After Hours: Gifts for the Gift Throne
Added 2017-12-05 04:15:32 +0000 UTCAs the holiday shopping season is upon us, I have come up with an idea for a new game: a miniatures skirmish game about families fighting each other for the best presents at big box stores and online retailer warehouses. We also review:
- Deep Freeze, an adventure from Dungeon #83
- Time and Time Again
- Maximum Metal - a Cyberpunk 2020 supplement
- A brief survey of the Imperial Guard codex (3E)
Song: Christmas Catalog by 幽霊, T O G E T H E R!
Comments
I really love this wargame idea it could be a lot of fun honestly with some good works on it.
DiploRaptor(Samuel)
2020-10-11 12:24:21 +0000 UTCI also feel a need to clarify something here, for folks who didn't read 3rd ed D&D stuff & the discussions around it: "Dungeonpunk" wasn't part of WotC's 3e marketing campaign, it was a derogatory term made up by grognards who were angry that the artwork in 3e wasn't yet another retread of 80's hair metal van art. Of course, the non-vanart style had been around since before 3e, but it's inclusion in the core books was a catalyst for a new wave of outrage.
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-17 20:44:38 +0000 UTCMissed this earlier, but I'd love to hear a review as well. Ianus Games (now Dream Pod 9) did a bunch of licensed supplements for R. Talsorian in the early 90's. I have their Mekton stuff, but never got any of their Cyberpunk stuff.
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-17 20:23:44 +0000 UTCYeah, it's ironic to read Rick Priestley's comment that they deliberately injected humour into the first editons of Warhammer & 40K in response to a perception that people were taking wargaming too seriously. And thirty years later, we have GW fans & writers who refuse to believe that "the grim darkness of the far future" was satire.
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-13 17:50:20 +0000 UTCback in the days when GW knew how to have fun with the setting.
Ross Payton
2017-12-13 08:46:31 +0000 UTCAnd oh yes, the Slann! I have an old GW book with early concepts of the Slann, back when they had lobotamised human slaves, instead of lizardmen warriors: <a href="http://bryanharryrombough.tumblr.com/post/168344699248/old-games-workshop-slann-concepts-scanned-from" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://bryanharryrombough.tumblr.com/post/168344699248/old-games-workshop-slann-concepts-scanned-from</a>
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-09 04:46:15 +0000 UTCYo dawg, I heard you like mecha...
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-08 13:05:36 +0000 UTCDwenar makes another appearance. :D Man, that Judges Guild module is shaping up to be my best piece of gaming loot ever, and it wasn't even bought with real money! (bought it with a token I got for running a game at the convention)
Bryan Rombough
2017-12-08 12:51:33 +0000 UTCLoving the vaporwave Christmas music. And the reference to Sting's winter album. I have many questions about the off-brand At the Mountains of Madness, especially how an off-brand Elder Thing is only CR 2. Aren't there shoggoths in D&D already as gibbering mouthers or whatever they're called? Is Aaron free of Time and Time again at last? I can only assume that your capitalism wargame will have a bunch of kickstarter exclusives and sharply limited production runs, to really reinforce the theme.
Ken Ringwald
2017-12-07 18:25:46 +0000 UTCI will ask if he has this. (Probably)
Ross Payton
2017-12-06 21:10:16 +0000 UTCTom, this one next please (Nights edge. Vampires in Cyberpunk 2020) <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLQ6og__S4w/UekV3PySVQI/AAAAAAAAuPU/wsUSzSaELYY/s1600/Cyberpunk+Nights+Edge.JPG" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLQ6og__S4w/UekV3PySVQI/AAAAAAAAuPU/wsUSzSaELYY/s1600/Cyberpunk+Nights+Edge.JPG</a>
Fridrik Bjarnason
2017-12-06 14:53:46 +0000 UTCWow, I played Cyberpunk with Maximum Metal, it was crazy and we lost a lot of characters. I remember one of the popular suits of power armour had a missile reload inside its arm armour, we had so many of them blow up and kill people that we would call shots to that arm.
Malcolm Edwards
2017-12-06 06:18:56 +0000 UTCRoss! I got a copy of Ameythst the 4e D&D supplement that adds in Cyberpunk! And I got some pdfs of the Witchfire Triology for after hours that I can send your way when we have a moment. That is all
DiploRaptor(Samuel)
2017-12-05 06:59:08 +0000 UTCC'mon Tom, messing with the PC's is putting a full-borg INSIDE a power armor suit.
Timothy Connelly
2017-12-05 05:55:20 +0000 UTC
