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The next two landmarks will be the overtly bad ones. No positive spin on this, a Hazard is just a place you want to avoid.Unless...Well, let’s make this one a place that you’ll...Linked by the ring
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Described as places of inspiration. Spending a phase here restores Spirit, so they’re typically one of the most straightforwardly beneficial landmarks to come across.But what...Linked by the ring
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Each Sanctum is a sacred home to a seer. They are typically mysterious by nature, so by expanding this sanctum into a site we can make it difficult for the knights to find the...Linked by the ring
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Sites read like a bit of a side-dish in Mythic Bastionland. I wanted to include a simple little system to create more zoomed-in locations, but the game is generally more...
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I recently ran Paranoia, my third time through a very loose scenario that I’d prepared, using my hacked version of the current edition. All three sessions went well, and I...
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As so many have said before, an “empty room” doesn’t need to be a literal empty room. Instead, it’s just a room that doesn’t (currently) contain a monster, treasure, or...Linked by the ring
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Now for the games I'd love to get to the table next.Lion RampantRemember when I said I thought Xenos Rampant would fit better in a different era? This is what I was...
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It’s been nearly five years since I plunged back into miniature wargames, like so many people did during that first 2020 lockdown. I thought it might be interesting to take...
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As with the trade system, I think any space travel system prompts the question "okay but why?"You've got niche stuff like "how many hours does it take to get to the moon of...
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Here's what a star currently looks like in Intergalactic Bastionland.Remember, this isn't space as we know it, so here the usual black void is replaced with wadable dust and...
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What's it like trading goods among the living stars?MONEY AND POWERSmall currencies aren’t tracked in the game. Major transactions use stellar fragments, commonly called frags,...
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FRAGSMost power is drawn from the stars, stored in condensed stellar fragments, commonly called frags. These double as a universal currency for major transactions. Low-power...
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New challenge for 2025: Can you make an entire starter set style wargame box by raiding your leftover materials and spending as little as possible?That's what I've tried to do...
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Bastion is full of broadcasts. The very air you breathe is filled with transmissions waiting to be received. Radio, telly, machines silently pinging their plots to each...
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I previously wrote about favouring Tactical Counterplay over Strategic Counterplay.In short: I like games where you can counter and counter-counter your opponents through...
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I'm testing out an alternative wound system for *clears throat* Intergalactic Bastionland.This game is very much at the "throw everything into a document then take an axe to it...
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Give your Knights something better to whack with.The Butcher’s Bludgeond10 LongWhen the wielder Smites, the attack gains both +d12 and Blast. Cannot Focus.Death’s Headd10...
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There are essays about this, so I'm not about to add my own to the mix. Instead, just a couple of thoughts that always come to mind when I think of this topic.Nothing spicy,...
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Please excuse the lack of a proper post this week, I've been busy with a thing.Here are some rough snippets straight from the...
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In MAC Attack each faction is based on a group that splintered from HumanityFleet upon completing their voyage across the stars. Early on I knew that I wanted one of the...
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Nova wrote about the concept of Hyperdiegesis, teaching me a new word in the process. I chimed in on discord, so I get a nice mention in there too.I guess it's the text version...
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They warn you about the danger of being shredded by gunfire. Being incinerated in a reactor meltdown. The brave pilots who burn up in drop without seeing a moment of...
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I’ve ragged on games before for wasting my time with bespoke calendars. Traveller’s names for weekdays are running jokes in my group. It’s the height of worldbuilding...Linked by the ring
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I’m back from three weeks in Japan, and as such there’s no proper blogpost this week. I complained about jetlag after GenCon but sheesh… this is another level.However, I’m...
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I've been using my favourite tool again.And it feels good.The Knights are safe. This time it's the MACs who have been suffering under the hatchet.I make fun of myself for...
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Last week I did this for the positive Landmarks, so let’s look at the negatives. Now, Ruins aren’t strictly negative, but they aren’t as outright beneficial as the...Linked by the ring
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Part of the reason I put so much artwork into Electric and Mythic Bastionland is to act as a repository of ideas when you just need a quick detail.Landmarks in Mythic...
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A bonus blogpost this week, because it's really nothing to do with tabletop games at all. Instead I'm going to rave about UFO 50. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 games. The...
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One of the goals of MAC Attack is to put the players in pilot view This is where they focus in on the active unit, look at its modules, track its heat, speed, and facing, and...Linked by the ring
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First I want to talk about some videogames.ADOM does this cool thing where the overworld is (mostly) set in stone, but all of the dungeon levels below are randomly generated....