Hobby Games: The 100 Best

[Brel]

HOBBY GAMES: THE 100 BEST
Editor: James Lowder
Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing
Format: 400 pages, trade paperback
Priced at: $16.20 - $24.95 (Coming soon)


In Hobby Games: The 100 Best, the top designers, authors, and publishers in the hobby games field write about the most enjoyable and cleverly designed games of the last fifty years. Their essays cover the gamut of the hobby market, from roleplaying games to collectible card games, and miniatures games to wargames to board games, with titles both familiar and esoteric. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have inspired their most popular creations.

Writers include such legendary designers as Gary Gygax (co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons), Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (co-founders of Games Workshop), Richard Garfield (creator of Magic: The Gathering), and Larry Harris (creator of Axis and Allies); best-selling authors R. A. Salvatore, Tracy Hickman, Douglas Niles, and Ed Greenwood; computer industry notables Warren Spector (Deus Ex), Bruce Shelley (Age of Empires), Jack Emmert (City of Heroes), and Bruce Nesmith (Oblivion); as well as dozens of other prominent and award-winning creators, including Richard Berg, Monte Cook, Zeb Cook, Greg Costikyan, Bruno Faidutti, Jeff Grubb, Steve Jackson (US), Tom Jolly, Marc W. Miller, Alan R. Moon, Christian T. Petersen, Sandy Petersen, Mike Pondsmith, Ted Raicer, Greg Stafford, S. Craig Taylor, Martin Wallace, James M. Ward, Jordan Weisman, Stewart Wieck, and Teeuwynn Woodruff.

Hobby Games: The 100 Best also features a foreword by board game legend Reiner Knizia and an afterword by SPI founder and wargame legend James F. Dunnigan.

Editor James Lowder has authored several best-selling novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and designed game material for a wide variety of publishers and magazines. He has helmed more than a dozen critically acclaimed anthologies, with subjects ranging from Arthurian Britain to zombies. He's been a finalist for the Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award, and is a two-time Origins Award winner.

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[Brel]

Anybody here already read this book?  Looks interesting and I was planning to order this but supplier has no stock yet.  Found another source although it will arrive late January to early February pa.  Atat nako mabasa to eh! 

[Mark Humphries]

I'd like to get one. There are very few books on the hobby, should be a fun read.

[Brel]

The new source jst ran out of stock too. Wer able to reserve a copy for myself but shipping is slow for this order. I may cancel it and jst order from amazon.com. Its on sale there too and price is $16+ only. 

[Brel]

Got the book.  It's nice to read game designer's articles of games that they did not create.  Haven't finished the book yet but read a review of Descent (FFG) by Alan Moon and it's really good.  Made me want to get the game.  To avoid too much expectation, I want to warn that there are NO images whatsoever in the inside pages.  It's all pure text... but meaty content.