JMGraham

I haven't gotten any confirmation from JimmytheFist yet. If that ends up not working out, I'll be available.

Games? I remember when I used to play games! If you're up for it, I'll bring 4500 of Sylvan Elves!

Not sure how long this has been out (and maybe I'm late to the party), but Ragnarok looks like it will be a blast!

I'm out again this week, but will return next week (when NYP has M&J).

How'd everything go at Adepticon, Koyote? I'm out this week, and likely next, as well.

Shred is a good way to describe most prog metal. I gave him a listen, and it's all instrumental and highly technical. He shreds. And I'm guessing Yarb will like it, being the guitar-jock that he is!

JOEY! Are you being the evil Overlord, or am I? If I don't hear back, my plan is to prepare as if I'm overlord (hmmm... something with an abomination and/or tentacles), but to also be perfectly content if I'm not Overlord. THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!!!

Joey and I need a couple more for Conan! Any takers?

Yup, and the beaver is making another, smaller, beaver. I think the final cover art will be infinitely nested, with a beaver, making a beaver making a beaver making a beaver making a beaver making a beaver making a beaver... well, you get the idea. Also, considering a name change ... Curious Beavers.

So a box arrived today ... Inside the box, was another box. Curios? Curious, indeed! Intrigued, I opened it, and found a board... And other pieces that, when assembled, resembled a game. But something seemed ... missing... what was it? Maybe a closer look at the board would reveal it... Of course! The only thing missing is the Curio cards, featuring Nathan's amazing art. They'll be here next week! At this point, the game is nowhere near being done, but it's done enough to submit to the KublaCon Game Design Contest (at least, the deadline is close enough that it's not going to get more done). Last year, Brad's Galactic Express made it to the final five, while my Siege did not. This year, I'm submitting Dark Curios and Brad is submitting Kingmaker, a fun, quick game of bluffing, memory and second-guesses. What will happen? Will the Warhamsters reign triumphant over San Francisco? Will they fail miserably, destined for mediocrity? Who knows! The game needs a lot more work, but at the very least, future playtests will involve much better-looking components (at least, until they get changes and replaced with scraps of paper again). Thanks to everyone who has helped test things out so far!

I'm bringing Conan in case Joey, Brad, and maybe Nathan want to dark Fantasy brutal stuff, and Blood Bowl in case not, and Brad wants to learn a true gentleman's game.

Listened to episode 4! Finally! I really enjoyed it. The only other history podcast I have for comparison is History of Rome, but to me this rates favorably in relative terms. I love the Migration Era/Viking Age/Dark Ages, and you do a really nice job of laying out what we think we know, what we actually know, why the difference is important, and how we know what we know. That's a lot of knowing! I'd be thrilled as all get out if you just stayed with the Vikings, but I know your historical predilections are similar to mine. As such, I'm pretty excited to see where you go with this. Request: King Baldwin IV and the Order of St. Lazarus!!! Real-life historical Nurgle Lord!

It's the middle of Western's spring break, so the town will be ours. Wanna play a game? Who's doing what? I should get in one last playtest of Dark Curios before I send stuff off, but I'm feeling neglectful. I'd be up for Ninth Age, 30k, casual 40k, a board game (Conan? Game of Thrones?), hell... I like games.

Huh. So, Eric Lang got hired by CMON as their head game designer, and he's heading up a Game of Thrones miniature war game: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/63502/cmon-limited-hires-eric-m-lang-director-game-desig Eric Lang of Chaos in the Old World, X-Com, Blood Rage, etc. fame. Could be interesting.

Bass wood movement trays are totally the way to go!

It was great to meet you! Unfortunately...I'm not sure that you'll fit in. You see, bearded metalhead wargamers just don't have any place in.... oh. Hold on. ... What? ... ah. Never mind. You'll fit in just fine. Welcome aboard!

Noice!!!!! Though... does all of them mean 4500 (current standard), or the most I can muster that you can muster? Though.... dear unholy gods, you have so many rats.... 4500 max if you want to, otherwise, name a smaller number!

I'd love to, Loren! It'll give me a push to experiment with some stuff I don't usually use. How many points would you like to play?

Anyone (other than Kacy, who I just played last week) up for Ninth Age? I'm still on a Sylvan Elves kick.

Going on 6 years. It's a good thread!

Thanks again to everyone for your time and work last night! As usual, Warhamsters are the best playtesters. Y'all gave me lots of useful feedback, and I'll spend the next week or so figuring out how to incorporate the suggestions. Muchas gracias! An earlier iteration had a trade action space where two players placing matching dice could trade curios, coins, customers, tokens and the like. No one ever took it, so I dropped it. Maybe it's just not worth a die to do it, though. Certainly, the game has also changed a lot from that iteration. It's probably worth re-considering!

Also, Corey is right - there's room for a fourth if anyone is interested.

I'm playing Dark Curios! Afterwards, I could likely get in a game of BB, but it'll be more like 8:30 or so. I'll bring my team just in case!

Ideally, once you know the rules, the game takes about 1 to 1.5 hours to play. Last go-through it took 2 hours. However, we don't need to play the whole game, and folks can drop out as needed. Mostly I just want to see if some basic mechanism changes work. Whatever your schedule is, we'll make it work!

Still room for a fourth if anyone is interested! We'll be playing with the black-and-white paper prototype, but I'm in the process of putting together a prettier version for the contest. Here's the front and back of one of the customer cards.