Originally posted at : https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/alpha-strike-setting-up-and-getting Initial setup What do you need to play? First: Rules You can get a lot of mileage out of just the main Alpha Strike rulebook. There's a "quickstart" set of rules as well that are freely available. The QS rules are worth downloading because they have print-and-cut templates for various terrain types, and some cut-and-fold standees reminiscent of the original folded cardboard and plastic stands. S…
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Originally posted at: https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/battletech-alpha-strike A long time ago I stood in a shop in a northern Virginia mall, and saw two cool-looking games in boxes. Both had awesome looking robots on the cover. Both looked to be basically the same game by the same company. And they were. As it turned out, Battletech, which I bought, was the updated edition of Battledroids, the other box. Battletech, and it’s expansions, especially Citytech that brought in vehicles and infan…
Originally posted at : https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/incentives-for-traveller In my previous post on Pathfinder, I’d discussed how the emphasis of killing monsters for XP warped the game and took options off the table, and discussed a few advantages of XP for gold. I’d also glossed over one of the more common complaints about “XP for Gold” - what about “achievements?” aren’t you just encouraging them to be murder hobos? OK - I never claimed it was perfect. It absolutely doesn’t even try…
Jon over at his blog beat me to the punch a bit [http://jonmollison.com/2022/05/01/introducing-yoyodyne-omnisystems/] in announcing this, but we've started a two-tier Traveller campaign in a custom sector I've called the "Outer Arm". Rulesset is cepheus as a good and slightly more cohesive update to the CT rules - anyone who's played CT can drop in very easily - for the players running characters, which they will have several as part of, at minimum, several faction troubleshooting teams. The f…
Now that I've used it for a couple game sessions, the short version is that I am absolutely sold on how good Foundry is, as in worth every penny. If you don't want to spin up your own server, go buy a seat and pay the guys at Forge to host it. Even if you save nothing, you'll get a lot more value out of it. The below is based on the ACKs rule/world set with a few modules added. I'll try note when something is an add-on or a core feature. Gripes I'm going to start with what…