- I had a little time to play Battle Brothers. I gave up for the moment on my first game - I seem to have made just enough mistakes for long enough that I can't sustain myself in the fights I need to sustain my crew. I will try to advance the game another time when I'm more skilled.
My new game . . . not good. I seem to be in a high-danger area with tough contracts and very few recruits, many of whom are very expensive. A few days in and I've had to go back to my initial save twice already to just try to choose a better path . . . and it's not working. Hmm. I might need another restart.
Still fun.
- Game is Sunday.
- I'm still figuring out which level I'll support the Bat in the Attic kickstarter. But I'm in for sure.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Bat in the Attic's new Kickstarter
This will launch very soon - a fantasy sandbox by Bat in the Attic Games.
Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms - the Northern Marches
I'm in, no question.
Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms - the Northern Marches
I'm in, no question.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Weekly Wrapup 5/23/2025
- Basically no gaming this week. Lots of grappling practice. One of my friends is competing for the first time tomorrow so that's dominated my time.
- I did play a little Battle Brothers. Using some new mods, it's clear that I have a few poorly built brothers and it might be too late to upgrade everyone to survive the fights I need to take at this point. Hmm. I don't want to start over, but I made need to abandon these guys are try again with better knowledge of what to do.
- I had to do a partial rollback of my Felltower update because some of the modules I use won't run with the new version of Foundry. Sigh. We'll see how it holds up in a week.
- Oooh, I love Battletech with minis.
- I did play a little Battle Brothers. Using some new mods, it's clear that I have a few poorly built brothers and it might be too late to upgrade everyone to survive the fights I need to take at this point. Hmm. I don't want to start over, but I made need to abandon these guys are try again with better knowledge of what to do.
- I had to do a partial rollback of my Felltower update because some of the modules I use won't run with the new version of Foundry. Sigh. We'll see how it holds up in a week.
- Oooh, I love Battletech with minis.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Felltower Update
I did a little work on Felltower today. We'll be beyond the air gate, next time, but still, the dungeon must go on.
- I updated some rumors
- I updated the Felltower main file a bit, to clean up some noise. It's a running record of changes, but some didn't get logged for some reason.
- I backed up the VTT and updated it.
Nothing really exciting - too much non-gaming work to do.
- I updated some rumors
- I updated the Felltower main file a bit, to clean up some noise. It's a running record of changes, but some didn't get logged for some reason.
- I backed up the VTT and updated it.
Nothing really exciting - too much non-gaming work to do.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thoughts & Links for 5/16/2025
What's up this week?
I've been badly distracted by ice hockey playoffs, sumo tournaments, and getting a friend of mine ready for their very first submission grappling match. But I have done some gaming reading.
- The cult of the TPK and the OSR. Felltower is a good example of this - it's deliberately high lethality. It's not meant to exactly ape the lethality of the old school games we played. It's more. It's just I find the higher lethality, "hardcore mode" approach appealing for this game.
"Enjoy your death as I enjoyed killing you." - Peter, GMing Felltower. Only kidding, it's Leela, The Horror at Fang Rock.
- Why archers don't volley fire. Yeah, so much of Hollywood historical warfare is basically WWI or WWII with swords and bows even when none of it makes sense.
- I have barely played any Battle Brothers. The mods I put on help, but also revealed some errors I made in selecting brothers. No matter. But I just haven't had time to sit and play, not with all of the non-play responsibilites I have going on.
- Next Felltower game is early June!
I've been badly distracted by ice hockey playoffs, sumo tournaments, and getting a friend of mine ready for their very first submission grappling match. But I have done some gaming reading.
- The cult of the TPK and the OSR. Felltower is a good example of this - it's deliberately high lethality. It's not meant to exactly ape the lethality of the old school games we played. It's more. It's just I find the higher lethality, "hardcore mode" approach appealing for this game.
"Enjoy your death as I enjoyed killing you." - Peter, GMing Felltower. Only kidding, it's Leela, The Horror at Fang Rock.
- Why archers don't volley fire. Yeah, so much of Hollywood historical warfare is basically WWI or WWII with swords and bows even when none of it makes sense.
- I have barely played any Battle Brothers. The mods I put on help, but also revealed some errors I made in selecting brothers. No matter. But I just haven't had time to sit and play, not with all of the non-play responsibilites I have going on.
- Next Felltower game is early June!
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Felltower and the Air Gate
A few more notes on the "Air Gate" the PCs are exploring.
- there is a beautiful wilderness below them, but no sign of organized, intelligent life. No signs of destruction, either.
- the clouds meander around, and it seems likey each are on their own wind. Or on different tracks of wind, perhaps. Whatever it is, the winds change a lot and you can easily see a cloud moving too and fro with another nearby moving on a steady line, or not moving at all. There is a logic to this, but no one has the tools to manage discenring that. Maybe they'll guess it. It's a mystery but it doesn't need solving to make this worth the delve.
- the PCs loaded up for air elementals, but this isn't some elemental plane of air. It's a different thing. One of the players is waiting to hear Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum and find a goose to steal, and I won't comment if he's right or not. That doesn't mean there aren't air elementals, but it's not a repository of elementals of all kinds.
- there clearly are giant beings here - huge chairs, huge castles, huge everything. But also some evidence of "normal" sized people, based on some trophies.
- I think this might be a repeat delve gate, as long as the players manage their resources and delves well. So, nevermind, I take that back. It's one good delve and then three "this got too hard" delves. ;)
- Next delve date is still TBD. But I'm glad they finally feel they have the 3-layer deep flying ability to risk a delve here.
- there is a beautiful wilderness below them, but no sign of organized, intelligent life. No signs of destruction, either.
- the clouds meander around, and it seems likey each are on their own wind. Or on different tracks of wind, perhaps. Whatever it is, the winds change a lot and you can easily see a cloud moving too and fro with another nearby moving on a steady line, or not moving at all. There is a logic to this, but no one has the tools to manage discenring that. Maybe they'll guess it. It's a mystery but it doesn't need solving to make this worth the delve.
- the PCs loaded up for air elementals, but this isn't some elemental plane of air. It's a different thing. One of the players is waiting to hear Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum and find a goose to steal, and I won't comment if he's right or not. That doesn't mean there aren't air elementals, but it's not a repository of elementals of all kinds.
- there clearly are giant beings here - huge chairs, huge castles, huge everything. But also some evidence of "normal" sized people, based on some trophies.
- I think this might be a repeat delve gate, as long as the players manage their resources and delves well. So, nevermind, I take that back. It's one good delve and then three "this got too hard" delves. ;)
- Next delve date is still TBD. But I'm glad they finally feel they have the 3-layer deep flying ability to risk a delve here.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Thoughts & Links for 5/9/2025
- OSRIC 3 launched. I'm thinking of going for it, and seeing if I can't tempt some of my players into trying this version of AD&D.
- Speaking of AD&D, has anyone tried to feed the DMG into, say, ChatGPT and see if it can figure out how initiative works? I'm curious, but also lazy.
- I've been too busy for Battle Brothers. I am looking at trying some quality-of-life mods, like sped up overland movement and stopping on sighting enemy groups . . . but I've never done mods before so I'm putting that off until I have a little more time to unwind any damage I do if I mess up.
- Speaking of AD&D, has anyone tried to feed the DMG into, say, ChatGPT and see if it can figure out how initiative works? I'm curious, but also lazy.
- I've been too busy for Battle Brothers. I am looking at trying some quality-of-life mods, like sped up overland movement and stopping on sighting enemy groups . . . but I've never done mods before so I'm putting that off until I have a little more time to unwind any damage I do if I mess up.
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