Weekender: Dino Fun With The Drowned Earth & Exploring Universal Rule Systems
August 18, 2018 by dracs
Come and join us back here in Northern Ireland for another episode of The Weekender. We've got some great stuff to explore this week!
There's plenty for us to dive into so make sure to comment below on everything we chat about here today.
Updates
We had some superb stuff for you to check out from this week...
- Adeptus Titanicus Painting - See what John has been doing this week as he takes on a Warlord Titan
- Thunderstone Quest - Lance, Ryan, Colin and Sam got stuck into this epic deckbuilder
Have you been keeping up with our content for this week?
News
Come and explore some of the news we picked out.
- Speed Freeks - Games Workshop look to revamp some classic Ork vehicles with more Dakka
- DUNE On The Tabletop - Gale Force Nine and Modiphius join forces for new tabletop games
- Discover: Lands Unknown - Will you be checking out this new Unique game from Fantasy Flight?
- Return To Dark Tower - A retro classic comes back to life from a board gaming dynamic duo
- Black Powder 2nd Edition - Warlord Games look towards an October release for this new edition!
What did you think about the news from this week?
Fun With Drowned Earth
We talk with James about The Drowned Earth and find out what is happening with the game right now after the Kickstarter campaign and what you have to look forward to!
Kickstarter
We also chat about two Kickstarters that caught our attention.
- Gangfight Skirmish Game System - A universal rule set for all genres and time periods (try out the rules HERE)
- Dungeon Derby - A fun looking party game with a dungeon delving twist
Which of these projects are you going to be taking a closer look at?
Competition - WIN A Drowned Earth Two-Player Bundle
As we mentioned earlier you can pick up a Drowned Earth Two-Player Bundle which contains the Rulebook, Dice, Bondsmen, and Militia.
All you have to do is comment below and let us know what your favourite dinosaur is to be in with a chance of winning this bundle!
Have a great weekend!
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Just woke up to a false widow walking along my back. Needless to say I am tired but wide awake and unable to get back to sleep as it disappeared down the side of my bed. Happy Weekend guys from a sleepy Gaz!
Careful a Friend of mine ended up in hospital for 4 days after being bitten by one of them little buggers
Yeah I had heard they can give a nasty bite for the UK, this is not the first time this has happened to me, the last time it was a Brown Recluse while on exercise in Nevada and they are a very nasty beasty. Good thing is neither tend to bite unless you aggravate them. Bad news is I need to find it before I go to bed tonight hehe.
Morning All
STUNNING competition.
It’s an afternoon show for me. If you go evening it would be very early am.
Come to Australia for PAX in October.
GF9 didn’t just get Frank Herbert’s novels they also got all the books by his son going back before the Butlerian Jihad. The scope they have to work with is huge. If they build it I will buy.
It’s the Weekend!!
If I recall correctly, Dune was one of the first RTS games out there focussing on spice collection with sandworms hovering around. Actually a simple search has just found this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_based_on_Dune
So a CCG and 2 board games have previously existed. Who’s got any of this?
A friend of mine does have the Avalon Hill Dune game, we played alot. It is a lot of fun and I would be quite happy if they do a reprint of it.
I have the CCG. Pretty fun actually.
The CCG is a bit dry but quite fun, it really captures the spirit of the Dune books.
I’d love to see an updated version of the Avalon Hill game, it’s great but the components are a bit on the crude side. Fantasy Flight did a re-skin of it that takes place in the Twilight Imperium universe, but I’d rather it stay a Dune game.
OK – FFG ‘unique’ games… The cynic in me is screaming “exploitative business model aimed at repeat purchases” while the business person in me is thinking “clever model chaps”.
Is a velociraptor too obvious? You’ve got to give it to the cunning ****s.
Happy Weekend!!
I’m just back from a very hard-fought but very profitable Necromunda game with my Eschers, the Tiger Mamas. 🙂
My dinosaur of choice is a Suchomimus, I really like the look of this predator with its blend of a Tyrannosaur style body and an almost crocodile style head. Drowned Earth is doing a great job of promoting itself with recent events and by expanding its lore and overall playability. Looking forward to seeing more. The question about what game would you use a universal ruleset for is pretty easy for me. On my trip to Gen Con Dawn and Gianna were kind enough to take me and the guys to the Chicago Field Museum, a beautiful building full of… Read more »
Awesome dino knowledge sir!
Cheers buddy
Interesting game. I am intrigued.
A stunning prize!!
Good morning all – just short of 2:00 AM here. To be honest, Weekender is often a late night show for us here! 😀
YAY, Drowned Earth Weekender, awesome.
I love the Dimetrodon, in TDE he could work as walking LOS blocker.
Snap on Dimetrodon
Please stay as a morning show. It’s the only time I have time to see it before all the demanding critters in the household wakes up.
It shall go into the collective learning banks and we shall see!
The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The novel depicts a post-apocalyptic future in which to global warming has caused the majority of the earth to become uninhabitable. The story follows a team of scientists researching ongoing environmental developments in a flooded, abandoned London. No dinosaurs 🙂
Everything is better with dinosaurs.
All good clean honest fun. I can’t believe how much Ben swears making Lance have to blur out his words! Oh still enjoying the ‘hubs’. And the out take was great.
I still think of the Triceratops as the perfect dinosaur. Attack AND defence, check!
And first thing in the morning works great for me as I can watch it before the significant other wakes up. Jammy dance for the win.
Good morning. Have great day of gaming!
Happy weekend everyone!
Happy Weekend! No, morning is better. One drinks in the evening 🙂
I think it needs to stay as a morning show. I wake up make coffee and for an hour or so it seems like Saturday Morning Swap Shop is back on the telly with Warren as Noel Edmonds,Justin as Keith Chegwin,Ben as John Craven and Sam as Posh Paws. Weekender really needs a Maggie Philbin type on the show. My brain can’t process who of the BoW staff that might be at this time in the morning
Although after seeing the hub break on the show John might have the Maggie Philbin angle covered
But I fancied Maggie Philbin… actually, if you squint when Jo(h)nie’s on?
Weekender is a morning show! Goes with my breakfast. I can’t watch it without my oat meal on weekend mornings.
GW could try to continue publishing more stuff for Relic 😉
I think that falls to WizKids now who are going to be working on the board game side of things.
In a word Eisenhorn. I think that series is ideal for a 40k movie/tv series, it would serve as a fantastic introduction to people who don’t know the IP, Inquisitor demon hunter, retinue of other characters, love interests, space marines, it’s ideal. If anything gets made I really hope it is an Eisenhorn film/series, I genuinely think it would work well.
that was exactly what I thought.
what are you talking about Morning vs Evening: are you forgetting time zones, at 12:30am PMT its 08:30am GMT so I wait for you to release the video on friday
+1 for keeping Weekender as a morning show. Great way to kick off the weekend with some painting.
I still haven’t had time to start painting my Drowned Earth pledge. The minies are fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed reading the background and the stories from the rulebook, well worth the extra effort James put into it.