These Orcs Aren’t Going to Kill Themselves
I’d have a lot more stuff to post if this horrible, horrible time sink didn’t steal all my time: Of course, I’m not guiding this smug bastard through normal Nightmare difficulty, oh no. That’s for chumps. I’m playing the game on double secret Nightmare. That’s where you play a...
Work In Progress: Leman Russ
Spent the Easter weekend working on another addition to my son’s Imperial Guard unit. This main battle tank costs upwards of fifty bucks in the store, but you can cobble your own together with a bit foamcore, a little plasticard, and a lot of patience. This is the result...
The Dungeon: Level 3 – Bugbear Den
This area was once territory controlled by the Cult of Chaos on Level 2, but the large and fierce bugbears that crawled out of the abyss quickly claimed the area for themselves. This situation serves the cultists well, as the bugbears serve as a buffer between them and the...
The Dungeon: Level 2 – Cult of Chaos
Greedy men whose ambition exceeds their power gravitate to The Dungeon where they serve the unknown entity that spawns its children in the Black Pool of Chaos. They protect and serve the pool, guide its stronger children to appropriate portions of the dungeon, and murder and steal from those...
The Dungeon: Know the Warning Signs
The illustrative example from the Cook edition of D&D. In the grand old OSR tradition, long stairways were a sign for the players that they were moving on to deeper, darker, and more dangerous depths of the dungeon. The challenges became greater, and the rewards commensurately so, as you penetrated the...
Pendraken With Paint Redux
This is one of those rare cases where a figure looks better on film than in person. See that guy on the right? The rangery elfy looking guy? The back of his cloak is supposed to look like a tree branch with leaves on it. Out in meat space...
Pendraken With Paint Dux
Old School D&D assumes a human-centric civilization with the demi-humans being rare exceptions. And yet, with my latest order of Pendraken miniatures my collection now includes nearly three times as many demi-humans as humans. Gonna have to fix that one of these days. In the meantime, here’s a quick...
First Pendraken Metals
The first batch of Pendraken figures showed up in the mail this week. This post is a reference post for those who want to see what the Pendraken figures look like sans paint…sort of. Shiny metal doesn’t photograph well, so these have all been photographed after basing and base...
The Dungeon: Level 1 – Goblins in the Foyer
Once the characters enter this map they have left the old world behind. There are only two ways to get back to the world they left – turn around now and walk back up the stairs to a long and boring life full of kids and bills and everyday...
The Dungeon: Getting Started
Before you throw your soon to be long suffering players (and not so long suffering characters) into The Dungeon, you’re going to need to know a few things. The Dungeon is a journey, not a destination. There is no set finish line, no ultimate goal, and no final boss fight....