Board Games… Throwback Thursday: On Our Love of Board Games 23 Mar 202319 Mar 2023 Something I pride myself on with NoRerolls is that were are, for the most part, a pretty positive site. Sure, I might take a dig at shovelware-type games from time…
Painting and Modeling… Throwback Thursday: Club Painting Contest 9 Mar 20236 Mar 2023 Our local gaming club, the Northern Knights, holds semi-regular painting contests. The main one we do in the year is timed to coincide with the local model show. Now, this…
Board Games… Throwback Thursday: Thinkin’ About Playin’ Ghibli 2 Mar 202318 Feb 2023 Studio Ghibli is one of the most beloved and respected animation studios around. They have maintained pretty consistent quality and creativity across the movies. My favourite of their productions is…
RPGs… Throwback Thursday: Goblin Markets 23 Feb 202322 Feb 2023 I don't know what it is about goblins that make me want to write in verse. It's becoming a thing. This particular supplement for Changeling: The Lost (a game we…
Painting and Modeling… Throwback Thursday: Flesh Tearer marine/Duncan Rhodes 16 Feb 20238 Feb 2023 It's been about 20 years since I last did a Space Marine army, and I no longer have those miniatures. I've painted the odd marine here and there, though. In…
Board Games… Throwback Thursday: Gaming in the Discworld 9 Feb 20238 Feb 2023 The Discworld, created by Terry Pratchett, is a fantastic, developed setting that has a lot of potential for use in gaming. Certainly, there's a lot of scope for exploration. There…
RPGs… Throwback Thursday: Faulty Knowledge in the World of Darkness 26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023 There's an inherent problem with knowledge-based checks in roleplaying games. Survival checks, history, arcana, religion, social awareness... there's something that just doesn't work in rolling a dice and getting a…
Miniature Games… Throwback Thursday: Remembering Shadow War 19 Jan 20238 Jan 2023 Necromunda is a good game. It's great that Games Workshop decided to bring it back after it spent a good few years out of print. Before they brought the game…
Card Games… Throwback Thursday: On Structure in Deckbuilding Games 12 Jan 20238 Jan 2023 I love deckbuilding games. Games like Clank, DC Comics Deckbuilding Game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, and others have a semi-permanent place at my table. The game that popularised the genre…
RPGs… Throwback Thursday: In-person and Online RPGs 5 Jan 2023 This post was quite prescient. Back in 2018, I shared some thoughts on playing RPGs online, versus in-person. My answer then was ultimately the same as it is now; in-person…
Board Games… Throwback Thursday: In ur Dungeons, Killin’ Ur Dudes 22 Dec 202218 Dec 2022 Dungeons crawls! I love me some dungeon crawls. One of my first hobbyist board games was actually a dungeon crawl, based on 2nd edition Dungeons & Dragons. It was the…
RPGs… Throwback Thursday: Thoughts on Evolving Settings 15 Dec 202211 Dec 2022 In a post from 2017, I mused on the topic of RPG settings. There are plenty of settings that are fundamentally quite static. They don't change significantly unless there's a…
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