Hey everyone! Otto here, the recently-released-from-intern-servitude news writer, making a more formal announcement that your friends at Sprites & Dice are heading to Play NYC for the second year in a row!

The biggest question I had going into Bronycon was: what is it that draws people to this show and this particular fandom? Are people drawn to My Little Pony for similar reasons that they’re drawn to gaming?

If there’s anything board gamers love, it’s fancy miniatures. When Overturn: Rising Sands appeared on Kickstarter in June promising just that and more at a low price, backers flocked to the project and funded it in under two hours.

Cthulhu: Death May Die is the most funded board game on Kickstarter right now.

Animus is a card drafting game developed independently by Ed Rodriguez (Zero Budget Geek on YouTube) where two players take control of cosmic Entities trying to conqu