Articles by Jordan D.

About Jordan D. (16 Articles)

Jordan has been writing for twenty years, gaming for a little less than that, working in food service for nine years, and working on starting his own tabletop game design and publishing company for two. Based out of Manassas, VA, where he waits on tables and cooks for a living and lives with his wife, Jennifer.

Tabletop Tuesday – Wrapping Up an RPG Campaign

April 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

With Game of Thrones wrapping up its eight-season series in the coming months, Marvel finishing their decade-long slew of movies and TV shows with Avengers: Endgame later [...]

Tabletop Tuesday – Different Types of Roleplayers

April 9, 2019 // 1 Comment

I’ve been dabbling in tabletop roleplaying games for around fifteen-plus years at this point in my life, and have been a serious player for the last ten. Having been an [...]

Tabletop Tuesday – St. Paddy’s Edition

March 12, 2019 // 1 Comment

Ah, St. Patrick’s Day: a day of Irish folk music, whiskey, green beer, corned beef, cabbage, and partying with friends and family. Of course, no party is complete without [...]

Tabletop Tuesday – How Video Games Have Changed the Tabletop Industry

January 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

At a glance, it’s easy to paint the video game industry and the tabletop game industry as natural competitors. They’re both massive forms of entertainment for roughly the [...]

Board Game Boom: How Tabletop is Dominating Kickstarter

December 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

As we end one year and kick off the next, it’s a good time to look back and reflect on the best of 2018. We might ask what the number one video game was, or the best [...]

FIRST IMPRESSIONS – Red Dead Redemption 2

October 26, 2018 // 5 Comments

I don’t typically preorder video games. I prefer to wait until reviews start coming in, see which of my friends are playing, and hold onto my hard-earned money until I know [...]

The Illusion of Choice: Where Mass Effect Actually Went Wrong

July 31, 2018 // 1 Comment

My favorite video game trilogy of all time was the Mass Effect series. I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into different playthroughs, scrolling through the lore, and making [...]

Gaming Smartphones: What’s Not To Like?

June 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

With so many games being made for mobile devices, as well as popular games like Fortnite and PUBG getting ported over, it seemed like only a matter of time before someone [...]

Video Game Developers, We’re On to You

May 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

A lot of people tend to forget that video game companies are, at the end of the day, businesses. Yes, they are there to create content for their players, and yes, they are [...]

“Active Shooter” Video Game Draws Harsh Criticism

May 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

Video games are no stranger to controversy, and to an extent, a lot of gamers understand that. We play games where we shoot enemies, blow things up, hack and slash our way [...]