Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerWhen I was growing up, my parents ran a mail order game business. Among the stock that I would leaf through to relieve boredom were digest-sized black books. These described adventures to happen on far-off worlds. I didn’t manage to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After delivering a pair of Surprise Packages, Patch and I turned to Commands & Colors: Ancients (actually, the first round happened between the two playings of the SFB scenario, so they happened a couple months apart). We’re up to Caesar’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re now about two months out from the next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, so it’s past time to talk about the last few months in game, and patch 7.5(+). First off, unlike Blue Mage, I hopped on the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since Surprise Package is a fairly quick scenario and has an interesting matchup, Patch decided to go for turning it around and playing it again, and he tried taking the USS Kublai out for a spin. My opening speed was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By 1986, the nature of AD&D adventure modules were changing, going from a location-based format, to more story-based. So, it makes sense that TSR would produce a new introductory adventure. Earlier modules dedicated to being a “first adventure” with DMs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the one fight on the border in Y162 it was time to advance the campaign clock to Y163. I think both sides will end up with nearly everything available in a second campaign round, and there’s two of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up in Hatten, Patch and I swung around to Star Fleet Battles, moving to Y165. He looked over the scenarios, and picked the Klingons in “Surprise Package”. The original version of the scenario (back in Captain’s Log #1)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Avatar module came out three months after FRE2 Tantras. Anyone running it at the time might have been stuck for what to do during that period, though I’d imagine at least a couple months to get through the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After defending central Italy, Mark and I moved over to Star Fleet Battles to get in a Y164 scenario, “Foxes in the Henhouse”. While it’s in Captain’s Log, it’s generally the scenario to show off the light monitor from R11.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Jason over this last Sunday. Plans vibrated back and forth, so we ended up not quite as prepared as we could have been. At any rate, we ended up playing Last Hundred Yards. Jason had been working with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…