Fantasy Campaigning Dun Rite
Using a Reaper Bones wood sprite figure as an evil personification of the deep woods and wilds are inimical to human life? That’s unpossible! That’s what happens in this latest episode of “The Joy of Wargaming” wherein four intrepid heroes wade into the wilds to put paid to a...
Of Interest: Wisdom from an Angry God
“Gaming, at its core, is a hobby which seeks neither mediation or approval from Johnny-come-latelies.” Heavens to betsy, I do believe I have come down with a terrible case of the vapors. This one is pretty complicated. Basically, there is an in-authentic and ham-handed movement being orchestrated to remove...
2×2 Napoleonics : A Bit of Eye Candy
More black powder gaming using a neat little trick for roads and streams… Simple yarn. It’s just the right scale for 2mm figures, and you can nudge it all about to make just the right curves. Placed down on a fleece battlemat and it works a treat....
From Two-Deep to Three
It’s not often that I work in 2D painting, but for a special project like this… A friend asked me to find and paint him up a few Hawaiian Warriors. Always happy to share my love of the hobby – and always happy for an excuse to craft that...
There Is Still Good In Them…
It’s just buried. Deep. They’ve been suppressed in the past. We can do it again. We can rebuild them. We have the technology. Better than before. ...
A Great Storm Is Coming, But the Tide…
Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them....
Who/Whom Shall be the Whole of the Law
At dawn on the third day, look to the east. The sun rises, and the shadows flee. As for me and my house, we serve the Lord....
A Second Look at the Emperor’s New Clothes
The words hung in the air. “The Emperor has no clothes!” A stunned crowd waited for a heartbeat, then a second, and then swiftly turned on the small boy who dared cry out the seditious phrase. Fists fell, elbows jostled, voices shouted in anger, and feet kicked out with...
Not Even Joking
Inspired by a deeply cogent comment left at “The Joy of Wargaming”: Tabletop role playing games, properly played, ARE wargames. Let me take my troll face off and address your comment with more sincerity. When RPGs branched out from the wargame hobby, they left a lot of money on...
The Most Dangerous Account on Twitter
This guy: You’re a smart guy, so I probably don’t need to explain why, but here goes. Wholesome, positive, and uplifting. And worst of all, it’s uplifting men. Those horrible, no good, very bad villains who are responsible for every evil that ever befell man or beast. They come...