These Old Games

I post about Star Smuggler all the time. I had the boxed set when I was a kid and finally lost it in the fire.  During the rebuilding and r...

My last post addressed my desire to create a new game system. In order to make great games, you need to know how to play games. This helps ...

UPDATE 1/22/2023. These files are now available at BoardGameGeek and already have 22 downloads for a 40+ year old game.  Last night, I recei...

This is an odd choice of rules for #CharacterCreationChallenge, but Star Smuggler is one of my favorite games. It is a solo game where the p...

I have a handful of ideas in mind for new projects, hopefully, to offer on DriveThruRPG. This one requires a lot of stippling and some digit...

In my last post, I hypothesized that the player could recover from the loss of their Antelope spaceship by pulling together a small team of ...

One of the nice things about Star Smuggler is the designer thought to make the game extendable. If you have played the generic game too many...

It's finally happened, I got nailed with Covid. It's perhaps a mild case, as there are times when I feel ok and other times when I c...

If you look over to the right, you'll see the countdown is on. We are set to return home by mid-April. 54 days. That means a lot of thin...

I've written hundreds of posts about Star Smuggler . One thing I glossed over is the combat system for spaceships. I was hoping that you...

Alright, I hope you noticed all of my ads the past couple of days. They help support this site. However, they aren't the main reason for...

The crews of the Zephyr and Sirocco are fully fueled and ready to go. They have 76,253 to spend.  In this post, I'll be trying the Regar...

We left on at the end of Day 5. On Day 6, the ship is repaired and ready to go. As mentioned before, they want to get back to doing somethin...

The crew has a plan. They have 2 CU of Dyna-weed that they need to unload quickly. They have a full load of hypercharges on Imperia, so they...

Since this will be a hell week, let's recap what resources the ship has and where.  The ship's account has 8358 secs. In cargo they ...