Showing posts with label In Her Majesty's Name. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In Her Majesty's Name. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Ezekiel Blume

This is the first painted figure for The Society for Advanced Meta-Exploration. The Society is an independent adventuring company that I will be playing for the upcoming In Her Majesty's Name Victorian science-fiction and steampunk skirmish rules. The figure is by Ratnik and is beautifully detailed.

Ezekiel Blume, for as long as he could remember, feared the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and had spent eight mighty years as an Evangelical lay preacher until he was asked rather forcefully by his Yorkshire congregation to vacate his premises under cover of darkness due to some unfortunate circumstances. Perceiving that he cannot reform his sinful ways, it is not uncommon to find him roaring and trembling in fear of divine judgement over bitters and ales at the local pub. He will still preach to any that will listen and, when moved by the spirit, he will retrieve his small and worn bible from within his waistcoat, stand on a chair and deliver a sermon on morality and rigidity.

Ezekiel Blume was recruited into The Society for Advanced Meta-Exploration on a forgettable and wet evening on a street corner of London. He now rather vigorously passes righteous judgement against any that oppose the ambitions of The Society.





Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Steampunk? You Bet your Pocket Watch!

I have been enjoying the Steampunk movement long before it became the fashionable mega-craze that it is today - heck, Steampunk is almost on par with teenage vampire romance novels these days. I am a founding member of the Society for Advanced Meta-Exploration, I have been known to occasionally wear a fancy waistcoat and pocket watch to the office and I have personally hand-crafted several magnificent pairs of goggles that may or may not allow the wearer to detect psychic-anomalies in an urban environment. If I could fly a zeppelin today, I would do it.

Without a doubt, I will be pre-ordering the new Steampunk skirmish rules In Her Majesty's Name by Osprey Publishing along with the fantastic looking models that are being being released by North Star. I probably don't need another game to play right now, but this sounds perfect for me. There have been other Steampunk rules in the past, most notably Dystopian Wars, but those have all been ship-based games and so I have thus far been able to avoid them.

In addition to the obvious love for the genre, I am excited about these rules for several reasons: First, the games are meant to be small and quick and I can get started with just a few painted models. Second, there is a larger campaign component to add story and some aspects of role-playing to the games if desired. And third, the rules seem to be fairly open and can be customized and appended based on each persons style of play and imagination. If my understanding is correct, new types of characters, new adventuring companies and weapons can all be devised by players and used in games. That is a huge win for me. 

I don't think I'll have any trouble recruiting other local players to join me on some adventures!

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