TacticAnnie
The first $5 Monthly Mini chosen by it's winter was Raging Annie from Bad Squiddo Games. I've elected to paint her as a tactical goth girl. Needs a few more hours' work, but she's started well!
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Zero Dark - Data Grab - Full Playthrough - Skip to 00:10:30
I remember to turn on my microphone at 00:10:30, so skip to there. You miss nothing!
We had a great time on the livestream today, with some of my patrons. I know not everyone can ...
2020-01-26 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLivestream 3
An X Team based on requests from Patrons takes on the first mission in Operation Gemini.
Now with two cameras for better sight of the table and less sight of me!
2020-01-26 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLivestream 3 - Early Access 1450GMT Sun 26 Jan 20
This is your chance to let me know any characters, heroes, upgrades or even rules you'd like me to showcase in today's game.
2020-01-26 14:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostLivestreaming 1500GMT Sun 26 Jan 2020
$5 Patrons will be given a link that's good from 1450
Ten minutes to chat and tell me if there are any specific heroes, characters, upgrades or even rules you would like me t...
2020-01-26 13:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostOver the Horizon Update
I've had a nice, fresh pile of copies of the Horizon Wars supplement, Over the Horizon. If you've already taken advantage of the offer to buy one from me at the cost price of £1...
2020-01-24 11:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostZero Dark Design Blog 7 - Synthetic Characters
I've been a bit slow on keeping up with these blogs. I know most of my patrons have now had a chance to pick through the rules and have probably already seen this stuff, but as I re-post thes...
2020-01-24 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLivestream 3...
... This time, he knows what he's doing!
Well, maybe. So I've livestreamed once, to Twitch.tv, via OBS. That went OK, but not great. Then I livestreamed again, to YouTube, d...
2020-01-23 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew $3 Monthly Mini Draw!
I've decided to up the ante a bit and add a Monthly Mini Draw for all Patrons at $3 and above.
At the same time as I do the $5 Monthly Mini Draw for a painted mini of your choice, I'll be doi...
2020-01-21 09:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAide Memoire v0.6 and more!
I've had some amazing feedback and input from my patrons in the last couple of weeks.
First, I've attached the updated aide memoire. It's now double-sided with the bogey activations and...
2020-01-20 17:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostSuper-Secret $5 Patron Chat 2
The livestream and subsequent video, despite my general ineptitude, was very popular and I have some new hardware on its way to enhance the experience. What else I will need will depend on ho...
2020-01-17 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Actions - Examples
Following the livestream, I had some feedback on bonus actions and also realized that I did them slightly wrong. It used to be the case that bonus actions couldn't generate more bonu...
2020-01-16 09:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostNext Livestream
It's cool that, on the day I did my first livestream (despite having said in the plan that I'd only do that when we hit 20 patrons) I subsequently hit 20 patrons! Welcome, all the new folk. &...
2020-01-15 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostZero Dark Beta 0.7
As announced in the livestream, the latest version of the beta is ready. There is at least one small mistake in the Complications Table that we spotted in the livestream. Or rather, it'...
2020-01-13 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLivestreaming a Game - possibly
So, at 1500 today I will try, again, to livestream - this time using YouTube which, actually, seems a lot more straightforward than Twitch.
It will still be via my laptop's webcam, so clunky ...
2020-01-12 14:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostDark Heroes
Taking into account patrons' feedback and, importantly, where I think there's a market to speak of, I think one of the first Zero Dark supplements will be Hero Dark* (Mrs Precinct Omega ha...
2020-01-11 21:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostHorizon Wars: Over the Horizon
OK, it's not Zero Dark (more on that later), but the Horizon Wars supplement, Over the Horizon is finally available and I know at least some of my patrons are into that. ...
2020-01-11 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn Twitch, Livestreaming
https://www.twitch.tv/precinctomega
Going properly chatty at 1500 GMT.
2020-01-11 14:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostLet's give this "livestreaming" thing a go, shall we?
I got a delivery, yesterday, of the mini that Jonathan won in the Monthly Mini Draw. I have Harley's on order, but the supplier has just recovered from a health wobble, so it might be a littl...
2020-01-07 15:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostMonthly Mini Draw Winner - January 2020
The winner of the second Monthly Mini Draw is...
Jonathan Lupton
Thank you, Jon and all the $5 patrons, for your support. I've had the order in from last month's ...
2020-01-02 11:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostZero Dark Design Blog 6 - Other Upgrades
Upgrades make up a large chunk of the rulebook, but I don't want to spend too long dwelling on them in the design blog. So this will be the last blog talking about them and I'll cover off the...
2019-12-30 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPodcast 1 - Why Zero Dark?
After three months, we finally sit down with that cup of tea I promised (it was very nice, but I talked so much it got cold). There's even biscuits.
So if you'd like to know the history...
2019-12-29 12:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostPhotography style?
A quick question for patrons:
An important element of Zero Dark's setting and rules is that the game is assumed to take place in at least semi-darkness. But obviously your gami...
2019-12-26 06:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostZero Dark: The Novel 1 - 3
'Did you get what you were looking for?' asked Charterhouse. He was an emaciated-looking Siamese cat, black, almost five feet tall at the shoulder, and wearing a pair of brass-rimmed s...
2019-12-25 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMore photos
I can't lie. I'm really enjoying the Caterpillar Construction Express toy I found. Painting it up in full post-apocalyptic style is a lot of fun.2019-12-22 14:56:40 +0000 UTC
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Zero Dark Design Blog 5 - Specialisms
In the Zero Dark setting, it's kind of assumed that your X Team is going to be made up of specialists: serious, military operators who consider the work of entering an area, killing the en...
2019-12-16 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPreferred Medium for Blog?
In recent chats with the $5+ patrons - who get invited to this sort of thing - it was raised that, whilst they are enjoying the Design Blog, they would love to get more insight into why so...
2019-12-16 11:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostDouble Secret Top Tier Meeting Post!
Hello, double-secret Top Tier patrons...
One of the things I wanted to do with you guys, given how generously you are already supporting Zero Dark, was to find out if you had any bri...
2019-12-13 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPictures and Stuff
I'm aware that a miniatures game is sold by the pictures it builds in players' heads, so I'll be finishing a lot of painting over the next few weeks and getting some photography done.
This w...
Monthly Mini Draw - December!
Postponed from earlier this month after patron Stefan Green declined his prize on the flimsy basis that he and I are friends IRL (he's still getting a prize, but to punish him for his hubris, I...
2019-12-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post