Rifts Flashback - Stat Sheets
In 1990-91 Rifts was only the main book + the Sourcebook + Vampire Kingdoms, at least for a time. We were having a lot of fun with it but even then I was trying to find a way to manage the numbers in...
View Article40K Friday - Eldar Allies
So what do you do when you end up with a nicely painted tank that doesn't really fit in with the rest of your force? Build up an Ally force!So I had a nicely painted Falcon I picked up as part of a...
View ArticleRifts Update Week
I've received a fair number of requests for a better version of my cheat sheets for Rifts and though I do not have the original files any more I have finally re-scanned them at a much higher resolution...
View ArticleRifts House Rules - Ability Scores - 2015 update!
2015 note: Ok this part really hasn't changed but it's important for understanding the posts that will follow so i wanted to put it up first.Rifts and house rules are inevitable in my mind. It feels a...
View ArticleRifts House Rules - My Combat Cheat Sheet - 2015 Edition
Having settled the ability score issue, I decided that initiative was getting to be a problem as it's not unusual for characters to start with 4 to 6 attacks and for creatures and NPC's to have just as...
View ArticleMid-November Superhero TV Update
I finally have had a chance to start catching up on Agents of Shield Season 1 and I can report that everyone else was right - it does get quite a bit better! Episode 13 is where it took off for me and...
View ArticleRifts House Rules - My Combat Cheet Sheet Part 2 - 2015 Edition
Page 2 of the Cheatsheet covers the ranged attack modifiers, size modifiers (something else Rifts really needed), then the Defense and Damage process and tables. Â So someone shooting will mainly look...
View ArticleRifts House Rules - My Combat Cheatsheet Part 3 - 2015 Edition
Most of this page is taken up with the two critical hit tables - one for humanoid, one for vehicles. I spent a lot of time working these out and tried to come up with some concrete effects that could...
View Article11-30-2015
Gundalf the Grey welcomes you ...Today is the 3rd anniversary of the shutdown of City of Heroes. That's not a good thing - well, other than that I am here to remember it.THE PHURIOUS PHAROAH BOWS TO NO...
View ArticleA Week of Finishing
I took a week off last week - from work, from the blog, from as much as possible. We had all of the kids(they were all out of school), so I didn't get to stop being a grown up, but they are old enough...
View ArticleChaos on the Bridge
I watched this new Star Trek documentary earlier this week. It's a recent add to Netflix - that's where I found it, anyway - Â and thought it was interesting so I am sharing.Chaos on the Bridge is a...
View ArticleTrek Tuesday (on Wednesday) - DS9 for TNG
After finishing Battlestar Galactica the week of Thanksgiving Apprentice Blaster and I talked about what we might watch next - Star Trek? X-Files? Original BSG? As it turns out he's been in a Trek mood...
View ArticleAround the Tower
We've spent a lot of time getting ready for Christmas this year and work is still a daily thing until Christmas weekend so there have not been a ton of updates this month.Movies:I saw Force Awakens...
View ArticleLooking back on 2015
Looking over at the side there I had about half as many blog entries in 2015 as I did in 2011-12-13-14. It was a busy year for other things so the blog became a bit less important than it had been. I'm...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Happy New Year to All!Wishing good games and good rolls to everyone for 2016!
View ArticleLooking Forward to 2016
A little late but better now than never ...Gaming-wise in general, my take on 2016 is "try to keep what I have going, improve it, and work in something new when I can."When it comes to RPG's the main...
View Article40K Friday (Tuesday edition): Year of the Eldar
A year ago I was adding Eldar units and agonizing over how to paint them up. That never really went away as anytime I started looking at my options I vacillated on having a small Iyanden ally force...
View ArticleModern Marvels Session 3 - Enter Hercules!
We had a chance to get a game together but not all of our Pathfinder crew was available so we settled on ... Marvel Heroic! I ran it as a continuation of our previous games which you can see...
View ArticleThe Perils of Ebay ...
I order stuff on eBay all the time but this time and I don't always know which package is which when they arrive in the mail.OK, so far so goodWait ... what?Ah ... OK thenLike I said I do a lot of...
View ArticleHeader Pictures
I've only had a few different top pictures on the blog over the last 6+ years but I decided with the new year I should change things up a bit. For 2016 I expect to post up a few different title pics...
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