- I haven't talked about chess variants in a long time. If you like variant chess rules (different boards, different pieces, different rules, historical predecessors to modern chess, etc.) then you need to check out The Chess Variants Pages and their all-new adjunct site, The Chess Variants Wiki.
- Remember Phil Reed's FASERIP project? There's been some delay in completing the project because Mr. Reed has a new day job working for Steve Jackson. While I can totally understand that taking priority, I'm still a little disappointed that Mr. Reed doesn't seem to be sticking to the schedule he outlined to the folks who ponied up his $1000 ransom. Still, I'm told you can download the lastest version of the renamed Four Color system either here or here. FASERIP fans might also be interested in the Guardian OmegaVerse, a supers setting that will be using 4C in future products.
- A question for the miniatures fans. How much is an unpainted plastic figure worth? The local store has some old 40K gretchins still on the sprue. The asking price is a buck a goblin. Does that sound right?
A Return to the Stars
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got
together to play more Stargrave in recent days. It was good! It was also a
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A buck a grot is an appropriate price. GW minis are like Hondas -- they retain excellent value over time.
ReplyDeleteHey Jeff...
ReplyDeleteLet me dig through some of my old Warhammer stuff. I believe we have some 40K Gretchin still on the sprue. If so, I'd be willing to let you have them just to get them out of my house.
peace... Dave
It's interesting to hear Phil went back to working for Steve. Hrm ...
ReplyDeleteYou know, speaking of chess, we had a session or two of "Champions Battle Chess" back in college. We created some rules about movement and such and pitted our team of adventurers up against their super-villainous opponents. Each character had an illusion on them that made them look like one of the generic pieces, so part of the strategy was to try and uncover where the actual supers were -- sometimes you'd just run into a dupe piece. It turned out to be a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteAny time you can add super-powers to an already great game, everyone's a winner. Just think if Kasparov had been able to use heat-vision against Deep Blue, it would have ended in a completely different fashion.