Month: May 2025

Task Force Zeta Starship Rules

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Task Force Zeta is a set of free wargames rules for starship combat.

Pundits will tell you that representing space combat in 3 dimensions is a wasted exercise in mathematics, and that two ships fighting can be equally well represented on a 2-dimensional plane. What happens when you have three ships? ten? Did their captains all just conveniently forget about attacking/defending from the z axis?

Task Force Zeta allows you to fight battles against opponents in a representation of real (3-D) space using vector movement – without doing complex math every time you move or fire. Fourteen different ship classes are provided, along with fighters and bases, as well as basic rules for ship construction – design your own factions or convert ships from your favorite movies/TV shows!

Rock Paper Scissors On Steroids

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Remember the old Rock-Paper-Scissors game? I’ve often thought that it would be an interesting basis for resolving combat in a miniatures game. But the three traditional hand gestures just wouldn’t provide enough variety.

But how about 15 different gestures — things like the Dragon, Tree and Wolf — with 1,307,674,368,000 permutations.

Or the even more insane RPS25 with 15.5 Octillion outcomes

How To Make Terrain Gloop For Texturing

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In this tutorial, white glue, sand, water and art plaster to make a gloop for texturing terrain pieces.

 

Fourteen Free Microlite 20 RPG Variants

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Microlite 20 is a set of minimalist RPG rules designed for compatibility with Old School Dungeons and Dragons materials, as well as the d20 OGL. Fourteen free Microlite 20 variants are available at the link.