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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....
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This is even more of a stream of consciousness than normal, sparked by a recent playtest of MAC Attack.With some handy unit cardsWhen we finished the game my friend asked: "Why...
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Mythic Bastionland suggests that Holdings are commonly ruled by a Knight. Last time I spoke about this I had one of the four Holdings in a Realm ruled by a non-knight, in that...Linked by the ring
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If I'm not careful I can see a future where I own far too many Tarot decks.Not so much for oracular life guidance, but I'm increasingly drawn to these decks of highly evocative...Linked by the ring
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Chatting with people at GenCon, we occasionally drifted onto talking about Google+, the rosy past where we rejoiced in social media paradise [citation needed]. It's getting on...
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This post is fuelled by jetlag and hazy memory, but I wanted to quickly talk about my experiences at GenCon. I have no way of funnelling this into a coherent narrative, so it's...
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Did you read this?Well, what could be more exciting to a 10-year old than their first White Dwarf magazine?Could their second ever live up to that?Let's go back to 1995 and...
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I have a handful of games that I don't want to outright review, but would like to talk about briefly. Because I'm away for the next few weeks, with family commitments and then...
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15 Years Ago I wrote the first half of 100 Interesting Magic Items. Perhaps I'll finish it for the 20th Anniversary. This is by far my most viewed blogpost of all time, perhaps...
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Each of the MAC Attack Factions will have a distinct visual identity, but I wanted to include an option for players to either stray from their faction's aesthetic for a few...
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With the core rules alone, MAC Attack focused entirely on the MAC, not the pilot. Now I'm testing out a few options to make the pilot feel like more of a presence on the field....