A Far and Distant Shore.....

Random Thought Time

Take your a typical fantasy world stocked with your normal menagerie of races, creatures and gods.

Your know this world, were good wages an endless war against the forces of evil. Where elves and dwarfs were once a great and powerful races who have fallen into twilight. Where humans are a young race who are rising to become the supreme race. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda

Then completely fuck it up.

Enter the Celestial Bureaucracy, a powerful race of lawful neutral beings from another dimension. There sole mission in life is to turn the multiverse into a place of peace and harmony.

They travel across the multiverse in massive N-space ships the size of cities, conquering planet after planet bringing law, order, peace and harmony. They do this by using a powerful mix of science, technology and magic to pretty much obliterate anyone who objects to them taking over.

Imagine the Borg without a sense of humor.

Of course not everyone is going to buy into this  cosmic hippie shit.

Everyone has the right to be an asshole, Right?

Well, the Celestial Bureaucracy takes a dim view of those who disturb the peace. They have developed a rather novel way of dealing with this malcontents. They open a gateway and ship these individuals off to a special little pocket dimension known as the Oubliette.

Gods, Demi-gods, Ancient Beings, monsters, mortals or anything else you can think off gets sent to this fun filled place.

This hellhole makes Devils Island look like Disneyland. Take every race,creature and construct from every edition of D&D and other fantasy, sci-fi or whatever genre RPG and stick them all in the same place.

Darwin's Wet Dream.

Fun Facts from the Known World Pt. II

Fun Fact #2 “Who you going to call?”

 

Ever needed to trap a moaning ghost or spiteful spirit? 

Need to ward off a thirsty vampire or horny devil?

 

Ever been hounded by ghouls or hell hounds?
 

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping!

 

There are a number of common items that can come in handy when dealing with the supernatural.

Salt – Never leave home without this! Salt is a handy item when dealing with the supernatural.

·         Protection: If a line of salt is spread across a threshold or used to create a circle, it can create an impenetrable barrier to: Ghosts, Shadows, Poltergeist, Haunts, Shades, Wraiths, Demons and Devils

·         Weapon: If salt is worked into the leather of a whip, it can flay the flesh of someone possessed, driving out the evil spirit.

Cold Worked Iron – This handy little material is often used to make nails and pots and pans. It also effective against various creatures.

·         Containment – If a room is lined with or a cage is made from this material it can trap: All spirit types (ghosts etc) and fairy folk. If the iron is worked into the shape of wards and ruins they can contain demons and devils also

·         Weapon – Weapons made from this material can be used to strike and wound all spirit types (ghosts etc), air elementals and fairy folk.

Fun Facts from the Known World Pt. I

Fun Fact #1 "What in the hell are Iron Rations?"

 

Going to be traveling down into deep, dank, dark dungeons?

 

Going to be travelling across hundreds of miles of dangerous wilderness?

 

Are you worried about your food getting spoiled or going bad?

 

Then Iron Rations are what you need! According to the Basic Rulebook Iron rations are "Preserved Food". What the frack is preserved food you might ask. Well at last here is your answer!

 

In a standard kit of Iron Rations you get the following:

 

•        1 Dozen Bucallatum (Hard Tack)

            Twice Baked Flatbread made from wheat and hard as a rock. These were usually softened with wine or vinegar before eating. Can also be thrown into soup or stew as a thickener.

•        1 Pound of Salarium (Salt Ration)

            This salt is used for salting game and fish out in the field to preserve it.

•        1 Pound of Assus Fructus (Dried Fruit)

            This fruit varies from region to region but the most common are raisins, figs and dates.

•        1 Pound of Sal salis Sus (Salted Pork)

Often heavily salted bacon or ham hocks, used to make stews.

•        1 Pound of Pullus Paganus (Dried Chickpeas)

A staple legume used to make soups, stews and hummus.

•        1 Small Jar of Mellis (Honey)

            All natural sweetener, used in breads and porridge.

•        1 Small Jar of Garum (Fermented Fish Sauce)

            The world famous pungent condiment made from fermented fish, garlic and olive oil used by almost everyone in the known world.

•        2 Quarts Phouska (Sour Wine)

            Wine that is almost vinegar, staple of the legionaries of Thrace

Campaign Maps

I have not posted in a while. I have got slack but I hope to change that. The past few months my D&D B/X campagin has been chugging along. My player's finished the Haunted Keep are a avg of 3rd level. They are now heading out into the wilds of Traladar to explore. They are looking for a muysterious tower before they begin a job to blaze a trail to the ruins of Wereskalot.
I have created a bunch of maps for my game. I am posting a few.

Player's Map, Lots of Blank spaces for them to explore.

DM's Master Map

Reaper Bones Kickstarter

Reaper Miniatures, one of my favorite miniature companies recently had one of the top three kickstarter drives ever. They were offering one of the best deals in miniatures, ever! Now I have plenty of miniatures to paint as it is.

Did I really need any more?

So what did I do?

I went and lost my goddamn fucking mind and pledged one week before going DragonCon It was just too good to pass up.

Here is what is coming to me in March 2013, god help my paint brushes.

I am really excited by this one. It is going to close to 8 inches tall.

Prepping for Dragon*Con

I have not posted to this blog like I have wanted to. I have been busy getting ready for Dragon*Con for the last week. It is my first time and I am very excited to be attending one of the biggest party conventions in the country. I have been painting miniatures but I have not taken any pictures of my progress.

My goal is to run at least one pick-up game in the open gaming area at the con. I am planning on using the timeless 1980 Basic & Expert D&D rule set. The adventures I am looking to run are:

The Haunted Tower - This is the main one I want to run. I have put a lot of work and time into.

I am also considering running Lamentations of the Flame Princess's Death Frost Doom or the Stargazer's Tower.

I am keep having a recurring nightmare that when I am the con I will not find anyone who wants to play.

Sanding and Gluing

I have not painted as much as I would have liked (Damned PS3). I have gotten some models ready for the primer phase.

The prep stage is always a hard one for me to not rush through. It is a very important stage and if you miss something in this stage it can really fuck with the paint job later.

I normally use Zap-a-gap CA+  for gluing miniatures, but this time I am using Elmer's Super Glue which is thinner but seems to cure faster.

At the bottom of the mat are some Battle System Dwarves from one of the army box sets that I have owned for over 15 years. I have them glued to washer so I can have something to hold on to while I paint and I can flock them later.

On the right side is a two-headed Ral Partha Ettin. What a complete pain in the ass models. Poor design in the arm to body attachment. I am going to have to break out the Dremel and pin this thing.