Tag: narrative
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Stargrave Quarantine 37: Hydroponics Bay
Our crews were ambushed by Alien Bugs while scavenging the hydroponics bay of a derelict space station. Players and crews Paul brought over his Stargrave crew The Bareaga Rangers and a big tray of tyranids from his enormous collection. I could tell from the gleam in his eye that he was thrilled at the chance…
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Stargrave Crew: Fletcher’s Fetchers
A Stargrave crew long overdue I printed and painted a Stargrave crew a few years ago, and it occupied a shelf since then. When we kicked off our miraculous Stargrave campaign, I seized the chance to recall them to active duty. You may have seen some of them in my solo game write up, but…
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Miraculous Stargrave Campaign
My surprise wish fulfillment. Having enjoyed our group’s earlier Frostgrave campaign, I once gleefully pre-ordered Stargrave as soon as it was available. Alas, when the book arrived the group’s interests had wandered elsewhere. I found myself shelving Stargrave after only a single solo game, but couldn’t resist buying and reading all its subsequent expansions over…
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Sometimes I take a year off
It is what it is Astute visitors will notice I’ve been dormant for 11 months. I could list the reasons, but they are boring and common and probably familiar to anyone here. Instead I’d like to report that I think I fixed my ActivePub plugin, so consider this a test missive to the Fediverse. Also,…
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Ambush at landing bay Xi-292-41
Following my post about using published army doctrine as a scenario design checklist, my friend Comrade Patrick invited me to walk through the process with him, start to finish, to create a narrative skirmish scenario. Here is the result!
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Wargames scenario design from army doctrine
I often lack the capacity to meet my own expectations for hobby time, especially narrative scenario design. I compensate with tools like random name generators and published scenarios. Right now I’m exploring a new addition for my tool box: US military doctrine.