Battletech Lunchtime Challenger 1 – Turn 1
A challenger by the nick of HunterCD has been the first to take up the Battletech Lunchtime Challenge, choosing to direct the Rented Swords Lance in their role as Defender in this encounter. The turn has been put up on YouTube as a video response, but I will include it here as well for the … Continue reading
Battletech Lunchtime Challenge
An Experiment Having just gotten the Big Box o’ Battletech in the mail, but having few opportunities to break it out to use for anything other than my PBeM, it occurred to me to make some use of my languishing Youtube Channel and try an experiment: Lunchtime Battletech Challenge I will post an objective, opposing … Continue reading
In Search of Cadmus
Most nemeses are created, not born. Throughout most of my time gaming, recurring villains seemed to come from two main streams, the kind you don’t meet face to face until the end of the campaign when they have finally run out of minions, and the ones that were never intended to be recurring villains, but … Continue reading
Mechwarrior: Running A Time of War ~ pt.5
One of the things I look forward to the most when I start a new campaign is that very specific moment when the players are ready, willing, and able to step into a more proactive stance – and do so. I find that moment, when the group is growing more and more confident with the … Continue reading
Jacques Cousteau was a roleplayer
Myxzplk asked a very important question on rpg.stackexchange yesterday which ties in very nicely with the post on attachment I wrote last week. His question concerns methods of improving immersion in roleplay – otherwise known as ‘playing in character.’ While every group has a certain line concerning the amount and type of dramatic content allowed … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 