Sunday, May 20, 2007
Suppose that you’re writing a set of rules for Vikings and the Dark Ages. You’re going to need a set of rune fonts, right. Well here they are.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Every wargamer I know also is a bibliophile. We’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of books that we’ve read and set aside as we moved from period to period. So here’s a way to get rid of some of the books you no longer want and pick up some others that you do.
BookMooch is a site that facilitates the online trading of books. You sign up, type in the books you want to give away and get points when you mail them out. You can then spend the points to request books of your own.
Neat idea.
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Monday, May 07, 2007
The tenth episode of the Meeples and Miniatures podcast is out. I’ve enjoyed listening to them on my mp3 player.
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Short on rulers? Too cheap to buy some? Or out of time? Surf on over to Vendian, where they have a large number of imperial and metric rulers in pdf format. The neat thing about the pdf is that you can resize. So if you are playing a 25mm game in 15mm, or vice versa, you can just resize the rulers instead of converting the scale.
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Sunday, July 31, 2005
As much as we’d like to, my group has never been able to get a regular wargames campaign going. Keeping track of all those resources, maps, etc. is just too much for a bunch of 40ish gamers with wives, kids, homes and jobs.
A good alternative, though is the “narrative campaign”, which is essentially a set of linked encouters that depend upon the outcome of tabletop battles.
Here’s a dummies guide to creating one.
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Friday, July 29, 2005
Peter Hunt has written a review of Phil Barker’s “Damn Battleships Again” rules. I guess I was sleeping when these came out because this is the first I’ve heard of them.
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
You’ve got to see this to believe it: A “christian” group apparently has comics to distribute condemning gaming as Satanic.
***BEGIN RANT****
Gee whiz. In my humble opinion, these people need help.
I’m not being anti Christian here. In fact, I am a practicing Christian—and an ordained Deacon in the Presybterian Church. But these people are giving Christianity a bad name.
I’ve been playing “adventure games”—RPGs, board wargames and miniatures—since 1971, and in that time, I have NEVER run across anything even vaguely Satanic. Sure, D&D has wizards and spells, but its NOT REAL. (Really).
Now, that’s not to say that there aren’t gamers out there who are wiccans, satanists, athiests and what have you. I know more than a few. One of them also is a dentist. But does that mean that getting dental work is satanistic (Stop smiling. I know what you’re thinking. I, too, can’t think of dentists without thinking of “Little Shop of Horrors.”)? Are we going to see a comic condemning dentistry? The guy that cuts my hair is gay. Am I in danger of becoming gay? Should I, in the fashion of Sampson, not get it cut anymore?
I think that these people have strayed about as far from the spirit of Jesus’ teachings as you can go.
***RANT OVER****
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Friday, April 15, 2005
The Battlegames site has a nice chronology of wars from the beginning of recorded history to the present day.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Back in the heady days of first edition D&D, there were a lot of small companies publishing books that essentially were nothing more than lists of names, treasures, monsters, etc. During a game, you used these lists to randomly generate filler for your adventures.
The Seventh Sanctum is essentially a computerized version of these old random generator books. There are random generators here for just about anything you can imagine: pirate ship names, character names for a variety of settings, superhero powers,, equipment lists, dark rituals, several evil sounding name generators, a magical girls, a martial arts move generator, and more!
I spent way too much time playing with this one.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Steve Jackson Games—whose most notable miniature wargaming efforts are Ogre and CarWars—maintains a news site called the Daily Illuminator with frequent updates about gaming in general and Steve Jackson games in particular. I’m also a fan of their GURPS role playing system, so I enjoy visiting here.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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