The Hellfire Aces Ride Again: Our Battletech campaign is back, this time as a Google Wave-based RPG.

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The Hellfire Aces Ride Again

July 9th, 2010 by NukeHavoc

Our Battletech campaign is up and running again. After a multi-year hiatus, the Hellfire Aces mercenary band is once again taking jobs, this time as a Google Wave-based role-playing game. Learn more about the campaign.

Holocron Update: 5/2/2010

May 3rd, 2010 by NukeHavoc

We’ve added several new articles to our Holocron of Zend wiki.

The Mandalorian Interlude begins

April 28th, 2010 by NukeHavoc

The latest Shadows of the Force campaign arc has begun. In Episode 9: The Mandalorian Wars, we’re taking a break from our regular characters to play Mandalorians at the start of the Mandalorian Wars, the precursor conflict to the Jedi Civil War featured in Knights of the Old Republic.

Nuketown

Harrowing Halls: Taking Dungeon Tiles to the 3rd Dimension August 31, 2010
Harrowing Halls by Wizards of the Coast MSRP: $11.95 Buy from Amazon.com Note: This review is based on a review copy of the tile set Harrowing Halls is a Dungeon Tiles set for Dungeons & Dragons that takes the long-running line to new heights. That's because they're not just dungeon tiles ... they're three dimensional dungeon tiles that ca […]
Star Wars RPG Round Up: Pop Culture, Campaign Planning, Starships, WotC archive August 29, 2010
My Star Wars: Saga Edition game has hit the summer doldrums, as our Friday sessions fall victim to August vacations, Musikfest, and back-to-school crush. We're about three-quarters of the way through our Mandalorian Interlude story arc (in which we're all playing Mandos in the opening days of the Mandalorian War), and while it's been fun, we […]
Lake Placid: Monster vs. Cow August 2, 2010
Lake Placid Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Betty White Directed by: Steve Miner Running time: 82 minutes Rating: R Buy it from Amazon.com This review is part of Monster Week 2010 Back when the Blackrazor Guild still played D&D, we had a list of standard battle tactics. They were things like "spring the ambush then fight your wa […]

The Fat Cat Inn

A forgiving RPG March 26, 2010
Last night I fought the Tesla Tortoise while playing Resonance of Fate. (How cool is it that the boss I was fighting was a steampunk robotic turtle with a Tesla generator at it's core?) I was doing really well most of the fight, and then right at the end I wasn't paying attention and the battle turned against me. I lost a character, which in RoF is […]
Cappin's Log - Stardate... 1 March 19, 2010
Infinite Space finally showed up last night. I waisted no time and dug right in. After successfully navigating through the tutorials (again) I was off into space. After about 3 hours I had my own ship, and about 5 named crew members. Off to a great start, though I could really use a second ship. I mean, a fleet of ships is better than a single ship right?But […]
Astro Boy: The Video Game Review March 19, 2010
My review of Astro Boy: The Video Game went live up on Nuketown. The game was a pretty fun kickback to the NES era games. Check out my full review here:http://www.nuketown.com/games/reviews/astro-boy-the-video-game-wii […]

Books LIke Dust

Starbound by Joe Haldeman August 22, 2010
Following on the heels of Marsbound by Haldeman, I read Starbound as soon as I was done with the previous book. As this is a sequel, it was a logical course of action...In Marsbound, we discover intelligent life on Mars, life that was bio-engineered to be the mouthpieces of an advanced alien civilization based on silicon-oxides and existing in a sort of cryo […]
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman August 17, 2010
The name Haldeman should be a familiar one to Sci-Fi literature fans: he wrote the widely regarded The Forever War. Winning the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards (source), this book was as much about Vietnam as it was about SF, cleverly using the plot device of time dilation to illustrate the alienation of soldiers returning home from war.Marsbound is a somewhat […]
The Old Argument: Or, the Disconnect in Historical Movie Audiences July 25, 2010
I think the argument is as old as the internet, perhaps even older than that. The scenario should be familiar: a new historical movie comes out, which triggers an argument between two sides -- those that are dissappointed by how historically inaccurate the movie is, and those that claim "it's just a movie."While both sides of the argument have […]

Short, Controlled Bursts

Aliens vs. Predator: the Marine Campaign Review March 2, 2010
A stand-up fight, or just another bug hunt? After finishing Aliens vs. Predator’s Marine story last night, I wanted to post some thoughts. In a nutshell, die-hard fans of the franchise need not despair at the game’s mediocre critical reception – AvP is solid, playable, and fun. Rebellion has done a fantastic job with pacing […]
Aliens vs Predator: Resist the Lure of the Hive Mind! February 23, 2010
I came to an epiphany this morning. (Sure, it was a trivial and geeky epiphany, but don’t be judging on my epiphanies, man!) After reading the mixed critical reviews of Aliens vs Predator last week, I had decided not to purchase the game, or to at least hold off until the price dropped. I realized that […]
Mass Effect 2: Class Consciousness January 26, 2010
So, here I am, hot new copy of Mass Effect 2 in hand, work day complete, free time carved out, and ready to head home for some sweet, sweet sci fi gaming. Everything should be awesomesauce for Lance. Except one little thing – for the life of me, I can’t decide which class I want […]

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