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 BootsSmudge and I finished off Heavensward a bit more than three months ago now, and you might expect that we’ve been getting well into the post-Heavensward content of FF XIV…. Not so much. There are a few things from before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I are continuing our between-larger-games sets of Commands & Colors: Ancients, and we are continuing our current tour through Alexander the Great’s career with Issus from Expansion 1. It’s a large battle, with both armies having more units[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was finally time to return to Festung Budapest for me and Patch (I had figured our previous game would be FB, but ended up in an early-war adventure instead) a couple months ago. It is now February 7th, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Screenshots for this post come from Moby Games. Some sixteen years after it came out, I finally got around to playing all the way through Kingdom Hearts (on PS2). Smudge spent a few weeks going through it at the time,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Victoria II. See the previous review here: Victoria II: Same But Different Victoria II was part of a string of successes for Paradox Interactive around 2010,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alliance economy climbed by forty points this turn, showing just how out of control the situation is. Even the Hydrans went up 14 EP before exhaustion (for an actual increase of 10.5 EP), with the Gorns showing the smallest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the tenth collection of spells for my GURPS Dungeons & Sorcery project. Which means there’s now over 100 spells for it, which I didn’t initially think I’d do, and this is still finishing off 2nd level spells, and moving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the tenth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After some time away, here’s another set of ten spells for GURPS Dungeons & Sorcery. This time, many of them deal with misdirection and effects meant to fool others. Baneful Deflector (SC) Evocation, Somatic, Verbal, Buff 32 points + 30[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The overall Coalition economy continues to contract, with the Lyrans picking up a little bit of ground, which didn’t make up for either Klingon or Romulan losses, which happened in spite of both of them surveying a new province. Adjusted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…