Inside GMT 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 sixth 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…
Had another get together, and game of Space Empires 4X this last Saturday. Mark paid for pizza to be delivered so lunch would be short, and we got through twelve economic turns this time. There was a little debate on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A year after putting out Waterdeep and the North, TSR published one of the most unusual boxed sets in RPG history. Usually a boxed set is a variety of material, including a couple of books, and maybe a couple large[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the scenarios in Out of the Attic 2 gave me an immediate ‘I’ve got to see this‘ reaction. OA25 features a defense with a combined French-British-American force in 1942 Tunisia. Patch and I initially slotted it for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I had our regular between ASL games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the battle of Thyreatis in 545 BC. It’s a very unusual battle from Expansion 6. First of all, both sides are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There have been three main centers of activity in Ed Greenwood’s own Forgotten Realms campaigns. Two of them, Shadowdale and Cormyr, are in the central area well covered by the original boxed set. The third, the great city of Waterdeep,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When TSR adopted the Forgotten Reams as it’s new main setting in 1987, the Moonshae Islands became one of the most prominent locales in the setting, absorbing along the way the Korinn Archipeligo, which had been the setting of module[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been entirely too long since our group has managed any Star Fleet Battles, so Patch and I started a game on-line a while ago. Our current play-date is concurrent with the short Gorn-Federation War, so we used the excuse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark made it over last Saturday for a little FtF time. It was his pick, and he wanted to try out Frederick the Great, which both of us have been interested in since we started seeing some interesting reviews of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since playing Neverwinter, I’ve been thinking of the Realms again, and just got through re-reading the original box set I got back in ’87. This served as the introduction to a new setting for the 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…