Not the Flex You Think It Is
Continuing thoughts about Rule Zero and yesterday’s post about Theseus’ RPG. Item #1: If you only ever used a third of a game, have you ever really played the game? You might have been playing something, but was it really the game you say it is? How much of...
Rule Hero > Rule Zero
The problem with Rule Zero: Is not that it isn’t true, it’s that it guards an army of lies. How many planks can you remove from AD&D before you’re not really playing AD&D any more? No one talks about this....
Lake Sambee Post Mortem
Sometimes the best way to fight…is not to fight at all. Today we’re talking about some painful lessons learned from a game of 2 x 2 Napoleonics. It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to get a handle on how to work this ruleset. In the Battle of...
Counterpart: An Early and Hesitant Recommendation
You guys might like this one. The marketing kind of kills a big reveal – suprise! there’s an alternate earth and our main character’s double shows up in “our” timeline to wreak havoc. J. K. Simmons plays two very different Howard Silk’s – one casual and friendly if a...
Chainmail’s 50th Anniversary – A Video
This makes for a good watch. A lovely little glimpse into the wargaming world of the midwest in the late 1960s. Out of this culture, and countless others littered across the anglosphers, was spun the tabletop RPG community. It’s a quick watch at just over 22 minutes, and includes...
Primordial D&D
Been thinking about this a lot. Ever since watching this movie. Which is great. A must-watch for anyone interested in learning more about the evolution of tabletop wargaming and/or role-playing games. It’s a deep dive into the roots of the hobby, and surprisingly even-handed. But I can’t shake the...
Fantasy Campaigning Dun Rite
Using a Reaper Bones wood sprite figure as an evil personification of the deep woods and wilds are inimical to human life? That’s unpossible! That’s what happens in this latest episode of “The Joy of Wargaming” wherein four intrepid heroes wade into the wilds to put paid to a...
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...
2×2 Napoleonics : A Bit of Eye Candy
More black powder gaming using a neat little trick for roads and streams… Simple yarn. It’s just the right scale for 2mm figures, and you can nudge it all about to make just the right curves. Placed down on a fleece battlemat and it works a treat....
From Two-Deep to Three
It’s not often that I work in 2D painting, but for a special project like this… A friend asked me to find and paint him up a few Hawaiian Warriors. Always happy to share my love of the hobby – and always happy for an excuse to craft that...