May 18, 2019

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…

January 18, 2019

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…

August 3, 2018

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…

May 22, 2018

A Player’s Overview of Dark Domains – In Dark Domains players take on the uncommon role of being the bad guy in a fantasy setting. You seek neither glory nor honor. You don’t fight for the greater good. No, you work for yourself in a race against your mortality to become the Necromancer’s favorite so…

April 27, 2018

Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Eight – With the Blood Gold securely quarantined, two distinctly different forces were unleashed and would cause great unrest to all inside the mountain and without. Most noticeably in Zikkim was the almost sudden increase in harmony, productivity and creativity among the dwarves in the mountain. With the negative influences…

April 20, 2018

Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Seven – In the current age’s recent history, the management of Zikkim and the Blood Gold has been assigned to the dwarves that were asked to move into the mines. The first step was to seal away the Blood Gold behind massive barriers imbued with spells and runes to seal…

April 13, 2018

Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Six – The great mountains of Zikkim, Musterop and Fahderos had been a fixture in the Halvon Sana for as long as history could recall and probably far longer than that. When the age of metal began the three sister peaks became even more central to life and eventually the…

April 6, 2018

Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Five – The great mountain of Zikkim fueled the economy of the Kappan Empire and upon its fall, dwarves from the northern mountains were called in to clear out the mine and open it back up for production. Their first foray into the mine was repulsed by the foul and…