Saturday was a big day of gaming for me. It started out at noon, when I ran the first of two sessions of the D&D Worldwide Game Day. The first group was mostly members of my regular games (Nathaniel, Martin, Rich and Josh) along with one complete newbie – Liam (I don’t think he’s even a teenager yet, though I might be wrong). … Continue reading An exhausting Saturday
Last Friday, we finished part 6 of the Dawn of Defiance campaign, The Core of Corruption. This installment gave us quite a number of troubles, mainly relating to its structure which assumed that we’d be more active in our investigation than we were happy in being. Honestly, most of us would be happy to have a big sign saying "Go This Way" at the beginning of the adventure, … Continue reading Dawn of Defiance update
Le Havre is a port city in France. Le Havre is the new game from the designer of Agricola. Guess which one I now own? Yes, alas, I don’t own a town. However, in the stakes of really cool games, Le Havre is very close to the top. The game is about developing the port city: building or buying buildings, harvesting goods and then manufacturing them into more useful … Continue reading Le Havre
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Randy and I have been playing a few World War 2 games recently: Combat Commander: Pacific and Memoir ’44 (with the Campaign Book) in particular. Our game in the Pacific Theatre last night was dreadful for my marines: we were landing on a beach where Randy’s Japanese had a most incredible defensive structure. The initial landing saw the death of all three of the first … Continue reading Back in World War 2
I’ve been a bit busy recently. The good news is that I seem to be a little ahead of the game at work; I’ve sent a pile of report templates away to be proofread so it looks like I’ll actually be able to make them available in good time to the teachers. Yay! Sunday’s D&D session saw us almost reaching the end of Pyramid of … Continue reading Back and Forth
It’s been something of a busy week. I’ve been setting up all the end-of-semester reports at work, which is actually coming along nicely for once; I think I’m ahead of the deadlines. I’ve also been working on the computer room booking web interface, and that’s looking good as well. Gaming? Well, I spent last Sunday afternoon at Good Games, the new game store in Ballarat, … Continue reading It’s been a busy week…
Well, MilSims have apparently sent me Arcane Power. Which means I’ll probably have it on Wednesday evening. That should make the arcanists in my D&D campaigns happy. We’ve got seven or eight encounters left in Pyramid of Shadows. It was a better session this weekend, although there wasn’t enough roleplaying with the Far Realm cultists to properly amuse Nate and Adam. Greg was hilarious playing … Continue reading Arcane Power
Well, after reading Queen of Shadows for the second time (and then The Invisible Ring yet another time), I’ve got to say that it is definitely Anne Bishop’s strongest book for a little while. It’s much, much better than The Invisible Ring, despite drawing on that book for some of its resonances. One of the truly exceptional things about Queen of Shadows is that in her Black Jewels trilogy, Anne Bishop told the … Continue reading Anne Bishop – Queen of Shadows
Arriving in the post on Monday: Empire of the Sun (The Pacific War, 1941-45) – a Card-Driven wargame by Mark Herman Caesar: Conquest of Gaul – one of the Great Battles of History series. Also by Mark Herman (and Richard Berg). C3i Magazine #17. (Yes, they’re up to #21 yes; I’ve been getting back-issues!) CCoG became a lot more interesting after the "Great Battles of Spartacus" expansion … Continue reading New Wargames
