While we wrapped up the cards in plenty of time (for a normal year), due to the supply chain issues and backups in China, we are still waiting for our 2021 Lab Rat gifts to make it onto a ship. As soon as they arrive, we will get them out to you and you can…
The Journey is About to Begin – It is finally time to let Journey of the Emperor loose and into the wild so that it can take its own unique journey. Very early in 2020 (date not yet 100% nailed down) Laboratory H will be launching the Kickstarter for this beautiful, accessible and surprisingly deep card game. …
Order the game on BGG and pick it up at Origins 2019 – Every year the fine folks at BoardGameGeek.com set up a booth at several conventions, and do video interviews with publishers and designers to talk about their new releases. They then post a list of those games on their site for that convention known…
I was in Boston last week at MIT (I really love being able to say that) for some software training. It was mostly work and season two of Westworld, but I was able to meet up with my friend, Rydia, for dinner in Boston’s Chinatown at the fantastic Gourmet Dumpling House. Rydia and I met through a mutual…
Behind Journey of the Emperor – The Azure Dragon, also known as Bluegreen Dragon, Green Dragon, or also called the Blue Dragon, is one of the Dragon Gods who represent the mount or chthonic forces of the Five Forms of the Highest Deity. He is also one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations,…
An Update on Dark Domains – I’m going to try something different with my blogs going forward. Where in the past I touched on a little of this and a little of that, today I’m going to go into a whole lot of this and none of that. Today’s excursion is into the realm of Dark…
Behind Journey of the Emperor – The Vermilion bird is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five-elemental system, it represents the fire-element, the direction south, and the season summer correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the Vermilion bird of the South. It is often mistaken for…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Nine – Above ground the challenge of repairing the wounded land was even greater perhaps than what the dwarves were dealing with below it. Everywhere one looked the Halvon Sana was a withered, despoiled landscape. The forests that still existed had with hearts of evil and rage. The beasts that…