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With the conclusion of our Extinction Curse campaign, we are preparing for the start of our replacement storyline. Originally, the plan was to attempt a Superhero storyline, using the Hero System RPG. That was dropped relatively recently, in favor of a more group-favored Science Fiction campaign. Thus, the Horizon campaign was spawned. The basic concept is to use the Traveller setting and concepts, and use the Shadowrun game mechanics for the actual details. A bit of a chocolate and peanut butter combination, but I feel strongly it will work well. Shadowrun has a fairly well-developed rule system, which works well…
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Its official, as of this morning, our Tabletop channel is officially recognized as part of the YouTube Partner Program. That means we are monetized and can start earning some minimal revenue. In truth, it will be truly minimal – the only avenue that is really opened up is what YouTube terms SuperChat, SuperStickers, and SuperThanks. Chat and Stickers are for live streams, which we really are not using, and SuperThanks is along the lines of a tip given for a solid video. As a result, the real impact is likely going to be minimal or non-existent. But the option is…
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In my long gaming hobby, spanning 40+ years, I have very rarely finished a campaign. Certainly campaigns have ended, but almost all either die off due to lost motivation, changing interests, schedule conflicts, etc, or just fade away over time. After this weekend, I can say I have fully completed 2 full campaigns, start to finish, with the same group (and many characters). The first was the Rise of the Runelords, which we ran several years ago to completion using the 1st edition of Pathfinder. Now the second has been completed with the Extinction Curse campaign, a different group and…
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In our ongoing Warhammer FRP gaming group (full session videos on YouTube), the party is currently attending the annual Carnival celebration in Middenheim. Part of the Enemy Within campaign material is a great amount of events and details around the calendar of events for the 10 day festival, along with the notable NPCs that are present at each of the locations. Although the source book provides some basic information on each such encounter, for obvious reasons the writers could not fully develop all the details around all the scenes, as the book would have been far too large. Thus, on…
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This last Sunday was scheduled to be our final episode of the Extinction Curse campaign, with the final big climax battle against the Xulgaths. The game happened (video coming Friday), but the battle ran longer than expected. Thus far, we are 9 rounds in, and the big bad evil guy is still fighting strong. This seems extreme, and it is. Part of our challenge is still a struggle with the technology – Foundry VTT works well, and is rather stable, but there is enough that is not programmed or automated to cause slow downs. In addition, despite the length of…
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In our recent Star Wars Legion games, it has become obvious that token tracking is challenging. The game operates with a collection of tokens, which are intended to be placed on the board near the respective unit, in order to track various affects and modifiers. This works well and is easy to track. However, when the units get crowded, and the number of tokens grows, it can become very easy to confuse which unit gets which tokens. https://h13hobbies.etsy.com As a result, the concept of these token organizers was born, a method to collect and organize the tokens, and clearly indicate…
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Our long running Pathfinder 2e campaign is just about to wrap up, we have perhaps 1 more session before the final big climax battle. This group was formed way back in 2021, and the group has steadily worked their way thru the storyline. Some characters have been lost, but a few are still the originals from way back at the start of the circus. As is my tradition, for any groups who can complete a full adventure path, I provide a momento of the adventure. Something customized to the group and storyline, but ideally still somewhat practical. Although we play…
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As we expand our Star Wars Legion games, and look into a few other game systems, I got inspired to create a swamp terrain board. This was heavily inspired by Black Magic Craft on YouTube, in which a similar technique is used to make roads. In my case, I reversed the negative space, and instead created cutout pools. When the terrain is layed on our existing forest gaming mat, the effect is a fairly good “green algae” pool swamp. With a bit of scatter terrain, it is a very nice setup. The entire base is a single large piece of…
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