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How I Paint - Ral Partha Goblin Warriors
What I'm painting: Ral Partha Goblin with Flail [51-031]Â (part of Goblin Great Weapon Regiment Set [98-275])Another set of troops for my Chaos Wars armies and tabletop RPG games. These were done with...
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My Dark Ages campaign started in 2009 with the premise of being an open sandbox for players to explore and do what they wanted. One of the goals I had was to be quick, mean and lean in how I approach...
View ArticleMiniatures Roundup, Mid-Dec 2016
I've been doing a LOT of painting over the past 3 months. Between completing an army of Bestials (Orcs and Goblyns) as well as leader figures and some assorted monsters, I've completed nearly 100...
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Holiday Feasting with Rats-on-Sticks
This past Sunday was our holiday game session for my campaign which saw it's fifth year come to a close. I wanted to do something special for the holidays, so after encouraging everyone to bring...
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Playing Chaos Wars in the Dark Ages campaign
My previous forays into learning Chaos Wars was geared mainly towards getting an understanding of the mechanics. Last night, I asked my friend and his son to come learn Chaos Wars and conduct a battle...
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Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! I hope 2017 brings you all good health, prosperity and lots of love...... and lots of time to paint and game!This is from Dragon Magazine No. 56 - December 1981 - thought it...
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Preventing DM Burnout
A post that was linked in the Google+ OSR group caught my eye - "DM Burnout!" It's something that has happened to me in the past, although the "burnout" was just as much related to "Life is taking over...
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Miniature Photography with my Samsung Galaxy S5
I've been struggling a long time with photographing minis. I know the mantra - "MORE LIGHT!" and I've tried all sorts of different configurations and setups with my Canon PowerShot. It just took...
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Solo Game w/The Wife - The d30 Curse
Oh d30, how you love to giveth and taketh away. Especially in my 1:1 game with @thePrincessWife.Last game, she rolls the d30 for damage to kill the "skin wearer" (doppelganger) in one shot. She...
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How I make Heraldry
There are a thousand and one websites on heraldry and it's peculiar Norman and English vocabulary, but when I'm looking for something to put on miniatures or I have a vague idea, there are two sites I...
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A box from Germany with a mystery inside
So look at this... a box from Germany arrived today! What's inside? (Hint: It's not handtowels...)Â Yep, another plastic, vacuum formed castle! I seem to enjoy collecting these, I now have 2.However,...
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Castle Mystery Solved!
Earlier this week, I posted about my new vacuum formed plastic castle that came from Germany. While the seller didn't identify which castle it was, I loved it and the price enough to buy it anyway. It...
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WIP - Hirst Arts City Gates/Towers
"It is a wondrous sight, to see the golden towers of Shallam gleaming in the evening light, reflected in the waters of the bay." Cal Thinean, poet of King Elthest IV.The beautiful city of Shallam has...
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Update: Hirst Arts Tower/Gates and Pointmapping my Con games
Wow, time flies! It's been a month since I last posted, so WTH have I been up to?There's a certain madness that happens when @thePrincessWife mentions moving or a real estate transaction. She's finally...
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If you like Pedion modular terrain, you'll love what they're doing now...
Pedion modular terrain, that really awesome accessory that I raved about last year, is back with more! They've just funded their second Kickstarter for urban terrain, and this stuff looks damn...
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I made 70 people scream at GaryCon
... and I didn't have to take off any clothes to make it happen! But this did just happen this weekend at GaryCon IX and I have to share it.It's Saturday night AD&D in a room full of tables with...
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I Survived Tim Fucking Kask's Dungeon - Part 1
I'm not one who is much for hero worship, unless they're an astronaut, deep sea explorer or they've written something that has inspired my life. I do, however, enjoy playing games with the older folks....
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I Survived Tim Fucking Kask's Dungeon - Part 2
Last post, I introduced the GaryCon IX game that Tim Kask was running. It was a mix of folks familiar with old school style of play, and a couple of folks who obviously were not. Tim was running the...
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Chaos Wars Army Builder Spreadsheet
So I've been working on something for a bit - a spreadsheet based Chaos Wars army builder. Given some of the fiddly bits of building armies in Chaos Wars, I wasn't sure how this would turn out.What I'm...
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My AD&D-lite Morale/Reaction rules
I love wargames and the little bits and pieces that the old school D&D games took from the wargame heritage. One of those is morale. The fact that hirelings can flee screaming, or the goblins that...
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