Tag Archives: Game Player

Zen of Games

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: March 16, 2011

I’m a game player. I used to play video games, but now not so much. Still, I play World of Warcraft as well as many fine board and card games. I have too many tabletop games, really, but they’re my hobby and I love them. So I keep buying them. As a game player, I [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing, games | Also tagged Card Games, Conceivable Niche, Conquest Games, Cooperative Games, End Games, Fantasy Scenarios, Flicker, Fumble, Games Management, Incompetence, Little Chance, Looking At The World, Management Games, Party Games, Reprisal, Strategy Games, Tabletop Games, Thematic Games, World Of Warcraft | 4 Comments

Gamma World, a RPG review

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 11, 2010

This is a brief history of my role-playing experience. You can skip a few paragraphs to get to the beginning of the review, marked in bold. I was never a big role-playing game player. I dabbled a bit here and there, but I always had a hell of a time getting a reliable group. It [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged Bad Apple, Bad Experience, Brief History, Character Design, D Player, Dumbass, Female Character, Fun Facts, Gamma World, Gothy, Hell Of A Time, Magic The Gathering, Meaningful Choices, Micromanage, Peasant, Remnants, Role Playing Game, Top Gaming, Werewolf, Werewolves, World Of Darkness | 5 Comments

Ad Astra (a game review)

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 21, 2009

I like games. It should be readily apparent to everyone who knows me. And I figure that one of the best ways to distinguish this blog from most every other novel writer’s blog is to exploit that. And if I should happen to enlighten the general public on this terrifically underrated and oft misunderstood hobby, [...]