Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerI 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…
After way too long, some of the local group finally got together for some FtF gaming last week. Patch was unavailable, and Dave was ill (and I was worried I’d have to cancel on account of illness), but me Mark[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I continued our tradition of a couple rounds of Commands & Colors: Ancients over the last couple weeks with the second Battle of Mantinea as updated in Expansion #6. The times are a-changing with both sides having some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. With the collapse of Klingon supply into NW Federation space, I had some serious problems to face. Overall, Income was just slightly down over the previous turn, but that was partially from a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG After our last big game, Patch suggested we do an SFB game next. After rooting around in the scenarios for our current year (Y160) a little, we decided upon “Border Incident”, a scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technology is such a ubiquitous fact of our lives today that how to represent it comes up in a lot of games, from tactical differences to the strategic march of progress. The best-known example of the latter would be the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I was down visiting my parents, I played a good amount of Civilization IV, including a few attempts at multiplayer with my dad. (Which is sadly only possible on LAN now, as internet play relies on a service which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did a second round of Sekigahara with my dad last Wednesday, the day after our first game. We stuck with the same sides, but things went different from the beginning, partly because I had trouble forming a decent siege[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…