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Reminder! 2016 Readers’ Choice Award Voting
Don’t forget to have your say about your favorite 2016 games! ~
GrogHeads Staff, 23 January 2017
It’s time to get your votes in for the Readers’ Choice Awards for game-year 2016.
The only required items are the overall digital / tabletop games, at the end of each of those categories.
This year we’ve made a few changes:
- We’ve consolidated the overall number of categories within the tabletop/digital divisions, to try to keep them as consistent as possible year-to-year
- We’ve added an “AAR of the Year” category, at the request of the readers and members of our forums
- We received no nominations for miniatures rules/expansions, so we’re not doing away with them as a category, but we can’t give you what you don’t nominate!
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
2016 Readers’ Choice Award Voting
Have your say about your favorite 2016 games ~
GrogHeads Staff, 18 January 2017
It’s time to get your votes in for the Readers’ Choice Awards for game-year 2016.
The only required items are the overall digital / tabletop games, at the end of each of those categories.
This year we’ve made a few changes:
- We’ve consolidated the overall number of categories within the tabletop/digital divisions, to try to keep them as consistent as possible year-to-year
- We’ve added an “AAR of the Year” category, at the request of the readers and members of our forums
- We received no nominations for miniatures rules/expansions, so we’re not doing away with them as a category, but we can’t give you what you don’t nominate!
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
Merry Christmas, GrogHeads!
image courtesy of Marco Minoli, who stumbled across this place on his honeymoon.
If you need us, we’ll be here, quaffing a pint, for the next few days.
Chat about it below, or in our forums, or hit our FaceBook page >>
Wrapping up 2016, GrogHeads Style
We polled some friends in the business for their thoughts on 2016 ~
The GrogFriends, 21 December 2016
So we launched out an email to a whole bunch of friends out in GrogLand, and asked the following:
- What was the biggest ‘story’ in gaming this year?
- What was the most fun you had playing a game this year (even if it wasn’t a new game)?
Here are the responses we got at press time…
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Ken Burnside, Ad Astra Games
- For RPGs, seeing John Wick Presents get the rights back to 7th Sea and run a million dollar plus Kickstarter. For game publishing, seeing FFG “merge” with Asmodee, have their first “failure” in their Star Wars line with Star Wars Armada, and seeing Games Workshop pull the Warhammer RPG and assorted licenses from them.
- I had a lot of fun playing Star Trek: Ascendancy with two people who were even bigger Trek fans than I am.
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Tim van der Moer, CEO, The Lordz Games Studio s.a.r.l.
- The announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2. Mr. Marston will be back, best in game character ever. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western is an open game world made by Rockstar…very much looking forward to it!
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Civilization VI.
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ed note: 2016 was pretty hard on our sense of mortality across everything, not just gaming. We even added an “RIP” icon for threads in our forums…
Steve Rawlings, LPS Games
Not sure if only upbeat material is welcome, but if you want to mention a “dark side” (or an “In Remembrance” section) that impacted many, it was the casualties among the game company people that really shook me this year. Bill Gibbs at Omega dropped dead, Ed Wimble from COA suffered a minor heart attack while in Tempe at the CSW Expo show this year, and my own right hand man, Lembit Tohver, had a major heart attack last month. I’m sure you can name others. Aging may be taking us down one by one faster than poor game sales.
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Origins! Command Post Wargaming
What is this “Command Post Wargaming” of which you speak? ~
The GrogHeads Command Post Wargaming Team, 26 June 2016
There are all sorts of stuff you can do at a game convention. You can play games, shop for games (and accessories!), hang out discussing games with other gamers… all things you can do at home, but made easier by the concentration of the gamers in one place. Things you can’t do at home, though, are the bigger destination events that you need a convention to support. The Command Post Wargame events are a destination event.
There’s plenty of information about the Command Post Wargames here. What we’ve got for you in this article are the details of this year’s mission, and a look at the teams in action.
