Skirmish Saturday

Its Skirmish Saturday at the Vorpal Chainsword!

I convinced Mary to help me test out a game of Strange Aeons, a miniature skirmish game based around the Cthulhu Mythos.  We played the introductory quickstart scenario, available here.  Strange Aeons is a 1930s pulp minis game that pits government X-files agents ("Threshold", which we immediately renamed "Fringe") against cultists and their eldritch allies ("Lurkers").  I was able to convince Mary to play by telling her she got to play the Fringe agents.

Terrain Baby!

I think its safe to say that I'm a wargamer at heart, rather than a roleplayer.  That's not to say that I've actually played a wargame in over five years, but instead to say that I just seem to spend more time painting miniatures and creating terrain than I do actually preparing adventures for my game group. In fact, I don't think I've actually played Warhammer since 2007.

That said, I've finally finished painting all my Dungeon Tiles terrain from the very successful Dwarven Forge Kickstarter (that I dropped way too much money on), and I figured I'd upload a few pics.

Riders of Rohan, enter the dungeon!

GameHoleCon. Better than GenCon. There I said it.

Its Sunday here at GameHoleCon and I have already endured two solid days of gaming majesty, with another game yet on the horizon in a few hours.  In the meantime, let me give you a run down about how epic this convention has been here in Madison, WI.

 

GameHoleCon Begins!

Finally GameholeCon has come to Madison!  Pull out your pencils, polish off your dice, and roll on over to the Sheraton to come check out the festivities!

I was going over my schedule last night and realized I signed up for only three actual rpg events.  However I signed up for five Seminars.  Five Seminars?  At a 'con?!  I was going to see if I could swap some for some more games, but then I re-read the seminar descriptions and they all sound interesting.  So yeah, I'm going to go attend five seminars at a gaming convention. I must be getting old.

But hey, at least I get to play in the Dungeon Bastard's Insurmountable Gauntlet of Doom on Saturday night!

Game on!

Fantasy Grounds - A Tragedy in Screenshots

So back in 2007 I moved far away from where the rest of my D&D crew lived, so I had to find a gaming alternative to face-to-face D&D.  The alternative I found was the just-released program called Fantasy Grounds, which is an online tabletop for D&D gaming.  With it I ran a d20 online Ravenloft campaign online for some of my homies back in those days (and would post campaign updates on my old blog).

Thief - The Dark Mod

A game came out back in 1999 that defined a genre of gaming for low-fantasy D&D nerds like me.  No, it wasn't Baldur's Gate, Half-Life, or System Shock II.  Although those were all excellent PC games released around that time, only one game was capable of keeping a young nerd locked away in his tiny room immersed in its dark fantasy world, rather than joining his rugby girl roommates who were perpetually partying throughout the rest of the crappy house they were renting.

That game was: Thief - The Dark Project.

Movie review- Dungeons and Dragons 3: Book of Vile Darkness

That's right Americans, there is a third Dungeons and Dragons movie!  It was a direct-to-DVD sequel, but sadly the DVDs were only released in the U.K.  Why do fantasy-movie production companies only release these things in the UK?  They also did it with the tolerable/almost good Solomon Kane.  I will buy your cheesy sci-fi/fantasy DVDs if you release them in the USA, movie production companies, I promise.

Anyway, here's the trailer:


So how did I, a lowly American, see this fantasy epic?  Because of my shadow internet black market associates, of course.  It took cunning, a few greased palms, and a harrowing chase through a noble madman's guarded mansion before I emerged with the sacred prize...

But also you can just watch the whole movie on youtube here.

So is it any good?  Surprisingly...YES!