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Gretchinz!

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Gretchinz!Ladies and Gretchinz, start your engines! Gretchinz! is a mad cap racing offering from Devir Games. Designed by Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier, Gretchinz! takes place within the world of Gorkamorka. It's part of the Warhammer 40,000 lore, but this isn't your traditional skirmish dudes on a map game. This is a dune buggy race, with the first to reach the finish line crowned the winner. Gretchinz! features real time dice rolling, dice programming,

Ladies and Gretchinz, start your engines! Gretchinz! is a mad-cap racing offering from Devir Games. Designed by Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier, Gretchinz! takes place within the world of Gorkamorka. It's part of the Warhammer 40,000 lore, but this isn't your traditional skirmish dudes-on-a-map game. This is a dune buggy race, with the first to reach the finish line crowned the winner. Gretchinz! features real-time dice rolling, dice programming, and semi-blind hand-management. Think of what the baby between Hanabi and King of Tokyo might look like. You're thinking of Gretchinz! A line of desert terrain cards sit face-up, representing the route ahead. Each player has three identical custom dice, with actions on the faces (not numbers). Everybody rolls their dice simultaneously. If you see a die face you like in among your three, you can 'lock it' in place. Then you reroll your remaining dice, over and over again... You keep doing this until you're happy with your three die faces. Then you shout out: "Waaaaghh!", which signals everyone has to stop rolling. Whatever die faces they have at that moment, they keep. Of course, someone else could have triggered the Waaaaghh!, so this section of Gretchinz! is rather manic! Then, in turn order, players activate their die face actions. Some let you progress your buggy forward onto the desert cards, where you obey the action on said card. Then you reveal the next section of the desert wasteland, up ahead. Other die faces let you draw Attack cards into your hand - but there's a twist. You draw some of them facing away from you (like in Hanabi). Your opponents can see what Attack cards you have (Hit, or Miss), but you can't! Other die faces let you shoot your rivals. You have to pick cards from your hand. If you pick Attack cards, it's a Hit! That player takes damage. If it's a miss, you shoot your own vehicle and take the damage, yourself! Gretchinz! is light-hearted madness, the kind of chaos you love to embrace. And why is it so satisfying to shout out "Waaaaghh!" all the time...? Player Count: 2-4 Players Time: 20 minutes Age: 8+

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mrliteral
Draper, US
★★★★★ 4
An outsider's view
Format: Paperback
When it comes to Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points, I am a bit of an outsider. I don't read many computer books and, while I have worked with PowerPoint, my presentations are very simple. Since I admittedly use my share of bullet points in these presentations, I thought learning about an alternative approach would be useful. And while there are definite benefits to reading this book, it may not be perfect for everyone. Many people use bullet points in their PowerPoint presentations; this can be a great way to organize thoughts, but Atkinson has a difference approach. Essentially, the Beyond Bullet Points method treats presentations as stories told in three "acts." Act One develops the story, Act Two develops the action and Act Three frames the resolution. Each act is broken down into scenes which provide the details. The first portion of the book explains how to work with each act; the second portion deals with the evolution from initial outline to final presentation. This book assumes a certain amount of PowerPoint knowledge; if you want to learn about the application, this is not the place to start (on the other hand, you don't need to be a PowerPoint expert). One of the nicest things about Atkinson's approach is the way he allows presentations to be pared down to fit the time frame required: his method is designed best with a 45 minute presentation, but it can be easily compressed to a 15 minute or even 5 minute presentation. Another nice thing is that he has a website that readers can access that provides some helpful materials such as template documents. On the other hand, Atkinson treats the issue of bullet points/no bullet points as something of a black-and-white issue. He doesn't really acknowledge that there may be a middle ground where bullet points should be used in certain situations, perhaps even in conjunction with his approach. I think it's more appropriate to view the Beyond Bullet Points as an alternative approach to PowerPoint presentations, not the ONLY approach. Atkinson's writing style is straightforward, and like many computer books, a little dry. But as stated earlier, I am reading this book with something of an outsider's view. This is a good book, but Atkinson's inability to look beyond his own approach keeps it from being a five-star work. Nonetheless, if you do a lot of PowerPoint presentations, there is enough useful material in here to merit a read.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2006
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Arthur E. Williams
Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 5
A Refreshing Approach to Presentations
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I ran across this book while researching a college workshop on perfecting presentation, dealing with public speaking and effective use of PowerPoint. As one who has suffered through numerous electronic slides that did little or nothing to augment the speaker's efforts, I was delighted to see this fresh and innovative approach. I believe this process works best, however, when one's speech is primarily persuasive in nature. Although these ideas helped me set up a strong introduction and conclusion, in a recent lecture I resorted to bullet points for the material I felt the students had to master. Perhaps as I get more used to Atkinson's technique, I'll better about using it in lecture. However, the business applications seem quite worthwhile. My students' workshop presentations that used his techniques were highly engaging. I highly recommend this book and the supporting web site.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2006
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Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 1
Simplistic and Inappropriate
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I was hoping this book would provide insights into how to present complex information in a more comprehensible, useful format, using PowerPoint as the tool. Instead, the overall gist of this book is that presentations should be "dumbed down" as much as possible. The theme the author presents is that presentations should be story based. This is reasonable. However, the method the author recommends is that essentially *all* meaningful, complex (or, as the author prefers "boring") content be removed from the presentation. Presentations then become nothing more than catchy headlines and colorful graphics. All content should be in the presenter's notes (not typically to be provided). This is juvenile and useless and frankly reflects a complete lack of understanding of how presentations are made in a complex business environment.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2007
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SteelBlue
Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 3
On the right track
Format: Paperback
This book is a good introduction about how to use story-telling techniques in PowerPoint presentations. There are some good ideas here that you won't find in technical manuals. If you don't know film techniques these will be eye-opening. But the book could have been much stronger if it were to push these concepts to the next level. I saw a PowerPoint presentation with Andy Goodman, who teaches more or less the same thing, and his presentation nailed these concepts more cleanly than this book does. But again, this book is definitely worth checking out if you haven't studied storytelling before.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2005
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An oldd Clancy fan
Dallas, US
★★★★★ 2
Make sure you buy the 2007 edition!!!!
Format: Paperback
I bought the book, enjoyed it and then realized that I hasd purchased the 2005 edfition and not the new 2007 edition. be careful as the new one is much better. Amazon should have made this clear!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2007

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