The Millennium Falcon. The Serenity. Sci-fi is full of merchant vessels that travel the space lanes delivering payloads – legal or illegal – to paying customers. John Watt’s Clement Sector is no different.
Author: Ron McClung
Clement Sector, The Rules
From: Gypsy Knights Games Reviewed by: Ron McClung Clement Sector: The Rules is a new RPG Core Rulebook from Gypsy Knights Games. It use the open game license for the Cepheus Engine. Open game licenses are tricky and the revival of many old school game engines have tried their best to take advantage of them. In the case of…
Alien Vs. Predator, The Hunt Begins, MACE West 2017
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…
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…