Wandering into a bookstore last night, I found that the latest Anne Bishop book had been released: The Shadow Queen. I bought it and, after getting home from playing wargames with Randy, I read it. It’s not that long a book, despite the 400+ pages (there’s a lot of white space). It was very enjoyable, though. It meant I finally got to sleep a way past midnight, but … Continue reading Books and games
I’ve spent part of the last week playing one of Richard Berg’s Great Battles of History games: SPQR, Great Battles of the Roman Republic. This is a game I bought early last year (IIRC, or maybe late in 2007), and I played the introductory scenario, one of the simpler scenarios, and then put it away for a bit. Now it’s out again, and I’m … Continue reading Romans vs Barbarians
I’ve posted pictures of a large part of my game collection on multiply and on boardgamegeek. 🙂 I’m running out of room. No, can that, I’ve run out of room. Some time ago. Things are needing to go into storage now… Continue reading Game collection
(Oh, Adam & Nate… could you forward a link to this to Greg in case he forgets to check Multiply again… ) Greg’s PC in our Pyramid of Shadows adventure has suffered the ultimate fate… she’s turned into a werewolf. Well, sort of. She thinks she’s a werewolf, and so that’s enough for the rest of us! Greg and Josh managed to fail some really important Endurance and … Continue reading Greg’s new PC
Wizards of the Coast have made the decision to no longer offer PDFs of their game books. So, if you enjoyed having electronic copies of the latest rulebooks, or were getting some of the great old classics like the Temple of Elemental Evil, you no longer have that option. It really is a sad day. Why have they done this? Piracy. Piracy just gets worse … Continue reading No more D&D pdfs?
We had a pretty good Saturday boardgaming. BattleTech was intense; a 5-hour session which saw Rich, Martin and Pat trying to take down the “Fire” Lance of the Fox’s Teeth, run by Sarah, Randy and me. They had a fairly successful first half of the battle, being able to cripple my Grasshopper and cause it to retreat, as well as inflicting a lot of damage … Continue reading Saturday gaming
Well, the announcement has been made: A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, will be published as three books. The first (The Gathering Storm) will come out in November this year. It’s hoped that the second and third parts will come out in 2010 and 2011, but nothing is set in stone yet. This makes me happy. I … Continue reading A Memory of Light, times three
My Greyhawk campaign had a fairly successful session yesterday, with Martin’s new character (a druid) being the perfect new character for the adventure I’d planned: a delve into the cairn of an old druid leader. We were operating out of Diamond Lake (yes, the Diamond Lake that the players had experienced from the Paizo’s Age of Worms adventure path), and I’ve introduced the character of Balabar … Continue reading Under and over the (o)earth
The demise of WizKids has been playing merry havoc with its intellectual properties. Of them, the most interesting to us has been BattleTech, but a recent interview with the folk at Catalyst Games (who produce the Classic BattleTech line) has clarified quite a few matters. Classic BattleTech is dead. Long live BattleTech! There is no longer a “Classic BattleTech” brand – it’s back under the … Continue reading BattleTech: The times they are a-changing
Well, Thursday evening through Saturday went like this: Thursday evening: BattleTech Friday lunch: played Cosmic Encounter with my students. (Go Virus!) Friday afternoon: went to see Milk Friday evening: played Star Wars RPG: Dawn of Defiance Saturday afternoon: played BattleTech Saturday evening: played Starcraft: the Board Game. Yeah, something of a good weekend. BattleTech was something of a disaster for Rich & Josh’s team, which … Continue reading BattleTech, Star Wars and Starcraft… a normal weekend
