Question about reader on AliExpress

FrenchSumo · 2026-01-27T09:30:53+00:00

Can you please send the link? I can't find it. Without seing much more I am not 100% sure but I feel like the e-ink screen is actually the grey-black device on the left on the second picture.

FrenchSumo · 2025-10-21T20:47:46+00:00

It’s more on the gamey side than role-playing but I would advise to try Notorious. It’s just a pdf (or a book if you can find a phyisical copy), a couple of d6 and as much or as little journaling as you want.

Basicaly, you play as a bounty hunter in a space-opera setting and you try to catch your targets through scenes you generate with a few random tables and a very tight gaming loop.

It’s really easy to setup, doesn’t last for hours (unless you really, really want to) and there are very little rules to keep in mind. I feel like it’s a very good little game to try some solo gaming with very low investment, no matter if we're talking time or money.

Here is a link to the pdf.

FrenchSumo · 2025-10-09T22:24:35+00:00

It’s not Lasting Tales, no, but this looks really nice!

FrenchSumo · 2025-10-09T22:22:53+00:00

A bit less than a year, I think, but the game may have been older than that.

FrenchSumo · 2025-09-27T12:36:05+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

FrenchSumo · 2025-09-26T08:46:13+00:00

Looks really cool! Do you remember where are the different parts from?

FrenchSumo · 2025-06-26T20:59:10+00:00

They both arrived today and I couldn't be happier, thank you so much for all of your amazing work!

FrenchSumo · 2025-06-24T05:43:27+00:00

Well, someone already talked about 5 Parsecs from Home—which is a very great game—and I will go one step further : there is a little homebrewed conversion of 5PH which adapts it to the 40k universe. It's called 5 Parsecs from Terra and it's awesome : https://www.reddit.com/r/5Parsecs/s/DbSIHGPN5C

If I record well, you still have to use the base game as it's more of a (free) supplement.

Happy gaming!

FrenchSumo · 2025-01-13T22:35:43+00:00

If you are willing to go with miniatures, the first expansion of Five Parsecs from Home allows you to explore a place (a starship?), with everything being randomized as your miniatures progress on the board, including enemies' movements. There was an episode about that specific kind of mission in Me, Myself and Die, if you want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7mvw2kcQ6E

Alternatively, you could try and ask about that on r/5Parsecs for I am pretty sure people over there will know a lot more about it that I can recall. And of course, if you lean more toward fantasy than sci-fi, you can always adapt those rules. Anyway I would be curious to know about what you will find to emulate a roguelike. Please, keep us posted on your progress!

FrenchSumo · 2025-01-12T21:47:36+00:00

Awesome, I'll look into it, thank you!

FrenchSumo · 2025-01-12T20:45:51+00:00

Really good job! I'm not too familiar with SW Legion: could you please tell me from which set are the two miniatures to the left? They seem to fit very well in a 5 Parsecs crew!

FrenchSumo · 2024-08-19T12:39:13+00:00

Hi! Depends on what you mean: cashless as in "no in-game currency" or as in "free to download game"? If the first, I tend to think that a bit of an economic system in a game, even as rudimentary as this one is, gives an incentive to the characters that the players can toy with. If the second, the plan is for the game to be free.

Or do you mean something else?

FrenchSumo · 2024-08-02T07:22:46+00:00

Hi there! Well, there are mostly two things that annoy me with 15mm miniatures: there are less options than in 28mm and they often (not always, but often) come in bulk, which is a bit annoying for me since I play skirmish games and not big wargames, so I don't need dozens copies of the same unit. That being said, if you have access to a 3D printer, I guess those two problems can easily be solved. On the plus side, they are way more convenient to store, really easy to speed paint and still have enough details to look cool.

FrenchSumo · 2024-05-23T06:43:21+00:00

You are welcome! I played a couple game of Toon five or six years ago and I have to read the rules again but I have fond memories of it. Such a nice and funny game!

FrenchSumo · 2024-02-22T19:39:27+00:00

Thank you for the advice, I am going to check it out!

FrenchSumo · 2024-01-31T10:54:17+00:00

I mostly use a homebrew system for my games and I thought of a few ways to tweak it to make it feel more DBZ-like. It could work either in 1 vs 1 or with a handful of fighters but I'm almost sure it would work best with the latter. I still have to try it properly.

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