Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter going through the last tutorial scenario for Operation Dauntless, Mark and I spent a little time with the classic pocket game GEV, and it’s initial “Breakthrough” scenario. I haven’t played it in decades, and while Mark is well aware[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time you read this, patch 5.4 will have come out for Final Fantasy XIV, and I’ll be starting down the road leading to the fourth (currently unannounced) expansion for the game. I’ve just come off a week of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[Scenarios 1 & 2] Mark and I returned to the “Lone Gray Wolf” mini campaign a bit ago, as my C6 dreadnought continued making its way back to friendly lines. This time was a proper challenge, as the pursuit group[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It took a while, but Mark and I finished going the Operation Dauntless tutorial scenarios a little bit ago. All of the last three were certainly interesting exercises, and the last one in particular has had some knock-on effects (which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got the ASL Korean War module a couple months ago, and Patch has had an interest since it was announced (he preordered it), so it was inevitable that we’d try that for our next game. Patch looked through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Crusader Kings II. See the previous reviews here: Crusader Kings II: The Second Crusade The Old Gods: That Old-Time Religion Sons of Abraham: A Little of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Wednesday, Patch and I had our latest between-games session of Commands & Colors: Ancients (I still need to write up our latest ASL adventure). This a third Pyrrhus vs Rome scenario, this time a few years later, and one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a couple years away, my thoughts have been on RPGs again, and that, combined with a slow period of Vassal-gaming leads me to my eleventh spell compendium for GURPS Dungeons & Sorcery. There’s no coheseive theme, but October has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sixth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View Wealth of Nations: National Trade Res Publica: A Tradition of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So after our deep-space excursion, Patch and I were back for the second Pyrrhic battle, Asculum, from Expansion #1 of Commands & Colors: Ancients at the beginning of September It’s about the same mix as last time, but this time,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…