Other Campaign Ideas

I haven't given up on the Friday Night miniatures campaign idea.   But, I do think it'll will be more practical to start ramping up the process after I'm back from Italy, so an April start at the earliest.  I'm leaning toward a narrative campaign.   Dividing players into 2 teams, setting a reward for victory for each of 3-4 preliminary battles and then having the rewards figure into the forces available for the climactic final battle.

I've also been interested in doing an adversarial RPG campaign at some point too, where each session would involve 2 teams (or more) competing to acheive conflicting goals.

I have the initial thoughts of a "Crime City 3000" campaign, sort of a Gotham city in the Traveller universe concept floating around in my head too.

Well, such a hiatus

Wow,  what with Christmas and the new version of XCOM, I sort of wandered away from the blog for a while. 

Hmmmm.

Hobbit Part Two:   I know what would make it better!  Add even more pointless extended action sequences that have nothing to do with the original book, and don't advance the plot or pacing of the movie, but rather slow down and delay the progress.  Padding Joel, Padding.

Black Sails:   for something that is supposed to be a prequel to Treasure Island, it was surprisingly a very hard "R". 

40th anniversary edition of original D&D set.  Pretty nice.   I don't see me using the dice much anymore, they are kind of hard to read.   My wife ordered the set from Amazon for me for Christmas.  The orginal Amazon date was supposed to be November.  Then they changed to December, then some vague time in the future beyond the middle of January.  We canceled the order, re-ordered from Barnes and Noble for the same price and got it in a week.  Amazon usually is so dependable, I wonder what's up.

Roman Buildings

The blog titled "Paul's Bods" has been doing a lot of scratch built Roman buildings lately:

Paul's Bods

I've also seen some PDF's for paper-built Roman Villas which might be useful as is or as patterns for a more solid building

Soviet version of "The Hobbit" from 1985

No joke,

The Soviets made a movie version of "The Hobbit" back in 1985, which you can see online at this site:

Commie Hobbit

It's all in Russian, of course, but there you go.

Progess and a Find

I've finished my 8 plastic Warhammer Knights.   I'm pretty happy with them.  I'd post some pictures, but I'm having camera difficulties.

I decided to put aside all my monkeys (I have 2 sets of armed monkey-men, 1 I bought, 1 Jason gave me;  I giant ape that Marlon left with me, and a pack of Flying Monkeys with crossbows I got at the Convention).  I figure that the armed monkeys aren't campaign appropriate, so I'll just wait on the whole monkey crew for now.

I'm basing, gluing and priming 4 more dismounted crusades knights and 8 longbow men from the Convention for my next project.  Some of them might have done ok for the Masked Archer, but I think the guy I've already painted is still the best choice.

Finally, I made a find at the Dollar Tree today.   They had some excellent Pine Trees for Christmas Garden displays,  2 trees in a blister for $1.  I bought 4 blisters, but might go get some more once I've gotten them open to have a closer look.  They seem unbeatable for the price.

GW Knights

I've painted 4 out of my 8 plastic Warhammer mounted knights.   While they glued together much easier than I had expected, I found the figures too "busy" for my taste.  They have really elaborate helmets and whatever you call the big clothy thing that covers their horses.   After the first 2, I decided that I instead of painting the horse-suit and helmet parts various colors, I dramatically reduced the painted detail on the 3rd and 4th figures, and I think it improved their overall appearance.  The clash of colors and the overall business made the finished figures too garish. 

Game Room Update

Monday I hauled out the old computer desk from the game room and replaced it with a large set of wire shelves.   Mission Accomplished (clearing the way was the hard part).  I've got some reorganization to get to.   So, be prepared for a slightly different landscape on Sunday.   Here's hoping the trashmen actually haul off the desk tomorrow.