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Little Wars - Picture Time!
I attended Little Wars on April 28th through 30th in Lombard, Illinois. It's put on by the folks from the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Midwest chapter (HMGS-Midwest). I ran two Chaos Wars...
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Storms over the Golden City (Chaos Wars AAR)
"I remember the morning they attacked. It was a quiet morning, nothin' much ever happens around Nyrana. So we was enjoyin' a cuppa hot hintea and suddenly horns are blarin' outside and all sorts o'...
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Betrayal at the Border (Chaos Wars Battle Report)
"Marshal always said 'Trust your fellow Man and little else.' and sure enough, he was right. Damn Elves! We'd heard reports that a large force from somewhere was moving up from the coast. We figured...
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On using a wargames campaign manager - Berthier
So about a year ago, I mentioned how I was starting to move towards using Roll20 to manage my wargaming in my Etinerra campaign world[1]. It was pretty cool, to be able to "move" tokens around to track...
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Chgowiz goes to GenCon!
Going to GenCon's 50th anniversary shindig will be amazing! I am running games out of my Entinerra/Dark Ages campaign, and I hope you'll come join them and say hi!Here's what I'm running (links take...
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Hey Chgowiz? Why so quiet? Moving!
It's summertime! And with the coming of the warm weather (90 degrees already in Chicago? WTF? I thought climate change was a hoax?!?) comes another auspicious day... moving day.Yep, after 13 years of...
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Library D&D - or teaching an old dog new tricks
The big move is complete and the new place is shaping up really nicely. ThePrincessWife and I call this our Dream Home because it really is. I mean, look at this space I now have for gaming!That's an 8...
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My new favorite brushes - Kalish Finest
Miniatures depend on 4 things - quality of the figure, skills of the painter, the paints they use and the brushes. The first three are worthy of other posts, but it's brushes I want to talk about. For...
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Library D&D - Session 1 - Kobolds! Zillions of Kobolds!
I hosted my first session of 5th Edition D&D at a local library this past Wednesday. The game takes place in my (mostly) OSR campaign world - Etinerra. The game was a "drop in" kind of game, if...
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Chgowiz goes to GameHoleCon - Attempt #2
GameHoleCon is a very popular regional gaming convention held in November in Madison Wisconsin. I wanted to go a couple of years ago, but work and timing wouldn't let me take the vacation. This year,...
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Tips for Improving My Minis Painting
I've been incrementally improving my painting over the last couple of hundred minis or so. A lot of them I've cranked out with the focus on tabletop quality. I've become comfortable with the...
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See you at GenCon & a Swords & Wizardry hint...
Wow! The 50th GenCon is just a couple of days away! Will I see you there? Are you in any of my games? Here's what I'm running... stop by and see if there's room!Friday - 2pm - Defense of Arcpoint...
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GenCon Wrapup - Picture Heavy!
GenCon 50 is over and it was, in a nutshell, crazy awesome and freakin' overwhelming.The area was ginormous. The gaming hall was huge as in, it took serious minutes to get from one end to the other.I...
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D&D at the Library - Session 2 - The Caves and the Circus
I run a D&D 5E game out of my campaign world at the local library's monthly Board Game Night. It's a great way to introduce new people into D&D, to introduce them to a decidedly old school way...
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Tucker's Kobolds or The DM as the Monster
"Sly Flourish" aka Michael Shae asked something on Twitter this past Saturday morning that got me to thinking...Mike asks a lot of questions, mostly from what I would call a nu-school perspective. His...
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Campaign movement at wargame and D&D scales
Gary Gygax famously wrote that Dungeon Masters must keep careful track of time in their campaign, for ensuring that player resources were being used, for tracking for wandering monsters/encounters, and...
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Sandboxes and Players - They Make The Story! (Part 1)
I've found a couple of interesting blogs over the summer that have made for some interesting reading. One of which is DMDavid's blog - he seems like a nice guy, has some good ideas and he's clearly...
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Sandboxes and Players - They Make The Story! (Part 2)
Yesterday, I started a (soft) rebuttal of DMDavid's analysis of sandboxes and why players "don't like them." I'll continue that today and wrap up with some thoughts.David continue in his post:Many...
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Cheap Water Effects for Inexpensive Terrain
It all started, as many things do, by hearing someone else talk about an experiment. In this case, it was by a Twitter user named @qyjari (Anne Palmer):Well, that sounded brilliant! Water effects using...
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How I Started My Sandbox
Nine years ago, I started on a little experiment. Over time, it grew in directions both bad and good. Over those nine years, I've blogged a lot about my Dark Ages/Chronicles of Etinerra campaign, but...
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