Repost: Day 2
Not that I plan on posting something every day on this blog, though I should.
Nah.
I spend the better part of the day out an about, browsing aisles at Fry’s and Game Kastle. I needed a replacement charging cable for my phone, so I ended up getting 2 of those (one was found to be too short when I got home), a Hot Wheels car, and some gummi candy from Fry’s. I also almost walked out of there with a USB microphone, the kind used for things like podcasts. I stopped myself when I realized that I don’t podcast.
At Game Kastle, I must have spent over an hour there, browsing and almost starting a trip down the rabbit hole/money suck that is the Batman Miniatures game. The rulebook alone, along with just 3 minis, was a bit too high to start investing in a game that I probably would end up not playing, much like Warhammer 40K had become over the years. At least I may be playing 40K again.
I also looked at supplements for a couple of other games, including Zombicide: Black Plague and a couple of RPGs: Mutants and Masterminds and Traveller.
I found that I could get the Black plague supplement cheaper online.
I was reminded that I purchased a mega bundle of M&M PDFs, including most of the printed items that I saw today.
As for Traveller, I’ve been itching to play some sort of space-themed role-playing game since watching Rogue One. I dug out the original Star Frontiers rules, and browsed the Traveller PDFs that I had picked up in another online sale sometime last year. Again I found that I either had the printed materials in PDF, or I could get them cheaper online.
My monthly group may or may not be starting a new RPG campaign with Mutants and Masterminds. I’d love to start a space RPG campaign.
Oh, ho…
I have discovered that epub documents from the Black Library are quite readable through Google Play Books.
I purchased the Cadia Codex supplement for Warhammer 40K as a test, to see if these were worth buying, and if they didn’t work on my tablet, I was actually considering getting a new or refurbished iPad in order for me to read these things.
Before trying Play Books, I had downloaded a few ‘free’ epub3-format readers, and all of them failed processing the text in the document, in one way or another.
I may purchase digital copies of existing rules.
Bigger Fleet?
Last month I had ordered a few miniature space ships during a sale at Ravenstar Studios.
The owner emailed me this week to tell me that the order shipped, and due to the delay, he ‘added’ some stuff to my order.
I was expecting 7 ships, I ended up with 10.
I ordered some additional flight stands from another vendor.
I still don’t know what I’m naming this fleet, or the individual ships.
However, I did come up with names for the original fleet of ships that I bought last year.
I’ll post an update soon with all of this information. Right now I’m just trying to keep up with my self-imposed ‘post a day’ streak.
The Value of Hard Copy
If there was one thing that I’m learning from shutting down my previous blogs, it’s that there needs to be a backup, possibly printed, copy of anything that I’ve posted, especially regarding gaming and the like.
Case in point: remember those spaceship miniatures that I had picked up and painted and named ‘Task Force Guardian’? Aside from the fact that I made them part of the Philippine Space Navy, I have no record anywhere about the names of those ships.
Which simply means that I’ll end up renaming them, hopefully with the original names or something close, unless I decide on some other governing body for this fleet. Unlikely, though. I liked the names that I picked, and will probably remember them once I look them up again.
Comm officer, send friendship message to unknown fleet: Mabuhay!