Monthly Archives: August 2013

Pacific Rim BattleTech: statting up Gipsy Danger and Coyote Tango

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Matt Wedel

Up until recently London and I were playing Pacific Rim BattleTech with standard or only lightly edited BT mechs, mostly from the CityTech 2E box because that’s what I had ready sheets for on the evening we invented the game. … Continue reading →

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A Good Time to be a Mechwarrior, Part 1: BattleTech Introductory Box Set

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Matt Wedel

This is how my brothers and I learned to play BattleTech back in 1987: with cardboard standups on a thin, single-sided cardboard map. And you know what? It rocked. Almost as soon as we’d learned how to play, we started … Continue reading →

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Collect Call of Cthulhu, Part 6: Markus Bühler’s multifarious horrors

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Matt Wedel

Today’s entry in the Collect Call of Cthulhu covers some of the work of Markus Bühler–in 2D and 3D, realistic and impressionistic, original and homage. In the previous entries I’ve given each piece it’s own post, but here I thought … Continue reading →

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Collect Call of Cthulhu, Part 5: Bryan Riolo’s Cthulhu emerging

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Matt Wedel

This latest entry in the Collect Call of Cthulhu is from Bryan Riolo, a.k.a. Algoroth on DeviantART. Please note that Bryan Riolo holds the copyright for this image and reserves all rights to it; it appears here thanks to his … Continue reading →

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Going dark for a bit

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Matt Wedel

Well, summer teaching is finally over, and I’m taking a week of vacation before the fall semester starts. While I’m gone I will be completely off the grid as much as possible. We’ll get back to the Collect Call of … Continue reading →

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