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- Fickle Frank

Synopsis: This second game of Potters Field was to establish new rules and make alterations to previous rules in an attempt to make game play quicker with less book keeping and dice rolling. In this report we establish how Survivors will search and scrounge for items, how zombies can break through doors and alter how zombies get added to the table.

Mission: Get to the Garage across the street and secure a vehicle to leave the slums of the field behind us.

Greetings and welcome to the first Battle Report from Potters Field. Let me give you the basic run down on the scenario. This is the first developmental playtest of the rules for Potters Field and as such I played solo (Mrs Grimey was wrapping our sons birthday presents so she wasn’t able to assist this time).

Our hero in this scenario is a figure from Hasslefree Miniatures, the terrain is a compilation from World Works Games comprised of the Streets of Mayhem, Mayhem Bits and Mayhem Armory. Finally our Zombies are a pack of undead from the game Zombies!!!

Some things you should know before reading are that Potters Field starts on a pretty even playing ground for all players. Every player has a stat called Resilience and Fatigue and all players start with equal points in each. Resilience marks your characters life force and ability to resist the disease/plague, when this runs out yer dead, but you’ll be back. Then again you could possibly be dead before your Resilience ever reaches 0. Fatigue helps us track how exhausted your character has become and can be used to force your character to perform beyond the normal allowance in their turn.

I created my Survivor, in a matter of 5 minutes. So my first and thusly only survivor is a man called Maddock. A soul survivor of the lower city, the slums of the Field. Luckily for Maddock it is one of the lesser populated area’s of Potters Field.

Potters Field thus far is played on a grid in which the each terrain tile counts as 1 grid area, as players progress through the grid the chance of encounter increases dramatically. All games begin in the bottom left grid, called a Free Zone. This is a picture of our intrepid heros backside.

(The Layout of Maddocks Mistake)

What a glorious holiday!

This halloween all of my sons (4 at last count) had decided they wanted to be various Marvel heros. When they had asked me what I was going to be I thought at least one of this brood should represent the feindish side of the great holiday. So at the last minute I decided to dress up as one of the lumbering dead that I love so much.

I used toilet paper and glue for the wound on my forehead and then applied a gel blood and for my cheeks I used liquid latex for the pulled skin. I REALLY want to try my hand at more zombie makeup. If and when I have the chance I will post the outcome of that endeavor.

Until then, Fickle Frank out!

Well, no podcast today, but I do have some exciting news! Well exciting to me anyway. Last night I got the opportunity to meet one of my favorite actors, Bruce Campbell and it was AWESOME. He is a hysterical speaker and also seemed very down to earth and real, lacking the typical Hollywood ego that many describe when meeting celebrities.

I arrived at approx 7PM and had missed the initial Q&A which I was not happy about, but this is what happens when you go with other people who aren’t ready on time. Oh well.