The Solo (Not Quite) AD&D Fire Still Rises
A new Challenger enters the lists! A Prince of Parma, who I’m pretty sure comments on my vidjas has taken up the solo wargaming gauntlet with the devil of his own, this time into ACKs. Even better, he is documenting his Campaign on Cosoricalta in long form blog posts!...
The Solo AD&D Fire Rises
It turns out I’m not the only one playing AD&D solo these days. I’m not even the only one with a blog discussing the results of my solo play. Today I present to you “Fort Cranium“, a newish quick recommendation today. He started with a 5×5 map of 30...
Trollopolous Lives!
Things are getting a little crazy over in Trollopolous and her nearby provinces. The besieging orcish army, leaderless after the capture of their demon-queen, has quit the field, and that only made things worse. Jeffro’s AD&D campaign-by-the-book has kicked into high gear with a week of Braunstein style faction...
More Campaigning for the Best Campaigns
Got another big blog for you fans of old school tabletop RPGs. This time around we’re taking a look at a longish game of ACKS, Autarch’s excellent Adventurer, Conqueror, King. This is another one of those new-old campaigns that takes advantage of certain lost secrets to present a style...
Cleanup On Aisle Linkage
Clearing out the chaff from the wheat of my link list this week, and it occurred to me that some blogs need more than a quiet pointer. Around here, we believe that ACTUAL PLAY >> game theory, and today I’ve got one of the better AD&D session report blogs...
Now That’s What I’m Talking About!
Bradford Walker steals a march on me by laying out in detail some thoughts that have only been drifting, half-gestated through my mind lately: RPGs are a wargame derivative. It’s time to explain why this is so, and in so doing expose what the appeal of the medium is...
2mm Gamers Rise Up!
Is something of a 2 mm Renaissance is in the air these days? Or maybe it’s just observer bias – that I notice more 2mm projects because I myself am working on 2mm projects. Whatever the case, if you’re interested in 2 mm projects have I got a doozy...
Of Interest: Wisdom from an Angry God
“Gaming, at its core, is a hobby which seeks neither mediation or approval from Johnny-come-latelies.” Heavens to betsy, I do believe I have come down with a terrible case of the vapors. This one is pretty complicated. Basically, there is an in-authentic and ham-handed movement being orchestrated to remove...
Twargame Advice
A world of advice on using Twitter to get your wargaming fix: Stay away from the #warmonger tag. It’s for people who don’t do a lot of wargaming. They like “thuh comm-MUNE-itay”. You get lots of ads for milktoast content providers and soy-based podcasts. A lot of paint-by-numbers figures...
Great Borodino Thread on the Twit Box
If you’re on the Tweeter Machine and you want to read about a massive and intricate refight of the action at Borodino, brother have I got a thread for you! If you’re smart enough to avoid that place, then brother have I got an website that neatly compiling the...