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Archive of posts filed under the Gaming category.

Dice

Meant to post about this before. 14mm d10s made of haematite = awesome.

Crushing Defeat

Yesterday, playing Battlefleet Gothic, I witnessed possibly the most monumentally vicious round of shooting I have yet seen. And, alas, it was targetted at my fleet. It began with not one, but two nova cannon hits to one of my heavy cruisers, which failed to brace for impact and exploded. Violently. So violently in fact, [...]

Sorry, Badbreff

I had been planning to replace Badbreff. But he wasn’t having any of it. He looked at me and didn’t say a word and I was silently cowed into submission. Incidentally, Babreff is 37mm tall. Including his base. Badbreff is the Nob (leader) of my mob in Gorkamorka. A total of two models have had [...]

GMing

It’s a funny old business, GMing. The way the plot twists and mutates as the game progresses, and as new ideas occur to you between sessions. And when a minor slip of the tongue that you decide to go with rather than correct leads you to slightly change your intended story, leading it to actually [...]

Pumping and Squeezing my Organ

A marvellous weekend, I feel. Headed back to Oxford on Friday, where Jessica and I were playing at the Oxford Folk Club. Our first gig as the main attraction. I thought it went very well. Sure, there were mistakes, and Jessica was less pleased than I was, but I felt that it was probably the [...]

Back Home

So, here I am back in Witney, never to return to my room in Monte. Now I shall have to find something to do with myself for the next three months or so. Aside from working on my conversion of WFRP to the Warhammer 40,000 setting. Alas, this will probably involve getting a job at [...]

WFRP

Yesterday, the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was released. Since I had preordered it, it arrived that very morning. As far as the new rules are concerned, I’m fairly pleased. The careers system has been left more or less intact. The skills system has been expanded and modified. The old standard tests have been [...]