The next One Page Game (1PG) is nearly completed and should be released in the next days; here below the preview of the cover (still in WIP):
Underworld Stories is a fantasy dungeon crawl: the game includes three different maps with increasing difficulty and plenty of classical hack-and-slash content!
The 1PG deck will be here used at its full potential: generate the map layout (rooms/corrididors), randomize the events and create different encounters.
Hannibal ad Portas is now available on Wargame Vault!
Hannibal ad Portas is the first title of the One Page Games series: it’s a quick, solitaire historical game where you play the role of Hannibal on his march from Spain to Italy, where he will meet the Roman Army at Cannae (216BC).
One Page Games (1PG) have been designed with the objective of being “light” games in terms of:
I’ve found it more and more difficult to find the time to study a full-featured game while often I’ve got a 30 minutes break in the daily routine: 1PG have been designed to fill this small interval. Rules are easy and short enough to provide a quick but interesting gaming session: from this perspective 1PG are great for a flight since they perfectly fit on the small space of a plane seat.
Each 1PG must follow two design rules:
In addition, you will only need a pencil and a rubber.
How Hannibal ad Portas is played ?
The game uses a simple, linear map built with a succession of nodes. Each game turn is composed of four phases:
In the planning phase you determine how many action points you have at your disposal, then you decide how to use them to execute the available actions:
Your army is composed of Infantry, Cavalry and Elephant Units and you need to manage three critical resources: Supply, Intelligence and Diplomacy Points.
During Combat you proceed selecting one of the available Battle Moves (ex. Assault or Flank) that will determine the casualties: similarly the enemy army will execute one (randomly determined) move.
Stratagems are also available: those represent special, single-use Battle Tactics.
Hannibal ad Portas Game Components:
Get your copy now on Wargame Vault!
Space Infantry: Resurgence is now available on KS! Six strech goals aready smashed so don’t wast your time and join the fight.
Tha game has been totally revised from the graphical point of view and introduce a lot of great new components.
The new edition inclues a TON of material for your solitaire fight against the Xenos!
Check the Kickstarter Page for the latest news, updates, videos and much more.
Xar’Nag are capable of artificially evolve and transform to adapt to any environment: some of them became terrifying killing machines that only the most brave (or crazy) characters will dare to face.
In this new Enemy Sheet you will find one of those behemots, the Flesh Ripper, equipped with four rending claws and a bio-metallic carapace.
This new enemy is suited for RL 3 or 4, and can also be used for the Big Hunt scenario.
Just released, a new Enemy for Blood on the Blade, the Abyssals. Strongly inspired by the Lovecraft’ Deep Ones, the Abyssals are a race of undersea-dwelling humanoids, with a fish head and covered by scale, living in the deep oceans.
Abyssals feature a new type of damage, Bleed. Bleed rules will be probably retrofitted to the main rules in the next update, and I’m sure you will be able to use them for your own creations.
Bleed(X)
A character with a Bleed effect suffers X automatic HPs of damage at the end of each turn until he executes the Special Action “Emergency Bandage”.
Emergency Bandage (Special Action).
Roll 1d6:
(1) Action failed
(2-6) Bandage successful: remove the Bleed marker
This first release of the Abyssals is mainly for BoTB, but they can of course be used also with Blood in Space: I’m planning to release a special scenario where your crew will be facing a rescue mission on a underwater station. Hybrids (Human-Deep One) will also appear on those pages very soon.
Get the Abyssals sheet here!.
I’ve just uploaded version 1.1 of the Blood in Space rules:
Updated files:
I’ve just uploaded the new version of the code for the Character Studio that fixes a ton of micro-problems and some major ones: in detail
I will now evaluate the option to introduce a random generator of Enemies, capable of creating for example Mercenaries (combining Traits, Weapons and Armor) or Mutants (adding of course mutations). Your comments/suggestions/critics are always welcome.
Several players asked me about the “classical” characters of the fantasy world, like for example Dwarves and Goblins: Blood on the Blade include more than 70 different enemies but some of the “classical” characters are missing; while is not difficult to create new enemies (have you seen the DYO Monster Toolkit and the Character Editor ?), I’ve started working on some of iconic characters to make possible to have them on the gaming table during this holyday season: the first bunch of characters is available on the PDF
Classical Characters and Enemies
You’ll find here both the RL1 Enemy roster and the rules to use it as a character for Dwarves, Wood Elvers and Halflings.
In addition, you’ll also find the first version of the Goblins Enemy Sheet: I’m planning to add the Goblin riders (using the new mounted rules found on the 2nd edition) in the next iteration of this new addon. Let me know what characters you’ll like to see added, and of course
The second edition of Blood on the Blade is now available on Wargame Vault!
This new edition of the rules include a lot of new components to improve your gaming sessions:
What about those that already own Blood on the Blade? Very easy:
If you are an existing customer and you’ve not received your voucher, feel free to contact me at zak965@libero.it, including in your email the Order ID on Wargame Vault (you can find it on the email received by Wargame Vault when you bought BoTB or on your Orders info in the Wargame Vault site).
More info on the new content of 2nd Edition in the next days!
CONTENTS
Game Rules
10 Scenarios
19 Enemy Sheets – more than 70 Enemies
1 Sheet of characters for DYO scenario
6 Ready to play Characters
2 Character sheets
6 Table sheets
2 Campaign Rosters
1 Campaign Sheet
32 markers
The Character Editor has now the option to include STR, DEX and CON to better represent the player characters. Magic Users are not (yet) covered by the editor, but most of the standard PC can now be described.
