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So far as I know, there isn’t any policy against minors... I can’t see why they’d be restricted, it’s not like we’ve got a liquor license or anything. Having said that, I’m still relatively new to the club so I’m just guessing. I’m sure someone official can answer better... As a parent of a gaming teenager myself (and as a former gaming teenager) I’d say that you’re the best judge of your own kid(s). If you think they’ll fit in, then I say come on down!

Bonus points if you make an opposing gang led by a Hillary Clinton miniature...

I mostly want one so that I can prime and/or base coat during the wetter months of the year...

Airbrushes seem to be the solution to every problem I have in my painting. I really need to gift myself one this Christmakkuh.

Yellow is a notoriously difficult color to paint... Which reminds me, I haven’t touched my Imperial Fists in nearly six months. I really need to get back to that.

Wha—? A Games Workshop rulebook with ambiguously written rules!? Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so...!

Three more Archetype Remakes, this time we get a little technical with the Decker and Rigger; We also get friendly with the Face. Remake Decker.pdf Remake Face.pdf Remake Rigger.pdf

Perry Brothers has fantastic sculpts, but the quality control seems to be slipping. I don’t have any first-hand knowledge, obviously, but my best guess is that the molds for their metal miniatures are getting older and worn.

The Archetype for the Street Samurai in the core rulebook is a walking tank. He's not terribly great at stealth, he's lousy at social work, and he's extremely weak versus magical threats like illusions or spirits... But he can bench press a motorcycle and is only mildly annoyed when taking a shotgun slug to the chest at point-blank ranges. "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe... maybe... But, I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet!" -- The Heavy, Team Fortress 2 Remake Troll Samurai.pdf

That’s the spirit kid! A dreamer like you is sure to do well in Gaslands and win big money! Big prizes! And a shot at the coveted Grand Prize: an all-expenses paid ticket to Mars! Gaslands every Tuesday night at 18:00 Mars Standard Time!

I’m planning to schlep my Gaslands stuff with me, if anyone wants to give it a try.

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In a nice contrast to the pink-mohawk of the Combat Shaman, we go to the black trenchcoat of the Covert Ops Specialist. The Archetype in the book had an obvious cyberhand that not only stood-out like, well, an obvious cyberhand it also hadn't been given the proper enhancements to match his natural Agility. So I dropped that. Hard. I also rejiggered his Equipment a little bit, tidied up his Skills, and other little bits of book-keeping. Archetype Covert Ops.pdf

Okay, here's the Combat Mage Archetype from the core rulebook, remade to obey all the actual rules of character creation and transferred onto a proper character sheet. She's mostly the same as original Archetype, the biggest changes being that I specifically call this build a Combat Shaman* instead of Combat Mage (so that people don't mistake her for following the Hermetic tradition), giving her a more sensible** Equipment list, and paring her down to the proper number of Spells. * The book doesn't say if the Archetype is meant to be a Hermetic or a Shaman, but since it's an Orc with a maxed out Charisma score, I just assume it's meant to be a Shaman. ** For a given value of "sensible," I mean, it's a magical mercenary Orc with a battle axe and combat spells... Archetype Combat Shaman.pdf

Playing around with an online fleet builder, I threw together a 130 Point list that started out, basically, as saying "I really like the Constitution-class (Refit) and the Miranda-class... Hey, why not just use the ships and cast-members from Wrath of Khan!?" If I shop around for the ships, I should be able to pick up all three for well-under $50... and if I proxy the cards, instead of trying to "chase the dragon" CCG-style by going after the random originals. Hmm. Could be fun. U.S.S. Enterprise [24] - James T. Kirk 9 (Captain) [6] - - Cheat Death [3] - - Prefix Code [3] - Photon Torpedoes [3] - Montgomery Scott [5] - Mr. Spock [5] - Nyota Uhura [3] Ship Total: 52 SP U.S.S. Reliant [20] - Clark Terell 2 (Captain) [1] - Upgraded Phasers [3] - Pavel Chekov [3] - Redshirt [4] Ship Total: 31 SP U.S.S. Excelsior [26] - Hikaru Sulu 6 (Captain) [4] - - Full Alert [5] - Transwarp Drive [3] - Photon Torpedoes [3] - Janice Rand [2] - Redshirt [4] Ship Total: 47 SP Fleet Total: 130 SP Generated by Utopia http://comatoes.github.io/staw-utopia/

Ninety months of prepaid Luxury Lifestyle for everybody!

How many points (or whatever they call their points) is a typical game of Star Trek: Attack Wing? I don’t see myself ever becoming a frequent player of the game, but as a life-long Trekkie I wouldn’t mind picking up a couple of my favorite ships to have as “desktop toys.” They pop up on eBay with some regularity and Guardian frequently runs sales. So if I only need 3-4 ships... Why not?

Yeah, but that’s not a correct transcription of the dialogue. Oz says “Nobody deserves mime, Buffy.” Using mime as a verb, not a noun. Oz would never use a whole extra word like that if he doesn’t have to!

I said "elementary kids" not toddlers. Toddlers can break anything. Gandalf and Frodo could have saved a lot of time simply by telling a toddler that the One Ring was a "no touching" and then leaving them alone in a room with it for five minutes.

As I said, I wanted to transcribe the Archetypes from the book onto proper character record sheets for new players and/or drop in players to use. While doing this, it also occured to me that it'd be nice to record the Priority Table allocations used by the various Archetypes... Both to illustrate how they worked for new players and to make it easier for a player who wanted to "tweak" an Archetype into an original character (say swapping the Face from an Orc to a Human) rather than starting from scratch. Unfortunately, reverse-engineering them might not actually be possible. It seems they were built during the rulebook's design process at a point before other character generation rules got finalized, and they break the rules in a few (mostly minor) ways. For example, the Adept has 4.5 PP worth of powers and just about everybody has too many Skill ranks. So, I'm looking at two options here... A) Ignore the ways they break the rules and just transcribe them straight-up. B) Use the real rules and build versions of them that come as close to the Archetypes as possible. Personally, I lean towards "B," but thought I should ask for feed-back.

I was trying to post it as a .GIF, but it didn't seem to work.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/28b71f0a-2f06-404d-a766-814b8fd131dd

PVC pipe (or CPVC or PEX, whatever’s on sale at Home Depot) should make good material for making a faux wrought iron fence. It’s fairly inexpensive, comes in a variety of sizes (both length and diameter), can be bent into shape with the right tools, and is practically indestructible... If mature adult men hitting each other with swords and spears made out of the stuff can’t bust it, elementary kids shouldn’t be able to do much to it.