Usurper: Claim to Power (Sukeribi's Revenge)

A few years ago, I stumbled  across the little indie RPG title, "Usurper", but I honestly was not impressed. However, recently it has received some praise on the internets, so I thought I would give it a second look.

How can I describe this? The core system is a sort of minimalist thing. Encounter a problem? Say what you're trying to do and then roll on this table. That's it. No modifiers. No penalties. Just roll and deal with the consequences (or rewards). But that table, and its many variable results, and context, make for a game where the story can really go anywhere, and even the GM doesn't know exactly what's going to happen next. And that's exactly the kind of game I like.

OMG! SO MANY BRICKS! (Ruined Tower Terrain)

Greetings, humans!

Sorry I've been quiet for a bit.  I've been in a bit of a creative funk.  However, I did recently finish a nice terrain piece.  I should have been painting minis, I suppose, but the heart wants what it wants.  So my unsightly, gray warband will be having adventures at the feet of this lovely, ruined tower. :)

Five Leagues from the Borderlands 2e

Nordic Weasel Games recently released the second, expanded edition of "Five Leagues from the Borderlands", and I was so excited to try it, but I just didn't have any fantasy stuff to play with.  Over the course of a month, I put together a modest bit of terrain and collected some fantasy/medieval minis, and tried to get them ready.  In the end, I couldn't hold out anymore.  As such, please forgive the primer grey and black figures. :(

"Five Leagues" is a fantasy solo campaign skirmish game, designed with easy to use rules that are optimal for solo play without being boring.  You start with a party of (usually) four Heroes and four Followers, and a few villages suffering the depredations of Outlaws, Border Tensions, and Dark Secrets.  Each of these Threats has a rating, and your goal is to bring them to zero, eliminating the Threats and rescuing the villages.

Making Post-Apocalypse Road Terrain

Greetings, humans!

Today, because this is what I do sometimes, I'm going to show you how I made some post-apocalypse themed road segments.

Please to enjoy.

Hardwired: Cyberpunk Mayhem!

It seems like skirmishy solo games are all the rage lately, and that works for me, since I don't have a lot of victims friends to try new 15mm games on.  I also, for some reason, like the cyberpunk genre for these sorts of things (witness the terrain).

So, eventually I picked up Hardwired, with the hope that it would be a cool solo cyberpunk game experience.  (Unfortunately, the awesome cover didn't actually come as part of the PDF.  I am sad.) 

Anyway, here's how it turned out:

Blood in Space(...ace...ace..ace...)!

Blood.
In.
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaace!

So, @Dutch_Law implied that I should try out Blood In Space.  I already owned it, but hadn't played it yet (after all, I have plenty of games to play already).  Blood In Space is a solo or cooperative game of sci-fi shoot-em-up.  It comes with a few pregenerated characters, but you can make your own.  It also has a campaign system of interlocking scenarios, which is nice for a solo game.

This is Not a Test: Cold Vengeance

This is not not "This is Not a Test".  As a matter of fact, it very much is "This is Not a Test" (TNT).  TNT is a post-apocalypse skirmish warband game.  I like to play in 15mm, though I think 28mm is the default.  It's a pretty cool game with some nice features and not a lot of fiddling with the numbers.  It also seems to have a robust campaign system that my friends and I are looking forward to starting.

Also, it's a post-apocalypse game, so I get to use my homemade "Red Rocket" terrain. :P

So, now that the end is here, let's get to the beginning.