The Cleansing of Malencra

Saturday afternoon session play testing new combat rules for Nightwatch – Blood and Bone saw four Guild Hunters track the witch, Ulva Bone Hag, to the village of Malencra. Silent streets, shuttered houses, no sign of villagers, livestock, or pets, the place gave off a sense of malevolence like a bonfire sheds heat. It felt […]

More Nightmares

My latest tabletop wargame project, When Nightmares Come, is an occult investigation/supernatural warfare game. Set in the modern era, vigilante monster hunters work together to track down and put an end to an otherworldly threat before it puts an end to them. Another solo and cooperative game like Exploit Zero, Nightwatch, and Insurgent Earth, Nightmares […]

Of Guides, Crypts, and Arachnids

In the Shadow of Balaur Mormant, session 5. A NIGHTWATCH campaign. Previously on ‘The Shadow of Balaur Mormant’… Our heroes returned from a zombie-infested mountainside village with evidence of supernatural malfeasance and untoward necromantic practices. While the provincial governor was already convinced of the unnatural threat, the captain of the garrison remained skeptical and suspicious. […]

Rebels, Thugs, and Szek SCum

Another NIGHTWATCH Battle Report Episode IV – In the Shadow of Balaur Mormant RECAP: Our heroes are currently in the remote border province of Mos Tolna to investigate reports of brutal murders and sightings of unnatural creatures. Adding to the danger, long-simmering ethnic tensions in the region are threatening to boil over into full-blown revolt, […]

Closing out 2022

And welcoming 2023 Hello again. I hope everyone had a good holiday filled with the comfort of family, friends, good food, and fellowship. And some gaming. Because 1. it’s fun and 2. it too is one of the few things left that brings those great ingredients together. THOSE DARK PLACES Not the holidays – the […]

More on Simple Games

Writing and releasing Insurgent Earth Operation String Bet took the lion’s share of my time and energy the last month-plus, which meant a return to simple games for weekly sessions and a Thanksgiving battle with my grand kids. And a perfect reminder of why ‘beer-n-pretzel’ games are more necessary than ever these days. WHEN FRIENDS […]

Operation String Bet

OPERATION STRING BET is a five-mission campaign supplement for Insurgent Earth – Resist or Die, the science fiction, tabletop miniatures game of survival and combat on Earth after a massive alien invasion. Designed to accommodate up to five players, (five Resistance characters) Operation String Bet offers new Player Character options, new equipment, and new Alien […]

Dead Silence

Part Three of ‘In the Shadow of Balaur Mormant’ A NIGHTWATCH campaign. Previously on ‘ The Shadow of Balaur Mormant’… Three of the six regular players were absent, so our heroes split the party. Those in attendance investigated reports of a missing farmhand and slaughtered livestock at a nearby farm, then trekked to a logging […]

In defense of simple games

The Cape Cod Wargame Commission finished up our Eclipse Phase 2.0 adventure last Tuesday evening. For the final battle, the Firewall team was reinforced with two additional Agents – a Combat Medic and Scout/Soldier – (Mike D and Liam) as they infiltrated an abandoned war-tech bunker in the Titan Quarantine Zone. The Planetary Consortium and […]

Little Nightmares

Lately, a big chunk of my working hours have been spent writing, play-testing, and re-writing When Nightmares Come, my next set of war game rules for Osprey Wargames. Leaning into a modern-era, supernatural horror theme, Nightmares blends narrative scenes and RPG elements with successive combat encounters as the players hunt down a terrifying, otherworldly menace. […]