Half Way to Bretonnia... half my Blood Bowl team is painted, and that is something of an achievement given the pace at which I'm working. I'm happy with the results though - you can check out the team (so far) here:
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Front view of the Bretonnian Knight Thrower...
Side view of the Bretonnian Knight Thrower...
Back view of the Bretonnian Knight Thrower...
Next one done, half my Bretonnian team done! Spent so much time redoing the eyes through the visor on this one.
The team are going slowly, but going...
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One of my first RPG experiences was WEG Star Wars, but I have enjoyed the FFG version a lot. Well worth a look.
Some I am interested in include Nibiru and Orbital Blues.
Or, if you're after something indie with a pretty unique system, I'd be more than happy to shoot you a PDF of my game Rascals.
I haven't played BR yet, but I thoroughly enjoyed Midgard (maybe that dates me somewhat 😂 ).
Knight Catcher, front view.
Knight Catcher, side view.
Knight Catcher, rear view.
Knight Catcher, front view.
The latest of my Bretonnians for Bloodbowl is done... Slowly slowly getting them finished.
Bretonnian Squire Lineman - front view
Bretonnian Squire Lineman - back view
Bretonnian Squire Lineman - side view
Bretonnian Squire Lineman - off Centre front view
Bretonnian Squire Lineman, the latest of my painted Bretonnian team. That's four down, I've been a bit slower with these than I hoped for, but getting them done one at a time...
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Blitzer, from the back. Number 8, with a Grail motif. Painted in red and blue.
Blitzer, from the side. Number 8, with a Grail motif. Painted in red and blue.
Blitzer, from the front. Number 8, with a Grail motif. Painted in red and blue.
First Blitzer finished for my Bretonnian team...
I'm happy with how these are coming together!
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Going to try using a wet palette again. Didn't enjoy the first attempt, but it's hot (27 degrees c at 9:30pm), and the paint dries quickly...
It was like a well planned bank robbery, where the final words before everyone bursts in were: ‘in, out, and no one gets hurt’.
Then they crash through the door & one member of the heist group pulls off their balaclava and shoots a security guard, then rounds on the hostages.
Played Mouse Guard last night. Great fun trying to recover from the injuries sustained in the last session and find some clues as to what is happening in the little town of Barkstone...
Ran Star Wars a few nights ago, the players had a plan for a military style covert op, then one of them decided to go guns blazing for no real reason. Everyone else in the party was in shock.
We'll pick up next session with the mission under threat...
Guild of Merchant Explorers player board, early in the game.
Played Guild of Merchant Explorers today. This has a nice balance between simplicity and ease of play - and thought. It’s a nicely weighted game that I finished wondering why I don’t play it more often. Solid game!
Viticulture, with the Tuscany expansion.
Played Viticulture with the Tuscany expansion today. We all went after different strategies but ended up tied for victory. It came down to the third tie break rule. Very good game I enjoy a lot.
Thunder Road Vendetta. Showing the main board - a road, and the various players vehicles racing down it.
Played Thunder Road Vendetta today. Great game, very thematic. Somehow the big rig raced away from the smaller buggies and bikes. Nearly made a dash for the win, but flew off the side of the map and was totaled.
Minigames! Marginalia! Manuscripts! Funding now
And drafting is just rondel style action selection, which is just worker placement, which is just roll and move, which is just lane battlers… 😜
This session grew into an unplanned focal point, and I think I now have the motivations and reasons a bunch of disparate setting elements and adversary actions (over the course of our year long campaign) have taken place, and how they might coalesce together into a climactic sequence. Loved it. /fin
In all honesty, I don't plan much for these sessions beyond an idea of what the characters adversaries might might want to achieve - then roll with pitting that against what the characters choose to do. 2/
Corsairs cover - a sky ship sailing toward a floating island.
Tonight I ran a session of Corsairs - my game of sky ships and floating islands.
The characters lost allies, but gained knowledge (though they don't know it quite yet - suspect it maybe, but not know it...) of why they have been outnumbered and hunted by a powerful enemy from the first session. 1/
Every Zine Quest has been a chance for me to experiment and to get my games in print (that wouldn’t happen otherwise). GMless with a huge dice pool, world building, solo, inventory management, shared (pregen) character. And now a party game!
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I'd recommend EOE - it feels to me like the most grounded in the heart of the setting of the 3 rules sets - but I have never loved force users etc, so take my advice for what it's worth - you may value other aspects of the setting over those I do.
I think EOE would suit an Indi style game the best.
I really enjoy the FFG system, it throws out some funny results, but I think if you lean into only rolling for things that add to the story (or are a risk) then it works well. I like the fact results are not binary, and that players are involved with dictating what advantage and triumph looks like.
FFG.
It has been pretty amazing. I started running the Mask of the Pirate Queen campaign from FFG, but the characters went off script early doors. Much for the best. We leaned into it, it’s been a long haul, and heavily inspired by Andor (well, current events tbh, just reflected by Andor).
It's Star Wars... it's the Rebel Alliance... partisan action is the base line.
On the opposite side (the side of evil) - It's been interesting to run the Empire's attempt to oppress the government and people of Saleucami, I've basically taken my cues from the US government. Anywho...
Before anyone asks: they have spent the last 8 months of campaign time building a rebellion against the Empire, and the Rebels only caught wind of it after a severe battle.
Also - why were 'a random smuggler and friends' co-opted to lead a strike against the shielding station of the Death Star 2.0
A few sessions ago the characters in the Star Wars campaign I'm running survived a bloody battle. Tonight they were offered the opportunity to lead a Rebel spec forces attack against the Imperials - it's time to gear up, it's go time! The next few sessions could be the final battle for Saleucami...
Love those illustrations! Vey evocative. I love illustrations that kind of anatomise aspects of the subject. Outside of old science journals I think I first saw this sort of thing in a Myst novel, and loved it.
A poster for A4 2B D6 - a Malaysian RPG magazine. It reads "A4 2B D6 represents the main things you use to play RPGs - paper, pencil, and dice. However, it's missing one crucial piece - your voice. Find out how to pitch your piece below." and includes a QR code to a Google Form.
Hey hey I'm making another zine! A4 2B D6 will be similar to eraserflag (A5, 36ish pages) but specifically focused on RPGs this time. We're looking for pitches from other Malaysians writers, designers, and artists who love RPGs, so if that's you, please submit a pitch here: forms.gle/Zf4G8LQjayxW...
Our campaign started back during Covid, and our characters had to regularly create reasons to be out during the lock-down we experienced here. Obviously we played online, but it was a great experience, and I'm glad it's a setting we regularly revisit.
My friend runs a campaign setting for us in Vampire 5th ed, which is set in Melbourne, Australia in the present day. We play 20-30 sessions and then switch out for a different game for a time, but yeah - it's been great - he does an excellent job of creating a 'Melbourne' themed Vampire setting.
