40K Friday - Chaos Daemons Evolution
I've been slowly building a daemon force for years, sort of inadvertently. Mainly because they used to be a part of a normal Chaos Marine army and because I was building some for fantasy to ally with...
View ArticleMonday Update - Litko Bases
On Friday I mentioned my difficulties in changing my fantasy daemon army over to a 40K daemon army, mainly in changing from square bases to round. There are a lot of ways to acquire bases - especially...
View ArticleBoundary Tokens
It really started in 3rd edition D&D - is there an easy way to mark the area of effect on a spell? Our answer was to draw it on the battlemat, but that can involve some erasing and redrawing as...
View ArticleOverreaction Wednesday - Release Dates!
D&D Next/5th/Yet Another Edition coming on 7/15? At least in starter set form it does seem likely. Article on ENWorld here, furious discussion about it on ENWorld here.Warhammer 40,000...
View Article40K Friday - The Eldar Expansion
Eldar were the first figures I bought for 40K. They didn't look like anything else out there and I thought those helmets were really cool. I still have them:I painted these guys around 1988-89.I had an...
View ArticleD&D Release Stuff
EN World has a bunch of stuff about the next release of D&D here. It's coming from Amazon and Wizards so it looks this is the real thing.First Impressions? Well, for the first time ever I'm going...
View ArticleWorldwound Incursion Complete!
Despite all of the hubbub right now about new editions of other games we are still playing Pathfinder here and it's still going really well. Over the weekend my players finished up Part 1 of the Wrath...
View ArticleSide Trek
Among all the new edition craziness for D&D and 40K I thought I would share something from the Star Trek Online team - uniforms through the years:Now the last 3 are their own creation, but I'm...
View Article40K Friday: A Personal Look Back at Past Editions
On the literal eve of a new edition, I thought I would meander back through some of the older editions since I was there when they came out too. It's funny how I can tie each one to a certain period of...
View Article40K 7th - The Stuff
Alright, I jumped on this one on Day 1 - I hope it sticks around awhile.The books (yes books!) come in a nice heavy slipcase. It feels heavier than the one my D&D 4E books came in if that's a point...
View Article40K Friday - Battle Report for 40K 7th!
It's been a busy week here as Apprentice Red graduates tomorrow. Next week maybe things will get back towards normal ... whatever our new normal turns out to be with one out of high school.Since we...
View ArticleMotivational Monday - Extended Graduation Edition
Yes, as hard as it may be to believe, there are still kids graduating high school ...For Lady Blacksteel and I that's one down, three more to go.While I snicker at the above, you can only play the...
View ArticleThe End of the School Year Gaming Update
This is the last week of school for the Apprentices (except for the one who's already out) and I wanted to collect some thoughts on what we've done so far and what we might do over the summer.RPG's so...
View ArticleMixed Emotions - The ETU Kickstarter for Savage Worlds
I debated posting this but decided I might as well share. Plus it's not about D&D, Pathfinder, or 40K so it might a nice breath of fresh air.What do you do when a game system you really like runs a...
View Article40K Friday - Updates for a New Edition
I always suspected this would work and it couldn't be any more expensiveApprentice Blaster kidnapped my rulebook over the weekend and will likely be holding on to it for another week. That makes it...
View Article40K UnRant - The Mission Cards
One of the big issues with the tournament segment of 40K players on the new edition is with the Maelstrom mission cards. There has been a tremendous resistance to using those and a lot of exaggerations...
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