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 50 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. 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, Ed Greenwood, and Michael Stackpole; as well as dozens of other noteworthy and award-winning creators. Hobby Games: The 100 Best is edited by James Lowder.

Hobby Games: The 100 Best is a finalist in the Non-Fiction Category for the recently announced 34th Origins Awards Nominees.

Astounding Hero Tales, also edited by James Lowder, is a finalist in the Fiction Category for the Origins Awards.