Circa Games

Circa Games is an imaginary online entity for making available various resources for roleplaying games and miniature wargames.

The site has grown gradually — nay, glacially — since its debut in 1998. But one can always hope!

Free Resources

Around the World in 80 Ways is the start of a collection of information concerning transportation, vehicles, and power sources. I haven’t worked on the project in quite awhile, but there are a lot of links to website on steam power.

Ingenious Engines & Clockwork Enigmas, being in the main a utile and eclectic compendium of information and resources for simulating the fantastical adventures and speculative conflicts of Victorian Science Fiction using vigorous imagination, miniature figurines, and scenics cunningly crafted.

New! I’ve added a Jimland Scrapbook with daguerreotypic images documenting the adventures of the First Bly Expedition.

A recent enthusiasm involved miniature skirmishing in the Old West. To wit, I cobbled together Triggernometry — an online resource for those with a similar affliction. I tried to scrounge up links to most of the miniature manufacturers in a variety of scales, information on modeling terrain in cardstock and solid materials, reviews of rules, and anything else I could dig up.

Marginalia is an occasional column on various vagaries of gaming. Topics thus far comprise my love for classic microgames and the pure genius of GURPS Goblins.

Terra Incognita is a roleplaying game spanning the adventurous Victorian and Pulp eras. Have a look at the Terra Incognita website for more information, and download the NAGS Society Worldbook, my original amateur effort (3 Mb pdf, 100 profusely illustrated pages) which is and ever shall be available gratis. If you like it, consider purchasing the commercial release.

The March 8, 2002 issue of Pyramid Magazine contains an article I wrote — “Around the World on a Shilling: The Great Exhibition of 1851.”