My adventures in tabletop and hobby gaming
Wyrm and I threw down for our first game of Frostgrave, my Summoner versus his Witch. We opted to just play the ‘standard’ scenario for our first game and focus on getting the basics worked out. The Warbands Wyrm’s Warband Wyrm chose a wizard of the Witch school, theming his warband as a group of […]
So I’ve got an idea of what I want from a new game, now I just need to find that game. I started with Mordheim as the closest game in my experience, and then went to the ancient finding system that is Google to research other options. Starting with some variation on ‘skirmish miniatures game […]
So, I’ve established that there’s some things I definitely don’t want in a miniatures game, which is very easy, so let’s think about some of the things I do want. Theme I’ve always liked fantasy themes, whether that’s traditional high fantasy (Tolkien, Warhammer, etc) or the type of fantasy that wears a sci fi […]
Thought I’d take a slightly different tack on this article and talk a little more philosophically about how I choose which games I play and some of the key considerations when choosing to start a new game. This may ramble at points, as this isn’t a neat science, more an art with a few guidelines. […]
Following on from the game overview, I thought I’d provide my initial reactions to Massive Darkness on the back of the tutorial and the first mission. Straight off the bat, this game scratches an itch for some high fantasy dungeon crawling, and is very simple and straightforward to learn. The models are great, as you’d […]
Several of my friends Kickstarted Massive Darkness some time ago, with their pledges arriving recently. As the new hotness that everyone had been hanging out for, it jumped the queue and made it straight to the table for a few games. This will be slightly different to my usual write-up of board games, and […]