by Melissa Brinks | Feb 1, 2023 | News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Another week, another Wednesday! I haven’t been playing many games recently, though I did just try Horrified, a co-op monster-hunting board game. It was a lot of fun! The rules seem complex at first, but once you get into the groove of things it’s a lot of fun with flexible difficulty. We took Dracula and the Creature from the Black Lagoon down on our first try, so you’re welcome for saving the world from a double monster menace.
Anyway, here’s the gaming news this week. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Melissa Brinks | Jan 11, 2023 | News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Welcome to another Wednesday chock full of gaming news! I have been a much more diligent gamer lately, by which I mean I actually finished a game, started another, and promptly abandoned the one I started to play yet more Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, which I have spent over three entire days of my life playing. Three. Entire. Days. Am I OK? I simply don’t know. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Zainabb Hull | Sep 7, 2022 | News, Tabletop Games, Video Games
Content note: discussion of racism, and mentions of transphobia and death.
Welcome back to Get Your Game On! My name is Zainabb and we’re back to our regular programming of terrible gaming news! This week, I started up Cozy Grove and was delighted to see that autumn has arrived on my island, with the leaves starting to turn brown and gold and new critters for me to collect. I expect I’ll be spending much of my September amongst my ghostly bear friends—here’s hoping a nice start to autumn for you all, too.
Here’s this week’s gaming news. (more…)
Zainabb Hull is an editor at Sidequest, a freelance writer and videographer, and sort-of artist. They’re also a trans, queer, and disabled brown femme. They tweet into the void at @ZainabbHull.
by Melissa Brinks | Jul 12, 2021 | Tabletop Games
Dungeons & Dragons was not my first tabletop RPG. That honor belongs to the aptly named Supernatural Role Playing Game which is, you guessed it, an RPG based on the hit CW show Supernatural. But I’ve played way more D&D than any other TTRPG despite coming to it later, and despite knowing that there are games out there that do some of D&D‘s core features better. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Melissa Brinks | Apr 29, 2021 | Roundtables, Tabletop Games, Video Games
We’re now into our second year of a global pandemic and our brains are fried. We’re not up for the serious stuff. So let’s talk about the gaming mysteries that haunt us as we try to sleep.
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Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
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