Guise Knights

The Guise Knights have firmed up their event calendar for RandomCon, and we are looking forward to seeing you there.
Click HERE to see our RandomCon Schedule!

-The Management

By the by, I’ve been checking out a new “geek-centric” podcast. Go on over to www.touchingthemonolith.com and have a listen. It’s new and fun. Can’t wait to hear what the guys do next.

So this morning my latest Think Geek purchase arrived in the mail. Ah, the joys of unwrapping new swag! Woot! It’s l00t! Who knew that 3 t-shirts would be so heralded. It made me think about the time my dad called me from GenCon.

I was born and raised in Indianapolis. Most of my family still lives there, including my father. Some years ago, Dad went from high caliber systems analysis geekery to the life of a limo driver. Apparently there are geeks out there who enjoy taking a stretch with wet bar to GenCon. My dad had a few clients in the area and called me during his down time.

“So, you know about geeks. Can I ask you something?” Dad asked. (more…)

Forged of sweat, blood, and stone left sitting out on the Salisbury plain, it doesn’t take much effort to figure out what people mean when they mention “Stonehenge”. Ancient monoliths and trilithons set about in an enormous construct of Druidic proportions that we still know very little about. So, of course, there has to be a boardgame based on it.

“Stonehenge: An Anthology Boardgame” is, in fact, more than a simple boardgame. (more…)

News on the RandomCon front:

The Guise Knights have successfully negotiated to have 2 tables reserved exclusively for us on the RandomCon game floor!

We will be Guise Knight powered day and night. There will be many games. Please look here and at the Guise Knights Forums for the schedule!

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-The Management

So a couple of weeks ago I sat in on a friend’s inaugural run of the Battle Star Galactica board game (also known to some as Shadows Over Caprica for its similarities to Shadows Over Camelot.) Both games are from the fine folks at Fantasy Flight.

I came into this game fond of Shadows Over Camelot, but somewhat ignorant to BSG. I didn’t watch the original series and I’ve not watched this latest iteration. I have several friends who’ve gotten sucked into it and I plan on watching it at my leisure. So when we started the game I had an interesting point of view: game I’ve never played based on a show I’ve never seen.

The Basics: (more…)

It’s a complex world we live in, where every little thing in the events
that surround us can push us to greater levels of stress that leaves us
nearly no escape, except through our TV programs, Movies, and books. We
think of games and gaming as more a simplistic form of entertainment.
But, if we dig a little deeper, we will find that games are used to
simulate real-world events, model complex corporate actions or military
strategies, and also for (more…)

Last night the Guise Knights dug into Dominion for the first time. This is an interesting, fast paced card game that we all seemed to like.

What’s the what? (more…)

Let’s be open about this: We’re geeks.

We wear t-shirts with robot lovin’, binary code, 1337 5P34K, and high-level math humor. We pride ourselves on reading the instructions and knowing loopholes to the rules. We bow before the golden gods of Nintendo, Blizzard, Sony, and sometimes the evil Microsoft overlords. We know our stuff, and when it comes to games, we have (more…)