Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerI recently picked up this DS title for fairly cheap, and played through it. Spoiler: it was worth the ~$12, but not necessarily much more. It does have a multiplayer mode, with its own story, which I haven’t tried. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Adventures in FF XIV have continued, and Smudge and I have gotten perhaps halfway through the main story of Heavensward. We’re pressing forward at a pretty good clip, but we’re also clearing out all the side quests as they appear,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was created as a Kickstarter stretch goal, and while good, is smaller and much more limited than the main four books. The first part is a collection of four essays done as a result of the Kickstarter that funded[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason was over again on Thursday, and we tried out the Caucasus 1916 scenario from Osmani Harbi. I contemplated trying one of the other maps in the set, but decided to keep it simple by sticking with the area and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth (and kind-of final) volume of Shannon Appelcline’s massive history of the RPG industry finishes up the project well. However, I can’t help a feeling that this one is less important, and unpolished. Some of this is my prejudices,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The erosion of the Coalition position led to a hefty 30-point jump in the Alliance’s economy, with the Kzinti getting the most with a 12 EP jump, powered by the recovery of most of their provinces. This allowed for more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason recently made it over for another FtF session last Thursday, and we finally tried out the copy of Osmani Harbi that I picked up nearly two years ago for cheap. Thankfully, we had some time to read through the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch has been fairly distracted lately by other parts of his life, so for our latest game, we went for one of the simpler scenarios from Up Front, and simple sides—German vs Russian. I had the Germans, and split my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I recently got through the final two patches worth of A Realm Reborn content, and are now moving on to Heavensward. This took longer than I expected. Some of that has been spending time on other projects, such[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s been some delays on getting something bigger going, so Patch and I did another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients a couple weeks ago. This time was the Battle of Chaeronea from Expansion #6. It confirms my comments on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…