Planning my first game of Fate Accelerated edition and as a GM!

So the plan is to run a RPG at Essex Warriors his sunday using FATE accelerated edition (FAE)

Rules available for free or pay what you want on their site here along with the intro blurb  I offered up to temp people in:

My first go at running an RPG, using the FAE system and set in the 40k universe (mostly). A warp storm dissipates after 500 years, fringe worlds are now accessible that barely know of the imperium, a canny Rogue trader could make a fortune from xeno tech, information and who knows what exotic wildlife or other things may be found.

Your on the crew of such a trader and get to be first on a new world, who will you meet? What will you find? Will you survive to claim riches or meet a grizzly end?

Rules are available here for free on a pay what you want basis
http://www.evilhat.com/home/wp-content/uploads/FAE.zip

I stated up some player characters here for them to choose from

5 player Characters to choose from can be found here along with the Captain who will be a NPC.

If you specifically want a different type of character do let me know, Gender and name can be changed on them all if desired without changing the rest of their stats, background

https://drive.google.com/open…

The Rogue Trader Noxius Ignis (Baleful fire)

The Tamasi System, imperial records show last contact with any planet was over 500 years ago. Imperial control slipped more than 1000 years ago. This far on the fringe of known space many worlds are little more than rumours and guess work.

Ministerium records indicate a Mission in place at some point and a mid tech level on most planets, but the Warp storms and length of time since last contact makes it unlikely knowledge of the Emperor has been maintained outside of mythical folk lore.

We head into the unknown more than normal even for a Rogue trader.

Our holds empty and our crew ready to find fortune and fame.

Rumour states an imperial fleet is enroute to either quarantine or conquer the system and its worlds.

But our immediate concern is other competition from rival traders, Xeno especially the Tau who have been encroaching in other nearby systems spreading their greater good.

Maybe even the Inquisition or other imperial departments making a play for knowledge and power.

All we have is our speculation, as we drop out of warp we home in on what seems to be the central planet based upon communications and the presence of other star going vessels.

Tamasi prime, as we close in it becomes obvious this is the central world, we register one Tau ship in the vicinity, a number of other unknown ships and some local inter system only ships lacking the trace of a warp drive.

Population seems sparse with a few urban centres and plenty of rural towns, it's a big planet with a variety of terrain it looks like.

We look to halt in 5 days joining others in orbit, it looks like despite the various Xeno and entities present there is a peaceful accord for now at least up here.

Who knows how things on the ground are... Captain says a select team will take the bulk lander down to the capital to suss it all out before further action, part of me hopes I get to go.. the rest of me is terrified

I will try and write up how it goes next week some time along with photos of all the miniatures I plan to use! including a new 40+ still on the painting table.... not sure they will all be ready for Sunday or even come up in the story as we play through but lets see!

I have 3 players signed up which is hopefully about right 

Rome: a passion and long term project

So I have always been enamoured by Rome and its history, yet my wargaming past has often seen me shy away from it as a period.

Maybe its by slow painting or the fact sci fi and fantasy took such a forefront along with WW2 etc but I have always wanted to spend more time playing in the time of Ceaser and the Republic

Whilst I have less time to paint delaying any rush into building a legion!

I have had a passing acquisition of gladiators and their ilk

I picked up Songs of Shadows and Dust a Ganesh games rules set for skirmishes in Roman cities between gangs or followers rather than mass battles

I really want to get some proper games in and to that end have been starting on some suitable figures, mostly using the Numidian infantry box set I picked up on the cheap, otherwise I have plenty of Gladiators and now other Roman types to populate the streets and arena

Some of the kit based Raptors below

Some pugilists two bought and two kit bashed

Three Tribunes and a guard

Three Senators out enjoying the games perhaps, also an experiment using nail art gems for rings and such, think it works fairly well on the right models

The Emperor and his aide and a guard

A kit bashed trainer/dokter to referee and train fights/fighters 

Finally got hold of a copy of this OOP ruleset by Warhammer historical

Even includes rules for fighting Ostriches! 

very detailed and lots of information, well worth picking up 

Pre weathering and basing

Bargain Playmobile arena, this thing is pure massive!

OOP for awhile but since I saw it I had to have it to base my arena around, I have lots of ideas to develop it but may end up looking like this for awhile!

Tempted to keep the playmobile statues lol

£22.50 including p&p the next two I saw went for over £70 each! so well chuffed

Two pugilists prepare to fight

Update on lots of things

Update on lots of things

As with these sort of things life and other activity can get in the way of updating a blog.

Not to say I have not been busy with gaming activity because I have and some of which can be seen on my Facebook blog of the same name (easier to update on the fly and with short snip-its)

Trying to paint up my Black Plague base set, the extras and expansions from the KS are still in the big box they came in but look great and sure I will get them all done one day!

(I better before Massive Darkness delivers otherwise I might drown in plastic)

Only a couple of snaps from a great 5 player game of Deadzone v2, 200pts each.

I used proxy rebs and i think we all found it a great wee rule set and once you got to grips only minimal reference to some special rules was needed through out.

will have to play this more, and want to custom build some Necrumunda type gangs without sticking to the default groups

Some more Post Apoc painting I did over the last two months but think I forgot to post on here,

Some more Battletech I am working on although most are not photoed yet!

Some terrain I have finished and or still working on too

and a small but busy table for various skirmish games

oh and a painted Toy pirate ship that I am quite pleased with

Also picked up Horizon Wars rulebook which looks really good fun