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 GamerAfter our Graveyard Shift, Patch and I went on to SFB, where we tried out “Flight of the Audacity” from Captain’s Log #3. It’s certainly an interesting idea. A Klingon frigate (IKV Audacity, me) works through a large and dense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the lesser gaming hubs of early RPGs was Rockville, Maryland. Little Soldier Games started in a game store there, and Phoenix Games in a book store around the corner. Details are obscure, because there are contradictory statements, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many years ago now, Mark had me try Clash of Giants with the Galicia scenario from the second game, and I’ve been wanting to get back to it ever since. A bit ago, we started the First Ypres scenario (also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my too-close win in Hatten, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Picenum from Expansion #2. There’s a line of hills down the center, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark has gotten himself a fair chunk of the Wing Leader titles over the last couple of GMT sales, and we recently got to trying it out. Certainly, there are interesting ideas going on with the system. First off, is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I recently got through the latest Final Fantasy XIV expansion. Once again SquareEnix has done a good job. Considering that this is the start of a brand-new storyline, it can’t have the weight of something had a decade[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After failing to rescue a corps HQ section, Patch and I returned to Hatten, where I took the attacking Americans in the fifth scenario. I’m not sure how sides were chosen at this point, but I think it was just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fifth 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…
The tenth FR-series book kept with the general geographical format of the series, but the book is 96 pages instead of the usual 64. The detached cover is only two panels, and gives a cutaway view of a pyramid and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GameLords’ short-lived classic Traveller line has a good reputation, helped by the fact that much of it was written the prolific Keith brothers. To me, the most interesting part were the ‘Environment’ books, which outlined additional rules for various environment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…