Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/09/18 – … but sometimes it is a little early!

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Yay … I’m back again 🙂

Let’s see if I can get something done, right ?
Planning on coding for my Killteam utility. There’s not much to show yet, because it’s engine stuff (I can save stuff in a database … yay). Still thinking of a name and platform (webbased is cool, but impractical).

Once that’s done (like never ;)) I will have something to try and maintain my Killteam stats. At least that’s the idea.

Next week there’s Elfia (a fantasy/cosplay themed event, I may go as Elwood Blues ) and then there’s the bootcamp after that.

1) Have you ever played a tabletop role-playing game? If so why not, if you do, what do you prefer? How might I change your mind if you arent a fan?

Yep, it is what kind of got me into this hobby.
Athough to be fair when I started I just collected lots of RPG books as they are fun to read.
I did play in a AD&D 2nd edition campaign with co-workers. It was kind of fun.
I’ve also played demo games at the few conventions I’ve been to over the years. Last one was a Pathfinder society, which was fun but I don’t see the appeal of doing it in a ‘competitive’ format.

2) Recommend me a computer game of some sort. No wrong answer.
Soo many choices. I’d be here all year if I had to list them all.

The new Spiderman game for PS4 is excellent. Spidey webslinging through new york, fighting bad guys and being sneaky feels really good.

I trust you’ve seen the Nintendo news this week ?
Civilization is coming to the Switch. I haven’t seen any real info, but it looks like it might be the same game as on pc.
The console versions were cool, but extremely simple by comparison.

Horizon:Zero Dawn is getting a boardgame, but it was a very cool open world game with an interesting story (and robot dinosaurs … everyone likes them, right ?) .

Speaking of RPG’s … there’s the Witcher series. Ideally you’d start at the first one (should be cheap on Steam or GoG.com), because it allows you to get to know the world and set up a few consequences later in the series.
Be prepared for an adult themed game though. Best thing about the series is that the choices aren’t black&white and everyone really hates you for being a mutant bastard. Choices do matter.

3) Is Kitbashing and Converting the same thing or different? Keep this one civil lads!

I think everyone has said more or less the same things so far and I have to agree.
Conversion is more like adding a few bits and pieces to a primary kit.
Kitbashing is taking stuff from several kits + scratchbuilding and creating something completely new and possibly unrelated to any of the kits used for parts.

4) Do you do much in the way of narrative play, campaigns or the like? Is there any era, worldwide events or the like that you paritcularly enjoyed/still do or wish to explore?

I don’t have half the time I’d need to play anything, but I’d definitely enjoy a more narrative focus.
It’s why I like the new Xcom computer games.

5) Any of you guys go to any of the BoW events or bootcamps, and what would you like to see from one of those events.

I’ve been to the FoW 4.0 bootcamp and the Bolt-Action is next.
It makes me wish there were similar events closer to home.
I do wonder if a RPG focused bootcamp could be possible.

Tunes ?

You might recognise this one from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer :

And to finish :