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...
When I first saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I didn't see actually see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I read a picture book in school, a sort of summary of the movie intended, I think, for kids too young to actually see the movie. When I saw the photos of Han Solo in India and t...
I recently read the Warhammer 40,000 novel Priests of Mars by Graham McNeill, and this is my review of it. There are spoilers in this review, so do not read on if you're getting ready to read the book yourself. The short spoiler-free review is that the book is good, although maybe atypical of wh...