What’s in this ancient, dusty Games Workshop thundercase? Why, it’s full of BattleTech miniatures! (This is a great case, by the way. I have no idea if GW makes this particular model anymore, but it’s bomb-proof and has survived at least five moves across three states over the years.) How full? Pretty damned full. Layer […]
Unearthing my old BattleTech miniatures Read More »
According to Betteridge’s law, you already know the answer to that question. But I didn’t really know the answer until I started thinking about it over the past couple of days. I’ve been saying I loathe painting miniatures for years now, and the evidence supports my position: I’ve owned Space Hulk since 2009 — longer
Do I secretly enjoy painting miniatures? Read More »
With the impending shutdown of Google+ — my primary (and generally only) social network and outlet for gaming chit-chat since 2012 — I’ve been slowly making my way through stuff I posted there which, in hindsight, I should just have posted here on Yore. Some posts stood alone, and should just have been Yore posts
A digest of smaller Google+ RPG posts from 2012-2015 Read More »
Over on G+, Karl Keesler posted about how he rebases his HeroClix minis (and sometimes adds base textures and highlighting, too), and damn if that’s not a great idea. Here’s Karl’s intro: “I am always trying to find cheap ways to make my role playing game tables look cool. I often take modern looking Heroclix
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I recently stumbled across Scott Pyle’s Super Mission Force (paid link), read up on it — it’s a low-complexity superhero miniatures game that uses power suites to make character creation simple, and it supports campaign play — and thought, “That sounds totally rad! Except I don’t have any miniatures for it . . .” Enter HeroClix,
Buying bulk HeroClix to use for other supers games Read More »
I got a chance to play my first game of Frostgrave (paid link) last night. My friend Bobby and I got together, made warbands, talked about the rules for a bit, and dove right in. It was awesome! The city felt right to me, crowded and full of interesting elevated positions. (Here’s my Frostgrave setup,
Frostgrave: 9 out of 10, would frost these graves again Read More »
My first game of Frostgrave (paid link) is tonight, so over the weekend I spent some time setting up a sample city — “my” Frostgrave. I’ve done proofs of concept before (most of which resulted in buying more terrain), but this is the first version I really like. I spent a lot of time researching
My Frostgrave setup Read More »
The compactness of Frostgrave (paid link), both in terms of the size of the play area and the amount of stuff you need to play, is one of the things about the game that appeals to me most. I started with none of what I needed, and went from “zero to Frostgrave” pretty quickly. As I
60 quarts of Frostgrave Read More »
One neat thing about using Pathfinder Pawns (paid link) as Frostgrave (paid link) miniatures is that they’re flat, and therefore easy to store. After raiding the Inner Sea Pawn Box (paid link) for spellcasters and soldiers, I cracked open the NPC Codex Box (paid link) and went through that one as well. While I was
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Legendary Realms makes a host of prepainted terrain and scenery, including some dungeon dressing that I thought would be a perfect fit for my take on Frostgrave (paid link). Noble Knight had a bunch of it in stock (as opposed to waiting for LR to make it to order), so I ordered some. I picked up
Legendary Realms prepainted clutter for Frostgrave Read More »
