Author: HappyMonsterScott
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Happy MonsterCast Episode 40: Siege of New York
The Legion of Liberty takes to the seas to stop British smugglers from reaching the embattled city of New York. Featuring Jung Soo, Frankie, Bob, Frank, and Brendan of the Foundry Gang.
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Paint Shop: Blood Rage Bear Clan
I’ve been getting back into regular painting, and caught up with the partially-finished Blood Rage Bear Clan from my previous work in process. I wanted to theme four of the clans for the seasons, so the Bear are the Winter clan.
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Relics and Rayguns Episode 29: The Living Base
The Blind Jump crew have moved on to a new solar system. On a cold, dusty red planet, they discover a strange construct, seemingly half building, half creature. One entrance at either end appears viable – a mouth-like orifice with razor-sharp metallic teeth in continual chomping motion, and a tightly closed sphincter. The crew opts…
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Happy MonsterCast Episode 39: Break-in!
This week, the Legionnaires launch their hostage rescue mission, and find an unexpected enemy, and unexpected allies. Featuring Frankie, Brendan, Bob, Frank, and Jung Soo of the Foundry Gang.
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Board Game Review: Space Gate Odyssey
Over the New Year’s weekend, Joy and I finally got a chance to break out Space Gate Odyssey, a 2-4 player game from Ludonaute Games, thereby removing the longest-standing unplayed game from my shelf. The premise of the game is that you are competing factions trying to gain predominance on specific colony worlds by building…
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Arisia 2021 Gaming Schedule
Happy Monster will be running three games for the virtual Arisia 2021! Saturday, January 16 at 7:00 PM: Yedo – this is a challenging worker placement board game in which players try to promote the influence of their Japanese samurai clan through means both fair and foul Sunday, January 17 at 4:00 PM: Savage Worlds…
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Review: Farting Frenchies
Farting Frenchies is a game about stinky flat-faced dogs. Since I own such a dog (admittedly a pug, not a Frenchie, but definitely qualifying on the stinky front), I decided to jump in when I saw the game on Kickstarter. The mechanics of the game are a fairly conventional mix of draw-one play-one and set…
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Relics and Rayguns Episode 28: The Brains
The Blind Jump crew are exploring an alien space station that appears to be haunted. After fighting off hostile ghost-like creatures, they continue further into the station. As they explore, the floor suddenly starts to feel strange, almost as though the flat floor was made of rollers. Whooey scans the floor, but can’t figure out…
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Happy MonsterCast Episodes 37 and 38: Yedo
Happy Monsters Joy and Scott, Foundry Gang member Brendan, and Lara of Savage Salem playthrough and review Yedo from IDW Games.
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Relics and Rayguns Episode 27: The Octohedron
After resupplying on Tlaina, the Blind Jump crew jumps to a new set of coordinates. The star system they discover is largely empty; a star has inflated to a red giant and then collapsed, leaving the system mostly empty. However, an octohedral space station orbits near the wormhole exit node, with four docking ports spread…