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Tom's Toy Soldiers

Warmaster Revolution - Empire v Daemons 2,000 points - Wormaster (a Warmaster tournament in Worcester) is just around the corner and I've not played many games recently so Matt kindly agreed to help me rememb...
Cheaphammer!!!

Wasteland Vermin - As mentioned in my last post, I picked up some Raiders along with my Brotherhood of Steel as part of my post *Fallout* TV show impulse purchases. Having ...
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

Holy Martian Terror, Warriors of the Red Planet & The Gods of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs - It's been a New York minute since I've written anything about Mars and the last time was back on March 29th. Our Warriors of the Red Planet rpg/Hyperborea...
An Abominable Fancy

Unfathomable! Sessions 14 & 15 (plus a magic item) - Ye Dogs of Destiny leap from the Nullite frying pan into the Chaos godling fire! The Campaign: *Operation Unfathomable! and Odious Uplands!*, both by Ja...
Methods & Madness

Sword&Sorcery I: Introduction - I don't know when I'll finish this book but here is the introduction. Let me know id there is anything missing. I'll add the following chapters as I writ...
Jeffs Gameblog

Draft Two-Step Status rules - Hey, we're trying to remove a saving throw penalty in here! The basic deal here is that the first status of each pair has *no direct mechanical effect*. G...
tenfootpole.org

Doctrine of Ghul - By Bruce CordellMonte Cook GamesCypher/5eLevels 4-5 Ghul. The creator of Goth Gulgamel, the fortress halfway up the Spire. Self-proclaimed offspring of Esl...
28mm Victorian Warfare

Wookie Warriors - I wasn't planning a themed month, but I have unearthed some more photographs that have yet to be shared and with today being the 4th May, it just seemed ...
Rants & Ramblings of an Unfocused Gamer

Hamlet The village building game & Sentinels of the Multiverse - So, another board game night. This time we tried out Hamlet, prior to playing our usual Sentinels of the Multiverse game. I have a lot to say about Ha...
Miniature Mayhem

Under Construction - Some time back, I was asked if I was able to make some buildings for a local game store. It seems that during one of another gaming store swapmeets...
Elfmaids & Octopi

Factions for Chagrinspire For a Prison Adventure - Making sandbox tools for prison complex ruins. This is for those who will occupy a ruin. The ancients sure built lots ...
The Renaissance Troll

Rangers of Shadow Deep: A Gathering of Heroes - *Rangers of Shadow Deep: A Gathering of Heroes* has landed in the UK and is now available in print and PDF from the Modiphius website. North Star Military ...
Noigrim's Hobby

Reiter Freikorps - Despite being a merchant city Altdorf is not without its nobility, but given that the aristocrats of Reikland prefer to enter into one of the knightly ...
The Angry GM

Professor Angry’s Office Hours: I Actually Do Respect People’s Boundaries - We need to have a frank, open, and difficult discussions about why I keep calling Game Consent Surveys horseshit. Or rather, I need to explain and you need...
Monsters and Manuals

Why the dearth of 'other world' campaigns? - JRR Tolkien was a crucial 'break' between two conceptions of the fantasy genre. Before him, most (though not all) fantastical tales either involved people ...
The Shire and everything after

AVBCW (OPR) Battle of Barlow 2nd June 1939 - The morning of 2nd June 1939 at Barlow Village broke in relative calm after the action of the 1st June. The Black Horse in Barlow had done a roaring tra...
BASTIONLAND

The Power of Bluntness - I was reading through the rules for *Blood Red Skies. *I picked up the starter set for reasons that will become clear in a few weeks. The game appeals to...
Hobgoblinry

Skaven Rat Ogre - This hefty fellow has had an upgrade to paintwork begun by my daughter some years ago. He's already featured in one of our Mordheim games. He's a Rea...
I Cast Light!

I CAST FIST!: Brawl Arcane 28 A Perfect Intro To Kit Bashing And Skull Smashing - From the Gardens of Hecate *DIY28* "Inquisition 28" is a term for a family DIY-games in the wargaming scene and akin to "Moldvey Basic" in the dungeons w...
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Night's Dark Terror 15: Journey's End in Rifllian - *This is part of a series of posts with a scene-by-scene critique, appreciation, and improvement of the 1986 TSR module B10, Night's Dark Terror. * Barr...
Shed Wars

Napoleonic adventures - Afternoon all, its been a few weeks since I last posted and boy have things been busy here at the Shed. First up since I last posted back in early Marc...
Graham's Wargames

WHEN NIGHTMARES COME - Egypt 1920s Case - Game 2 - Now for the second game in this case. The band of Hunters have rushed down an alleyway into the darkened street. The Points of Interest they need to sea...
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Mirrors, Cubes, Rods, Staves, and the Deck of Motley Things - I've written another 10 pages of the Treasure Overhaul (title pending), a condensed magic item compendium for old-school games. Unlike the first two prev...
SHADOWKINGS

Wargames World Solo, rules play test. - I love new rules and ideas, this was on adverts and FB pages so I ordered a copy wrote by Gregory Ward, it is a solo war game rules, featuring some to me...
The Lizard Man Diaries

THE UNIVERSAL THING GENERATOR! - Need something?! Don't know quite what you need, but you know you need something? Is it an idea, a concept, a person, a group, a monster, a place? Whatev...
Vagabond's Wargaming Blog

Getting the Bird - In 2024, just off Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles you can visit the La Bria tar pits. The tar pits trapped many prehistoric animals whose remains have b...
Appendix N

Monkey Man for TRPGs - Monkey Man is a modern action film (2024) that brings a different perspective to the screen in that the action takes place in India. It engages in a...
Hack & Slash

On the Sector Turn - It's very simple. There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the...
noise sans signal

Strange colours (made out of mostly puns) - List of colours made by tweaking the names of existing colours or colour-related materials. They are tangentially dungeon related. *Orphyry* – light of th...
Baron's Blog

March to Victory - the report - This was our third time hosting March to Victory. Notice how there is no"con" in the name? The focus on “games only” resulted in a more intimate setti...
Remixes and Revelations

OSR: Even More Schools of Magic - As usual, I'm very late to this trend, if it ever was one. Consider this post a companion piece to this one. by SeaofFireflies *The Imperial Model:* The...
The 3 Toadstools

Osr anchorites? - It's been a long time since I listened to any osr podcasts. Anchor was a lot of fun. I'm not sure if the community is still going? I deleted the app ...
The Hapless Henchman

The Sea Caves of Aubergiole - I found this file on my hard-drive a few days ago, and since I will never ever finish the project (and in fact I don't recall many of the ideas) I give it ...
A J's Wargames Table

Painting Peasantry - 3 - ...and a library sale find. Some progress on the desultory painting process on the peasants for Lion Rampant. The last batch of twelve out of sixty is on...
Raging Owlbear

D&D: A Better Way to Fudge Dice - As it happens every 6 months or so, the topic of fudging the dice comes up. I’m probably not going to change your mind on fudging, but I stress that *sh...
Worlds in Miniature

Sylvaneth Spite Revenats - I had a lot of fun painting these gorgeous models from Games Workshop's Sylvaneth line for Age of Sigmar. So I thought I'd give you a quick look at som...
The Grinning Loon Project

"BURN 'EM!!!" - I've been mentioning these for a while now. Finally ready to show off the finished army of Dunlandings for *Into The West.* The Wild Men form the b...
Zabadak's ZombieWorld

Happy Mithrasmas* - Yes, it's that time of year when we celebrate the birth of Mithras (25th December), where we celebrate a winter holiday by dressing in our finest clothe...
Wooden Warriors

Very Sad News - I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past away from a heart attack on November 5th. Most of my relationship with Dale wa...
Lost Empires

canaid and pedlar campaign - pirate fantasy adventure
Colgar6 and the Infinite Legion of Toy Soldiers

Zomtober 2023, Week 5 - *<== Go here for Week 4* Introduction It's the last week of Zomtober, at least for 2023. As is required by the rules of that competition, I've completed...
Nickel & Dime Productions

It will be jst like starting over. - Hello hello, is there anybody out there ? Ok that's enough with taking lines for songs, is blog is about movies but how I would do a musical I have no i...
Damn Elf Press

Using Hex Kit for Thirty Years Reuel, 2nd Age - Here’s a sample of what I am working with to populate a hex map for my West Marches style game. I’m using the Cairn 2e playtest and running it on Owlbear R...
Ten Foot Polemic

Bad Weather after Judgment Day - The world has ended and the weather is fucking terrible. Oh it's not as bad as a decade ago, when the poison storm of a Gas Front would sweep through and tu...
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Another take on demihumans as social constructs. - I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant orig...
Scrum in Miniature

Scrum Con IV: In Your Face! - The Second Saturday Scrum Club rejoined the fray on April 8, organizing and hosting *Scrum Con IV* in Silver Spring, Maryland. Although we ran a surpris...
Brummie's Wargaming Blog

7TV Post Apocalypse Road Warrior Day - So 18th March I went to Board in Brum for a 7TV Apocalypse day. We played 3 games throughout the day. Following a narrative set by the organise...
The Dungeon Dozen

ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE DCC AT LAST - NOW AVAILABLE in PDF and Print on Demand:ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE (DCC)CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW! SO YOU SURVIVED OPERATION UNFATHOMABLE? Od...
Buildings Are People

I'm back, but I'm at a new blog - Blogger is ugly and full of comment spam. Here's my new blog.
I SEE LEAD PEOPLE

Gonzo Sci-Fantasy - Running and Playing It - Equipment and Monsters - Hello All, Welcome back to this second post about gaming Gonzo Sci-Fantasy. Last post I went over a brief description of what it is. This post will focus ...
MalcyBogaten Strikes Back

- Sorry about the rough pictures. Demon army foot soldiers. These are some of the Heroclix figures I have a few of. So I use them as the lesser foot so...
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
Hobby Horse

Empire Warrior Priests - It’s been a while since I updated the old blog, but I did recently complete this trio of Empire warrior priests. They were released around 2007 I think and...
Pirate Gonzalez Games

BEACON Update: V1.10 Big Bad Bosses! - V1.10 is here, and features a number of big updates, including the introduction of Bosses! The Lich boss Bosses Bosses are a special type of NPC, desig...
Billy Goes to Mordor

Star Fontiers Crewman: Enoch Whitestar - Our group started playing a Star Frontiers game over zoom. Enoch Whitestar is my character. Star Frontiers is a TSR Science Fiction RPG from the 80'...
Journey Into the Weird

New Home! - This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this platform. ...
The Bogeyman's Cave

"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
Tales of Frostgravery

Rangers of Shadow Deep: The Sinister Statues - *'Holy' Moses scowled as he and his fellow rangers trudged out of the swamp. Despite the notes pleading for help, it had been decided to follow up on th...
PLANET ARES VI

The Genie is Out of the Bottle. - More minis from the box of shame. This time a trader with his camel train and somen beastmen to waylay him. I also made some table funishings and a table...
The Miniatures Man

Aerosan OSGA 6 - More stuff for Whiteout, this time 2 Aerosans from Baker Company. In Whiteout you can have Sno-Cats as equipment or find them as terrain-encounters. My ta...
Two Goblins in a Trenchcoat

Secret Santicorn 2019: Words for Monster - The second annual Secret Santicorn event on the OSR Discord Server is just wrapping up! It's like Secret Santa, but instead of requesting regular gifts, pa...
Hmmm Marquis

The Plane of Lightning & Thoughts - Fulmens - Spells of the Storm-Wracked Noosphere - In conjunction with a good friend of mine I'm helping start the Planescape challenge. For those too lazy to click the link just now, its essentially a re-i...
ANYTHING BUT A ONE!

Another big (well small)gun - I continue with my alien 15mm army of Snakemen (Astragar). Just a few figures painted. The are of course 15mm CRITICAL MASS Games. Yes I do have some more...
alea iacta est

WIP: Der erste Thug ist mal bemalt - Der erste Thug ist buntMeine Frostgrave-Bande geht weiter voran. Nun hat der erste Thug Farbe bekommen. Das Base fehlt noch. Wie schon die beiden Thiefs, ...
Only On Tuesdays

GRN Standard: Izzet Blitz - https://articles.gglehi.com/grn-standard-izzet-blitz/
Game Mayhem

Zomtober 2018, Week 4 - Ahh, the final week of Zomtober! I may not have made all the progress I wanted, but I did get my last walkers done, bringing the total to 14. Three more...
If It Wasn't For Ones

Moving - Hi this is the last post on If it Wasn't for One's & I'd like to thank everyone of you that dropped in over the years, I will however be continuing to blog...
Bill's Toy Wars

5150 Platoon Leader - First Patrol - I finally played a game after weeks and weeks of no motivation. This was a Patrol mission conducted by the Prydian Army. Intelligence indicated that the Sh...

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