Scrum in Miniature

About a week ago we asked Peter Megginson to reprise a Blood & Plunder game for some of those in the Scrum Club who were unable to play in our recent foray with these rules . Steve Braun and Josh O'Connor both have the summer months off from work and live close enough that they joined in for a rare weeknight wargame. Peter had taken note of my earlier write-up in which I expressed a desire to try out the Blood & Plunder ship rules to see if I could appropriate and adapt them to the sword & planet skirmish game I'm working on that will feature lots of airship battles and boarding actions in the skies of Mars, so for this game he concocted a scenario that would allow us to do just that. Steve, Josh, and I each helmed a pirate ship sailing toward a Chinese fort full of spices we hoped to plunder before the other had the chance. Peter gamely played the Chinese spice hoarders. One of the highlights this particular evening occurred by happenstance: Peter brought a shor...

  I've made some wonderful friends since throwing myself into this hobby in 2016, and one of my favorites has been Peter Megginson. I'm not even sure if it was gaming that brought us together because the first time I actually met him was when he swung by my Lost Art Books booth at the Small Press Expo a few years back. I confess, I'm not sure if it was a mutual friend or a mutual love of comics that brought us into each other's orbit, but whatever the circumstances, I'm the luckier for it. I first gleaned that Peter was the type of person I'd enjoy gaming with when I caught a glimpse of his Mad Max: Fury Road game at one of the HMGS conventions a few years back. The crafting was top notch, and he was clearly committed as a game master to ensuring his players were all having a good time, which they obviously were. The game was large, with around a dozen players, and Peter was savvy enough to know he needed a co-GM, his pal and now mine Jeff Hoffman, to keep it ...