I have a current none board game related project on the go at the moment. It’s going a bit slowly. Mainly because there is only a specific time that I actually do it.

I’m slowly working my way through the Judge Dredd Chronicles, which is 30 odd volumes at the moment I believe. I’m on volume 3! The reason for the slow progress is that I only read it when I’m having a relaxing long soak in the bath at the weekends.

So I’ve covered The Cursed Earth and The Day The Law Died storylines in the first 2 volumes. Which are classics I grew up with. Although for the Cursed Earth storyline I went and got the uncensored version. Apparently the 2 fast food chains parodied in a couple of the issues for a while scared the publisher enough not to reprint those parts of the story.

Volumes 4 and 5 that arrived yesterday cover another 2 of my favourite storylines The Judge Child, and The Apocalypse War. After that 2000A.D. and myself separated. It wasn’t anything they did, just college and work got in the way. Although we did meet up again when he crossed over with Batman for a one shot.

But during that time I did have fond memories of playing the Judge Dredd boardgame (which is now back in my collection). I remember having the role playing game and it’s companion book, but that got lost somewhere in moves over the years. If it turns up I’ll be over the moon.

I never got into the Judge Dredd mini’s game. But that was more of where I was in life at the time than anything else.

I wouldn’t mind getting the Mongoose games Dredd RPG that came out in the early 2000’s. I think that may have used D&D v3.5 as it’s core system. But don’t quote me on that. But it would be great to use the stuff for that as source material for a Genesys based RPG.

So with the a new Judge Dredd RPG currently on Kickstarter (oh I’m very very tempted), a boardgame set in the Cursed Earth using the Lost Expedition as it’s basis coming out next year. I’m sure going to be fanboying it up with one of my all time favourite comic book characters.

I also like that there are plans for Rogue Trooper stuff (I have the 80’s boardgame in the collection) and there is a Strontium Dog mini’s skirmish game (although I was put off it because of my usual complaint about this type of game). So it really is nice to see these great IP’s starting to get some love again. But for now I’m enjoying old favourites, and then looking forward to seeing what new adventures the stone faced lawman got up to.