While work and playtesting (and the brain slog of layouts, art, and writing) for the next playtest of Hexingtide, continues, I was recently struck by a very dumb idea. The first session in July for my twice-a-month home group falls…
Work continued on the late 1500s big battles project this weekend. Slowly, but surely, but… slowly. Two bases of stradioti light horse and a single, small base of shot. Frustratingly still having a – for lack of a better work…
Emulating the battles of the pike and shot era has been something of a white whale. I’ve quickly gotten intimidated by – or otherwise disinterested in – the sheer scale of such an undertaking each time I’ve embarked on the…
Hexingtide’s Playtest 4 is still a month or two away, but here’s a holiday gift from me to you. A rules sneak peak: updated character creation rules and core dice mechanics of Power and Portent Checks! Available on Itch: WillPhillips.Itch.io/Hexingtide As I…
A short, but welcome, update! Work continues on the Playtest 4 release of Hexingtide, my game of Minimalist Monstrous Roleplaying. After this January’s burnout and letting the project sit on the back burner for most of 2023, I’m excited about…
A brief, but important update on the current state of Hexingtide! (What’s that? My minimalist TTRPG of monster stories and monster protagonists. Inspired by Hellboy, the World of Darkness, and a whole heap of other spooky sources. You can download the…
(Want to skip the context and list of updates and just get to the rules themselves? I get it. Buy and download The Devil’s Brand on Itch here.) Since February I’ve been running a twice-monthly game (with a few scattered…
As I’ve returned to my small scale pike and shot project with this move up to 10mm, I’ve been looking on a method to quickly and efficiently base my figures that still looks visually appealing and realistic. e.g. No figures…
Over the past couple of months I’ve slowly returned to my “small scale” pike and shot project with a move up to 10mm. After working on rules using paper proxies, I made the initial purchase of 6mm figures from Baccus…
Work on my c. 1750 New France & Osage Nation skirmish homage continues. Lots of the focus has been on terrain, lately, but the rules are starting to coalesce as well. As I’ve been writing them, it’s become clear that…