Hail and Greetings once again!
It has been a long time, hasn't it? Believe it or not, things have been going very well in my resurgent Mage Knight addiction. Played lots of games, clicked lots of dials, and even got something resembling a regulation play area now. Of course, I had to let my blog about my active gaming become stagnant, like some sort of avant-garde lunatic.
I, uh, I need to work on that. My group is getting ready to try something a bit more complex and try out something like a campaign. Some of concepts and mechanics are up in the air, but the high concept itself is sound. I can't talk about it just yet, because the story wasn't my idea and I don't want to make it look like it was. That I added to it some and subjected it to my own special form of madness, yes, but only after I obtain permission to do so.
What I can say is that it will be very "your dudes" focused. Mage Knight, at its essence, I felt always best when about your personal army and its deeds, trials, and accomplishments. I know that this isn't anything like a universal opinion; this is gaming, and gaming should ultimately be about personal choice.
What we're going for is going to be more like the wild tales of mongrel armies gallivanting about and clashing that you see in 'casual' games than the focused scenarios where mono-faction was the only way to go. Don't misunderstand, everybody will have a heavily favored faction or two in their forces (I've got loads and loads of Black Powder Revolutionaries, and I'm not giving them up anytime soon), but penalizing somebody because they want to throw some Atlantis into their otherwise Dark Crusade vampire edgefest just misses the point. We're also going to do lots of scenarios, but with added quirks and maybe even some craziness like lopsided build totals or other 'unfair' stuff.
I'm also trying to get and/or make some more terrain to work with. Things like wrecked villages, big rocks, makeshift fortifications, maybe even some of those constructed terrain thingamabobs if I can find a genie.
TL;DR Time is like a river, and history repeats...
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