These Rules Are FUBAR
Last night, the boy and I headed down to the weekly game night and threw together a quick test drive of the FUBAR rules. For those of you who don’t know, FUBAR is a free, one-page, sci-fi set of rules from Gawd ‘Elp Us Games. As a one page...
6-4-6 Updated Rules
My crazy easy rules need some tweaking, what with the addition of minotaurs, lizards, and predators to the line-up. The new figures call for some new abilities – there’s no sense in using different figures if they do the same things. It also means we need new mechanics and...
Skirmish – What’s Out
So now that you’ve seen what’s in the game, what about what’s out? As usual, we’re gonna go right back to the start before we answer that question. First we need to talk about what exactly we’re going here. Every miniature war game rule set abstracts a whole host...
Small Scale Skirmish Rules – What’s In
As promised, the rules for my next big mini-project. Tentatively titled 6-4-6-Skirmish, these are the rules I’ve worked up for quick and easy battles between aliens, colonists, and the marines who protect them. These are for battles that are small scale in every sense of the word: the scale...
Story Time!
Dungeons and Dragons was my gateway drug, not to Satanism and real magic, but to miniature wargaming. We collected a box full of Ral Partha figures for our characters and the monsters they fought, painted them to a low standard, and then never bothered with a protective coating. Today...
Kids Stuff Fivedux
Last week I took the boy (13) down to the weekly games day at the local games shop for a bit of Memorial Day wargaming. As usual, games day consisted of mainly 40K with a few tables of the flavor of the month. Which is fine, as it gave...
Rules of the Road
Now that we’re finally getting some lead on the table, it’s time to decide on a ruleset. I’ve been pumping the good guys over at the Lead Adventure Forums for advice and they’ve pointed me to a lot of nice little free rulesets available on the web. But I’m having...
Bonus Post! A One Page Adventure
UPDATED MARCH 29 – SEE BELOW While trolling the seas of the internet for a fish of rules worthy enough to grace my table, I’ve been drifting in and out of the role-playing game blog-community. Today I discovered a little thing called the One Page Dungeon contest. “I can...
Kid’s Stuff Threedux
A good friend bailed me out of some personal drama (loaned me a spare car when my transmission went ker-chunk). Our kids are both into 40K, and after a recent battle, a couple of his terrain pieces wound up in our box. As a partial thanks for the loaner,...
New Project: Back to the Roots
With the latest car wars debacle still fresh in mind, it’s time to completely jump genres and scales. It’s time to get back to my dungeon crawling roots. It’s been a few years since I’ve hosted a dungeon crawl, and this is as good a time as any. Some...