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!
Next month's draw is coming up, if anyone fe...
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 make it, so check out the video! Be warned: ...
2020-01-26 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Post
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 Post$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 to highlight in today's livestream. We then g...
2020-01-26 13:51:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 £11, yours will be on its way shortly.
If you...
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 these blogs to forums and my blog after you've had you...
2020-01-24 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post... 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, directly. That went OK, but not great.
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2020-01-23 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 doing a $3 draw (every patron at $3 or more) and the ...
2020-01-21 09:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 complications table (only the advanced one) on th...
2020-01-20 17:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 how well things go next time.
I wondered wheth...
2020-01-17 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing 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 bonus actions. I changed this so that they c...
2020-01-16 09:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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. I will send you a personal message in due cou...
2020-01-15 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs 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's not a mistake but the explanation isn't as obvio...
2020-01-13 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 as hell. I don't have the estimated minimum ...
2020-01-12 14:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostTaking 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 has suggested an Ancient Rome supplement called Nero...
2020-01-11 21:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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. So to both celebrate and thank my patrons, I...
2020-01-11 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.twitch.tv/precinctomega
Going properly chatty at 1500 GMT.
2020-01-11 14:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 little longer (I ordered a few more from the supplier f...
2020-01-07 15:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 winner and he's picked a real star of a mini. &nbs...
2020-01-02 11:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostUpgrades 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 remaining categories:
Armour<...
2019-12-30 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 of Zero Dark, why it took the shape it did and, a...
2019-12-29 12:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostA 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 gaming table won't be dark. And I want to show o...
2019-12-26 06:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
'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 spectacles and an elaborate matching necklace. He l...
2019-12-25 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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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 enemy, securing the objective and extracting to base...
2019-12-16 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 some things in ZD are as they are. Why, for ex...
2019-12-16 11:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello, 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 bright ideas - either from your experience of backing...
2019-12-13 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 will serve to illustrate the kinds of miniatures, m...
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'll decide what it is - MUAHAHAHA!), I re-ran...
2019-12-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post