You’re Welcome, Hugos
Each of the last two year’s of Hugo Awards have seen more ink spilled across the dinosaur media than in any ten years previous, combined. All of this attention was garnered not for the quality of the works presented at the Hugos, and not as a small part of...
Hero Time!
In addition to the previously shown mercenaries, players wanting a run through Castle Meatgrinder will have plenty of elves, dwarves, and human heroes of both sexes to choose from. The painting of these will take a little longer, as I’ve been painting in groups of two to four at...
Hugo Awards 2016: Message Delivered
WorldCon, for the third year in a row, delivered a powerful message to a significant portion of the sci-fi/fantasy fandom. In honor of their now openly admitted role of driving fans from the genre and consumers from the market, I propose a slight modification to the Hugo Award logo. ...
A Message From Literally Super Duper Hitler
Time Magazine, that lumbering dinosaur of the old media, is not happy that the alt-right mammals are running around their ankles, eating their eggs, and is ready and waiting for the sweet meteor of death. Good. Oh, Pepe, you shortcut to humor, is there any postyou can’t improve? Time Magazine called...
Discovering Stories > Unwrapping Them
Back in the glory days of my gaming career, when six hour sessions of D&D were a regular occurrence, and not a rare celebration, the story that developed was as much a surprise to the DM as it was to the players. Sure, the DM had read or written...
Convention Analysis
Good old Vox posted a group shot of WorldCon attendees for The Current Year. Some comment wag suggested that it looked like any other shot of 40+ people. The scientist in me took that as a challenge, picked up the gauntlet, and ran to the internet to run a little...
Quick Hit – Last Familiar
The Reaper Bones familiar pack comes with this fun little quetzlcoatl. He should make a nice little prankster-elf style NPC for the players to interact with. Probably a wandering monster in the halls. ...
Graveyard of Empires…and Pride
A few weeks back a copy of Decision Games’ Khyber Rifles found its way into my shopping cart. Listening to too many episodes of Wargames to Go will do that to a wargamer. Between that and regular does of Wargaming Wednesday over at the Castalia House blog, my hankering...
John Podhoretz – The Abortion Lobby’s Dream Opponent
Can you imagine trying to fight a war with Loyal Oppositionist and Vichy Republican John Podhoretz on your side? Every time you poked your head above the trenches, you’d have to check the area behind your own lines, look left, look right, and then only after assuring yourself that Podhoretz isn’t around,...
A Little Something From The Closet
The undead inhabitants of Castle Meatgrinder consist mainly of skeletons from 15mm.co.uk. These are really sharp figures that their website just doesn’t do justice. You’ll want to check out the big versions of these pictures, these smaller icons lose a lot of their character. Just zombies and...