Reviews
Walking the exhibitor floor at the Showboat Hotel during HLGCon 2018 felt less like browsing a trade hall and more like wandering through a curated gallery of…
The panel discussion "The Future of Tabletop Roleplaying in a Digital Age" unfolded at HLG Con 2018 with a room full of designers, players, and curious…
Live action role play lives in the spaces between words. A whispered conversation across a tavern table, the wind that seems to pick up just as the moon rises…
Tabletop role-playing games thrive on momentum. A well-run one-shot can pack an entire emotional arc into three or four hours, and players often walk away…
The High Level Games Convention carved out a corner of the Atlantic City boardwalk in 2018, turning the Showboat Hotel into a weekend playground for tabletop…
Australians have always been quick to adopt new pastimes, and tabletop role-playing games are no exception. With busy schedules, long commutes between Sydney…
The lights stayed low long after the last dice stopped rolling. That is how the organiser I sat down with remembered the closing night at the Showboat Hotel in…
Live-action role-playing props do not need a professional workshop, expensive materials, or a trailer full of scenery. A cardboard relic, weathered map case,…
High Level Games Convention, held at Atlantic City’s Showboat Hotel in 2018, treated live-action role-playing as a central form of convention storytelling…
Atlantic City is best known for its boardwalk, ocean views and casino industry, yet its appeal to gamers has deeper roots than the modern convention calendar…