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40K Fridays - Blood Angels 2024
Despite a lot of other distractions these last few months I've actually managed to make some decent progress on the Blood Angels. In April I mentioned some bikes, a Leviathan dread, a bike chaplain, a...
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Book Review - Defining a Galaxy
I only became aware of this book a year or two ago, picked it up last year, and finally read it this summer. Bill Slavicsek is one of the names that jumps out at me when I see it on a game because he...
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Valiant Swords of Greyhawk - Session5: In the Dungeon of the Moathouse
We begin with a round of stew and stories back at camp as the ranger and the paladin and the fighter all utilize their backgrounds to buff the rest of the party - this is a Tales of the Valiant thing...
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40k Friday - World Eaters 2024
I've been working on these guys a lot this year after slowly building up a force for years and learning some lessons along the way. I've had a lot of parts sitting around, some of them painted, but it...
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2024 D&D PHB Not-So-Shockingly Sets New Sales Record
This isn't exactly a surprise but according to the press release posted in this thread at EN World the new PHB is the fastest-selling D&D thing of all time. Alright. That's good for the game and...
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The I-Took-A-Month-Off Update Post
It wasn't really planned but it ended up working out that way. No particular crisis, just fell down the priority list in a busy month. I do plan to do more here in November and December to finish the...
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The Circle of Life Swings Back Hard
I had started working on some posts last month after taking a break and then things just started to come up.My father had been fighting cancer for several months. A year ago everything was fine -...
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RPG Stuff
Yeah I'm still running that. We did take a break while I was dealing with the other stuff but we have started back up and Session 16 will happen this weekend barring extended weather complications....
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Top Ten Anticipated RPGs for 2025
EN World does this every year and I usually try to comment on them. I'm running a little late but I thought it was worth bringing up. The list and discussion is here.10 - Starfinder 2E: Well I own a...
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Status of the Marvel Multiverse RPG?
There are a lot of great superhero RPGs out there right now:Mutants and Masterminds is still chugging along. There aren't a ton of new things out there but they've been doing adventures lately which...
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The 2024/5 Monster Manual Kerfluffle
Yeah ... yeah ... so they took orcs out of the Monster Manual. Drow too. It's the "50th anniversary of the game" edition and they took two pretty significant D&D monsters out of the monster book....
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One Question Answered on the Marvel RPG Status
Apparently Marvel has announced - or at least is taking orders for - a new sourcebook on the Avengers. Good! That should cover a lot of ground and combined with the X-Men book that's already out and...
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Godzilla 1985
It's hard to believe it's been 40 years since this one came out - especially considering I saw it at the theater as a teenager. It's special to me for a few reasons: It was the first one I got to see...
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Adventures in 3D Printing
So I finally got one. I've been talking about doing it for years and the wife apparently heard too much and decided to push me off the ledge as a birthday gift. With as much miniature work I do it's a...
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The Tales of the Valiant Temple of Elemental Evil Campaign Details
Well we are 22 sessions into the campaign now and the party is at 5th level. That's despite using individual per-session XP. One character is lower but he's only showing up about every third session...
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Encounter Balance in Modern D&D and Tales of the Valiant
I've never been too concerned with "encounter balance" as in most editions the guidance and numbers given for it are terrible. In my experience 4E did a pretty decent job at providing something useful...
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The Ups and Downs of Playing These Games for Decades
Well the #1 Up is that I'm still around to play them and a close second is that I have friends I have known since the 80's that I still play with regularly - that's important.At times though the years...
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40K Friday - The Treadmill
I haven't posted much 40K stuff here lately because I'm kind of burned out on the game itself. Not the setting, not the novels, not even painting the miniatures. I've actually run a training game a...
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40K Friday - The Practical Side of 3D Printing
He's upset about being resizedI know the dream of 3D printing is "I can print all the miniatures I want for almost free" with a side order of "any time I want them" and to a point this is true. It's...
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Kickstarters These Days - The 2023 Report
In 2023 I backed 20 Kickstarters/BackerKit efforts by game companies. Some were bigger, some were smaller, but all of them were things I was interested in enough to lay some money down in advance....
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