Dry Paint Garners 7.0 From Judges

I have taken up the brush again.  I painted my first miniature in '77.  My character was the first female in the group.  There were no female adventure miniatures then, so I just re-purposed a Medusa:

More on her later.  I found some good stuff packed away.

Here's the new one, my second uploded to Cool Mini or Not.  I am happy with it, happy enough anyways. The pic makes it look better than it really is.  I thought this one would land at 6.5 on the CMoN scale, the fact it's a bit higher than that is nice.  This is Morland, a Devil's Shadow Mutineer.  This blister has three models.  I'm painting Zira....I stripped her once already.  Having a hard time with her neck.  I have had neck issues with larger models as well.  Ahem.

There has been a lot of gaming in my basement, three, no four games I think.  I ran my son and his friends a bit then turned the torch over to them.  In this pic my son is the nefarious Crypt Lord.  I think they are robbing a magic shop.

Another view.  Jackie Boy and Joey the Killer.  Some sort of excitement, I think.  Or the soda doing it's work.

Elthara Shadowalker and the Basement Leader.  My other son ran his friends through a Numenera adventure.  I love the book...upon reflection the rules seem a bit disorganized and creating "dungeons" for the players seems challenging.  I need another game like I need a hole in my head.  Speaking of which...

I created an inside leaf for my table (which I got at a church rummage sale for $5).  Now my table can be 4 x 6.  (Eagle eyed viewers may have spotted the Milton Bradley Crossfire game in the upper right corner).

Why would one need such a large table?  To play Blucher on, of course!  (More on that later).

I leave you with some new IP created by my son for his adventure.  More to come (I have an idea for some really cool arrows that travel backwards in time....)

1st Rider of Apocalypse Spotted

I went into a candy store a few weeks back and snapped this:

 

Here be one of the signs of the End Times...and one of the reasons I have not posted since the last game...  The streets aren't rivers of blood, so I think we are going to be alright.

 

 

I have also been mightily distracted by the 2015 IPMS Nats.  Here are my tools, I am giving a seminar on building.

This is my subject, a way old Toko  Zis-5V Soviet truck, WW2 era.  I will be demonstrating techniques to build plastic models.  Next week, this will all be a memory, so there will be more meaty things here.  But not this week.  So there and I'm sticking to it.

Cattoid Lust and Atomic Fireballs

What do you get when you combine 3 newbies, 2 vets, 2 unmatched cabbage halves, Roc's Machine Tooth, an unwrapped fish, monks who scream when they say the letter "T", a football with horns and a an asexual man made of wood?

 

Throw in a sexy Cattoid...

 

 

...and you get: No survivors.  4 annihilated by radioactive death cloud and 1 by plagma bath.  Excellent work!

 

 

FYI: The name Exidor comes from the Mork & Mindy sit-com.  In the Wikipedia article there is an entry on Exidor....anytime your feeling a little depressed or like you don't fit in....read the entry for Exidor under Recurring characters  and I promise you will feel much better.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%26_Mindy

 

 

 

 

...Wanna get small?

Your about to enter your fave bar to relax and blow off some steam.  As you near the door a Welf in a slinky black robe steps out of the shadows.  She holds out a partially open matchbox in her hand that looks like it has a tiny crypt in it.  After a long na-nuta she asks "Wanna get small?  There are only three rules.  6 hours, take what you want, live or die".


Let's do it.

Another great pair of game sessions with my son and his friends, J and M.  (M not pictured).  My son is a Welt Yogi-Rabbi and J is a Khitain Slashmonger.

Here is some of the crypt, in scale for fighting.  I took some notes and I have written down: "Can I get an experience point for taking a selfie with the Evil Bhudha?" and "Is she dead.....cow, cow cow!"  In the big room on the top is a big pile of treasure (now who would mess with that?) and two fountains.  Is it a rule that you have to drink?  It should be, but it's way more fun when they do it all by themselves....

If You Can Read This.....

I have been going through stuff to sell on Ebay and came across a bunch of my old minis that have not seen the light of day for more than 20 years.  I figured since Fury Road is coming out this week...

 

....I would post some pics of Car Wars minis I made when the game came out.  Here is the Green Machine, carved out of balsa and mounted on card stock.  It's to scale, i.e., 1 inch long.

 

 

This is the Grey Ghost....this time carved out of pink insulation foam.  Car Wars, the only game that took 1 hour of real time to play 1 second in the game.  It was that or Gilligan's Island.

 

 

Finally, this is my friend Mike the Mangler's car, a beautiful brown Town & Country wagon.  It was fun to put ourselves in the game and run over pedestrians (they had guns!).  I almost threw these away.  They are tiny, so that's something....There is something cool and nostalgic about them.  I got 5 bucks for my Car Wars game on Ebay.  Enjoy!

 

 

One Page Dungeon Contest 2015

"Dungeon" is so passé...It should be a One Page Crypt Contest...But that's just me and my massive ego getting all puffed up.  It's Ok.  I am so very tired.  Here it is, enjoy!  That is all.  Oh, here is the link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SbN-rtbAlgdHoyZV9pMVc1VE0/view?usp=sharing

Arrow Up!

Fist Arrow: Created by Sir Ron the Unmerciless in pre-Donn times, these bludgeoning missiles only inflict half their normal damage, but have a chance of stunning the target.  If a hit is made, the % chance of stunning (pg. 101) is equal to twice the damage inflicted.  If the resulting roll is odd, target is stunned for 1 Na-nuta, for an even result 2 Na-nutas.  Range of these missiles is also half that listed for the type (Normal, Elle, Inga or Kjrom).

Toxin Arrow: A specially hollowed mini Futterkurbis Oblonga on the tip of this weapon delivers an Organwrack Megadose (10d6 php loss the first Na-nuta, 8d6 the second and so on).  This delivery system also allows non-Sneak personas to handle poisoned arrows without chance of mishap.

Luv Arrow: Upon being struck by this missile the target will fall madly in love with the next creature they see.  Highly magical and very rare indeed.

Cid Arrow:  Upon impact the two phials of patented Arcanic compounds combine and will dissolve a 5 x 5 x 5 cube of solid material.  Don't let this one break in your quiver!  Creatures sustain 2d20 php loss on a hit.

Cerebrally Guided Arrow: Upon release the shooter may mentally direct the arrows flight, avoiding obstacles, down stairs, around corners and the like.  This does not allow the shooter to automatically hit small targets, such as someone's medulla oblongata, for example.  The weapon does not turn on a dime, assume typical movement restrictions as devised by your benevolent Basement Leader.

Tongue Arrow: Have you ever wanted to lick something, but it was too far away?  Upon impact the user can taste what ever the missile touches.

Magna Arrow: These weapons are +4 to strike anything made of metal.  Upon impact they also will stick to a ferrous surface with a Muscle Power of 24.  These arrows often have a loop on the rear end of the shaft to tie a cord.

Message Arrow: Depress the stud on the unit and speak your message clearly...it will remember up to 5 words.  When loosed the red gems on the array will light in such a manner that the words will be visible as the missile arcs to its target.  Great for Slashmonger parties.  Made of durable woodinga so it can be recovered and used again and again.

 

Bloodworm Arrow: Similar to the Blood Worm Limpet (p 48) upon impact there is a 4 in 6 chance the Blood Worms will attach for an additional 3d8 php damage per Na-nuta.  The Blood Worms will siphon off the targets blood until they reach 50 points, at which point they will explode in a shower of red mulch.  That used to be your blood.  Icky, I know.

 

Looksee Arrow: When launched the shooter sees exactly what the arrow sees, but slowed down.  During flight (and landing) the user is watching in "slow motion" and can zero in an focus on various things of interest.  The Eye is glass, upon impact with hard targets there is a chance it will shatter, inflicting 2d6 php loss to the user.  Depending on the circumstances of use the user may also have to make a SIFC (Successful Insanity Factor Check).