Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerWell, I let my Dad talk me into trying a two-player game of Successors. I was hesitant, because I could tell that it really needed four players to work right. However, he’s much more interested in the Diadochi than World[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…And we ended up playing the Third Crusade scenario for Onward yesterday. After playing the small 2nd Crusade scenario twice in a row, it was almost startling to see the system back in it’s full glory. It really pointed up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, the annual vacation with my parents has started out well. Weather on the way down alternated between sunny and warm, and overcast and threatening. But, no actual rain, and traffic was pretty good other than along I-210. Took care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over for gaming yesterday. Mark, Patch and Zjonni came over for another go with Conquest of Paradise. While it had taken an entire session last time, the plan was to play the basic game the first time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the Design and Effect blog on GameSquad. I haven’t read nearly as much on medieval warfare as I might like, but what I do know is that for all the protestations of martial valor, and the romanticism of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Mark over yesterday. We had planned this to be a play through of the 3rd Crusade in Onward Christian Soldiers (which I haven’t played yet, so I’d like to try it), but he had an urge to play Commands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Cross-posted with WoW_Muradin because I’m too primitive to have an editor that’ll post this to both.) Well, WoW went to v3.0 yesterday. It’s different. I don’t remember the Burning Crusade engine being quite so big of a shock, character-wise. Hunters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little while back, I got in the new edition of Successors. Generally, it’s a four-player game, and we currently have four in the regular group. But, Jason tends to get busy between teaching duties and working on his advanced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Y155, an Orion “Horde” attacked and destroyed Federation outpost K4. This was a prelude to a massive smuggling operation in which weapons and contraband purchased from the Klingons were smuggled into Federation space. The three usual suspects (me, Patch,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Mark over yesterday for some gaming. First, he showed me game I hadn’t heard of, Cowboys, and we did a really fast two gunmen shootout (maybe 45 minutes including absorbing the really short rulebook?). Anyway, it seems to have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…