Shots From the Long Hunt
Four heroes wade into the stinking mire of the great swamp. Follow the full action here. This was the fourth mission in a “Nightwatch” campaign, a solo wargame that uses tower-defense style design to keep the player on his toes. Waves of enemies every round force some difficult choices...
Shots Fired!
Related to yesterday’s post regarding people who have been playing AD&D wrong for decades – a club of which I was a solid member of for decades myself – Jeffro offers up a little look at what we’ve all been doing wrong for lo these many years: Why this...
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...