Ed Allen

I started buying hundred packs of baggies in different sizes ages ago so I could put as many as I wanted in any particular game.

I took some steps, but haven’t started real play.

We did survive the night, though I was downed twice, another character five times.

As the party’s main damage dealer, my barbarian is two or three standard deviations into the red on attack rolls tonight. Whiffing so hard. Gonna get us TPKed. Grrrrr.

That’s really cool. Thanks.

It’s the one catching my interest lately. Only reading it so far, but I’m catching the RQ-like vibe.

Yeah this would be for solo or maybe some co-op, so the interface between them could be hacked out as I go.

I’ve been reading the Dragonbane rules lately, and thinking about the potential for mixing with Five Leagues from the Borderlands, using Five Leagues for the campaign mechanics and encounter generation and Dragonbane for the skill checks and combat resolution. It would take some hacking to fit.

At 15 I dreamed of a much bigger house with more hobby space than I ended up in at 35+

Around 20 years for me, but still playing TTRPGs and miniatures games.

The computer game or TTRPG Pathfinder with the Kingmaker campaign?

Getting some miniatures painted

Model armies of painted 28mm medieval miniatures, older metal, probably mostly Gripping Beast brand, on a scenery table depicting a dry part of Spain’s, with The Barons’ War rulebook in the bottom right.

View of the starting position from behind the Almoravid army as an Almoravid force ambushes the head of a Spanish column. Both armies are leading with spears in the center, archers on the right Almoravid flank, crossbows angled out behind the Spanish dismounted knights with spears, and both sides with their cavalry in reserve. Painted 28mm miniatures of El Cid’s era.

A higher view looking down on the Almoravid army from behind

Looking down on the Baylee from over the Almoravid right, where a unit of five archers is posted to fire from a rooftop. This is mid battle with the flanking cavalry having charged the crossbows and chased them back and bounced charges by both foot knights and mounted knights that charged through the crossbowmen.

Got in a learning game of The Barons’s War with Reconquista troops painted mostly by Rob Schmitt, with some basing work and tweaking by me.

Batch of minis for Guards of Traitor’s Toll in progress.

That looks more like A to me. It seems more peaceful than B which has a bit more menace.

It depends on the feeling you want it to evoke.

My first proper rules were age ~12 in an adult club setting where they were running different rules pretty much every week. So I don't remember if Chainmail or Fast Rules or Fletcher Pratt or Frappé or Colonial Skirmish or something else was first. I remember bits of games but not the order.

His book is one of my very early wargames things, but I’ve never actually played the rules in it.

Thanks. Glad it works for you.

Yeah, I did a lot of Hexengarde printing in the last couple years. Still need to do some more unruined stuff when I get back to printing.

There are some good videos about it on YouTube. That’s what first caught my attention.

HUMAN ARTISTS OF EARTH! use only one photograph of tiny painted toy soldiers to convince people to follow you.

Yesterday I painted up the cobblestone mat I made last year and did a layout for Guards of Traitor’s Toll with it. It’s only 2’ x 3’ so I need to do another 1’ x 3’ to fill the table without using something else. Followed techniques from a Black Magic Craft video-rubber mat, caulk, texture roller.

Painting lately for Guards of Traitor’s Toll. This is yesterday’s batch.

Opened up my wet palette for the first time in some months and discovered that while the copper wire had prevented ordinary mold, a yellow slime mold had grown and eaten some of the palette paper.

Nice. I really enjoyed painting the Foundry Cossacks too.

Later edition of the same
map Patton used, so I remember reading back when. Seems plausible, as I saw an official U.S. campaign map in the U.C.B. map room in the 80s it and had copies of the little road rise and fall chevrons from the Michelin map.

A simple, little dungeon is the last finished map in that notebook. I did quite a few in this stone barrow style. #dungeonmaps #dndmaps

Chaos Lair from the same notebook #dungeonmaps

A cavern map from the same notebook. #D&Dmaps