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It didn’t take long for Steel & Steam to move back to the front burner. A couple of days ago, Marc Guenette, one of the administrators of the Stack Académie Montréal Facebook page, sent me an invitation to join their group and attend their annual game convention in Montréal, which is taking place from May…
Continue ReadingThe genesis of Steel & Steam came from numerous playings of the Avalon Hill classic, Rail Baron. Rail Baron was a favorite of my son and his mother and we enjoyed playing many games together. However, over time, it became apparent that the game experience was not as rich as it could have been. Under…
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Continue ReadingSteel & Steam is currently on the back burner while I’m riding high on the TOCS wave. In order to accomplish our goal of getting TOCS into the hands of other playtesters this year, there is a mountain of work to accomplish. Here’s the how and why. Rules Review The splitting of the original MASL…
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Continue ReadingThe Nor’easter XXII con is over and I’m just now coming down from the high that was a very successful playtest of the TOCS game system. It didn’t start that way, though. Paul’s aged laptop refused to boot when I arrived on Thursday morning. After numerous failed attempts to diagnose the issue, we wound up…
Continue ReadingPaul and I are attending the Nor’easter XXII Convention in Boxborough this weekend and playtesting the latest rules and tools for the TOCS system. In spite of some initial technical difficulties, we are both having quite a bit of fun with the game and ironing out quite a few rules. I’ll post some pictures after the con….
Continue ReadingThe latest playtest of Steel & Steam was, in my opinion, the most successful yet. As to why… Pace We actually finished a game within 4½ hours. The faster trains solved the pacing problem w/o adversely affecting game play. My primary concern with making the trains faster was that it would reduce game tension among…
Continue ReadingAfter quite a few weeks of getting Canvas up to snuff, as well as a few other code modules updated, the counters for the existing TOCS modules are back to the condition they were at before the big reset. There’s more tweaking to be done, and my Canvas code modules are only 63% documented, but…
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