If you head over to Humble Bundle and sign up for their newsletter, you can get a free copy (via Steam) of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, a third-person shooter that reminds me of Mass Effect. However, this freebie is available for only one more day, so act fast!
Friday, August 31, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
Blessings of Nurgle
Nurgle has smiled upon us! The boys came down with bad colds during the first week of the new school year, and now Amy and I are afflicted as well. The Sutton household is now full of poxwalkers.
As such, it was a quiet weekend -- quiet aside from the hacking coughs -- so I had the opportunity to make some good headway on painting 40k models and adapting Fifth Edition rules for the upcoming Shattered Realm sci-fi campaign. (I sincerely hope the boys have not lost interest in that!) Being cooped up in the house also afforded us an opportunity to watch the first half-dozen episodes of Matt Groening's Disenchantment on Netflix. Love it! Highly recommended for Simpsons fans who also enjoy a bit o' fantasy.
As such, it was a quiet weekend -- quiet aside from the hacking coughs -- so I had the opportunity to make some good headway on painting 40k models and adapting Fifth Edition rules for the upcoming Shattered Realm sci-fi campaign. (I sincerely hope the boys have not lost interest in that!) Being cooped up in the house also afforded us an opportunity to watch the first half-dozen episodes of Matt Groening's Disenchantment on Netflix. Love it! Highly recommended for Simpsons fans who also enjoy a bit o' fantasy.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Warhammer on Film?
So at some point maybe we'll be getting 40k and/or Age of Sigmar live-action films or TV series? Yes, please!
Birthday
Do you remember what you wanted for your eighth birthday? A video game, maybe, or Lego sets, or a new bike? Nathaniel wants Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines...
Monday, August 13, 2018
Culmination
Matthew and Nathaniel have been experiencing D&D in some form for the past several years, but they didn't really get into it big-time until May of 2017. That's when we started our first Shattered Realm campaign, "The Lay of the Lost Horn", which was a brief prelude to a much longer narrative, "The Lay of the Emerald Tablet". (Side note: All Shattered Realm campaigns are titled "The Lay of the [Adjective or Participle] [Noun].) That sprawling, year-long storyline reached its culmination over the weekend when the heroes at last succeeded in assembling the six pieces of a cosmic MacGuffin known as the Emerald Tablet. As it turned out, the legends were true -- the tablet had the power to rewrite reality itself. Although warned by the gods and wise NPCs that the tablet was dangerous, the heroes nonetheless used the tablet to start creating magic items for themselves.
It wasn't long, however, before they learned that the Emerald Tablet was more a curse than a blessing. To their horror, the heroes found that the tablet cannot create without destroying. In a cruel, zero-sum fashion, the tablet exacts an ironic price for whatever it creates. Realization came only when the companions decided to conjure magic weapons and armor that they had earlier planned to purchase from their friend and ally, a dwarf smith named Byrnie. When they used to tablet to create those items, however, Byrnie's eyes disintegrated in her head, rendering her unable to create any magic items ever again. No magical healing known to mortals could restore her sight.
Matthew, in particular, was deeply affected by this turn of events. He and Nathaniel both scrambled to find some way of undoing what they had done, but their prayers elicited a stern response from the gods: You made the mess -- you clean it up! The next phase of the campaign, then, will be driven entirely by the heroes. Drawing from their past experiences with NPCs and storylines from this world, they will need to find someone or something that can help them restore Byrnie's eyes.
I dare say this is a game experience they will never forget!
It wasn't long, however, before they learned that the Emerald Tablet was more a curse than a blessing. To their horror, the heroes found that the tablet cannot create without destroying. In a cruel, zero-sum fashion, the tablet exacts an ironic price for whatever it creates. Realization came only when the companions decided to conjure magic weapons and armor that they had earlier planned to purchase from their friend and ally, a dwarf smith named Byrnie. When they used to tablet to create those items, however, Byrnie's eyes disintegrated in her head, rendering her unable to create any magic items ever again. No magical healing known to mortals could restore her sight.
Matthew, in particular, was deeply affected by this turn of events. He and Nathaniel both scrambled to find some way of undoing what they had done, but their prayers elicited a stern response from the gods: You made the mess -- you clean it up! The next phase of the campaign, then, will be driven entirely by the heroes. Drawing from their past experiences with NPCs and storylines from this world, they will need to find someone or something that can help them restore Byrnie's eyes.
I dare say this is a game experience they will never forget!
Thursday, August 2, 2018
New GW Board Games
Games Workshop just announced a ton of new board games. Check out the full list here. I'm going to tag Blitz Bowl (a streamlined version of Blood Bowl) and Space Marine Adventures (a cooperative 40k board game) to remember to check back for them in a few months!
Pathfinder Playtest
The public playtest for Pathfinder Second Edition launches today. Click here to download the materials for free. (You can also order the playtest materials in hardcover, but according to EN World, there are delays in shipping.) In contrast to my near-maniacal obsession with the D&D Fifth Edition playtest (click the "5e" topic in the list of labels to sample the hundreds of posts indicating exactly how obsessed I was), I don't expect that I'll participate in any sort of formal way. Still, I'm looking forward to reading the new rules to see how Pathfinder continues to evolve from its D&D 3e roots.
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