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 BootsTechnology is such a ubiquitous fact of our lives today that how to represent it comes up in a lot of games, from tactical differences to the strategic march of progress. The best-known example of the latter would be the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I was down visiting my parents, I played a good amount of Civilization IV, including a few attempts at multiplayer with my dad. (Which is sadly only possible on LAN now, as internet play relies on a service which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did a second round of Sekigahara with my dad last Wednesday, the day after our first game. We stuck with the same sides, but things went different from the beginning, partly because I had trouble forming a decent siege[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. My efforts to separate out the Federation 4th Fleet SB had finally paid off, with it being its own 5 EP grid, that spent 4.5 on repairs, with further ships needing work. However,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Played Sekigahara last night with my dad. It’s not his first time, but it’s been a few years, so it was a pretty much a full re-introduction. I took Ishida, and wasn’t confident at all for any battle for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. With a one-front war, it’s not impossible for the Kzinti to strike back, but there’s not a lot to do either, so my teaching game has already finished off my half of turn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another set of ten spells for my GURPS Dungeons & Sorcery project. Many of them are from later sources, but we headline with the old classic, Blink, and something of an emphasis on getting away. Blink (C) Alteration, Somatic,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Back in July, Carl Herzog went on the ADB forums and asked for a teaching game of Federation & Empire. After a little hesitation, I accepted, and also ended up with my Konya[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. It took a couple days to entirely regain my equilibrium after the Alliance counterstrike on turn 11. But overall, the damage was limited, if still a problem. The Klingon economy suffered, thanks to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, I proposed the first Annual scenario to have not been reprinted as my next game with Tom Arnold, but we went with the much shorter 195 “Rocket’s Red Glare” instead, as there was limited time before he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…