Top ten RPGs – I made a video of this. People who love text so much they would marry it, will be delighted to see this concise side-product of that video. A list of sorts. With thoughts that came to me after the fact. Especially nagging thoughts. The bestness of films is determined by their profitability. Which one can claim allows concluding the quality … Continue reading 10 Best Open Source RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
“Are condemned to repeat it” (Attributed to George Santayana) Unless of course they keep a blog and by clicking the ACW label they can check back over old versions and proposed versions of the rules, read accounts of wargames played including post game analysis, and contemplate old plans and conclusions and compare them with where I’m at now. Is it just me or does the Butternut … Continue reading Those who cannot remember the past (Updated)
For this month’s interview we sat down with Alex Gleason, creator and developer of Vegan on a Desert Island, an upcoming libre action/puzzle RPG. The game follows the story of Rachel, a vegan girl who shipwrecks on an island, and becomes embroiled in a quest to uphold her own conflicted values against the interests of the island’s many talking animals. A newcomer on the scene, … Continue reading Spotlight: Alex Gleason from Vegan on a Desert Island
Its a hot, muggy, summer week, in excess of 30C in the shade, a wargamer could imagine himself in southern Pennsylvania in July 1863. From 2015 Too hot to work but with the heat pump, not too hot to play inside. Time to plan and set up a battle, not a skirmish but a battle with the table full of troops. Time to revisit the … Continue reading Tramp, Tramp, Tramp ("Here they come agin")
for the Bold Fenian Men! Bold Fenian men have joined the Rebel Alliance. There are two survivors of the original Fenian company raised some 20 years ago (the nco and the chap loading) but with an issues of fancy new green coats and natty blue trousers for new recruit and old veteran alike the unit is now ready to take the field at the first … Continue reading Out and make way
A new tool named CoreCtrl aims to be the first friendly libre GUI application to customize CPU, GPU and other hardware settings for GNU/Linux. This is exciting news for all gaming enthusiasts and developers who seek a way to optimize hardware efficiency without having to go down and dirty into console commands or accessing the BIOS directly. The developer Juan Palacios describes the app succinctly: … Continue reading CoreCtrl is a libre hardware manager
The King’s County Tabletop and Boardgame Society holds a quarterly Tabletop Games day in Kentville NS and have always made our little group of wargamers welcome. That’s me in the X-Wing shortly before I grab the bonus weapon and……… get blown up! Again! Kingcon was their first go at a weekend long convention so we happily accepted their invitation to take part. My main contribution … Continue reading KingCon1
Cortex Command is a mess, but in a good way. This bizarrely entertaining strategy blend has been undergoing continuous development since the early 2000s, having had its first main release in 2012. Seven years later, its creators decided it’s time to let the community have a say. Just one day ago developer Data Realms announced on the game’s Steam page it was freeing the game’s … Continue reading Cortex Command releases code under the AGPL v3
Once again I show the trait that led my PT sergeant to nickname me the Late Mr. Macfarlane. None the less, I am still here in the pink a year and 9 days after my “little incident” and have every hope and expectation of continuing to do so for at least another decade or so. Since I haven’t painted any 40mm Bleu’s yet, (soon, soon) … Continue reading An X (Year 10)
No no, nothing to with carousing and the like. The first tabletop convention is happening in Kentville this weekend. So Nova Scotia gamers who happen to see this: COME help the hard working organizers to make it a success!https://kingcon.ktabs.ca/ There will be every sort of board game from classic family to the latest releases, wargames both board and miniatures, scifi, fantasy, RPG, some of the … Continue reading Getting Ready for the Weekend
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