Dico, Dico, Dico

Hackmaster 5e will utterly dominate the fantasy RPG market, Crushing the competition, driving them before it and hearing the lamentation of the competitors booth babes, etc etc.

From what I’ve seen, the game is solid, and has that undefinable “old school” AD&D flavor. The marketing plan will be effective, The timing seems right - and as added bonus it’s being released on the heels of WoTC’s murder suicide of the D&D brand and as a company.

Ok maybe “utterly dominate” is a little strong,  Pathfinder (Paizo’s 3-3.5 under the OGL) will likely be the heir appearant (and from what I’ve seen, desrvedly so -it looks pretty damn good) but I’m pretty sure it’ll grab a respectable chunk of the gaming market. Still, I can’t wait to get a fucking game going. (Hackmaster Basic might be released by June from what I hear.)

Kenzerco just plain puts out good stuff. (Shit, If you haven’t checked out Aces & Eights do so now- I’m thrilled to have a use for all these discount old western minis i picked up for a Deadlands campaign that never came about a few years back.)

[In keeping with my 2009 New Years resolution I’ve gone and removed a lengthy rant about the current state of WoTC and by extension D&D, Dumbing Things Down, King County, etc etc. I’m still wringing bile out of the curtains. - Me 28 APR 09]

Ultimate Gaming Table

Just wow. The pictures are fucking fantastic.
The 10k price tag? Eh not so much, BUT, I’ve already figured out how i can make a stripped down version for around 200 bucks.
Problem is, I don’t really want to go through the effort until I get a house bought, as the idea of packing such a monstrousity up out of the basement of the place we’re in now fills me with cold dread.

Now i may be able to come up with a “nomad” version that’ breaks down easy enough…

If you’re not a long time reader of Knights of the Dinner Table, this may mean nothing to you,
but if you are, and have been following the story for about the past 8 years you have to simply have to read this: http://twitter.com/GawdFatherHack

Too Cool.
No spoiler on from me, but damn…being able to pull what it looks like’s gonna happen in the story off and have it not come off as ultra cheese?
Jolly B done good. superbly executed.

the past week A nasty cold bug and has blowing through work.
due to it’s devastating effects and general dickishness, I call it the Sherman Virus.

I’m just getting over it. the last stage is a nasty, dry, hacking cough that produces nothing but sore ribs.
You wake up each morning feeling like a bodybuilding midget has been gut punching you all night.

Anyway, this generated a really fucked up dream. one of those detailed things that have when you’re just about to wake up. the thing must have lasted 3 hours.

In this dream I’m playing some kind of board game that was like a cross between stratego, risk, and settlers of cataan or something, on a huge map board. the playing peices where pretty good sized and flat chit like things made of embossed plastic with things like tanks, infantry squads, etc etc.
that’s not the weird part.
this is.
coughing was incorporated into movement somehow.
if I coughed a certain way the peice i was going to move would flip and generate a new attribute (like 2 extra movement, or +attack or something)
I would find myself trying to “cough efficiently” to get good move stats on peices.
my peices where soemthign ike a red/orange, the opposing player (who I couldnt see) peices where blue green
this is a dream so according to dream logic this was perfectly normal.
As sore as my ribs were when i woke up I’m pretty sure i was physically acting this out for the duration.
until at some point between coughs i was like, “ok fuck this I gotta go to work” then woke up.

weird.