Month: April 2018

Cold Casting With Powdered Metals

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Here’s a tutorial on using resin and powdered metals to make pieces that look as though they were cast in metal.

Martial Arts Card Engine

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The Martial Arts Card Engine is a set of free wargames rules for simulating fighting games and anime battles. From the game description:

MACE is a game for 2 – 4 players. MACE simulates the fantastic martial arts battles common to fighting games and anime. Each player is represented by a Fighter, a master of the martial arts complete with vicious Strikes and powerful Blasts of energy. The goal is to Knock Out all other players Fighters, with the last one standing the winner.

MACE uses a deck of playing cards, a hex sheet and some tokens, so is easy to play and requires no book keeping. MACE also features a unique order mechanic called Momentum, which allows you to choose when you act.

Heart of Oak, Skin of Iron

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Heart of Oak, Skin of Iron is a set of free wargame rules for naval combat in the years 1852 – 1870.

Ysgarth Fantasy Role Playing System

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I remember Ysgarth from my role playing days in the late 1970s. The game first was published in 1979. It was one of a number of fantasy rpgs that I remember we tried before finally settling on the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play.

Ysgarth has got a pretty complex system of skills and attributes, but action is resolved on a simple d100 (that is, you roll 2d10s and read them as separate decimals)

Burning Rome: Barbarian Uprising

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Burning Rome: Barbarian Uprising is a free print-and-play, standalone expansion for the commercial game, Burning Rome. It’s free because right now, it is in the prototype stage, so I suspect it won’t be up long.

Both Barbarian Uprising and the original Burning Rome are two player card games are two-player, deckbuilding, tactical card games.