Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerLast year, Mark and I got The Little Land from Compass’ Company Scale System. It’s an offshoot of MMP’s Grand Tactical Series, and we’ve been wanting to see how it compares, though the initial Pacific island fighting titles don’t appeal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And now for the sixteenth set of Dungeons & Sorcery spells. I finally get around to presenting the (long) writeups for Polymorph Other and Polymorph Self. Emotion (SC) Enchantment, Somatic, Verbal, Area (Fixed) 108 points Casting Time: 4 seconds Casting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our regular round of Commands & Colors: Ancients between bigger games, Patch and I ended following “Mortal Wounding” with the first scenario of Expansion #4, the Battle of Tigranocerta. We’re still on red-block Romans, but Tigranes gets four Heavy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After testing out a Kzinti carrier, Patch and I cycled back to ASL, and picked a scenario from this year’s ASL Journal #15. Scenario J256 “Mortal Wounding” is, I think, the only official scenario outside of Operation Veritable that features[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been fairly involved with Final Fantasy XIV lately and it is time to review what’s happened over the last several months. Smudge has been holding me down and making sure I get side content done, but I’ve also snuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Stellaris. See the previous reviews here: Stellaris: Paradox Among the Stars Leviathans: There Be Dragons Here! Utopia: No Place Among the Stars Synthetic Dawn: Synthetic Intelligence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off a game of France ’40 Mark and I recently an SFB scenario, which featured far from expert play, but certainly taught some good lessons. We went with “The Derelict” from Module S2, as the more interesting looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off our carrier experiment, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was Silarus, the final Sparticate scenario from Expansion #2, fighting against Crassus. Pompey is coming up from behind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 25th (day before Memorial Day), I had a couple people over for FtF gaming. Patch was originally scheduled to attend, but couldn’t make it, leaving me, Dave, Mark, and Jason to try out Ancient Civilizations of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the twelfth 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…