Recent content by MGibster

I don't think I ever saw anyone play a Bard in 1st or 2nd edition AD&D. The first time I ever played a Bard was in 5th edition, and I had a grand old time right up until he was killed by a Giff after my character told him he was so fat his butt provided allies with cover. It was the very first...

The cascade failure in Alien usually goes as follows. One player fails a Stress roll, the result is their Stress goes up plus everyone present must make a Stress test. Next player fails and the result is their Stress goes up and everyone present must make an Stress test. It just keeps...

I keep wanting to give Mothership a shot. I grew less enamored with Alien because I don't think it works well for marine campaign because combat gets kind of boring. Maybe the 2nd edition address that. I also really, really dislike the cascade failures of Stress tests. One might argue it's...

I enjoyed some of Satine’s videos where she had guests and they’d talk about various gaming topics. It’s been years since I’ve seen her in anything though. Of course that’s probably because a big old scandal blew up in her face. I hope she learned some valuable lessons and can move on with...

It's how they hook you! GW makes some good looking minis, but they are pretty pricy.

The game seems virtually unchanged since the 1990s at least. I know BT started before that, but I didn't start investing in the game myself until 1990-1991 (and I only recently accepted Clans were just part of the game and I couldn't change that). They've advanced the eras and introduced new...

Can confirm. My group did it one of two way. The first was the roll 4d6 and take the best three for each attribute. The second was to roll the dice and pick which attribute to assign the roll to. Either way you had your attributes settled before deciding on Class. I got lucky once and...

I've long said: Call of Cthulhu's dirty little secret is that combat works. So many people tell me violence is a fail state in the game but a judicious application of shotguns, dynamite, or ever pistols is reliable against a great many mythos threats let alone cultist. And why wouldn't...

I tried eyes on this one.

Eyes are tough. A lot of times I don’t bother because you can’t really see them anyways.

A Rebel officer for Legion. I spent the better part of my Labor Day painting this guy. The art on the box depicted a Black male, so I went ahead and used that as a guide. Painting human flesh is my Achilles hell and I find darker tones to be especially difficult. Very often what happens with...