Sep 07
Spent the last few days converting Last Night on Earth to a vassal engine game so that I can play it online. I’d actually started to write a .Net application to let me play online and that would let me put in some basic AI for the Zombies so that a friend and I …
Jan 30
Over this last weekend we, my boys and I, played Castle Ravenloft the Boardgame. I have one son about to be 9 and 2 sons that just turned 7. We played the introductory mission as a group, the ‘find the stairs and escape out of the dungeons’ one. With a Fighter, Rogue, Ranger and Cleric …
Jan 09
My new decks of Castle Ravenloft The Boardgame finally arrived yesterday. It was a little more than three weeks from order to delivery. But you have to remember that they’re being made in Hong Kong, Kowloon to be exact. The biggest delay was they’re sent as regular mail, nothing speedy about that. Interestingly …
Dec 23
I found this post on some alternate rules that you can use for Castle Ravenloft. These are rule changes and tweaks fostered by the gaming community to help with some of the… idiosyncracies of the existing rule system and by all accounts make the game even better. Your results may vary but I’m linking it …
Dec 22
The cards I mentioned in this post have apparently shipped. These are two decks of custom cards for Castle Ravenloft The Boardgame. I’ve now found out that if you check their site and follow them on Twitter you can pick up some pretty nice transitory coupon codes that can get you their stuff really …
Dec 20
What with work and a birthday party for the boys we again side tripped into another Castle Ravenloft adventure. We only had time for one as I was busy triaging an issue in London but it was quite entertaining. The adventure is The Howling Hag where some old lady is cooking up a nefarious ritual …
Dec 16
No they’re not anything I’ve done, that credit goes to someone on Board Game Geek but they’re pretty cool even if I didn’t have anything to do with them. You can download the PDF’s and print them yourself or there’s a way to get real cards as well and save yourself an ass load of …
Dec 13
We continued our foray into Castle Ravenloft The Board Game this last weekend. With only three people anything else was pretty much out. We played three different scenarios, Daylight Assault, Final Transformation and Destroy the Dracolich. Daylight assault didn’t go well for us. The object was to collect 12 treasures and escape with them but …
Dec 06
This weekend instead of having a session of Gamma World 4E I brought out Castle Ravenloft The Board Game and we played Adventure 2 and 3, the first two multiplayer adventures. I’d already played Adventure 1 which is a solo adventure of the “Escape the castle” kind. Adventure 2 was a “Find the Chapel …
Nov 29
Played a solo game of Castle Ravenloft yesterday, first time playing and was immediately struck by expandable by the consumer the game would be. Sure enough a quick search this morning and there’s a bunch of new adventures, heroes, magic items and the like available. You can get started over on this thread on Board …
Jan 04
In going through the various pages at Hirst Arts, I found an article about making your own WizWar’s board. Wizwar is a multiplayer board game that’s apparently out of print and has been for awhile and had a cult classic style status it seems. I tracked down a full set of ‘stuff’ that you can …
May 10
In lieu of anything really cool this weekend I picked up a copy of Cuthroat Caverns which is a boardgame that sounded pretty interesting. Â You can get the rules from the publisher’s website if you’re interested. The short version is 3 to 6 players are teamed up to fight their way out of a cavern …
Apr 06
Let’s see what’s going on now. Well not much of anything really. The forums are still concerned about the ‘math’ with players falling behind the monsters on a one to one to basis by the end of the 30 levels and whether the new defense and attack (expertise) feats are Wizard’s of the Coast’s attempts …
Feb 14
I went looking and found one of the DDM maps for download, Two Towers I think it’s called, pretty basic map design I must say after years of making FPS maps , but anyway I printed it out and pasted it to some foam board I had laying around. The reason for this is I …
Nov 18
Played a 5 players co-op game of Touch of Evil over the weekend. It’s a fun game, pretty easy to pick up after a couple of rounds assuming a literate semi-intelligent ape reading the rules. We ended up fighting the Were-wolf and it literally came down to the last roll. Being the wise but utterly …
Oct 20
Over the weekend a friend of mine (Temple if you’ve read previous posts) came over with Battletech Classic. This is the remake from WhizKids after FASA or whatever got sued by the original makers that Battletech was stolen from or whatever that was. All together it’s pretty close to the original although they had to …
Mar 29
We got a late start and played 4 games of Last Night on Earth. The games go fast and there’s not a lot of downtime involved so it works out. First game was Escape In The Truck. It went down to the wire with the humans filling the tank of the truck, after having to …
Mar 23
We played some Munchkin tonight using the original deck with all the expansions as well as Munchkin Bites. We segued into some Poker that got silly and then I hauled out Last Night On Earth. It’s got its fanatics and its haters but I’ve found it to be a lot of fun. It’s a casual …
Oct 09
We played some Last Night On Earth and Order Of The Stick The Board Game on Saturday. LNoE is probably the best Zombie game I’ve played to date. I’m not sure if it’s out in stores yet, I bought my copy on E-Bay from one of the developers, the woman (girl?) who did the sound …
Aug 20
Oh I picked up Zombie Town from Twilight Creations. It’s an intersting little game. I played it with Temple (Gnatsum) and my twins, Seth (3) and Ian (also 3, duh). Would you believe Seth killed me. He shot me twice then when I ran for cover he chased me down and put a bullet in …
