Category: Gaming
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What is Insomniacs?
Insomniacs is a cryoship starcrawl game that evokes existential horror and cosmic wonder in equal measure. It’s built from a meatloaf of Lasers & Feelings, the third attempt at Unknown Armies, half-eaten PbtA leftovers, and the parts of Cthulhu Dark your kids left out on the table before running to catch the bus.
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Ending Blades in the Dark
The finale of my Blades campaign from a few years ago, saved from G+’s demise. She protecShe attacBut most importantlyShe bac Deemo the Leech rejoins the Dead Setters after babies and basketball leagues in time to watch Duskwall burn in The Brightstone Riots Caper. Endgame. The crew is Tier IV and Strong hold (modified to…
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SWADE is the New (Savage Worlds) Black
Playtest PDFs of Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, the new version of Savage Worlds, are going out to kickstarter backers and from what little I’ve read the bulk of the noticeable tweaks are in the Edges. Here’s a list of my favorite abuses when making SW characters and what SWADE did to stop me. Marksman: Marksman…
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Hero Forge and Shapeways, Part III
In Part II I expressed concern how the Professional Plastic (black HP nylon) from Shapeways would handle my ham-handed painting techniques. I tried a little ink wash right after I primed it just to see, and the wash mostly worked. The issue was that the wash would cover the pebbly surface and make the whole…
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The Magnificent Seven
There’s this “10 RPGs that had an impact on you in 10 days” activity going around, and I figured I’d do mine. Gamma World Gamma World 3e was my first roleplaying game and still has the best cover art of all time – look at that fucking cyborg otter and his power armor bunny sidekick,…
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Hero Forge and Shapeways, Part II
In Part I, we looked at three miniatures in three different materials. I’ve primed all of them with white matte spray paint and wanted to get this brief post up, since Part III (what it’s like to paint them) is going to be contingent on me having time to paint. The elf decker and cowboy,…
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Hero Forge and Shapeways, Part I
I took advantage of some Black Friday deals to get some miniatures 3d printed, like I need more or something. I designed all 3 in Hero Forge but only ordered one mini direct from them. For the other two, I downloaded the .stl files and uploaded them to Shapeways. Shapeways recently revamped the materials they offer and I…
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