Hot on the heels of the previous post - we played a game of the free 'Ruthless' rules this morning.
This was truly 'cheap-ass' since:
Most of the buildings were paper prints - from an old 'Miniature Wargames' magazine package. My daughter kindly cut and made these from paper prints for me...for a monetary sum, which, under UK legal laws, shall remain largely undisclosed.
The 12 miniatures we used are old (reallllly old) TableTop Games vintage from 1980 (they may have been painted in 1982 - that's my excuse for the crap paintjob).
The ' Ruthless' rules and the character templates are free here at Mark's Game Room: http://www.fireballforward.com/ruthless.html
A superb set of free rules pretty much 99% there on 2 pages - and can be hacked for Star Wars et al, and I would suggest modern or even Napoleonic skirmish.
The rules use a poker hand to delineate initiative and special effects, and there are character traits. These can be explained in some of the pics re. the four groups of characters at play. D10s are in use to gauge shooting/ reaction etc, with special effects from the hand of cards, and rules for snapshots and overwatch.
With four players, we had four groups - Ranchers, Bounty Hunters, LawDogs and The Gamblers. The game took 4 hours - and the Gamblers were the only side with all three guys still alive at the end.
Wyatt Burp keeps an eye out
The main street of town - the fight would devolve into shootouts at either end, with special emphasis on the church belltower - just out of shot
Col. Mortimer starts to move
As Whiskey Walt staggers past the stables
Now sneaky ol' Stinky Pete is the first to move to the ole' church...cuz he can get to the belltower and use his shootin' bonus to act like a sniper
Clint Westwood moves in to stop him
Doc Springbreak (geddit?) advances onto the street with his shotgun
Only to be shot by Roscoe P. Coltrane
Stinky Pete reaches the belltower and starts shootin' at Sherrif Dan down the street
Col Mortimer and Wyatt Burp start shooting wildly - at one stage Burp fanfires all the chambers, and still misses
Sneakin' Flush Fred
'can't hit a goldurn elephant with this here shootin' iron'
The belltower will change hands 4 times!!! Blackhat kills Stinky Pete in a fistfight and throws him off the tower.
...then BlackHat loses a brawl to ...
...none other than Fat Pedro himself 'ehhhh Gringohhh'
...though the gambelrs are on the move, sniping at the outskirts
Col Mortimer shoots Wyatt Burp dead...
...as the belltower changes hands yet again - the Gamblers and the Bounty Hunters deciding that this was the single most important objective in play - nothing personal
Mortimer is on a roll, killing Sherriff Dan, and wounding Roscoe, before being shot at and missed by Whiskey Walt
But in the end, it was the gamblers who managed to survive with all three of their characters (relatively) intact - Col Mortimer's group rolling poorly and 'gittin' outta Dodge'
The LawDogs
The Ranchers - led by the infamous Col Mortimer
The Gamblers - the ultimate real winners
The Bounty Hunters
A great game - yeeeehaawww.
Never in my wildest dreams, did I ever think I would find a post that this song would fit!
Yet another shameless excuse for a post ... we recently played the old 'Descent' boardgame, the DNA of which helped build Imperial Assault in latter years (but without the massive Disney licence issues - and thereby added expense).
An excellent game using superb little floorplans - and Stephen's excellently painted miniatures (we chose these over the plastic figs that come with the game). Dice pools with pre-marked D6, nice initiative sequences and missions whose success (or lack thereof) affects what happens next and on subsequent missions - with recurring campaign enemies - a bit like D&D but without the Ham acting and need for DM caffeine tablets.
I bet he drinks Carling Black Label
...speaking of which...I've also been running a lot of D&D 5e with the younger group - 1st segment of that campaign is finished - it only took 12 months :O - pics at the end.
Lovely floorplans
Character sheets are streamlined to make it play faster - but great components
1960s Woodstock style headband...cue Hendrix
The thief and her dwarf companion - who umm is clearly not to scale
Goblins who are angry about Brexit
A large black monstrosity which only looked scary because it had been undercoated
goblins who are angry about Biden
'the Final Conflict' in the D&D game now - the evil snake god Zargon tries to snack on the magic princess - can the characters save her from stomach acid?
...ok she can't..oops
the Dragonborn barbarian dives inside the snake - knowing that he has to do at least 40 points of damage in turn 1 to get out...ummm which he does
'It's behiiiind youuuu!'
A return to normal transmission should resume soon ... :)
