Author Archives: Thomas Phinney

About Thomas Phinney

Thomas is a typographer and board game fan, living in Portland, Oregon.

Assorted minor updates

Just post­ed a minor update to the Logistics branch rules. Also added notes on the maps page as to how many play­ers each map is for. Other than that, late­ly I have been work­ing most­ly on pieces for Empire. Well, by “late­ly” … Continue read­ing

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Spring Cleaning

I just delet­ed a ton of spam-type users and installed some secu­ri­ty on user reg­is­tra­tions. I tried to save the hand­ful of “real peo­ple.” If you were a real user and got delet­ed, I’m sor­ry about that, you’ll have to re-reg­is­ter. Currently work­ing … Continue read­ing

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More history transcripts

I’ve just added three more tran­scripts to the “History Resources” page: J.D. Eveland & Jim Kahan tran­script from Storytelling, Reunions, 2004 Peter Langston on Empire the main­frame game vs Empire the board game Eveland/​​Kahan/​​Drake/​​Phinney email thread, 2011 Enjoy!

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Wiki & Forum

I just installed some Forum infra­struc­ture. I have yet to cus­tomize it, or set up any sec­tions with­in the forum, but it is there and should be work­ing… look under the Community menu in the nav bar. (I guess you know … Continue read­ing

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Rules & survey

As men­tioned last post, I have been hard at work on a new ver­sion of the Logistics branch of the rules (v 4.0 alpha 3). I post­ed it at the bot­tom of the rules page over the week­end. I am pleased because I think I may … Continue read­ing

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Blog launch & site news

Maybe this won’t be a last­ing fea­ture of the site, but since we’re using WordPress for con­tent man­age­ment, and it is first and fore­most a blog­ging sys­tem, I thought I would go ahead and use the blog. First up, I was think­ing of imple­ment­ing a Wiki and/​​or … Continue read­ing

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