Extra Credits’s Byzantine Empire Justinian and Theodora Series
I wonder how many hours will it take me to dig up my old notes for this campaign? I love how Crusader Kings, Extra History, Crash Courses History, and many…
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Sins of the Crusade Season 03 Episode 01.5
Thanks to the players:+Mike Dulay, +Il Pella , +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham , and +Ken Kthulhu Summary The army separated. they divided between the two paths. This is because of the rising tension between Mauger and Tancred.…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Season 03 Episode 01
Titled war, this was caused by the stalemate of the talks of Bohemon and Alexios. Bohemmon wants a command of Asia Minor, the equivalent of ~1 million households. An economy,…
Read more →Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store and the app available has worn my patience) I’ve almost…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Time Line Leading up to 1092
The detail and how often the pieces fit from the various Wikipedia entries are awesome. This is for my players but the amount of work it took to assemble this…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades Notes on Army Organization
Sadly its really hard to research Komnenian Armies. This is because of the haphazard situation and the constant conflicts unlike Justinian/Belisarius and Maurice’s time as well as titles being a…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades – Season 02, Episode 06 – Betreyal
Thanks +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham, +Thunder Clonch , and +Il Pella for playing. The team was planning an attack, the problems and challenges were plenty the closest target was Nicomedia (Izmit), assailable by sea and land…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Season 02 Episode 05 – Byzantine Allies
Note: Listening again to the game, I was really out of it. Thank you goes out for my players patience this session: +Dan Mungham , +Wilton Heath , +Milan Runic , +Il Pella , and +Mike Dulay for…
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2015-01-10
Campaigns
Sins of the Crusade: Episode 4, Season 2 – Byzantine Enemies
Thanks to +Willy So , +Milan Runic , +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , +Dan Mungham , and +Mike Dulay for joining the game. When the lion cannot fight his own battles An Improvised ambush. The party’s warriors and lord walk…
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2014-11-25
Campaigns
Sins of the Crusade Episode 03, Season 02
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Wilton Heath , +Dan Mungham , and +Mike Dulay for playing. Summary of Events After the events in Taranto, we fast forward 3 months (mid May to mid August) as the Party has…
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2014-10-29
Campaigns
Sins of the Crusade Season 2, Episode 2: Desperate Enemies
Thanks for +Mike Dulay , +Il Pella , +Alais Legrand , and +Thunder Clonch. +Wilton Heath was unable to join but gave a heads up early. I think there were many disconnections for me in this game,…
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2014-10-22
Campaigns
Sins of the Crusade Episode 01, Season 02
Thanks to+Il Pella, +Wilton Heath, +Mike Dulay, +Thunder Clonch, +Matthew Cruz, and +Alais Legrand The week the party sworn themselves to Bohemmon, it feels a bit like some trickery. The Prince of Taranto has enemies,…
Read more →Roll20 Optimized Combat Mapping
First you have to Roll20 Best Practices Gif is the Smallest, and has some lost detail. Comparing the same file from PNG to Gif at the same px the Gif is…
Read more →Warring States Pilot Episode
Characters Thanks to: Zhaoze Zhexue +Steven Donaldson Yi Qin +Filip Vukanovic “Da” Yuan +Dan Mungham Anguo Aiguo +Daniel Tallor Summary The party begins in Hebi, a fortified village that serves as a way station…
Read more →Warring States Map and how I did it with a Note 10.1
The (hypothetical) Huang-Jin Valley for the Warring States game. Sorry I have to really fudge some details lost in the last 2500 years. import the map into s note. turn…
Read more →GURPS Low Tech Notes: Galleys, Naval Encounters,
Galleys Galleys are long narrow oared boats, sometimes with sails. They were used from BCE to the 1500CE. They were measured in total number of oars, and rarely by their…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade E05, A Petty War
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , and +Wilton Heath for playing! We finished the battle where we left off. I kept rolling 15-16 in defense. After the game I checked the books and a…
Read more →GURPS Demo – Behind the GM’s Screen
So on Friday Night EST at around 7pm, I’m running a GURPS Demo. No story, just a bunch of Pregens and submitted characters sheets (give me time to create the…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades Episode 4.5 – Intrigues
In Episode 4.0 Tertius and Xeno were part of a “War Game” where they battled season vets and manage to win by an Off-called technicality. This was a way to…
Read more →List of Preparation for Warring States Campaign
Here is a list of stuff I tend to prepare for my games. If there is any question why I set up a game in 4 months in advance this…
Read more →War Beneath Haven S02 E11 – the Mountain, end of Season 02
Season 1: 8 episodes May 17 to November Season 2: 11 episodes Feb to April 26 Summary The party began the adventure in the mountain, having crashed their vehicle in…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade S01 E03 – Taranto
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos.+Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos+Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the House Milessenos…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E10 – The End has Arrived
Speedy is in the infirmary. Sam was taking care of him. Jeni visits him and this happens while the team was fighting the dragon. Sam notices something odd about Merle…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade E02 – the Sin of Weakness
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos. +Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos +Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the…
Read more →The War Beneath Heaven S02 E09 – Falling from Grace
Thanks to +Kalalification Playing Jack Striker +Panic Slark Playing Archie Griffith +Lee Fairweather Playing Sam Morpheus +Ken Kthulhu Playing Fish +Ffej Lednam Playing Eeshu This happens a few days before the explosion on the…
Read more →Things to Look forward Too
Because of the Games I’m running both Modern and Historical here are the projects that are just going through last edits and where I have to step away a bit…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Pilot
Some Background, the reason I chose 1092 is because if there is anything going to be done that will alter the course of history of the crusades its going to…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Art
cramming some art for the Campaign. No pressure, its just been 5 years in the making.
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E08
We began with some Office Drama. Merle has a falling out with Thomas. Cheng Dao has been riding the HSS hard and Thomas burned out left Speedy in charge. First…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 10: Energy Reserve and Extra Fatigue; Modular Abilities and Magery
Edit: I just got Powers Energy Reserve is in GURPS Powers p.119. Its basically build in from Fatigue Points. I first heard about this in the forums. If you don’t…
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