What have you splurged on recently? (continued)

Oh heck, better run a lot of Midgard soon.

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Midgard Heroes Handbook
Margreve Player's Guide
Tales of the Old Margreve Bundle
Tales of the Old Margreve Adventure
Underworld Player's Guide
Courts of the Shadow Fey
Tome of Beasts 2
Tome of Beasts 2 Lairs
Scarlet Citadel
City of Cats
Monsters: Dragons & Drakes

Hoorah, years of gaming fun right there!

I have some of the 4e Midgard stuff and almost got to running it, but switched to classic Nentir Vale. Still on my todo list.
 
After vanishing from the shelves when the licences were pulled some years ago, Traveller Hero became impossible to find. I’d pretty much given up ever getting physical copies of the two books even at collector’s prices, although I do have the PDFs.

Remarkably, the publisher turned up some unsold copies and decided to sell them at the 2007 cover price…

So yeah, I might have thrown some money at them :D

Now if I can only track down a copy of The Fires of War: The Algernon Files volume 2 I’ll be a very happy man with some very overstuffed shelves.
 
Just bought the Humble Bundle of Heroes' Journey - looks very much the sweet spot between The One Ring and DnD!
Hopefully then it'll be easier to bring in the DND IS THE ONLY GAME crowd that I seem to usually be gaming with. 😉
 
I may as well say I am pre-ordering Winds of Magic for Warhammer Fantasy.

I initially considered the Imperial Zoo but the characters on that cover were to put it politely rather ugly.
Even in grim darkness, there are ways to look better

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I got sucked in to looking at a miniatures sale online, and ended up blowing rather more money than I am comfortable admitting on some dark, twisted steampunk figures. No idea really what I'm going to do with them, other than maybe somehow shoe-horn them in to my steampunk RPGs?
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Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 and some bits-and-pieces to complete the John Carter Of Mars 2d20 set. The plan is to run them both together, bouncing players between Jeddak-of-Jeddaks-era Barsoom and World War II Europe. Some threats from one setting will also start appearing in the other. Not much tweaking is going to be required, going by what I've read so far.
 
Well you could play the skirmish game?
What? Spend all that time and money assembling and painting them, only to risk handling them? I'll have you know that Florence Nightingale's backpack wings are likely to bend if I look at them too hard, let alone touch them.

And besides, playing with toy soldiers is for kids, isn't it? I obviously collect them for their artistic value.
 
Finally finised collecting all the Mongoose Hawkmoon material. Had a glitch where I picked up the Castle Brass book but the shipper failed to seal the end on the mailer properly and I got an empty cardbosrd envelope. Second try netted my a vopy of that this morning so I now have core, Gran Bretan, Castle Brass, Secrets of the Tragic Millenium and Hunters of Gran Bretan. Looks like I'll be running a game shortly.
 
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I picked up a copy of Space Race following the kickstarter fulfilment. It's a boardgame take on a card game I have made by Boardcubator which thematically covers the space race. You pick a project (eg Mercury for single person to space) and play as various agencies to be the first to get there. Victory points are years post 1950 which is kind of odd because the highest score gives the highest date which would be last if it's a race?

Components are very high quality. I picked up the Cold War expansion which adds a moonshot mission and the Soviet N1 and Saturn V. The art on the cards is absolutely gorgeous.

It's a combination of tableau engine building, area control (over projects and areas of breakthrough) against a seven rounds of play, all with different scoring opportunities.
 
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This also arrived yesterday. The reprint of the Look-In comic Robin of Sherwood tie in. On first skim there’s lots that could be lifted for Sherwood style game.

One of my favourite TV series growing up. I've already run a Robin of Sherwood FAE game with two members of my gaming group. I really need to run another session, but perhaps this time with four or five players.
 
I'm semi limbering up for a 4e streaming series on Foundry, probably pre-recorded and edited down. A couple of possible adventure options both happen to be in Forgotten Realms, so I've gone POD in the D&D Drivethru sale.

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