Upper Calarian, Phillipines: Village councilor shot while playing a card game by two man riding tandem on a motorcycle. (source)

St Kitts, West Indies: One man sentenced for hitting another with a wooden stick after a Dominoes game. (source)

Yonkers, NY: Two men with shotguns rob 6 people at a private card game. (source)

Albany, NY: Card game broken up when a man breaks in and begins shooting. One man at the party arrested for outstanding warrant. (source)

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This Saturday in Yakima, Washington, Crucifiction Games will host the fourth annual Horror Rules Mini Con. Horror Rules is the company’s tongue-in-cheek roleplaying game for recreating modern horror movies. Particularly suited for one-shot play, the game makes no apologies for focusing on the silly and campy. You know those moments where a character’s action will obviously bring him closer to death… Well, in this game, such actions earn Stupid Thing Points, which players will need later to trade in for Luck or Second Thought Points.

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The latest in the Munchkin line of card games from Steve Jackson Games is on its way to retailers. Munchkin Booty is a stand-alone game but fully compatible with the original Munchkin. It’s got all the appropriate puns for a pirate-themed game that Munchkin fans would expect. I just gotta wonder, will we ever reach the point of enough Munchkin?

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Cogno produces a line of educational games about space, science, and engineering.

They’re roll-move-and-trivia, but you get to choose your direction, there are different difficulty levels in the questions, and you may fall into a black hole.

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The Gen Con Live Auction last August was originally supposed to be sponsored by the Children’s Christian Fund, the favorite charity of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s safe to assume that Gary probably donated a fair amount to the charity, himself.

So it’s rather unfortunate to read that CCF withdrew from sponsoring the auction, and therefore the receiving of the proceeds, when they discovered that some of the items to be sold were D&D material. I prefer to think of it as vast ignorance rather than vast stupidity, but I’m waiting to hear a response from CCF.

The proceeds instead went to the Fisher House Foundation.

(source)

Update: CCF finally responds. Somewhat lamely.

Update again: Clarification from GenCon. In essence, CCF declined to support the event before the event occurred. They didn’t turn down the money after the event. (source)

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