I shoot N10p in the face. In my defence I had just gone mad. In our Call of Cthulhu campaign, we meet something which may or may not be the Crawling Chaos. He may be an Outer God, but dropping in on a lady when she's just lost a big chunk of SAN doesn't always meet with a friendly response.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/masks-of-nyarlathotep-20.html

Settled down last night to watch one of our new 4k Blurays ("Ronin"), only to be presented with a "Copyright Violation" error.

Makes me seriously consider figuring out how to pirate stuff.

In our Age of Chivalry game last week, the Flemish were very definitely defeated when the Free Companies decided not to fight them, but just grab the loot and run.

This time, we chose a scenario that would force me to fight. The Flemish pikemen were pretty tough, and so it was going to be a difficult battle.

The ending didn't quite go how I expected though.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/return-of-the-flemish.html

We had our session of character generation for my next Traveller campaign. Set in Milieu Zero, at the dawn of the founding of the Third Imperium. We have five players, and we're using my MgT2e system on FoundryVTT.

All characters were mostly completed, and next I need to tweak my plans for the starting scenario.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/travellers.html

Our Ars Magica campaign comes to an abrupt end as we try to interrupt the ritual being cast by the Archmage Alois and his associates.

It's the final session on a four year campaign in Loch Leglean.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/1241-winter.html

We had a game of Saga: Age of Chivalry this weekend. It was my Free Companies against the Flemish, fighting over some loot. The Flemish, with all their pikes, looked impressive, but it's difficult to grab loot when you're carrying a very long pointy stick.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/raiders-and-pillagers.html

Thinking about how to do wooded terrain for Dirtside, I got a big cheap bag of model trees from Amazon. The Hexon tiles include 'forest' tiles, so I glued some tree bases to them, a stuck the trees in the bases.

This gives me removable trees for travel and placement of models during a game. With 5 trees to a hex for heavy woods, and 3 for light woods, I think it gives a reasonable look, plus hopefully keeps playability.

Tank hiding on hex for scale.

In our Ars Magica campaign, we go looking for Brude Deathless again, seeking advice and maybe help for what we plan to do with the magi who are undoing the rituals of binding that have held Damhan-Allaidh in place for so long.

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https://blog.notasnark.net/2026/03/1240-autumn-4.html

Reading through the Dirtside wargame rules in a bit more detail, and I'm amused by the final chapter, where it lists where all the models and terrain came from that were featured in the photos.

Contact details are addresses (real, physical addresses, not email address), and request an SSAE if you wanted a catalogue to be sent to you.

It was a different time, which I still have vague memories of.

A surprising number of the companies are still around in one form or another.