Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis 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…
This is the eleventh 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…
Patch and I recently had our between-games set of Commands & Colors: Ancients, and this time we’ve hit Alexander the Great’s career with the Battle of Granicus from Expansion #1. Alexander has a river to cross to get at a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just recently, Smudge and I finished up the main quest line of FF XIV: Heavensward. I’m not sure a lot it was great, but it certainly ended well. Considering the second half only took us a bit more than a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Overall, the Alliance economy was up 5.8 EP this turn, most of this came from the Federation, while the Hydran economy expanded a little to offset losses to the Kzinti. However, the Hydrans and Kzinti also hit the first stage[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…