Powerful magic items with subtle drawbacks are one of my favorite treasures. Players have to decide if the benefits outweigh the costs. This is one such item. In the old school tradition, a +2 bonus is nothing to sneeze at.  This blade is one such blade, but that bonus...

So…D&D Next Playtest.  Tearing up the internet these days, innit?  Some love, some hate, some controversy.  Just another turn of the wheel. You can add me to the list of those who just can’t be bothered with the whole thing. It looks like a decent game with all sorts of...

Back to the 10mm figures, which now seem second nature to me.  This time it’s the Pendraken Arthurian legends pack for more heroes.  This pack comes with two each of the swordsmen and one wizard.  My daughter will be painting the duplicates, and probably better than I did.  These...

Last week I took the boy (13) down to the weekly games day at the local games shop for a bit of Memorial Day wargaming.  As usual, games day consisted of mainly 40K with a few tables of the flavor of the month.  Which is fine, as it gave...

A week or so ago I posted the small scale map for my current hex-crawl campaign, The Borderwilds.  A few days laterYellowDingo (over on his own blog) made a blanket offer to create a detailed hex-map in the classic style for anyone who wanted one, and I was lucky enough...

But they are hardly short.  More big bruisers from Pendraken: More trolls in the Dungeon – probably Professor Querill again. FM9 – Chieftan and Shaman Group This set actually comes with three wizard figures.  My daughter is painting the third one. FM9 – Backside FM6 – With Spear FM6...

Waaaaaay back at the beginning of this article, it was hinted that The Dungeon is nothing more than an elaborate prison for a Mad Lich.  The Mad Lich is locked deep inside Level 10; this level and level 9 combine to serve as an effective the ‘lock’ on his...

Not the stores, the miniature wargaming product that you can find in the diorama section of hobby and craft stores.  Ten sturdy plastic trees for around twelve dollars ain’t a bad price. Check out this little gem: Toob Trees – 10 hard plastic trees for ten bucks. The scale...

Taking another day off to thank the wife for marrying me on this date 14 all too short years ago.  Back with a cheap and easy forest tomorrow....

Zak S over at D&D With Porn Stars unilaterally designated today International Anklebiter Illustrator Day.  In honor of this fine day I commissioned the illustrious and illustratory Lenore (age 7) to produce two pieces of illustration, one a scene from our current Rules Compendium Campaign, and the other the requisite displacer beast....