Today, gentle readers, we will be talking about the other end of a KickStarter. The game of Guild Ball is being sent out to backers as we speak and will be available via their online store, along with their first season of miniatures, on April 27th (this coming Monday). Now I was just chatting to … More How free is Guild Ball?
Continuing my irregular discourses on the mechanics of role-playing, I’m taking a brave step. We’ve established that GMs can put a huge amount of work into their games, for you, their players, to enjoy. My question is, what can you as a player do, to recognise this. It’s brave,as this is one of those things … More How to make your GM happy
Lately, gentle readers, I have been thinking about one of my other gaming loves. RPGs. I have recently finished the intro to what I hope will be a long campaign of Fading Suns, a far future setting similar in tone to Dune. Since I’d finished I wanted to reflect on what had happened so far and … More What’s your style?
I will admit, gentle readers, that I am not in this for the painting. I have no desire to spend hours hunched over my desk screaming at myself, unable to perfectly recreate an eyeball smaller than a pinhead. But don’t think that I don’t care about my army. Tiberious Xorn, the Plague Prophet, leader of … More Something worth fighting for
I won’t lie gentle readers, 99% of all the wargames I have played have been 28mm scale. Obviously a huge part of this has been Warhammer 40k (and Warhammer Fantasy Battles) but there has also been Necromunda, Mordheim, the Great Rail Wars, Gangs of Mega City One, Infinity and many more that have vanished into … More A sense of scale
This basically follows on from my last piece, which sort of left us at a very small cliff-hangar of creating a new system. Clearly that’s what I did. I had a few basic wants. I wanted a generic fantasy system such as is found in literature or films (at least partly inspired by the late … More Grey Anatomy…
Another day another Kickstarter, gentle readers. Before you set your brains to autopilot, this one is a little different. It’s for a new game. When I say a new game, I mean it. It’s not by an established company that’s really just using it as a pre-order system. It’s not a second wave of releases … More Should we waste this Kickstarter?
The thing about role-playing, is as you go on, trying new systems, new expansions, it’s clear no system is perfect. The first proper system I tried was Tunnels and Trolls, which glories in some of the best weapon tables you’ll find. Then when you play another fantasy system, you’re wondering why they’ve only got 2 … More Create…
Here you are gentle readers, just what you’ve always wanted. Mr Straw and I chatting about our thoughts on gaming on the small screen. A little YouTube treat for you where we discuss our first few games of Infinity: Operation Icestorm (more to come soon), The nearly finished Blood Rage Kickstarter (the link is here … More The Weekly Waffle has arrived!
Think about this hypothetical situation, gentle readers. I am going to give you something cool and free this month. This month ends and you still don’t have it but I promise you’ll get it soon. Do you then go on a spree of hate filled nerd-rage complaining about how I let you down? I hope … More I want it now!
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