People Are Talking

The first independent review of my writing was recently published at the Castalia House blog, and glowing isn’t too hyperbolic of a word for it. It’s got likable characters that read as if they are actual human beings. It’s got protagonists that could maybe stand to see things a...

New Schedule

Source Between writing my own little novellas, keeping up with posting on three blogs (that I’ll admit to), and now working on recording a pair of new books for Castalia House, the cup that holds my free time workload truly doth runneth over. Something’s gotta give, and it’s going to be...

Miniature Monday: Clerical Skills

Holy cats! It’s time to show off the holy cats who have dedicated their lives to wiping evil off the face of the dungeon map. These guys are all a little blunt, so they could serve as fighters who favor maces, hammers, and other impact based weapons. There’s a...

Moving Day, Helping a Friend

There’s a new blog on the block that should be of interest to anyone who has been following my own conversion over to the (latest) One True Scale: 15mm Skirmish.  You probably already know Sam Pate from his blog, Wee Blokes.  He has decided to open a blog specifically...

Cirsova, Issue Three

It’s long past time we talked about Cirsova.  The third issue dropped, and I backed at a high enough level to receive a hard copy.  I could talk about the high quality of the physical copy, but I won’t. Because I’m not autistic.  That particular train may be fine,...

More Buck Rogers

Based on my site traffic this week, you peeps don’t much care for the politics.  Well, the election is over, and we got that out of our system, so let’s get back to the good stuff, shall we?Last week I discussed the hare-brained idea of making a gender-flipped Buck...

Miniature Monday: Wizards

I may have posted a couple of these guys way back before my fall hiatus. Here is the current crop of wizards available for delving the depths of Castle Meatgrinder.  Players now have a choice of a death mage or necromancer, a starry mage, and a snake wizard suitable...

Deep Breath Before the Plunge

Tomorrow is day zero.  The fork in the road.  The tipping point.  The euphemism of your choice. In times such as we face, we do well to heed the advice of our forebears.  J.R.R. Tolkien was not just some writer, he was a man who well understood the need...

Meme Magic is Real: Why Podesta’s Taste In Art Matters

Incredibly, this is not a photoshop. This weekend the waters of political discussion have been roiled by charges that John Podesta engages in activities that look a lot like ceremonies by which he shows his devotion to demonic powers.  His defenders, and they are legion excuse his behavior as a perfectly innocuous ...

Wierdo Beardos In the Lead

Ral Partha Europe’s Blighthaven line includes a dwarf pack with ten miniatures, of which I’ve painted all ten, and here’s the first nine of them.  One went AWOL.  Dwarves do that.  Let’s just say that I’m keeping one in my pocket as a Castle Meatgrinder surprise for the players....