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
Battletech Box Set Unboxing 2
Predictably, opening The Battletech Introductory Box Set brought back a lot of memories from the first time I opened a Battletech box set well over 20 years ago. In those days the ‘mechs were cardstock stand-ups with plastic bases, and neither of the terms Project Pheonix, or Unseen were needed. Each set, Battletech, Citytech, and Aerotech … Continue reading
My collection’s name is Nyarlathotep
I honestly have no idea how many games I have added to my collection since I branched away from AD&D in 1989. For my six gaming years prior to that, I had been something of a minimalist, choosing rules over modules, and came to focus on AD&D over D&D initially for reasons of compatibility with … 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
Casting Shadows 