Tag: Two Hour Wargames

  • A “Ridiculous” Tank

    A “Ridiculous” Tank

    “In this fateful hour, when the Germans had almost defeated us, those ridiculous tanks saved our positions.” – Mikhail Katukov, Marshal of Armored Troops The T-60 Scout Tank has an unusual place in history, it was beloved and universally hated at the same time. While at a later date, General Katukov praised the T-60 in…

  • WHAT Monsters and Other Critters

    WHAT Monsters and Other Critters

    “Where are all of the cool creepy monsters?” asks the new player. It’s true, when you purchase most RPGs, role playing games, the monsters aren’t in the core rules. Some rules like WHAT, Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir, cover some of the bases. WHAT has 16 different creatures and races, and when it comes to…

  • WHAT – The Paladin

    WHAT – The Paladin

    Wait a minute! There’s already a Knight class in WHAT (Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir), isn’t that the same thing? Well, yes and no. WHAT defines a Knight as an elite fighter skilled in the use of a sword. While a Paladin is indeed a Knight, he or she is also something more. We first…

  • WHAT – A Day Carousing

    WHAT – A Day Carousing

    Taverns and Inns are deeply embedded in Role Playing Games and fantasy literature. Whether it is the Prancing Pony in Lord of the Rings or Inn of the Last Home in DragonLance, the tavern inn is an important meeting place for characters and often serves as home, or base of operations, for traveling characters. The…

  • WHAT 1st Encounter – Part 4, The Game

    WHAT 1st Encounter – Part 4, The Game

    While most of Entoich is open semi-arid land, the land becomes more wooded in the north approaching Tropilium, which was where Bhoma and her band was headed. The border between Tropilium and Entoich is the Clemency River and the Clemency River flows into Mare Tropilii, “Sea of the Tropilium”. Today finds them in Kanesh, the…

  • WHAT 1st Encounter – Part 3, The Denizens

    WHAT 1st Encounter – Part 3, The Denizens

    In this part I’m going to show you who lives in the dungeon. This is the last bit of prep work before playing the Dungeons Encounter in Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir or WHAT for short. Though I’ve taken three posts to demonstrate the prep work I’ve done, in actual time it only takes a…