What if Lemony Snicket were a punctilious old woman whose parlor game collection comprised exclusively indie RPG zines? Well, her name was Dahlia, and she apparently bequeathed her "best of" collection to Steve some years ago . . . I found it while exploring the Deep Archives, and somehow wound...

As longtime readers of the Daily Illuminator might have noticed, I enjoy a number of daily games, including Raddle and Align. In the past few months, I've also started mixing up one of the other games I've been playing . . . by combining it with another. The New York...

In my last post, I talked about enhancing your RPG campaign by using maps for props. Here are some more ideas: If your campaign is set in a recent era and in an actual city, find a map of that city and add a few captions, like "BBEG Building." With...