My Gaming Thoughts

Over the weekend I did a little more detail work to the top of the Frigate:


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So I had to cancel my playtest over the weekend due to lack of people. Was not a huge issue. I spent Friday night cleaning and putting away all of the things that I do not need.

One of the other things that came up on Friday was that I got my table assignment for KublaCon. I am at table 28 in the Regency Ballroom.

I didn’t get too much time to do much else this weekend. 

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Got the stand done today:



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It is the Thursday before the big playtest and I feel like there is so much still to do with very little time to do it.

At this point I have to stop work on the Frigate and use it as is for the playtest. Here is where it stands right now:

I need to construct the stand for it. (It is not going to be any good if I can’t put it on the table) I have a stat sheet and damage chart for it so it is playable.  The big challenge that everyone keeps asking is how I am going to transport it. I have ...

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So last night my daughter and I spent a lot of time talking about things that happen in high school while we gesso’ed the frigate. There are still a few other things the need to be done. At This point they are not limited to:

• ·         Building the Engines
  
• ·         Finishing the Bridge
  
• ·         Finish detailing the hull
  
• ·         Building the docking bay
  
• ·         Build the Stand
  

Here are some pictures of how it looks today:

Also yesterday I spent some time working on the scen...

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One of the big issues that I've had at larger scenarios is trying to figure out how much damage a particular ship has taken. With 10 or more people at a table they can get quite confusing to figure out how many times a Tie fighter has been hit. It leads to extra questions that don't really need to happen and drags the game down. Additionally it will tend to slow down the scenario.

That being said my solution to this problem was to make little name tents that show the ship the Pilot skill the...

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Been playing quite a bit of Firefly recently. It is one of our go to games when we want to have a group over and play a big game. Last Thursday we have a few people over. We played with the all of the expansions with the exception of leaving the PVP elements out (piracy and bounties).

For the set-up we used the Browncoat way to determine the starting ships and captains. It is my preferred method of distributing ships and captains. The way it works is that each player is given $12000. Then a...

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Spent some time cleaning up the work bench last night. I started work on the bridge of the ship. I made some decent progress on it but there is still work to do on it. It is one of the focal points of the ship and I want it to look good. I spent a little time applying gesso to the ship as well to seal the foam core. Here is where I left it last night.

The Following Picture gives you an idea of the scale:



Spent a little time last night working on the table cards as well. I am about halfway thr...
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Been meaning to post something, anything here for the last couple days weeks months years. So finally after the long wait I finally got around to it. 
Been spending lots of time recently working on my X-wing scenario for KublaCon at the end of the month and there has been significant progress. I have a rough outline of the forces that I am going to use. The frigate that is the centerpiece of the event is coming along nicely and I am tweaking the scenario itself. I will be doing a playtest of t...
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