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STAR WARS SHATTERPOINT – ALWAYS 2 THERE IS (MAY THE 4TH EVENT REVIEWS) PART 2
So While I was playing at an event at The Outpost in Sheffield, Element Games in Stockport was running a massive 2-day Galactic Conquest event including Shatterpoint, Legion, X-wing and maybe Armada? You can see Shatterpoint day 1 here, but day 2 was a doubles event and since I was free I signed up. I […]
Star Wars Shatterpoint – Always 2 there is (May the 4th Event reviews) part 1
So in the space of 2 weeks I’ve gone from “I don’t like Shatterpoint” to “let’s give it a try” to “competed at 2 events in one weekend”. As detailed here I was pretty anti-SWSP, but asking around and discovering a thriving community at the outpost I played a few games and then signed up […]
Building my first Star Wars Shatterpoint Premier List
Been a while since I’ve written one of these! A week or so ago I wrote an article comparing different skirmish games and Shatterpoint was firmly in the no pile. But I did a “sell me on” post on Reddit and mostly got useful feedback. Pretty much, try it again, there is another mission and […]
Fallout 2d20 RPG Scavenging 3: Scavenging Locations for your games
One of the key parts of the Fallout game and therefore the RPG is scavenging for Loot. Not a lot of this in the TV program, but I guess it’s not that exciting. But the core rulebook does a bad job of helping the GM with the neccesary tools to make scavenging work. It gives […]
Fallout 2d20 Scavenging 2: Creating locations
One of the key parts of the Fallout game and therefore the RPG is scavenging for Loot. Not a lot of this in the TV program, but I guess it’s not that exciting. But the core rulebook does a bad job of helping the GM with the neccesary tools to make scavenging work. It gives […]
Fallout RPG Scavenging 1: How is it meant to work?
One of the key parts of the Fallout game and therefore the RPG is scavenging for Loot. Not a lot of this in the TV program, but I guess it’s not that exciting. But the core rulebook does a bad job of helping the GM with the neccesary tools to make scavenging work. It gives […]
Skirmish Games Comparison (MCP V Shatterpoint V Malifaux V Guildball V Bushido V Warcry V Underworlds)
I realised a while back that I prefer Skirmish games. I’m enjoying AOS right now because I get to use the big models, but we only play 1000 points. But after trying to play a WFB game crica 8/9e and it taking 5 hours to setup play and put away I started looking for smaller […]
Checking out the New AOS 4 Models
So We have 3 spoiled units so far, and about 18 models total. What are they looking like? Liberators So these are the new liberators. I’m very mixed on these. The armour just looks like normal armour. The faces look weird with the nose ridge thing. But the proportions are good. I like the non-helmeted […]
Podcast Relaunch – Pile Of Shame
3 weeks ago I started recording my own podcast originally called Old Gamer Tabletop Podcast. So I could get both OG and GT in the title, which sounded cool. But despite being old, I haven’t played the games I’m initially talking about for long so the name wasn’t great. Jeremy (my Fluff’n’Crunch Co-Host) suggested I […]
Rage at Sigmar – A look at Age of Sigmar 4e reveals week 1-3
So I’m actually playing age of Sigmar. I played 1 game in 1e, back when there were no points. And I think that’s it. But know we’re back playing it, just before 4e drops! Quick disclaimer – We’ve only been playing narrative games using Path to Glory, so don’t worry about Grand strategies or battle […]
What have I been up to RPG wise?
So when I last wrote this blog a year ago I had started on some Marvel Multiverse stuff. I have played a game with some friends and their kids but that’s as far as that went. We finished out D&D rotating DM game before last summer. that is, I finished my story, Brian didn’t and […]
What have I been up to minis wise?
The last time I blogged about Minis was MCP around the launch of winter guard. I had some of them painted and was going to an event…that was summer 2022. I didn’t go. So what have I been playing? So for a while in 2022 I was playing bushido. I proxied at first with Brian. […]
Marvel Multiverse RPG – Black Canary
I did Black Canary early on for MHR and I thought she was a good alternative to some other options as she has actual powers. I had to go Rank 4 to get access to Barrage. You could go a weaker version for sure. Black Canary Rank 4 Dinah Lance […]
Marvel Multiverse RPG – Batman
So the main guy, The Batman. I built him at rank 4 as I could get the powers in that I wanted. Could easily have gone to Rank 5. Rank 3 would be difficult. I went for spider powers as they simulate his movement and snares. I considered Elemental Control for gadgets but it didn’t […]
MMV RPG Shang Chi Vs Lady Shiva
So having made Shiva (and updated her = here) I ran a Combat between her and Shang Chi. I made a few mistakes on the first attempt (see below), but I ran a new one, which was closer. Shang Chi Vs Lady shiva 2 Keeping the initial dice from last time SC H 90 F […]
Marvel Multiverse RPG – Lady Shiva
Another DC character. Why such an obscure one? She was the first character I made for MHR. Pretty easy to do. Started with normal CC then looked at Shang chi’s powers and tweaked. Rank 4 seems high but it’s the only way to get this many powers – I had started at Rank 3. Lady […]
Marvel Multiverse RPG – Harley Quinn
So just like with MHR I[‘m starting with DC characters, specifically Batman characters. And since my Daughter is a huge fan – Harley Quinn. I provide 2 Ranks. Rank 2 to represent her early appearances as a joker henchman, and Rank 3 as a more experienced Anti-Hero. Harley Quinn Rank 2 Dr Harleen Quinzel […]
Marvel Multiverse Corebook Maths
I wrote many articles on the playtest Maths. Short version – it didn’t work. Even by 1.2 the maths was still bust. Here’s an example of the Melee table from 1.0. The numbers are the target you need to roll to hit a character. There are so few values that can actually be rolled on […]
Back at WordPress.com
Well the experiment failed massively. A year ago I got info from WordPress.com that they were reducing the storage size and since I was posting multiple times a week I was going to run out of space. On top of that I was getting enough views that I thought I could earn money from the […]
Marvel Multiverse 1.2 Characters Fight and Ranged Tables
A couple of people asked to see tables including ALL the 1.2 characters, so here we go. This takes the corebook characters and adds 3 new heroes and the 4 villains we have seen. Fight/Might Overall we still have 50% of values falling within realistic rolls, so that’s not bad. the table is still throwing […]
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