Over the last several days, I’ve been printing a “gaming in bed” gaming table that uses the StageTop system I backed on kickstarter. My goal was to build a table that I could use for gaming in bed, especially at a hotel when I’m on travel. Overall, it’s been a fun project – there are some things that I liked/didn’t like, but at the end of the day, it was good.
Details and the breakdown after the jump. Continue reading Gaming Table for Gaming in Bed
After seeing the kickstarter for the Teburu game system, I started thinking a lot about app driven games and the integration of digital technology into board games. Specifically, I wondered whether it was something I wanted and how much? Is there a line beyond which integration of technology is too much?
As I started to think through this for myself, I thought about the games that I have, where the app integration happens, and what that means to me.
It’s not my intent to make my blog into a bunch of game lists, but I have been thinking about that a lot more lately, and so I’ve come up with another list of games. These are all games that I want to play to find out if they are something I’m interested in, but I don’t want to take the effort of getting them and being the first person in my group to learn them. A lot of the games on this list are ones that I’m not sure that I would like, or would necessarily make the time to play, while others I think I would like, but want to find out more so I can decide whether the expense and/or difficulty to acquire would be worth it.
With that, here are my top five games that I want to play before I decide whether to get them or not: Continue reading Top 5 Games I Want to Play Before Getting
It’s likely no surprise that I play a lot of tabletop games, and, as I’ve learned more about what games I like and gotten a better pulse on what games are coming out, I’ve found that there are games that I get excited about. To push this forward a bit, I wanted to do a post about the games that I’m most excited about getting in-hand. Some of these are games that I have played once or twice, while others I’ve only seen previews of, but look like they’re in my wheelhouse. To be honest, most of them I’ve backed on Kickstarter and I’m just waiting for them to ship!
So, here are the top five games I’m most excited about getting to the table: Continue reading Top 5 Games I’m Most Excited About Getting
Apparently, I’m quite good at taking a hiatus on a cliffhanger of a post. I left off last time talking about customizing a Hexhog STL with runes to make a Warmahordes objective marker and all the little pieces of software and techniques I used to make that happen. But, designing and printing the tile was only half of the equation; the other half is painting it up so that it looks nice.
A while back, I talked about building a terrain table for miniature gaming using the Hexhog Tabletop system as a base. One of my first design projects was to build objective zones for Warmachine and Hordes. While there’s no reason you couldn’t set objective zone templates on a terrain space, I thought this was a cool opportunity to design something that fit a bit better with the overall ascetic. Also, I latched on to the idea because it’s something that I could do with my existing tools – this is always a boon for me because there’s a ton of things I can’t do or am really bad at, and this is something that I could.
I haven’t been writing quite as much lately, as I’ve been using that time to do some painting. I’ve got a longer post coming about what I’ve been working on, but since I haven’t completed my project, the post has been delayed. Check back here next week, and in the meantime, here’s a preview:
Although 2020 has had plenty of things that shook up everyone, one of the things that happened before the pandemic closed a lot of stores, was that my local game store, The Rogue’s Roost, closed down. There were a lot of things I liked about The Rogue’s Roost that I now miss, but there are some more subtle things that I just don’t get without having a game store that I visit on a regular basis. I’m going to dig into this a bit below, as I think about what the year has been like without the opportunity to visit any local game store regularly.
I’ve recently been backing a number of 3d printing kickstarters. From 3d printable terrain (Hexhog Tabletops: Hinterland Hills, and Fantastic Plants and Rocks), to miscellaneous models (The Graveyard Collection and Pillars of Stone), all the way to full 3d printable games (Pocket Tactics, Chibi-tech SD, and Star Scrappers: Battledrill). One of the things I’m most excited about though, is building a full terrain table – I want to have a modular terrain system that fits into the game vault of my gaming table. Continue reading Building a Terrain Table
Though I built my Warhound and Reaver titans some time ago, and included magnets in the build, I was never really happy with how the magnetization turned out. The magnets dangled out in the open, and, honestly, the number of times I had to reglue them was a bit of a pain. This weekend, I got out all my measuring tools, fired up FreeCAD and my 3D printer, and decided I was going to do something about it.