Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter some delays, Patch and I finally did our usual round of Commands & Colors: Ancients, with the Battle of Crocus Plain from Expansion #1. It feels a little odd going into a hoplite scenario that hasn’t been re-done in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch and I’s last SFB game, we returned to ASL, and decided to try “Failure to Communicate” from the first Winter Offensive pack, which I’d picked up during MMP’s Fall sale. It’s May ’40, and a miscommunication leads to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Alliance survey rolls were strong this turn; especially the Kzinti who got 16 (+2 from a PT) on three dice, after rolling 15 last turn. Overall Alliance income was up, mostly from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I have spent much of the last couple weeks fiddling with player housing. This is something that most of our other MMOs have not had. Wildstar has a pretty good housing system, but I never got much into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since I was still in an SFB mood after finishing “Border Incident” with Patch, I soloed my way through the third monster scenario during January as part of my Y160 games. Having just played the Romulans in KRs, and realizing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the last few weeks, Smudge and I have worked our way through the 2.2 and 2.3 storylines, which keep the idea of being self-contained while continuing other plot-threads as part of the introduction of Heavensward. “Through the Maelstrom” dealt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The Lyrans and Romulans finally had good survey rolls this turn, though Klingon survey efforts are still stalled, which generated one extra province for the Lyrans, who were still down for the turn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mentioned recently that Smudge and I had ended up in a FC in FF XIV. The leader of our new FC, Jade Goddess got (in-game) married last weekend to Lukresias Scath. Square Enix went all-out on this feature, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year was a year without MMOs as Smudge concentrated on other things and stayed away from Guild Wars 2 and Neverwinter. However, Square Enix ran a promotion to get old players back to Final Fantasy XIV in December and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. With the various problems Byron’s been handing me lately, the Alliance economy grew 20 points for this turn. That was mostly from the Federation, which is getting (devastated) income from two minor planets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…