Gaming Interests

Personal Contributions to Gaming Sites on the Web

• Legions of Steel is a fast-paced, realistic, and mind-boggling fun skirmish-level miniatures games made by Global Games. I collected a tactics manual for it, and conversions to and from Warhammer 40K (2nd edition).
• The following two links aren't pages, but they are things I've written. The Vector Thrust rules for Full Thrust. Full Thrust is a simple tactical space combat game. The makers of Full Thrust also make Dirtside II, a 1/300 scale science-fiction game. I wrote Mecha: Kings of the Battletech as an optional rule to give it more of aBattletech fieel.
• Click on the little guy to learn about one of my miniature obsessions.

  

• Galleries of my other miniatures.

References, Reviews, and Thoughts

• Greg Costikyan's thoughts on Game Design.

• RPG.net includes all sorts of commentary on gaming.

• How to Save Wargaming is full of bad advice, I think.

• Mr. Games puts out infrequent, quality reviews about new games.

• The Caravan of Dreams is still down, but it used to contain several quality reviews.

• Uncle Figgy's Guides to Gaming are sometimes a little trite, but not entirely bad.

Links for Games I play, Companies I like, and Stuff like that.

• Legends of the 5 Rings is a really cool card game. The Shadowlands Refuge of the Lion includes spoiler lists, and the Gaijin's Guide to Rokugan helps describe the ongoing story. A good deck archive can be found at the L5R Archive, while Rokugan 2000 is an inspired, if insane, variant on the role-playing game set in the 20th century. Kyuden Hida is one of the best sites for the Clan War miniature game based on L5R.

• I'm a big fan of Steve Jackson Games, especially GURPS, which is one of the best role-playing systems available. I have an account at io.com, their ISP.

• Dream Pod 9 makes very cool mecha games, including Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles. I've written a review of the Jovian Chronicles rules.

• Cheapass Games puts out incredibly clever, fun to play games for under $5. Check them out!

• The Miniatures Page is strongly slanted towards Games Workshop products, but it's the only comprehensive site devoted to miniature wargaming out there, so I check up on it a lot.

• Speaking of miniatures, one of my favorite companies, Ral Partha, has a homepage. So does RAFM, another good company.

• I don't play many historic wargames, but the Web-Grognards contain useful information for when I do.

• A long time ago, I used to play Star Frontiers, TSR's cool science fiction/space opera game.

• Once, I played Albedo, science fiction furry role-playing based on the comic of the same name.

• Blacksburg Tactical Research Center puts out a bunch of cool stuff, like Macho Women with Guns, and Corps.

• This Car Wars Links Site is cool, since it includes a link to a JAVA Car designer.

General Sites

• If someone has a homepage for a role-playing game or a collectable card game, Woodelf's RPG site list has a link to it. Sadly, it doesn't cover war games.

Humor

• Murphy's Rules of gaming point out all those little flaws in published rules systems.

• The Munchkin Handbook, or "How to tell what Sort of role-player you are."

• On the Silliness of Warhammer 40K, an essay by myself. Well, I found it funny, anyway.

• Chris Boyle sent me this little gem entitled Why Checkers is Better Than Warhammer 40K.

• And Judith found this amusing little picture. Warning: it takes a while to load, at might be offensive to WH40K fans. You gits have been warned.

• Advunced Peasants and Crapmongers, the realistic medivial role-playing game.

• The Evil Overlord List, a collection of things to do if you're ever the Evil Overlord.

• Miscelleanous Humor.

Buying Stuff

• I buy all my Jyhad cards from Potomac Distributors, since they're cheap.

• I used shop at TexSys Games because, well, they're a decent shop in San Antonio, and there aren't many others.

• Now that I live in Austin, I buy from Dragon's Lair because they're conveniently located, keep reasonable hours, and are generally cool.

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