I have been looking for a simple, yet well-designed science-fiction role playing game for many years – one that supports a story-telling style of play and isn’t too heavy on rules. I have looked at a number – Traveller (in all its incarnations), FFG’s Star Wars, Elite Dangerous RPG, Alternity, Firefly RPG, The Expanse RPG, […]
I’ve recently rediscovered my love of Science Fiction after devouring the Expanse novels by James C A Corey. I turned back the clock to my teenage years and started re-reading the Foundation trilogy by Asimov, the Lensman series by E. E. ‘doc’ Smith, and Moonbeast by A. E. van Vogt. It certainly was a golden […]
With her timbers a-shivered and mains’l in shreds The Chameleon limped slowly around the heads A port drew in sight and repair was assured. But take care and beware, for all those on board. Any Port in a Storm The Chameleon slowly made her way into port, her mainsail shredded beyond repair. Grateful though he […]
Fear shook the crew as the claws raked the deck, But Rootsmasher plunged his sword in its neck. The gryphon was dead, but no hope of plunder Afloat in our boat with the sail torn asunder Death from Above Six strangers boarded the Chameleon at the port of Drake Guard. Six companions alighted in Port […]
Draw near the fire and warm your bones While I strum my lyre with soothing tones. A tale I will sing ye of sadness and woe And gladness and madness, with blade and with bow… A Test of Blade and Bow Five stood in the afternoon sun with the roar of the crowd echoing across […]
You may choose to heed this wisdom or ignore it at your peril. Actually, this is really just a list of my past frustrations about D&D and is a precautionary tool of stuff I will make sure I avoid doing in the future. 1. You meet in a Tavern Pretty much everyone has experienced starting […]
I generally use P3 and Vallejo paints, with a smattering of GW colours and one or two other brands. P3 are impossible to buy in stores where I live now, so I either have to give them up or find an online supplier. Vallejo and GW paints are in plentiful supply here though, so these […]
My T-SOG friends and I recently had the opportunity to play a re-enactment of the Kelly Gang’s last stand at Glenrowan, kindly hosted by George (surname suppressed in the interests of privacy). He ran the scenario as a ‘come & try’ game at Little Wars Adelaide in July of this year and, because we were […]
I did a roadtrip last year (2018) with friends to visit Little Wars Melbourne. An absolute blast of a trip too and LWM is such a fun day. While I was there I saw a game table for Wings of Glory that seriously blew me away. It was built on a base of interlocking foam […]
Day 31: What other RPGs has this game inspired you to try? Ah the places I’ve been, the things I’ve seen… How do I play thee? Let me count the games… Gamma World Boot Hill Middle Earth Role Playing Pathfinder Dungeon World Star Wars RPG Twighlight 2000 Traveller Savage Worlds Achtung! Cthulhu Out of those, […]