Weekender XLBS: Who’s Your Daddy And How Does He D&D?
July 21, 2019 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!!!
Happy Sunday CoG/Backstagers!
It’s the XLBS Show!!!
I can’t wait to see what the boys have been up to this week.
Have Gerry and Justin recovered from their trip to America?
Does Lloyd have any surprises up his sleeve involving SAGA?
Let’s get stuck in………………….
I for one say “Yes” to OTT doing HistoriCon coverage again next year!
Morning/afternoon/evening (please delete as applicable) All ??
@brucelea – At work, we’re a global company so we’re always e-mailing people in different time zones. I use “Good Day,” or “Greetings” to cover all my bets. 😀
Yup,. I tend to use “Greetings”. ??
I can’t wait to see the SPQR content. I’ve been on the fence about it. I’m curious how well it could convert to fantasy, medieval, dark age, etc.
The SPQR boxed set seems sold out on the store or am I doing something wrong, not that I need more unpainted Romans and Celts! The Historicon coverage was really good. Joe Hack is now my hero! That game was like a good railway layout, every time you look at it you see something new. The whole Kingdom of Dalriada and the settling/invasion of Scotland is a very ignored part of Irish history and Ireland certainly wasn’t the backward place that has been implied through the years. I love @lloyd’s logic on the wait to respawn given the size of… Read more »
Trafalgar was against a combined French and Spanish fleet. As Spain weren’t the big rival of Britain at the time they seem to get forgotten. I think nearly half of the fleet was Spanish.
Sorry about that @robert and thanks for pointing it out. SPQR has the right setting applied now and can indeed be ordered lol
No need to apologise, I just really want the Gaul Leader model, otherwise I would just have bought the rulebook, it really is that lovely!
Shame D&D is registered trademark as with the rising popularity of D&D, boutique gaming sets based on your DD&D would probably be quite popular.
Don’t feel bad, @warzan – at the Osprey’s Fighting Sail table I completely got the battle wrong – I THOUGHT it was Trafalgar but it was a preliminary action 2-3 months previously. In my defense, many of the ships were the same. Thank God I asked the gentlement running the table what the battle was BEFORE the camera started rolling. 😀
https://www.beastsofwar.com/liveblogentry/osprey-fighting-sail/
Loved the Boston joke.
Happy Sunday one and all.
Happy Sunday!
Working out a) what games to take and b) how to pack a hobby bag for a series of three weeks of trips away from home… Doing my FoW hobby league would be ideal.
Hy-Brasil is probably what you are looking for @Warzan
http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/lost_island_of_hi_brazil
Happy Sunday CoG!
Looking forward to seeing how SPQR plays. Completely agree with the comments on the Historicon coverage. Good call to go.
Cheers
I know Gerry knew this really but forgot with the pressure of being on camera but the Colosseum was built by Vespasian around the ofthe last quarter of the first century AD.
I wish I could say I did. But I didn’t. Don’t know if I’ve ever paid attention to much of romes history.
We didn’t do any ancient history at school at all
They did Classical Civilisation at my old school but I choose something different as 2 years of dictation was not my idea of learning… History was bad enough with that particular teacher. There was 6 months of the History of Medicine being read out to us, in between bites of apples and cups of tea… Put me right off the subject for a while.
me neither, American politics and early 20th century europe got most of the focus.
Well, in @avernos ‘ defense, I don’t think that playset is supposed to represent THE Colosseum (it doesn’t really look like it), which yes … was built in the second half of the 1st Century CE. Smaller gladiatorial ARENAs, on the other hand, were all over the place long before that.
Great Show. Historical Spartans are actually really cool but they’re pretty much the opposite of what we think of them. They were Warrior’s yeah but not really that much better than anyone else but their political system was excellent. This Video is brilliant and out of all the Greek City States I think our Modern government borrows far more from the Spartans than from the Greeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGCbh8ggUs Remember that of course Spartans are not Greeks they saw themselves as foreign invades (they’re from Crete) and were constantly living in fear of a Helot (the Greeks they kept as slaves) Uprising.… Read more »
Yup totally agree about the Spartans. Athens gets the plaudits for democracy but in reality they were much less progressive than sparta in many respects.
As far as SPQR goes it’s a standard generic warband game. In the way bolt action drew 40k players into WW2 I suspect that they are hoping for something similar. There is a mordheim like campaign system, with talent trees for the heroes. If you’re already playing some form of historic skirmish warband game you’re unlikely to grab this. As an entry for new players it’s engaging enough.
Great point I honestly had never thought of that before. Better get my army based before the book drops next week.
I guess Historical Gaming has been so “Mainstream” now (since Bolt Action) I completely forgot that there are still heretics to be brought into the light of the one true genre.
re: Spartans were progressive: Can we really get past the fact that Sparta was almost 90% a slave state, which is a touch much even for societies of the day? Or is that an overgeneralization (I’m CONVERSANT with Ancients, but certainly not an expert). I can’t recommend Steven Pressfield’s novel: GATES OF FIRE enough – its the Second Persian Invasion and Thermopylae except done right … not the way it was positively butchered and mocked in that train-wreck “300” movie. In that novel I believe (although again, not an expert) that Spartan society is well-represented, virtues and warts in balanced… Read more »
Progressive in the ancient sense absolutely. Apart from slavery it was eaily the most progressive nation in the ancient world. When you came of age you got given a farm and slaves from the state and you never had to work again which is where the myth of a warrior society comes from, state education, state gauranteed income, I should clarify the things I like about the Spartan state are the executive and legislative branch. Dual executives with regularly rotating random oversite (who had veto powers too) with a council to propse and hear actual legislation, the Athenians get all… Read more »
@warzan, on that lost Irish Island, did you mean ‘Hy Brasil’?
New Grange was built 3200BC. Oldest still standing building in the world. Pre-date the pyramids by a millenium. So clearly not built by Irishmen. And then there’s also a great bit in the book of 4 cycles where the Tuatha de Danann decend from the clouds into Connacht on flying ships to attack the Fir Bolg. I’m not saying we are decended from Aliens but…..
Also newgrange is currently free as the visitors centre is being renovated. ?
I was lucky enough many years ago to be a winner of the draw to be in the chamber when the sun rose. It was a very special moment
I’m pretty sure there are standing buildings older ths New Grange about
Hello chaps.
The podcast link is missing.
When using AP dip I would always do highlights or dry brushing before appl5 thecfip. I think the dip like washes brings it all together
I would also ,after seeing it displayed on the screen think you are talking about Hy Brazil which was run by Terry Jones and where the horn resounding was kept. Apparently they inhabitants were really bad singers
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday, now my question is… did you get the colosseum? It would be interesting to see what you do with it. As for Historicon, I would do it again with a bigger team. The Daddy D&D bag, brilliant idea wish I had thought of that when my kids were a lot younger. Thanks for the show I really enjoyed watching.
Having attended GenCon myself several times, IMHO it is not really worth the effort or money you will spend. There are plenty of outlets that are already at the show with larger crews than you can bring. You are better off having a GenCan’t event on the site that goes deeper into some games. I would rather see OTT go to Historicon, Adepticon, Reapercon and if you want a board game focused event then look into under reported cons like Origins or PAX Unplugged. IMHO, next to Adepticon, the only other really good Tabletop Wargaming Convention worth attending is NovaOpen… Read more »
There is also Fall In in November
Thanks very much for the shout-out @warzan @dignity and @avernos . I won’t lie, it was a lot of work. A lot of 1AM and 2AM nights. I basically took all the photos (55 galleries) except the Hobby University photos and a couple of the tables – thanks again @silverfox8 and @warforger – and of course Gerry and I traded off shooting most of the video / interviews (“Do you know anything about this table / battle / war? Because I don’t. Okay, you interview this guy, I’ll shoot the video … I’ll do the next one on Saipan /… Read more »
Happy Sunday! Thanks for the show.
Happy Sunday! Totally on board with the idea of sacking Gencon and concentrating on other shows. Interviewing manufacturers is alright, I’d much rather have coverage of what gamers are doing themselves as it is harder to find that out whereas manufacturers do advertise their new stuff in other ways, whereas cons and shows are often the only outlet for gamers/clubs big hobby projects, particularly the quirky stuff. I’d love see coverage of some of the larger 2nd-tier UK based shows as well such as Partizan, Hammerhead, etc., and if sacking Gencon meant there was more resource available for that I’m… Read more »
In terms of sheer fun, Historicon highlight for me was the Battle of Freeman’s Farm. Not just the interview with Marvin and Jamie, but later I was able to circle back and actually get some troops in the game. My friends know this is one of my favorite battles of all time, and even getting to command one of my favorite generals and his brigades on this table was beyond epic. Seriously, I wasn’t going to go to Historicon – 1,001 thanks to @warzan for encouraging me to go and making it so easy once I had finally slapped myself… Read more »
The ‘Battle of Freeman’s Farm’ was one of the highlights of the coverage for me. I really want to get my hands on their rules system if they ever publish! Not to mention how great the table was looking and just drew you in to wanting to play on it.
The Historicon coverage was great, enjoyed seeing lots of different games with a bit of trader coverage added in. Sometimes show coverage starts to feel like one long advert for the next new shiney and doesn’t seem to engage with the hobbyists at the show, I know commercial platforms like OTT need to go where the money is but Historicon did seem to prove there is a place for focusing on the hobby. I suppose the trick will be to strike a balance between earning a living and getting into the ‘people’ aspect of gaming. A good local show that… Read more »
@warzan does this mean your a DDADDM?
My son is almost 18 now, but we have been playing DnD for years. The games we play now with coworkers, is fantastic as I just treat him as “one of the guys”.
I’m always looking forward to any game I play with my kid.