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Dreamer v. Asami Battle Report: Summoning's good for Ours, right?
Today's post (well, technically Friday's post. I'm late. Sue me) will be a battle report from Vassal where Phiasco and I continued working through Gaining Grounds 2018's January-March rotation, playing...
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Mali Gras: Pre-Tournament Planning
This week’s topic…is something I’m saving for next week. I am going to introduce a new type of post taking a look at particular crews that are powerful in the meta and how best to...
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Wanted: Nicodem.
Name: NicodemAliases: Nico, The Necromancer, Amelia BathoryKnown Crimes: Grave Robbery, Gross Necromancy, Drawing obscene numbers of cardsAssociates: Mortimer, Phillip Tombers, Asura Roten, Morgue...
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January/February Hobby Round-Up: BFF Edition
After the big Nicodem post from last week, I was excited by all the new traffic (hello to you, if you're a new fan,) but ready for a bit of a break. Thankfully, it's hobby week. Pretty pictures time!To...
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Pandora Potpourri
I'm stricken with a bit of writer's block recently for...reasons. IRL I'm in the midst of a job hunt and am that's taking up more and more of my attention (pending unemployment will have that effect.)...
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Faux Pas 2: How not to Summoning Pandora
In what’s becoming a bit of a recurring theme on Malifaux Musings, I thought I’d write about how not to play a new crew, in this case Summoning Pandora. And, as obvious as the name may be, I think...
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Wanted: Sandeep
Wanted: Sandeep DesaiCrimes: Conspiracy with known Arcanist terrorists, unsanctioned magic use, being too good at everythingKnown Associates: Oxfordian Mages, Wind Gamin, Kandara, Pretty Much Anything...
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How to Cheat at Malifaux
Mini-Musings-A worldwide Through the Breach campaign starts on Monday. It’s titled The Obsidian Gate, and seems to be either set earthside or at least related to The Other Side, as the pregenerated...
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The Power of KISS
Mini-MusingsThe March Newsletter has come out, and it has a lot of interesting announcements. -First of all, it mentions the Obsidian Gate Through the Breach event, which is now in progress....
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Wanted: Bear Force One
Citizens of Malifaux, we at Malifaux Musings come before you today to inform you of the greatest threat our fair city has ever faced. This enemy has come down from the...
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The Two Crews You Need for Tournament Play
I owe you a blog post for this and last weekend, but I'm a little light on content and time at the moment. Here's some random thoughts, and a look at the Through the Breach worldwide event.***I’ve had...
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State of the Blog, and How I Would Win The Iron Scorpius
It’s been too long since the last time I put something out. This makes the 2nd time in a row I’ve skipped a week between posts, and that’s not the commitment I made to my patreon backers, and that’s...
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Through the Breach Bits: Introducing Soulstory and Presenting Three TTB FM...
In honor of the launch of, to my knowledge, one of if not the first Through the Breach actual play podcast, I decided to go through some random bits and bobs I’ve been tinkering with for the...
View ArticleThe Quick and the Dead: Designing a new tournament format
I have been experimenting with a format to try and conduct tournaments of online Malifaux since shortly after I moved to my current locale and realized how few players are nearby....
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What To Do When Bad Things Happen: Failing Forward in Through the Breach
One of the most frequent mistake RPG gamemasters make is tying the progress of the story to success of a skill roll or challenge. Admittedly, there’s no point in playing a...
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Overcoming the Dog Days
The dog day doldrums of summer are very much upon me. That might be why posts have slowed down from Malifaux Musings. Or, it might be the fact that I’ve found a new job and will be...
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5 Pregenerated Characters for your Through the Breach Campaign
One of the hardest parts of doing a demo game is putting together pregenerated characters. It's a time consuming, but necessary part of putting together a quick demonstration game. To help with that,...
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July 2018 Errata: aka When Zombies Cry
Is that enough click-bait? Yeah, probably. Golly, what could we write about this week? Oh, right, there was a summer Errata. I’m sure we’re all reeling from the changes to...
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Why we kill your characters (and some news for Gencon.)
-We’re a couple of weeks out from Gencon, so it was time for the annual announcement of the Nightmare and Limited Editions available at the big show. As a result of their victory in the Worldwide...
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Malifaux 3rd Edition: A Malifaux Musings Special Report!
Yesterday’s announcement of Malifaux 3rd Edition set the world of the miniature game on fire, to no one’s great surprise. Many people are excited, as I have been since I learned the news...
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