Every year, the “Charles S. Roberts” awards are given to some of the best wargames published in the last year. The 2008 awards were last weekend. (Why are they the 2008 awards when it’s 2009? Probably because only games & magazines published in 2008 are eligible). I don’t consider myself a wargamer, but, there’s no doubt that I’ve been playing more and more wargames of … Continue reading Charles S. Roberts awards
The latest MilSims sale is on. I’ve ordered a few items… Men of Iron (GMT wargame of the middle ages) Napoleon’s Triumph (very highly regarded wargame) A couple of BattleTech books – Intersteller Players #2, Blake Documents (both for the Jihad era) Knizia’s “Formula Racing”, and the Settlers expansion, “Artisans and Benefactors”, which makes Settlers of Catan a 2 player game. Continue reading MilSims sale
Well, Mistwell suggested a guy, Morrus hired that guy, and now EN World is blindingly fast. Compared to how it was yesterday, and how it was before the slowdown. Woo. I’m very happy for Morrus and the site. The universe is restored. Even if I’m not posting there quite as much as I used to, I’ll still visit it. Continue reading EN World redux
It’s a sad thing, but with the current unresolved status of the EN World servers, I think the future is going to be really, really rocky for the venerable D&D site. It’s rather odd timing that just at the time EN World has become virtually unusable, RPG Geek has finally turned on. I’m a big fan of boardgamegeek.com, and RPG Geek has a lot of things going … Continue reading EN World
It’s rare I pay a lot of money for books – perhaps I buy many books, but individually, I don’t pay that much for each one. I’ve just made an exception, for this collection of short stories by Roger Zelazny. After shipping, they’ll be close to aus$50 per book, but they’ll be worth it. I’ll have to wait for volumes 5 & 6 to come … Continue reading Roger Zelazny
G’day, all! I’ve decided to stop running the Friday D&D campaign for the next couple of months while I try to work out what’s going on with the game. Things just aren’t coming together the way I’d like them to and I need a break. My Sunday campaign will continue. Apologies to everyone looking forward to Friday’s session. Cheers, Merric Continue reading Friday D&D campaign – postponed
This weekend saw our regular boardgame day be preempted by the Magic 2010 core set release. (Why is it called 2010 when it’s actually 2009? Apparently, because it’s less confusing once it’s being sold in 2010. It does actually make some sort of sense). I had a horrible first round, paired against a deck which just was death to small creatures – of which I had too many. Giant … Continue reading Weekend disruptions
Last week, I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon. (How many is a bunch? About 11 books, although two of the books are actually trilogies in one volume). All the books have been part of one order. They’ve shipped to me in four lots (over about 2-3 days). Interestingly, the first two shipments (a total of four books) were with the "expedited International Delivery" which I actually … Continue reading Amazon
I’m apparently really out of touch at the moment. David Eddings, the author of The Belgariad and The Elenium, died three weeks ago. I only learnt of it today. The Belgariad was the "big" fantasy series when I was still at school. (Along with the Riftwar saga, by Ray Feist). It took some time for me to actually get around to reading it, but it was so worth … Continue reading David Eddings
I spent a busy weekend playing games. On Saturday, I first stopped by Good Games Ballarat and played a game of Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries with Mark; I also picked up "Naval Battles" and had a game of that with Liam, before heading over to Randy’s and our regular boardgame day. Of note from the BGD:* Rich completely dominated a game of "Age of Empires III" (yes, the … Continue reading Weekend
