I love a good solo or co-op game, but I also happen to play a few board games with programmed "game masters". Sometimes it's a book, sometimes it's a deck of cards (as with Fallout the Board Game), and sometimes it's an app (as with Mansions of Madness). When something's programmed, it's essen...
I'm watching the Kill Lupercal animated series on Warhammer+, and this is my review of it. There may be very minor spoilers, but ideally no more than you'd get from the episode description.
There are apparently 3 episodes in this series, so this episode is a full third of the series and I have...
In an effort to keep better track of what movies I've seen, I'm taking notes on what I watch. This post contains some major spoilers about The Mummy (1932). The short version of the post is this: It's an OK movie, but mostly because it's historical and it still amazes me that we can see and hear p...
I've been building a Vindicare Assassin for Warhammer 40,000. I have the rules for Assassins in the Imperial Agents 10th edition codex book, but by chance I saw the 3rd edition Assassins codex at a second-hand bookshop. It's only 12 pages long, so I picked it up, and this is my review of it.
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When you hear the term "wargame", you probably think "big" because a war is big. It's not a skirmish, it's not a battle, it's not an operation or a sting or astrike, it's a war. Because a war is big, there's a general admiration and excitement in the wargaming community for an expansive game board...
You don't have to see many games of Dungeons & Dragons in movies or TV shows to know that media doesn't understand how D&D works. But with the innovation of homemade videos and podcasts distributed over the Internet, we've all gotten access to "live play" shows of real people actually playing tabl...
In the second battle report of the Tran'Lo Tribute campaign, the Adeptus Mechanicus team escaped from prison and made its way into the secret archeotech vault of the Vo family.
Having gained access to the vault, the Skitarii have discovered access back to the surface. Through this access port,...
I'm playing through all the Mansions of Madness scenarios I own, and reviewing each one as I go. Shattered Bonds is the third adventure listed in the app, and it's rated 5 stars (the highest rating in the game) for difficulty. This review contains spoilers.
I've already said in previous review...
In August 2024, a rulebook called Boarding Actions was released for Warhammer 40,000. As an expansion for the game, Boarding Actions provides missions inside the corridors of vast space ships, which means that having terrain to build walls and doors is essential to the game. Without walls and...
I was shopping at my favourite local used bookshop recently and stumbled upon A Guide to Tolkien by David Day. Originally published by Mitchell Beazley of Octopus Publishing Group in 1979, and then republished by Chancellor Press in 2001, this 260 page book is an endlessly useful reference book fo...
My introduction to miniatures was through D&D. When I started out, miniatures weren't generally found in board games (or at least, not any I'd been exposed to) and I didn't know about wargaming, so miniatures were a thing for "pen and paper" RPGs. By the time I started buying them for myself, the ea...
In the first battle report of the Tran'Lo Tribute campaign, the Adeptus Mechanicus were defeated by loyalists to the heretical Family Vo. In the actual game all but 1 Fulgurite Electro-Priestess died. Through the magic of the limitless storytelling that can happen between game sessions, however,...
I've been playing a lot of Mansions of Madness lately, and I've noticed that I spend way too much time sorting through game assets. A character gains a clue, and I grab the container of interaction tokens instead. A character uses a spell and has to draw a new one, and I grab the Conditions deck i...
Tran'Lo is a forge-world in the Macharian Sector of the Imperium of Man. It gets but a passing mention in the Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum RPG rulebook, but I borrowed it as the setting for a wargame campaign.
Tran'Lo was originally ruled by House Vo. When the family was declared Hereti...
I'm reading The Hobbit again, as I live-action roleplay as a Tolkien scholar in an attempt to understand Middle Earth, its lore, and its effect on modern gaming. I'm reviewing each chapter of the book as I read, and this is my review of Chapter 12: Inside Information.
This review contains sp...
Setting up a Gopher site isn't terribly difficult, but I wanted a setup that allowed my to manage my posts using Git and to essentially mirror what I have on the web. I'm documenting my solution here mostly for my own future reference.
Here's the workflow.
- On the Gopher server, add a bare Gi...