Extremely Funny

The following was found over at The Warlock's Home Brew. I think it says it all about what happens when Bruce Banner played 1st edition.

Tags: avengers, dungeons and dragons

OGRE Designer Edition

Steve Jackson Games have been running their Kickstarter OGRE Funding Effort. The goal was to get some money to fund a super deluxe reprinting of the classic Sci-Fi tank board game, OGRE (including elements from my personal favorite, GEV, and also the supplement, Shockwave).


Well, the effort turned out to be HUGELY successful.

They originally wanted $20K worth of backing, they currently (April 20) have over $200K of pledged money (from over 1,700 backers).

Including $100 from yours truly.

For that I will get the MASSIVE game. And the knowledge I helped bring back a legend. Tags: wargames, sci fi, board games

PhD coming to a finish soon - look for more postings

I have a huge backlog of games that I want to review, mods and scenarios I want to write up, and even belated after action reports. I have hundreds of miniatures that require painting - from the early 18th century armies for the Great War of Northern Balkania, to re-basing ACW figures, to all sorts of 15mm projects, and even sprucing up my 1:2000 WW2 and WW1 fleets. However, with my final few months of preparation on the PhD, I haven't been able to do any of those things (with a clear conscience). Well, gentle readers, the end is (hopefully, and blessedly) near. I may be finishing within the next few weeks. Which means more content being generated from the celestial glee factory that operates day and night at Gaming with Chuck Headquarters (GwCHQ). Till then, see you - and keep gaming. ps - check out the announcement of a new (anticipated) adventure to be published over at Valley of the Old Ones, once the same PhD work is finished!!

Irrational Number Line Games

My friend, Alex, has a gaming website Irrational Number Line Games.  It is full of all sorts of creative stuff, but I might point out the recent game he did that took place on the outside of a space station.  He built the space station out of coffee cans covered in magnetic paint, and the figures klumped around on the outside with magnetic bases.  Cool.

He also did a game about a factory fight during the Luddite rebellion.

Clever guy, that Alex.  And his family (Wife and Daughter) are fantastic folks, and fine gamers, as well!

Hal Jespersen's Civil War Maps

What a great resource!  Hal Jespersen has created over 200 fantastic military style maps for different campaigns and battles from the American Civil War, and he has made these available on his website.  All I can say is "wow" what a great gift to the military history (as well as the GAMING) community.


http://www.cwmaps.com/index.html

Here is an example of his work - this is the action on Henry Hill during the first battle of Bull Run.

It's not Ravens, it's Dux! (quack)

Dux Bellorum will be published by Osprey Publishing later on this year.  These are an update and reformat of the great Arthurian rules, "Glutter of Ravens" by Daniel Mersey.

Evidently, this is the first in a new series of 64 page wargaming books by Osprey Publishing.  I hope that the series produces many similar titles.  The second one (not sure of the date) will be "A World Aflame" which will cover conflicts from the interwar period (1919-1939). A special section in that one will cover "A Very British Civil War" which is of course the fictional account of a Civil War in Great Britain, in the 1930s.  Loads of cool stuff.

Never mind the bollocks - it's AD&D!

Okay, so this is EXCELLENT news for old school grognards like me.  Wizards of the Coast, finally throwing in the towel on the horrible pile of doggy puke that is 4th edition has made some announcements lately.

First is that there will be a 5th edition.

Second is that in April of this year, there will be a limited re-issue of 1st edition AD&D books.  Proceeds will go to the Gygax Memorial Fund.

Third is that 5th edition will have layers of optional rule structures.  Depending on which you use, you can mimic playing D&D, 1st Edition AD&D, 2nd Edtion, 3rd Edition, and so on and so forth.  Edited by Monte Cook.  This seems very nice, and might be a double barreled blow against both the Old School Rennaisance (depending on how well it is done) and against Pathfinder.  Personally, I think those two rules movements will have their own following, but that many, many of the players and DMs will be buying the WOTC rules when they come out.  The staff at Gaming with Chuck probably will...