Live your life one dice roll at a time
Live your life one dice roll at a time
I picked up Wartales on Steam a week or so ago and have thoroughly enjoyed it. At it’s heart it’s a turn-based isometric-grid team-battle, but considerably different from XCOM which didn’t invent the concept but did it really well and…
Events at Shiro Yogasha were not done throwing twists at the young samurai quite yet. Somewhat predictably the assassin they’d just kicked to a mangled heap into the inner courtyard of the castle had taken the precautionary measure of somehow…
Yup, CtrlAltDelete is right in his last post, the young samurai are being pinched between the Bushido tenets of Gi (Honesty and Justice, telling the truth in their findings), Chugo (Duty and Loyalty, doing what they are told by their…
First, I’m having a ton of fun playing L5R. It’s the first RPG I’ve participated in where I find myself looking for podcasts that are of people playing the game, and the first time I’ve read and researched additional materials…
New Topaz Champion Hida Sugi and her co-contestant Shinjo Takuya got moving from the Kakita Dueling Academy in Tsuma, this time along with slightly older new recruits to the Emerald Magistracy, the Matsus Ono and Tezuka and Doji Koji. The…
So there are obviously still large gaps in my understanding of how the fights work in L5R, because I can’t stop thinking about them as a simple depletion of a finite resource: i.e. hit points. Which isn’t really how the…
This map of Rokugan was put together using all the mentioned settlements from the fiction and sourcebooks by Trevor Cuba and it’s pretty rad. The scale is 10 mile by 10 mile squares, although that doesn’t mean much when youre…
We just got done playing through the Starter Box set for Legend of the Five Rings. I love the idea of Starter Boxes; the Numenera box really helped sell that game for me. The Star Trek starter box helped make…
We did a bit of galaxy-building for The Stars Are Fire in preparation for our Sunday night games finally getting offline. Fuck all this technology, let’s play some sci-fi! We’re using their Revel setting, a near-future… well 300 years in…