A good quick reference sheet + unit cards are more useful though.

Any game that needs more information than what fits on that is likely too complicated for its own sake.

It’s kind of weird how RPG’s tend to have gamemaster screens by default these days with aftermarket options as well, but there isn’t much of an effort to make good quick…[Read more]

Can I say I hate the A5 rulebooks?

My arms are getting too short for that kind of tiny print.

You can but you’d be wrong. You hate getting old and needing glasses. Plus just because the rulebook is A5 that doesn’t mean it’s just a shrunk down version of a A4. I’d highly suggest to do a different layout on A5 altogether. But that costs time and money.

Can I say I hate the A5 rulebooks?

My arms are getting too short for that kind of tiny print.

Best rulebook from a thematic point of view has got to be the Blood&Plunder deluxe rulebooks with their fake leather covers.
And they somehow managed to pick a paper that feels like it belongs in there as well.

Digital rulebooks should embrace that…[Read more]

Pledge: no pledge. I failed myself to many times the last weeks.

Answer: This is a long’ish one.

So I feel I need to differentiate the various forms I like and use. Most (if not all) had been mentioned on the XLBS.

Hardback tome to slap one with

Those I like for a coffee table bock, fluff read and some hobby tips. It should contain rules,…[Read more]

Oh no. Sunday all ready!

Prepare a new thread!

[unofficial weekender] Rulebooks

I had bad memories of GW’s books but couldn’t resist A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns when I saw they existed. This series has a couple of duds but it’s such a step up from the older fiction. I’m on a full binge now, will keep an eye out for more metal.

GPU transplanted. Checked it was functioning.
That’s one more task done this week.
I’m on a roll … 🙂

Now for some music, because why not ?

German Cowboy Rock courtesy of The BossHoss:

And finally something from good ol’…[Read more]

Time available so I’m going to have a crack at getting the rest of the Romans done: