Adventures in Tabletop gaming
Oak & Iron, Blood & Plunder, Blitz Bowl, Warmaster, Frost Grave, Gaslands, OSE, Shadowdark
In 2018 I moved from New York City to the UK and decided that I would get back into tabletop wargaming. I had been playing boardgames with my wife and friends in NYC and rediscovered RPGs after a long break, but I hadn’t touched wargames since my early 20s.
So I got in contact with some old gaming mates, picked up a couple of DBA armies and dived back in.
This website is my attempt to collect together the various guides, quick reference sheets and game aids from my growing collection of tabletop wargames as well as some modelling guides.
You’ll also find bits and pieces on hiking, cycling (especially bike packing), PC gaming and the other things that grab my interest from time to time.
Latest Posts
Balancing Universal Storage II
UPDATE: Since publishing this article I have improved the process used to balance parts. The article has been updated accordingly. The first version of Universal Storage was balanced using real world examples. This involved researching storage techniques for each resource, using space program examples where possible, then calculating what each Universal Storage part could contain […]
Food Shopping Calculator
When I lived in New York we would have our food delivered monthly. However we found we were throwing a lot of food away as it rotted in the fridge. Eating out and eating ‘unplanned’ meals was the primary cause of this and we become increasingly annoying with the food waste. My solution was better […]
2 minute tabletop (buildings)
A simple method for creating tough building tiles using 2 minute tabletop’s modular building system. Backed with thick board and coated with clear lacquer to protect the print, these should last for many gaming sessions.
Cat litter box
Join me in my quest to make the ultimate cat litter box! Big enough for two cats, it features a large door to access the tray for cleaning, room for tools and spare litter, and my personal favorite, a motion sensor light so the cats don’t have to go in the dark!
Elite Dangerous touchpad control
Control Elite Dangerous using a iPad or Android tablet using free software from Roccat Powergrid and these custom control screens.
Shuttle Gaming PC
Can I build a gaming PC in a Shuttle XPC? Nothing too special, a Nvidia 1070 with a core i5 and SSD. Turns out the answer is yes as long as you don’t mind taking out everything except the motherboard to squeeze in the graphics card then building everything else around it.