These are pictures of my playtest but I did play it at MACE West 2017 with 2 other players. I want to like this game so much but I think it has its flaws. Either that, or we are playing it wrong. I realize there is a second edition coming out and I may get…
Author: Ron McClung
Star Trek Ascendancy, MACE West 2017
This is a great game! It really has a Star Trek feel. I plan to do a review of this but I really look forward to playing this more and more, especially with expansions. The 3 player game is great but it has its issues. Primarily, it’s a 3 player 4X that can basically boil…
Scythe, MACE West 2017
I plan to write a review of this game soon. It has be torn. It has a strong Euro feel but just enough player interaction and combat that it keeps my attention. This was by far one of the best games I played of Scythe. Seven great players. Got it down in 2 hours. I played…
Man in the Moon 2: Ice Station Schatzgräber (MACE West 2017)
I was very nervous going into this session because I made the mistake of talking it up. I was really excited about it because it combined so many elements that I enjoy. I was lucky to get a great group of players and they really dove into the setting. I paced it rather well and…
I want better!
The more and more I think about it, the more and more I get frustrated with what people and particularly fandom has accepted as “good” movies. I am not saying that I am the final and end all to be all judgement, but I am asking people to at least look at some movies with…
Gaming Conventions vs. Gaming at Sci-Fi Fandom Conventions
I have been involved with this niche of a community for almost 20 years. I have organized things from both ends of the spectrum. I have seen events numbering in the dozens and I have seen events numbering in the thousands. The largest event overall that I have been involved with and helped organize had…
Writing Legacy of the Führer Part 2
PROJECT START: 01/2017 DONE: PLAYTESTED AT MACE WEST 2017 I have used several inspirations to write this one, starting with some notes that I found from Ken Richardson. Castaway was an idea he wrote up that interested me, but figuring out how to work it into my version was interesting. Then I did a search…
Savage Sedition Wars: The Strain
Infection Counters, Nano-spores, and Exogenesis These are terms that used to represent conversion to a Strain Infected. Every token a person gains represents an infection by the Strain . It represents the number of successes a person must obtain when healing to fight off the infection. To fight off the infection, the character must be…
Titansgrave, The Ashes of Valkana
From: Green Ronin Publishing Reviewed by: Ron McClung Titansgrave: Ashes of Valkana is a new RPG Setting Book from Green Ronin Publishing. This review comes at a point where I have run nearly or more than half of the campaign. I have also watched all of the videos online that Wil Wheaton did. I have…
Sedition Wars minis
I am working on some minis that I got for free at MACE 2016. It’s a board/mini combat game called Seditions Wars: Battle For Alabaster. Apparently it did not do well and the rules are not good. I don’t care about the game itself, and have no intention of playing it, but the minis are…






