Hobby Games The 100 Best
Hobby Games The 100 Best
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 spectrum of the hobby market, from role-playing games to collectible card games, 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, Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering, and Larry Harris, creator of Axis and Allies; best-selling authors R. A. Salvatore, Tracy Hickman, and Ed Greenwood; computer industry notables Bruce Shelley of Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) and Jack Emmert of Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes); as well as dozens of other noteworthy and award-winning creators. Hobby Games: The 100 Best will also features a foreword by board game legend Reiner Knizia and an afterword by wargame legend James F. Dunnigan.