Awesome Con Coverage – Part 2!
Awesome Con held their second year May 29-31, 2015, and IoM was there! Final thoughts on the last day of Awesome Con DC – more cosplay, a look at the gaming rooms, and more!
Universal Studios to bring Nintendo to its theme parks!
Okay, more big Universal Studios news! Universal Studios and Nintendo announced this morning that they would be teaming up to bring Nintendo to the Universal Studios parks. Nintendo, the owner of such game characters as Mario and Zelda, has certainly never done anything like this before (that I know of), but I think Universal’s success […]
BRG Visits a Star Wars Battle Pod party at Dave and Busters Virginia Beach!
BRG checks out the new Star Wars Battle Pod arcade game at Dave and Busters in Virginia Beach. We were here a couple of weeks ago, but this time we got to play the game a ton more (footage of almost every level in this episode), as well as attended a Star Wars party, complete […]
A Body Was Found – Not a Fiasco
As open and evocative as the title A Body Was Found is, the game lives up to it. Based in Pinebox, Texas, the fictional rural town that is also the setting for Savage Worlds new East Texas University game, A Body Was Found can be used to tell stories in that setting but is not […]
Torture the RPG – No Bad Fun?
The idea of lines and veils is one that is relatively new to me. From the beginning of my role-playing experience I have always played with people that I knew well. My fellow players and I have always had a good feel of what was too extreme for each other and we were able to […]
BRG & IoM: MMPR Saba, Star Wars Battle Pod, and #TAOVG Opening Night!
So much gaming goodness this episode! Sadly, not a lot of time for craft beer this episode, because we continue our search for the new Legacy Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Saba, stop by Dave and Busters to play the awesome new Star Wars Battle Pod, and check out opening night of The Art of Video […]
BRG & IoM Check out THE ART OF VIDEO GAMES at Chrysler Museum in Norfolk!
BeerRunGeek.com and IdeologyofMadness.com were lucky enough to be invited to a media preview at the new Art of Video Games exhibit at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, which opens to the public this Saturday, February 14th! In addition, Paul picks up the new Darth Vader comic from Marvel Comics, and has a business […]
Savage Worlds of Science Fiction
I’ve recently finished reading two very different systems dealing with the science fiction genre. The first was Harp SF, a very dense, very simulationist game. I’ll be reviewing that one, soon. The other was the Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion and, as you might guess if you know Savage Worlds, it was far less dense […]
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player’s Handbook
Over the holidays, I recommended picking up the 5th Edition D&D Player’s Handbook. I failed to realize that I hadn’t really talked about the book here on Ideology of Madness. Allow me to remedy that mistake. Let’s start with the book itself. The Player’s Handbook is a 316 page full color hardback book. The book […]
Rat Queens Sass and Sorcery
The Rat Queens series is either a commentary on what it means to be a modern feminist woman or a commentary on the breakdown in communications in the post modern world. No matter what its philosophic or sociopolitical message might be, it is exceptionally entertaining and fun to read. It also makes me insanely jealous […]