Ep 23: Campain Ribbin’ Is Live!

Ep 23: Campain Ribbin' is live!
We talk with Henry Hyde about his new book "Wargaming Campaigns" and running a wargame campaign.
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Space Station Silicon Valley (N64)

Developer:

DMA Design

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Release Date:

1998

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Systems:

Nintendo 64, PlayStation

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This week on Super Adventures I'm playing Spacestation Silicon Valley! Or Space Station: Silicon Valley, as it's written in the manual. The PlayStation version claims that it's called Evo's Space Adventures but I think it's lying.

The first thing I've noticed about the game is that there's an inflatable spaceship on the title screen, not a space station, and I don't appreciate this blatant attempt to mislead me. Plus it keeps orbiting the letters and I couldn't decide on the best time to take the screenshot. I tried to catch it in good place but I'm not sure I managed it.

I feel like I should pad this intro out with some interesting trivia taken straight from Wikipedia, so here's a couple of Space Station Silicon Valley facts for you:

First, the game's by Scottish developers DMA Design (now called Rockstar North), who are famous for the Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto series. In fact a lot of the people who worked on the game went on to create Grand Theft Auto III and kick off the 3D sandbox mayhem genre, so I guess it was a good thing this didn't sell enough to get a sequel. We could've ended up in the bad even worse timeline where we didn't get Sleeping Dogs, The Saboteur or Saints Row.

Second, it's no surprise it didn't sell well considering it came out in 1998: The Year of Good Games. Sure the N64 didn't get ports of Resident Evil 2, Unreal, Half-Life, Thief, Baldur's Gate, Fallout 2, Pokémon Red/Blue, Starcraft, Grim Fandango, Sonic Adventure, Metal Gear Solid etc. that year, but Nintendo fans did have Banjo-Kazooie, Body Harvest, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Turok 2 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time competing for their pennies (and Nintendo's marketing budget).

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STAR TREK: GENERATIONS

Three years after Captain Kirk passed the torch over to Jean Luc Picard in the seventh Star Trek motion picture, MicroProse finally gave us the movie tie in. Released in 1997, Star Trek: Generations adds a heavy dose of adventuring to the first-person-shooter but is it any better for it?

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Samurai Warriors 4-II [Includes All DLCs + MULTi2 Languages] For PC [9.7 GB] Highly Compressed Repack

Samurai Warriors 4-II - is a hack and slash game by Koei Tecmo, and sequel to Samurai Warriors 3. Unlike past Samurai Warriors games, this one only has Japanese voice and it is the revised edition of Samurai Warriors 4.

Featuring: The last title released for the tenth anniversary of the series, Samurai Warriors 4-II, is here at last! Naomasa Ii appears as a playable character for the first time, and the various personalities of the age are explored in more depth in "Story Mode", which is now focused on individual characters. Series favorite "Survival Mode" returns, powered up from its previous iterations.The most well-received elements are carried over, while the action balance, cut-scenes and character development systems have all been upgraded.

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1. FEATURES OF THE GAME

• Smarter artificial intelligence and enemy officers have more attackaction patterns and are more difficult to defeat.
• Highly challenging and richly rewarding endless castle Mode! Survive and ascend the increasingly difficult Castle.
• New 13 different game endings plus the ability to merge weapons to create your own and more powerful weapon.
• For the first time in the epic Samurai Warriors' franchise history, General Naomasa Ii will be a Playable Character.
• Samurai Warriors' new 13 playable characters plus, 13 Exciting new chapters of gameplay with 65 total scenarios.

Game is updated to latest version

Included Content

▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Horse Set
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - BGM Set 1
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - BGM Set 2
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Animal Set
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Weapon Set
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Scenario Set
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Old Costumes Set
▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Special Costume Set 1
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▪ Samurai Warriors 4-II - Edit Parts Set + 2 more

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• Memory: at least 1GB System RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 11GB free HDD Space
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Supported Language: English and Japanese language are available and supported for this video game.
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For Coin & Blood By Alan Bahr, RPG Review

Heroes work diligently to rid the world of evil. It is their goal to make a world that is better for everyone to live in. Well, everyone but those they see as evil. The warlords, necromancers, and cult leaders also have their goals of making the world a better place.

Most role-playing games (RPGs) are focused on playing heroes. For Coin & Blood by Alan Bahr takes the typical format of RPGs and spins it around. The concept of the game is to play an antihero. Those men and women who survive and thrive by swindling, thieving, manipulating, and murdering.

For Coin & Blood is subtitled Grimdark Old School Roleplaying, and that promise is met. For Coin & Blood was designed to explore the underside of human behavior. Giving players the opportunity to be in a world where they are the ones who are despised and hunted down by the heroes. The game deals with mature themes and as such, each gaming group and game master (GM) looking at running adventures in this setting should consider the implications for whom they have at the table. You have been forewarned.

Review

For Coin & Blood was developed using the open gaming license (OGL) and gives a feel of the original style of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. For players who prefer the counting up of AC, to hit, etc., there are also rules for creating an increasing scale instead of a descending one. Like the earlier versions, there is a higher fatality rate expected for the player-characters—you are the evil ones people want to stop by either death or incarceration (those murder-hobos usually prefer killing everything).

The rules are easy to read and understand. With our first reading of For Coin & Blood, 4 of us were able to understand of the game, create characters, and then run an encounter. One of our players has no experience with earlier versions of DnD and had no problems with the information.

For Coin & Blood simplifies some of the rules allowing for a quicker start and faster play. Six attributes are created in the same fashion as the parent system. There is only one saving throw instead of 3 or more. Hit points are the constitution score and go up 1 point a level. During play most every dice roll is done using a d20 and d6s.

Although the game is designed for playing the evil side of humanity, the book doesn't go into anything explicitly. There are no horrific details of what characters can do, nor does the art reflect anything of that nature. Honestly, you could play these characters as heroes instead of antiheroes (villains see themselves as the hero of their own story). You also don't have to worry about leaving the book open with concern about who might see it.

The front half (pages 13–71) of the book is about character creation and general rules. The back portion (pages 74–119) is about designing adventures, descriptions of encounters, treasures, and other information for the GM. Nearly everything presented will be familiar with players who have played fantasy based RPGs.

Character Creation

For Coin & Blood uses a score of 3–18 for 6 attributes. Again, these are the ones DnD players are familiar with. It is designed with only one race, humans, and there are no alignments. After rolling up your attributes you choose a class.

There are 7 classes to choose from: assassin, blackguard, cutpurse, knight, magus, priest, and sellsword. The names when taken with consideration of the general premise of the game provide almost all of the information you need when making a decision. A character's class provides some benefits, restrictions, and a saving throw. Starting wealth for everyone is 3d6x10.

Since the characters are creating a reputation, an additional score for Infamy (1d6) is added. Infamy is a representation of how well known the character's evil acts are known. Its progression is based on the deeds the character participates in.

Different character classes get experience point bonuses for high (15+) attributes and Infamy.

As characters advance, they gain benefits at a slower pace than many of the newer RPGs. They earn an additional hit point and they might gain a spell or a bonus to hit. When characters are a level or two within each other, they are comparable enough not to throw an adventure out of balance.

Flexibility

For Coin & Blood is clear about leaving a lot of room for GM alterations. Don't be shocked by the gaps in the descriptions and tables, they were done on purpose.

The simplification of rules allows for storytellers on both sides of the GM screen to create the adventures they want.

Overall

For players who are looking for a grimdark adventure setting, For Coin & Blood is an excellent choice.

We had fun playing For Coin & Blood. We enjoyed the quick start and faster pace. We liked the fact that we had enough options to create the characters we wanted without so many options that we needed an entire gaming session getting characters ready.

There is enough structure to give random outcomes without getting bogged down in what rule applies to what activity.

We decided For Coin & Blood is a game we will play again. A couple of our test group already have ideas for one shot adventures and a campaign setting.

You can find For Coin & Blood on DrivethruRPG (link).

Gallant Knight Games website (link).

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GaryCon 2019 (Part 1)

What a weekend!

Yes, I got back from GaryCon in one piece.  Was there all Thursday and Friday, but had to leave about 1pm on Saturday, after my last game.

There's almost too much to say, so I'm going to keep this kind of brief and condense it all into one blog post.  Wish me luck!  [edit: Nope, just couldn't do it.  This is going to be in two parts.  First, Cha'alt, and then Alpha Blue.]

Session 4

The final session of Cha'alt concerned exploring and looting the frozen insides of the gargantuan purple demon-worm Kra'adumek.  My family and I pre-rolled nearly 100 ability scores (strength, dexterity, etc.), all 3d6 in order, ahead of time.  That's going to come in real handy in the years to come... and will appear in Cha'alt.

As that game was "D&D 5e," there were numerous expectations.  When I told everyone that I wanted to keep it standard races, only one racial ability per character, just the main 4 classes, and you roll a % and what your ability scores turn out to be is what they are, save vs. death... well, some jaws dropped. 

The players were more than a little dismayed (one player's suggestion of pre-gens was solid and I probably should have done that, but also wanted to use my d100 ability score table), but kept their composure (no table flipping), which I appreciated.  After all, if a PC died, he could simply roll up a new one and keep going.  With this method, it wouldn't have taken more than 5 minutes to come up with a whole new character.

We played it old school - distance, movement, and perception checks were all but hand-waved.  And sure enough, just as I told them, once the adventure got underway, how strong or wise their characters were didn't matter as much as thinking things through, tactics, diplomacy, knowing when to step on the gas and when to break, and, of course, luck.

I didn't open any D&D books the entire game... in fact, I neglected to bring any D&D books to the convention - aside from my own scenarios and guidebooks.  To me, that's a sign of a qualified old school GM who's comfortable with his rulings.

This being a con game, they came up with an overarching desire (kill the demon-worm), and I presented them with a way to achieve that... the unexploded photon torpedo.

Several party members almost died, but no one actually bit the big one.  Some nice treasure was had, NPCs interacted with, weirdness encountered, and juicy combat to get the blood pumping... as well as spilling out all over the demon-worm floor.

By the game's end, everyone thanked me for the experience.  I appreciated their indulgence of my old school ways, and a few of them said they were glad that I stuck to my guns.  Overall, I think everyone had been temporarily transported to another world.  That kind of immersion is all the thanks I'll ever need. 


Session 2

The second session of GaryCon was Beneath Kra'adumek.  Since I designated that particular game Swords & Wizardry, the occasional shitty ability scores didn't raise an eyebrow.  This crowd was primed for vintage D&D escapades. 

While I unfortunately forgot to bring my copy of How To Game Master like a Fucking Boss to session 4, I had it with me during session 2.  So, each player rolled % to see what past experience they had. 

The wildest result was a gnome (complete with ridiculous hat) trying to get the PC and others to invest in some financial scheme, offering a transparent cube as some sort of proof-of-concept. 

That could have just been a throw-away idea forgotten as soon as it was said, but no.  The player who rolled that proudly talked about his cube and attempted to seek investors in his uncanny enterprise.  After swapping realities with a nearly identical party, that player decided his cube was now a sphere... and the roleplaying began anew.  By the session's end, his business' tagline was "It never ends."  Appropriate.  ;)

As has usually been the case, the PCs decided to convince several of the purple priests to join a new faction - one instituted by the PCs themselves.  After killing the Ipsissimus and mid-wife-ing a newly hatched demon-worm spawn, it wasn't too difficult to persuade some drugged-out cultists to worship Kra'adumek in an entirely new way. 

They played around with the fissure in time and space, experimented with mutated xoth, ate 67 omelets, and foiled the priest's plans to sacrifice a trio of virgins. 

Due to the freewheeling nature of this dungeon, the loose rules of early D&D, and player personalities, a lot of jokes were told and the table erupted in laughter about a dozen times in those 3 hours of weird retro-escapism. 

There was even a woman among the players, so of course I had to make my own saving throw to avoid chanting, "Old enough to bleed; old enough to play a human barbarian!"  Thankfully, I just made it when the die ricocheted off my slimy green tentacle, and old school grognards were saved having to excuse my toxic masculine diversions. 

Some great and/or hilarious quotes from that session...

• The New God's name is "wormy"... it's a work in progress.
• "He who slithers through our minds.  Praise be!"
• Purple priest playboy mag stuck behind the library books.
• "Spicy sriracha worms."
• "May the violet be with you... always."
• "GnomeSphere... it never ends [TM]."
• "Obey the slither!"

All in all, both groups were fantastic!  I had a blast GMing for everyone, and I hope the memories of Cha'alt will live long and prosper in our collective imaginations.

Ok, part 2 should come tomorrow.

VS

p.s. I managed to move all 4 sessions to a less noisy, less distracting area of the hotel so we could all enjoy the game without shouting, wondering if we actually heard the other person correctly, or daydreaming about the guy at the next table dressed as Gandalf being bludgeoned into unconsciousness with his own Dwarven Forge terrain.

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