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Expanding my world
Back in the old blog, I posted a picture of the "Lands of Men" from my D&D campaign.This continent is flargin huge. This landmass is roughly 220 hexes east/west at its widest breadth and roughly...
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My world (players) map - complete!
Creativity begets creativity and I'm on a roll with my campaign maps. I've finally completed the map for the players to use for my D&D campaign.What is nice about doing it this way is that I can...
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Expanding My World, Part 2
After creating the map for the political "nation" that my D&D tabletop players are located in, and then creating the full continental map, the next priority was creating the "nation" map for the...
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[WIP] One Hour Wargame Unit Trays for my Dark Ages D&D campaign
It's been a long desire of mine to mix in any scale of combat into my D&D campaign, whether it be 1 on 1, skirmish level or huge armies level. Or even solo, to be able to resolve campaign world...
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Ral Partha 2015 Chaos Wars Kickstarter - The Unboxing
Last April, Iron Wind Metals launched a Kickstarter to revive the Chaos Wars line of miniatures and fantasy wargaming rules. Iron Wind (IWM), best know for their Battletech miniatures, formed from the...
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The best part about Ben Robbin's West Marches style
If you've never read about Ben Robbin's "West Marches" sandbox campaign, turn your browser this way and have a read of Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and Running Your Own. Go ahead. They're quick reads. I'll...
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Son of DIY Miniatures Carriers
Back on the old blog, one of my most viewed posts was for the DIY Miniatures Carrier. I had amassed too many figures for the Battlefoam 216 packs, I didn't want to pay the premium price for other...
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When I catch a glimmer of the All-Spark-of-Creativity...
I mentioned Driver's Thool last night on a Google+ update, as a homage to the type of information and depth of mythology of a campaign.Scott Driver's old World of Thool blog is serving as a "meta"...
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Demographics and the military in my campaign, Part 1
Today, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be taking a long strange road to answer a simple question:"How many troops can Duke Archanis Reynald field against the Bestials or some other invading army?"It's been...
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One Hour Wargames - Unit Trays / Movement Trays for 15/25mm figures
Here's the finished results of the WIP "One Hour Wargame" (1HW) unit/movement trays. I blogged the WIP a couple of weeks ago.  With 15mm figures:With 25mm figures:I used:3/32" x 4" x 24" - flat...
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Demographics and the military in my campaign, Part 2
Last post, I set out to answer a simple question for my D&D campaign:"How many troops can Duke Archanis Reynald field against the Bestials or some other invading army?"What followed was an...
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Demographics and the military in my campaign, Final Thoughts
Now that I've figured out how to calculate the demographics and military forces of my D&D campaign world (Part 1 and Part 2), it's been a very quick process to finish up the rest of the human,...
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Taking 100 Men in a Dungeon - Act 2
Back in August/September, I came up with the crazy idea of doing a solo dungeon delve with a company of 100 men. Sir Reynald, the younger brother to Duke Reynald, had decided in religious fervor to...
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Pedion Kickstarter - The Unboxing of the Awesome
Last year, a gentleman by the name of George Panopoulos starting blogging about a crazy idea... creating 3d terrain tiles that could connect by magnets and be reused, as well have hills and trees that...
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Diablo 2 Influence... with unexpected results
With horns, flutes and guitars, we were greeted to the world of Diablo 2 and the Rogue Encampment. I remember spending hours and hours playing Diablo 2. The lands of Lut Gholen and Kurast live on in my...
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No Edition D&D
It started with microlite20.No.. that's not entirely true. It really started back in the late 70s/early 80s with the various games coming out. I bought them all, read them voraciously, played a lot of...
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The Recipe Book
The recipe book dates back to 2009. It is a collection of my paint schemes and choices - my "recipes" - for the various miniatures I've painted. The first entry is for my Games Workshop Moria goblins...
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Which Ruleset? (D&D is one of many)
My previous blog post "No Edition D&D" was fun to write, but it is something I've known for a long time about my game, and I've been very comfortable with. What I've been doing lately is digging...
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Friday Night Stompy Bots on Pedion terrain
This past Friday, my friend Chris and I took the new Pedion 3d modular terrain out for a drive as we conducted another episode of "Friday Night Stompy Bots." It was the first chance I'd had to play...
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A busy week in February
So.. what are you doing, ChicagoWiz? Well damn, quite a bit these days...* My D&D campaign with the "Dark Ages" world has exploded into a lot of things going on at once, so it's a bit like the...
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