The first electronic-only book for Shadowrun, Digital Grimoire, is now available on DriveThruRPG. Expanding on Street Magic, it includes information on Egyptian, Rastafarian, and Psionic traditions, as well as a variety of magical threats, magical groups, spirits, spells, and adept powers.

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Texas Glory is the latest block war game from Columbia Games. In it players recreate the Texans fight for independence from Mexico. Key figures in the struggle, Houston, Austin, Crockett, Bowie, and Santa Anna, all make appearances in the game, as may U.S. forces and the Comanche.

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GMT Games is shipping Chandragupta: Great Battles of the Mauryan Empire. This new entry in the Great Battles of History series follows the Mauryan dynasty’s conquest of the Indian subcontinent. It gives players the unique opportunity to work with the special units of the Indian military system, including elephants, four and eight-wheeled chariots, and even elephant chariots.

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Three days left to bid on a 315 vintage games lot on eBay.

Includes two copies of Dark Tower, among other treasures. And pictures of every single game in the lot.

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Mow Em Down is a board game about lawn mowers from Matt Saunders. Specifically, about Walker lawn mowers. I don’t know much about lawn mowers, but I assume that Walker mowers have some sort of fan following.

The game is in the Euro game genre, designed by a geek, and involves blind bidding, area control, and tile placement.

Here’s Tom Vasel’s review:

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Modern Tribe took the age old dull Jewish game of Dreidel and crossed it with the modern poker fad known as Texas Hold’em to create No Limit Texas Dreidel. They even give instructions on how to host a NLTD tournament.

Howdy, chaver? Shalom, y’all?

Whatever. My experience in playing with chocolate coins is that everyone has less “money” than they started with by the end of the game.

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Until now, it was known that seven times is the magic number for how many times you have to shuffle a deck of cards to get a randomized deck. I didn’t know that some people questioned this assertion and maintained that six is sufficient. Seven is still a better guide, as most people are poor shufflers.

A new paper in Science News tells us that, for games in which some types of randomness are unecessary, four shuffles if sufficient. For instance, in Blackjack, the suits are irrelevant.

Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about shuffling.

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The Miss World Game from 1974 comes complete with four dolls in bathing suits, three white dolls with white, blond, and red hair, and one black doll with black hair. All the dolls are from the same mold.

Also comes with a catwalk and a stage to celebrate your victory.

There are no boys pictured playing the game on the box. How sexist!

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