Increased Tolerance Leads to Increased Dosage
You would think the prevalence of TDS would begin to decline, but whatever happens it’s only going to get worse. Just look at this madness. The only reasonable explanation for treating this weekend as a hotbed of terrorism is that they know something about a planned false flag that...
Member When?
Member when Fauxmericans said that America was an idea, and ignored the logical implication of that stance that basing Americanhood on thoughts meant that the nation would require Thought Police? Welp, we got Thought Police now. They wear badges like these: And it turns out Thought Policing IS who...
Reading Fight Club
Reading it now and it’s all, “My life is so good I have nothing to feel bad about and sometimes that makes me sad.”...
MicroBlogging
Any blog can be a microblog if you’re determined enough....
A Good Day for Kipling
“Have you news of my boy Jack?” Not this tide. “When d’you think that he’ll come back?” Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. “Has any one else had word of him?” Not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and...
Regressing Harder: Post-Colonial American Lit
Those Americans who paid attention in high school carry around in their head an understanding of early American literature built upon a foundation of two works: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter (1850), and Edith Warton’s, Ethan Frome (1911*). Both fine works, but both on the heavy side for high...
Happy New War!
The Trossian War campaign offers a lot of possibilities for narrative fun and complications, but I repeat myself. It uses Featherstonian “Chance” cards to add a level of…uh, chance…to the proceedings, some of which offer the possibility of adding third party elements to your forces. Painted up in the...
Wargaming Campaigns: The Book
It’s not too late to join the wargame renaissance and give the classic umpire-led campaign a shot. In fact, it may be a little too early. If you’ve ever thought about trying your hand at running a larger-scale campaign, then Henry Hyde has a little advice for you. I’ve...
Scattered Shots and Thoughts
Time to make a scene! Can’t fight for the throne of the Trossian Empire if you don’t have a continent of Tros to fight on. So let’s take a look at some of that scatter This is all 2mm terrain from either Irregular Miniatures or PicoArmor. Irregular trees on...
A Big 2mm Update
The big hoopty for 2020 here at Chez Inabox has been the move to integrate 2mm scale gaming into the mix. Not only that, but we determined that a move into the new frontier of mass battle black powder gaming was in order. We like to zig when the...