Pimp my Game is the column for people with too much time on their hands. Pimp my Game is for anyone who has looked at a game - any game - and imagined what it would look like if they devoted every spare evening and weekend for two years to the game, personalizing every aspect until it was perfect for them. Sometimes it's all about upgrading the components. Sometimes it's about dozens, even hundreds of rules variations and tweaks. Sometimes it's about stringing together hundreds of games, cataloguing them all, creating league tables for all the characters, and so on. Quite how Pimp my Game works is different for everybody, but it's united by one thing that stays the same: an almost insane love for the game in question.    Read more...

The latest expansion for the classic Talisman is on the way. The Dragon is the title, and it seems that the Dragon Lords are stirring, and that's kind of bad news, to put it politely. Six new characters, each with assorted special abilities, are included to square up to the challenge, with a dual-sided Inner Region the main focus of the expansion.    Read more...