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[Solo Game w/Wife] The PC findeth, the NPC taketh away
"Hi, my name is Aeli, are you a mage?""Why yes I am and whyACCCKKUGGGHHHKKKKKKK" *thud*"Off with your head."-- @thePrincessWife's new tactic upon meeting people after this past gameNothing says...
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[Solo Game w/Wife] Friday night gaming preview...
So after the previous game's shenanigans, I asked my wife if she wanted to pick it back up this Friday.Here's what I got back...Judging by her reaction, I'd say "YES!"
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Ral Partha/Iron Wind Metals announces their Wave 2 Kickstarter - March/April
"we hope to launch the kickstarter funding period sometime in late March or early April."And oh my stars and screaming, wailing wallet, this looks like a massive amount of re-releases and new...
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[Solo Game w/Wife] Moving scales on the fly and caravan woes
11 Giant Spiders.6 PCs/Henchmen/Hirelings.10 NPC guards.This is the situation that Angie/Aeli ran into in yesterday's game, as the caravan that Aeli was traveling in ran into...
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[1HW] After Action Report - Escape the Orcs!
The silence in the Council Chambers was so utter and complete that you could not hear a breath or heartbeat. Even the sounds of the seas, which provided a constant murmur of waves rolling in and out,...
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Making the players care
Far too often, games based on old-school styles and tropes end up focusing on dungeons and collecting gold and treasure to some end. Usually the idea is exploring some hard-scrabble wilderness that the...
View ArticleThe Miniatures Pledge
Over at The Miniatures Page forum, in the Painting Message Board, there's an ongoing monthly topic called "The Pledge". It's a nice way to try to stick to some goal for the year and keep ones-self...
View ArticleA simple message - don't be a dick to women gamers
I'll say it very simply. I have seen my fair share of male-privileged, non-consensual activity in other parts of my life and I have no use for it at all in my gaming hobby just as I have no use for it...
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Painting Miniatures - Moving from "The Dip" to "The Dallimore"
Since restarting my miniature painting over a year ago, I've been using a technique to quickly paint and finish the majority of the few hundred that I've painted - called "The Dip". For details, I...
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Dallimore or Triad painting - with craft paints!
As I mentioned the other day, I'm moving into experimenting with the Dallimore/Triad method. I'm starting off with the "Two Colour Method" right now, to get the hang of it. But...Kevin uses the Foundry...
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Now live! Ral Partha Chaos Wars Wave 2 Kickstarter
(This post will get updated as I go through the options, but wanted to get the word out there now.)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1050509756/ral-parthas-chaos-wars-dwarf-undead-troglodyte-minAnd...
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More Book of War + D&D = Great Fun!
My PCs are becoming shakers and movers in my campaign these days, with helping take back lost areas, clearing out ruined monasteries of Chaos and now having performed a rescue operation in the middle...
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The Miniatures Pledge 2016 - April - With Decent Photos!
My pledge for the year is to limit my miniatures buying to any of the new Ral Partha figures coming from the Chaos Wars Wave 2 Kickstarter, and any figures in the future to support specific things in...
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8 Day Left on Awesome Miniatures Kickstarter... get in before they're gone!
This being a vanity blog, it's all about me and my interests. So that's why I talk a lot about the Ral Partha miniatures and Kickstarters, because they are great figures, they're reprints of the old...
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Using Roll20 as my campaign wargames world map
In my attempts to making my Dark Ages campaign work like Tony Bath's Hyborea campaign, I've ran into a small problem to solve... how do I track all the armies that are marching all over the place?My...
View ArticleWhy I don't publish modules - my modules is suck!
Do you write modules or adventures to publish them? Or do you write them for your own table?If you answered yes, then do you have Bryce Lynch's blog tenfootpole.org on your blog roll or feed list? No?...
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Hordes of the Things / HOTT Reference Sheet
If you've followed my blog long enough, you probably know I'm an idiot when it comes to complicated rulesets. I like my games simple, fast and easy to remember. No, not like my sex life, you perverts!...
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Dark Ages campaign bits and bobs...
A lost piece of Dark Ages game history might be found! Back when Google Wave was a Thing, I ran about a 2 year PbP game there, set in the opposite corner of my world. The game is centered around the...
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How I Paint - Ral Partha Chaos Acolytes
What I'm painting: Chaos Acolytes (Ral Partha #98-108)I'm using the 2 color Foundry/Dallimore method. Normally, with the "grunts", I'll do one coat. With these guys and their black armor, painting them...
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Hey ChicagoWiz, how's that new approach to DM'ing working out?
So about a year ago, I posted "Restarting my AD&D campaign - doing it differently" as a rant against myself about how I'd run my campaign previously. How grindy it was. How hopeless it was. I vowed...
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