Now you know what that color printer at the office is for. It’s the latest in the Dragonshire series by Fat Dragon Games—Blacksmith & Stables. With this PDF, you can print and assemble a blacksmith’s forge, a barrel full of water, a gallows with noose, a stable, and even the horse manure. How’s that for attention to detail!?

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While HarnMaster is certainly not a high-fantasy RPG, it’s also not magic-free. HarnMaster Magic: The Ancient & Esoteric Orders of the Shev-Pvar provides a broad selection of spells, as well as rules for generating mage characters and employing cants, gestures, detection, spellbinding, memorization, and astrological timing. It’s the latest classic print product from Columbia Games to see release in PDF on DriveThruRPG.

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Word on the street is that Games Workshop is gearing up to revamp the Necrons in the second quarter of 2009.  Since it wouldn’t be rampant rumor-mongering without a look some possible rules changes, here are the ones we’ve heard:

• No more C’Tan as fieldable units (still in the fluff) – let’s face it, we all saw this one coming (heck, I knew this was coming the first day GW allowed me to field the Deciever in a public game – not pretty…)
• New Lords (Platinum, Gold, Silver) – I’m kind of meh on this one.  If you’re taking away something as cool as the C’Tan, replace it with something equally cool…
• Named Necron Lord Characters  – Nuff said…

[Hat Tip: Bell of Lost Souls]

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A Croatian has created a board game which reflects the Croatian view of 1995’s Operation Storm into Serbian-populated Knin. It’s a kids game.

In the game, up to four players roll dice and try to take down the larger Serbian tanks and soldiers.

Meanwhile, the Hague tribunal, and the rest of the world, sees the operation as an ethnic genocide, wherein over 2,000 Serbians were killed, most of whom were elderly or women.

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The subject is the title of an article by Ayala Oren in this month’s The Journal of Child Psychotherapy.

From the abstract:

… The special challenges for the therapist using board games in psychotherapy come from the need simultaneously to observe the game, play it ‘well’, plan actions, regulate the child’s anxiety level, maintain a playing atmosphere and deal with transference and countertransference issues - all in the highly tense atmosphere of competition. In the paper, I outline how board games can be used in psychotherapy, focusing on projective and developmental domains …

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Also, there’s a book that’s been on my radar for a long time: Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy by Jill Bellinson.

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