Whilst browsing over to the MilSims site, I noticed they’ve changed their banner to have a “Merry Christmas” included in it. I guess we’re getting really close to that part of the year. (It’s now under three weeks until my birthday!) When I got home last night, I found a copy of Hansa Teutonica waiting for me – I’d forgotten that MilSims had sent my copy … Continue reading MilSims are wishing me a Merry Christmas…
This thread is for creation of Adam’s “Universe” character. So, here we go… POTENTIAL MULTIPLIERS:Physical: x3 (Above Average) Co-ordination: x1 (Below Average) Intellect x1 (Below Average) Social Background x2 (Average) STUDY POINTS: 4. HOME ENVIRON: 6: FL-IC (Flat, Icy) Gravity: Extreme Temperature: Cold SOCIAL STANDING: Lower Middle Class Family Wealth: 300 Mils INITIAL SKILL POINTS: 5 NEXT STEP: Determine Fields of Study. You have 4 … Continue reading Adam’s “Universe” character
This thread is for creation of Martin’s “Universe” character. So, here we go… POTENTIAL MULTIPLIERS:Physical: x2 (Average) Co-ordination: x1 (Below Average) Intellect x1/2 (Poor) Social Background x3 (Above Average) STUDY POINTS: 5. HOME ENVIRON: 4: PK-LV (Peaks, Light Vegetation) Gravity: Heavy Temperature: Normal SOCIAL STANDING: Communal Colony Wealth: 90 Mils INITIAL SKILL POINTS: 3 NEXT STEP: Determine Fields of Study. You have 5 Study Points; … Continue reading Peggy’s Universe character
This thread is for creation of Martin’s “Universe” character. So, here we go… POTENTIAL MULTIPLIERS:Physical: x3 (Above Average) Co-ordination: x3 (Above Average) Intellect x1 (Below Average) Social Background x1 (Below Average) STUDY POINTS: 4. HOME ENVIRON: 6: SB (Water Submerged) Gravity: Heavy Temperature: Normal SOCIAL STANDING: Lower Middle Class Family Wealth: 100 Mils INITIAL SKILL POINTS: 4 NEXT STEP: Determine Fields of Study. You have … Continue reading Martin’s Universe character
Almost every weekend, I wander into Good Games Ballarat with a number of board games in my possession: some new, some old. Well, when I say old, I mean old from when I started collecting boardgames (quite recently), not when they were originally published. The modern rise of boardgames is indeed remarkably recent. The first major hit of the modern era was The Settlers of … Continue reading A few boardgames
Good Games Ballarat is currently hosting a Living Forgotten Realms campaign run on every second Saturday evening and sometimes more frequently than that. Why Living Forgotten Realms? Why not a regular D&D campaign? Well, the main reason is to allow continuity of individual characters in the group whilst not requiring the same DM from week to week. The general episodic format of the LFR campaign … Continue reading About Living Forgotten Realms
Well, I’ve finally managed to play a Mirrodin draft, albeit online. (Playing RPGs every Friday evening does tend to cut out Friday Night Magic for me). The deck I drafted would probably be termed a classic infect deck, and I won almost every game with infect. 1 Plague Stinger 1 Corpse Cur 1 Blight Mamba 2 Contagious Nim 2 Ichorclaw Myr 1 Ichor Rats 3 … Continue reading My first Mirrodin draft…
The question is, will Peggy and Adam be able to resist… this Cthulhu Dice bag? Continue reading Can you resist?
I don’t think I’ve ever bought a computer game for full price before – most of the games I buy are acquisitions that come along long after they’ve been released. However, I have a (relatively) new computer, and there was Civ V staring at me longingly from across the aisle, and I just had to buy it. Installation went smoothly, which included setting up a … Continue reading First impression of Civilization 5
Most of you would know me as a fairly ardent fan of Wizards of the Coast. They make two of my favourite games – Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons – and for most of the last few years their support of both games has been excellent. However, this past year has seen the support for Dungeons & Dragons be particularly erratic. This has … Continue reading Mixed Signals from Wizards of the Coast
