Latest book received

[Vern]

Finally, finally managed to download the audio book of King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild 

[Wirelizard]

I snagged an (electronic) copy of "Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep" a few weeks ago, and while it 's aimed at the RPG end of the gaming market, it's got some good stuff in it for those of us who do scenario-based wargaming (ie, most of us on LAF!) and not just "line up Xpts on your table edge and advance!" gaming.

Chapters on brainstorming, prep and such, some pointers on knowing your strengths and weaknesses as a GM (and compensating for same, when needed) and all sorts of good stuff on prepping for good, well run games while still fitting in something resembling a real life. I do a lot of miniature games at conventions, and can see a lot of the stuff in Never Unprepared being useful this winter as I get ready for next spring's convention rounds.

Published by Engine Publishing, in paper and various electronic (PDF, mobi & epub) formats.

[Hammers]

I snagged an (electronic) copy of "Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep" a few weeks ago, and while it 's aimed at the RPG end of the gaming market, it's got some good stuff in it for those of us who do scenario-based wargaming (ie, most of us on LAF!) and not just "line up Xpts on your table edge and advance!" gaming.

Chapters on brainstorming, prep and such, some pointers on knowing your strengths and weaknesses as a GM (and compensating for same, when needed) and all sorts of good stuff on prepping for good, well run games while still fitting in something resembling a real life. I do a lot of miniature games at conventions, and can see a lot of the stuff in Never Unprepared being useful this winter as I get ready for next spring's convention rounds.

Published by Engine Publishing, in paper and various electronic (PDF, mobi & epub) formats.

Interesting. Actually a topic worthy of a discussion in a thread of its own. We have not done that much here on LAF.

[white knight]

Warhammer Fantasy Battles 2nd edition box, from the Bazar, in excellent condition     

[Svennn]

Warhammer Fantasy Battles 2nd edition box, from the Bazar, in excellent condition     

Does it have the flyers as well?  I have one in French you could pair with it 

[voltan]

Two books from Smoggycon

Freedom's thunderbolt; allied command europe mobile force (land)
and
Military Land rover; development and in service.

[white knight]

From the kickstarter. I have to say that didn't take long to get everything (including some freebie extras).

[twrchtrwyth]

From the kickstarter. I have to say that didn't take long to get everything (including some freebie extras).

Have you had a chance to have a read?

[white knight]

Just skim it really. Nice productionvalues. Big letters and lots of filler, which makes it look a bit light, but then that doesn't mean the rulse can't be fun. They don't look too complicated.

[manic _miner]

 Popped into one of the Barnardoes shops today and picked up two bags of books.A great one about Barbarians and another about Knights.One on model railways and a good Dinosaur one too.

[JollyBob]

Forum member Stimpy has just provided me with near mint copies of Rogue Trader and The Book of the Astronomican for a very reasonable price.

Really nice chap to deal with, too. 

[answer_is_42]

Just got a copy of The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular Literature, 1870-1914 by Cecil D. Eby. Ostensibly for my university dissertation, but containing lots of good inspiration for Colonial/VSF games!

[Plynkes]

Bought this yesterday while Christmas shopping and couldn't put it down. Finished it earlier tonight. Shappi Khorsandi is an Iranian/British stand-up comic. Her father is an Iranian satirist and he and his family were refugees from Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in the wake of the revolution, forced to flee because he wrote jokes and cartoons about the mullahs, and was therefore marked for death by the regime.

The book is a memoir of Shappi's childhood growing up in and struggling to make sense of a new and strange country with such exotic things as Kiss-Chase, fish fingers and nativity plays (she came to England when she was three). Contrasted with this are snippets of life from her family still in Iran, including the death of her uncle at the hands of the Shah's police in the revolution, air raids in the Iran-Iraq war, and another uncle suffering mistreatment as a POW of the Iraqis.


Very funny book, and if you are the sort who cries, you will cry too.

[carlos marighela]

Ah Shappi................ Be still my beating heart. She's smart, she's funny and she's totally hot. Were I not married.....

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look out for that.

[Blackwolf]

Will have to get that for my wife (then I'll read it ). Thank you Mr Plynkes