CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Reiner Knizia ...... ix INTRODUCTION by James Lowder ...... xiii
Bruce C. Shelley on Acquire ...... 1 Nicole Lindroos on Amber Diceless ...... 5 Ian Livingstone on Amun-Re ...... 9 Stewart Wieck on Ars Magica ...... 13 Thomas M. Reid on Axis & Allies ...... 17 Tracy Hickman on Battle Cry ...... 21 Philip Reed on BattleTech ...... 24 Justin Achilli on Blood Bowl ...... 28 Mike Selinker on Bohnanza ...... 31 Tom Dalgliesh on Britannia ...... 34 Greg Stolze on Button Men ...... 38 Monte Cook on Call of Cthulhu ...... 42 Steven E. Schend on Carcassonne ...... 46 Jeff Tidball on Car Wars ...... 49 Bill Bridges on Champions ...... 52 Stan! on Circus Maximus ...... 55 Tom Jolly on Citadels ...... 58 Steven Savile on Civilization ...... 62 Bruno Faidutti on Cosmic Encounter ...... 66 Andrew Looney on Cosmic Wimpout ...... 69 Skip Williams on Dawn Patrol ...... 73 Alan R. Moon on Descent ...... 77 Larry Harris on Diplomacy ...... 81 Richard Garfield on Dungeons & Dragons ...... 86 William W. Connors on Dynasty League Baseball ...... 90 Christian T. Petersen on El Grande ...... 94 Alessio Cavatore on Empires in Arms ...... 99 Timothy Brown on Empires of the Middle Ages ...... 103 Allen Varney on The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen . . . 107 Phil Yates on Fire and Fury ...... 110 William Jones on Flames of War ...... 113 Rick Loomis on Fluxx ...... 116 John Kovalic on Formula Dé ...... 119 Anthony J. Gallela on The Fury of Dracula ...... 122 Jesse Scoble on A Game of Thrones ...... 126 Lou Zocchi on Gettysburg ...... 130 James Wallis on Ghostbusters ...... 134 James M. Ward on The Great Khan Game ...... 138 Gav Thorpe on Hammer of the Scots ...... 142 Uli Blennemann on Here I Stand ...... 146 S. Craig Taylor, Jr. on A House Divided ...... 150 Scott Haring on Illuminati ...... 153 Dana Lombardy on Johnny Reb ...... 157 Darren Watts on Junta ...... 161 Greg Stafford on Kingmaker ...... 164 Lester Smith on Kremlin ...... 168 Wolfgang Baur on Legend of the Five Rings ...... 172 Marc W. Miller on Lensman ...... 176 Ted S. Raicer on London’s Burning ...... 179 Teeuwynn Woodruff on Lord of the Rings ...... 183 Mike Breault on Machiavelli ...... 188 Jordan Weisman on Magic: The Gathering ...... 192 Steve Kenson on Marvel Super Heroes ...... 196 Gary Gygax on Metamorphosis Alpha ...... 200 Greg Costikyan on My Life with Master ...... 204 John D. Rateliff on Mythos ...... 209 Chris “Gerry” Klug on Napoleon’s Last Battles ...... 213 John Scott Tynes on Naval War ...... 217 Erick Wujcik on Ogre ...... 220 Marc Gascoigne on Once Upon a Time ...... 224 Mike Bennighof on PanzerBlitz ...... 227 Steve Jackson on Paranoia ...... 231 Shannon Appelcline on Pendragon ...... 236 JD Wiker on Pirate’s Cove ...... 240 Richard H. Berg on Plague! ...... 244 Martin Wallace on Power Grid ...... 247 Tom Wham on Puerto Rico ...... 251 Joseph Miranda on Renaissance of Infantry ...... 254 James Ernest on RoboRally ...... 258 Paul Jaquays on RuneQuest ...... 261 Richard Dansky on The Settlers of Catan ...... 265 Ken St. Andre on Shadowfist ...... 269 Steven S. Long on Shadowrun ...... 273 Peter Corless on Shadows over Camelot ...... 276 Dale Donovan on Silent Death: The Next Millennium ...... 280 Matt Forbeck on Space Hulk ...... 284 Ray Winninger on Squad Leader ...... 288 Lewis Pulsipher on Stalingrad ...... 291 Bruce Nesmith on Star Fleet Battles ...... 295 Steve Winter on The Sword and the Flame ...... 298 Jeff Grubb on Tales of the Arabian Nights ...... 302 Shane Lacy Hensley on Talisman ...... 305 Douglas Niles on Terrible Swift Sword ...... 309 Ed Greenwood on Thurn and Taxis ...... 312 Mike Fitzgerald on Ticket to Ride ...... 315 Thomas Lehmann on Tigris & Euphrates ...... 319 Warren Spector on Tikal ...... 322 David “Zeb” Cook on Toon ...... 327 Mike Pondsmith on Traveller ...... 331 Zev Shlasinger on Twilight Struggle ...... 335 Kenneth Hite on Unknown Armies ...... 338 Sandy Petersen on Up Front ...... 341 R. Hyrum Savage on Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ...... 345 George Vasilakos on Vampire: The Masquerade ...... 348 Kevin Wilson on Vinci ...... 352 R.A. Salvatore on War and Peace ...... 356 Jack Emmert on Warhammer 40,000 ...... 359 Chris Pramas on The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ...... 362 Steve Jackson on The Warlord ...... 365 John Wick on Wiz-War ...... 369
AFTERWORD by James F. Dunnigan ...... 373 APPENDIX: FINDING HOBBY GAMES by Bill Bodden ...... 377