tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75425640694428398382024-03-14T17:39:05.591+00:00Rab's Geekly Digest(Or, Adventures in unfinished projects)Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.comBlogger535125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-20253688121258165502018-10-03T13:17:00.001+01:002018-10-03T13:17:29.599+01:00Averaigne royal familyEvery kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh king in the 250 or so years since the joining of the crowns.<br />
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Perhaps not that easy to read, but I now have nine generations of the direct line of Averaignian royalty safely included in my Family Echo account. There's death in childbirth, infertility, plague, a shipwreck, a loyal uncle during a minority regency, and a rebellion so far. I need to squeeze in at least one death in battle or jousting accident, and develop a bloodline that will have a reasonable claim on the throne to spice things up, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with having fleshed it out thus far.<br />
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Amazing what can be achieved while a bunch of fifteen year olds are doing a test!Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-88944548776578326672018-09-11T21:31:00.000+01:002018-09-11T21:33:55.818+01:00Meet EmrimMeet Emrim. For a dwarf (and a thief*) he's a good sort, and a fine shot to have alongside you in a fight. Not <i>behind</i> you, mind, he's not a perfect shot by any means.<br />
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This lovely old figure (not sure where he's in production now; Viking Forge? Alternative Armies?) will be my ten year old's character in our Western Lands campaign using the early D&D retroclone ruleset, Basic Fantasy RPG, which is my go-to set for this kind of thing. So far we've gamed solely with paper, pencil, eraser, and imagination, but I think it might respark their interest to have some representational figures and a gridded mat for key encounters.<br />
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I'm not planning on handing the figure over yet. Apart from anything else he needs varnishing and a couple of foliage bits on the base. The main reason is that I have a vague plan to make one if those "deluxe" gaming boxes that look like a book but contain a dice box with pencil, dice, and figure storage. We'll see.<br />
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Thirty-one figures painted this year now, if you include 10mm figures; seventeen of them since late August!<br />
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*He prefers "investigator"Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-82024233047057426862018-09-05T10:44:00.000+01:002018-09-05T10:44:36.003+01:00Insta-what-now?Blogging has been the thing that has continued to feel like a drag since more-or-less recovering my mojo after a slump in pretty much everything last Spring. It has felt like a chore; like something I <i>ought</i> to be doing and it has hung over me somewhat.<br />
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Utterly daft, considering this hobby is my escapism from real-world responsibilities!<br />
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So, I've gone down the micro-blogging route for now. Maybe that's where I'll stay, maybe I'll run them side-by-side (certainly Averaigne reports won't work anywhere but here), maybe I'll end up back solely here. We'll see.<br />
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In the meantime, if you're interested in keeping an eye on what I'm up to (including my newly added interest of gaming the English Civil War in 10mm), I can be found on Instagram as @rabsgeekly.<br />
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<br />Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-51610285950056626092018-07-06T12:18:00.001+01:002018-07-06T12:18:25.975+01:00Lego TalismanWhile I do get enthusiastic about things pretty easily (I like to think of it as a childlike sense of wonder), it's not often that I'm reduced to gibbering excitement. This is one of those times.<br />
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Yes, that's a full Talisman 2nd Edition board made out of Lego!!!!<br />
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Michael Christiansen is the genius behind it and you can see all 104 photos he's posted at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/147661809@N02/albums/72157677726985670/with/31532246383/">this album over on flickr</a>.<br />
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A. Ma. Zing!Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-77521220444234718752018-06-27T10:00:00.000+01:002018-07-04T15:46:24.112+01:00Time passes 01<br>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've now reached the stage where all the players have dispersed to university etc. so our gaming is likely to be far more spread out, with maybe only a single game session per year. This is the first such gap, but on Friday we're getting the band back together (including a boyfriend and girlfriend who will be exposed to the full oddness of the Averaigne Adventurers en masse). </span></i><br>
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Fortunately I can fit two pitches side by side so the little Rablings can fluke their way to victory over me simultaneously... I am actually a little miffed that I've taught the older one to play skaven so effectively!<br>
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Good afternoon, sports fans, and welcome to round two of the inaugural RaBBL league!<br>
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Last week saw a fantastic double-header with the Vantius Villains from the Northern wastes beating the pre-season favourites Moloch's Malefactors 3-1, although taking a pummeling in doing so. Meanwhile, the chaotic Beastly Bonecrunchers edged to a 2-1 win over the World's Edge Wyverns orc team.<br>
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And now we get the winners of those two matches competing to take an early lead in the championship. The weather is beautiful, the crowd of 18,000 are ugly as sin, the two teams (and their coaches!) are slavering psychopaths... perfect!<br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was sitting with his back to a great tree, as if he was resting. But Aragorn saw that he was pierced with many black-feathered arrows; his sword was still in his hand, but it was broken near the hilt; his horn cloven in two was at his side. Many Orcs lay slain, piled all about him and at his feet.</span></span></blockquote>
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One of the arguments I regularly trot out to the incomparable Mrs Rab about why I'm painting "horrible, ugly monsters" is that without such horrible, ugly monsters, how are the heroes to prove themselves? Tolkien (of whom she is sensibly an admirer) understood this and so, while he further understood that the worst monsters could be apparently fair or only temporarily wicked (Boromir himself...), I picked half a dozen older Citadel orcs as the next victims of my brush, of whom the first three are now complete.<br>
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The latest two figures are the (previously unknown to me) adventurer variant of Mimbrin from the <a href="http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/ss2dwfkingsct/index.htm">Dwarf King's Court</a> boxed set from 1982 - exactly the same figure but with a great big pack slung across his back - and a masked wizard that caused me much irritation to paint. Still, no regrets and no do-overs this year, so he'll have to face eldritch what-nots and delve into long forgotten dungeons just as he is!<br />
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These figures represent <b>Dumnorix</b> (cleric of Alathea and righteous smiter), <b>dog</b> (who hasn't appeared in our adventures yet; he's one of the two additional pieces that got lifted from the <i>shelf of shame</i> to join this project), and <b>Nausicaa</b> (elf of great diplomacy, great hair, and great boots).<br />
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<br />Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-61446227582378205492018-01-10T12:38:00.002+00:002018-01-10T12:38:33.457+00:00Dungeon delvingRegular readers will know that I've overcome my teenage/early-adulthood disdain for roleplaying and have been enthusiastically dungeoneering with retroclone Dungeons and Dragons with <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Western%20Lands">my sons</a> and, separately, a <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Averaigne">group of students</a> (sadly on hiatus while they're off at university). We've been using the excellent opensource Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game (<a href="http://www.basicfantasy.org/">BFRPG</a>) rules by Chris Gonnerman (Solomariah on several forums), and doing so purely with dice, pencil and paper in full "theatre of the mind" style.<br />
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But I got some new toys over Christmas, so I think there's going to be a little more of a half-way approach for encounters from now on. Think props and clarifications, representative rather than millimeter perfect, and absolutely no counting of squares or arguing line of sight! But I still get to use a few figures when I want to. Anyway, the new toys:<br />
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Some of the great dry-wipe monster tokens from Billiam Babble of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/566990279/dry-erase-counters-or-tokens-for?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=inked%20adventures&ref=sr_gallery-1-1">Inked Adventures</a>:<br />
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And an impulse purchase of some adventurer miniatures in Autumn last year yielded what I needed to provide suitable figures for the <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Averaigne">Averaigne</a> crew. Last night I started blocking out metals and a first layer of flesh in front of McMafia:<br />
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It feels good to be painting again and starting the new year with a new project feels fresh and appropriate. There's also the chance of a get-together game in mid Spring, so I have a target.Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-11780689609015578322018-01-08T17:17:00.001+00:002018-01-08T17:17:15.853+00:00Deadcember 2017 - a champion is crowned<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been both an absolute pleasure, and a cause for mounting panic, for me throughout December as excellent entry after excellent entry arrived in my inbox for the Deadcember competition (sponsored this year by Ral Partha Europe - thanks chaps!). The pleasure came from the well-planned conversions, clever colour combinations, nostalgia-made-lead model choices, and the evident satisfaction from both completing a figure(s) and from taking part that came across in the submission emails.<br>
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Oh yes, the panic. How on Earth was I supposed to pick a winner <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/p/deadcember-17.html">from this array</a>? Should productivity be rewarded - Alex painted a whole army, and there were other multiple-entrants. Should keeping it hardcore Oldhammer miniatures be a guide? That only leads to the rabbit-hole of "what is Oldhammer?" all over again, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/400319303383363/permalink/1593807520701196/">gnomes have only just saved us</a> from that!<br>
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It's a cliché of any competition to say that any contributor could have won, but I genuinely mean it when I say I'd have been happy to reward any one of them. In the end I listed them all and picked between two at a time, like in a knock-out competition, using some excel jiggery-pokery to randomise the list. I did it several times and the same winner came out each time, although the final choice was really, really, really hard each time.<br>
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Happy new year, everyone!Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-32772803249270719672017-12-28T08:38:00.002+00:002017-12-29T09:59:06.256+00:00There's (un)life in Deadcember yet!Good morning, gamers, and a belated happy Christmas to you all. I've had a very deliberate few days away from the internet to try and be totally present (no, not that sort of "present", although theat's been fun, too) with family as I'm so easily distracted. I'm back now, though, and shall be scurrying round FB and G+ and the Oldhammer forum to pull in the last few entries for Deadcember that I know must be lurking out there just waiting for a quick photo against a plain background, and an email to <a href="mailto:deadcember2017@gmail.com">deadcember2017@gmail.com</a>, preferably including a "before" picture too.<br />
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Fortunately for the Deadcember challenge, some of you are far more in control of your time and there are now a whole bunch more entries in the gallery (see tab at top of page). They were submitted as per the guidelines in<b> <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/deadcember-one-week-to-go.html">this post</a>.</b><br />
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Here's one by Thomas "Zero Twentythree" to whet your appetite that doesn't quite make it in because they were started last month - don't worry, though, Thomas has several other entries that do qualify. Check out that rust!<br />
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Another from Iain Harrison<br />
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An undead unicorn and rider from Chris Kellahan<br />
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One from Gaz Shaw (check out his <a href="https://forgottendungeons.blogspot.co.uk/">Forgotten Dungeons</a> blog)<br />
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Both added to the <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/p/deadcember-17.html">Deadcember 17</a> gallery. Any more entries out there?Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-81294931477191061122017-12-06T07:57:00.001+00:002017-12-06T07:57:35.406+00:00Deadcember - the firstThe first entry for this year's challenge has been submitted, hopefully the first of many! Well done to Iain Harrison whose Nick Lund Grenadier skeleton with mace now graces the gallery accessible via the <a href="http://geeklydigest.blogspot.co.uk/p/deadcember-17.html">Deadcember 17 tab</a> at the top of the page.<br />
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Remember, submissions to deadcember2017{at}gmail{dot}com.Rabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066364524817373862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7542564069442839838.post-31245014980030842062017-12-05T14:37:00.003+00:002017-12-05T14:40:57.147+00:00Arthurian illustrationsA large part of my interest in the medieval fantasy that can be found in the games I mostly play (WFB, Dragon Rampant, my Averaigne Basic Fantasy/D&D campaign, Knights' Quest and various other dungeon-crawling games) is the combination of folkloric and chivalric legends. In some ways I'm quite Victorian in my enthusiasm for chivalry and its modern incarnations of gentlemanly conduct, while recognising the sometimes restrictive gendering aspects that don't sit well with some. I'm also a big fan of the works of painters such as Burne-Jones and other pre-Raphaelites, with their medievalism. When the two combine, I'm a happy man - and I've discovered a new artist that hits the spot that I wanted to share.<br>
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Katharine Cameron, a member of the Glasgow Art School in the late 1890s, worked as a book illustrator (among other things) and for me captures that slightly naive, watercolour/stained glass effect (I'm sure there's a proper artistic term for that). What caught my eye were these illustrations she did for Mary MacGregor's 1907 <i>Stories of King Arthur's Knights</i> that formed part of the <i>Told to the Children </i>series.<br>
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As I'm sure is quite a widespread issue, I find myself in need of a liche. This fellow will be what I attempt to paint in around the slightly overambitious list of homemade books and journals I've planned for various nearest and dearest. He's a Chaz Elliot sculpt for Rl Partha Europe, <a href="http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/heartbreaker-miniatures-28mm-c-115/chaz-elliot-c-115_154/5028-undead-lord-with-sword-p-3099.html">5028 Undead Lord with Sword</a> and he's pretty tall - that's a 25mm base he's on!<br>
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I'll start an album here of the entries as they come in, as well as a thread on the oldhammer forum for users to see the subset painted by other forum users.<br />
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<b>What you need to know if you want to enter:</b><br />
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<li>This is a painting challenge for 28mm "scale" miniatures painted during December 2017</li>
<li>The theme this year is <b>(un)dead</b>, meaning casualty figures are as welcome as the usual undead monsters and creatures</li>
<li>An entry can either be a single model, or a group - there is no advantage or disadvantage inherent to either choice</li>
<li>Email a photo of your miniature(s) before painting, and no more than two of the finished item, against a plain background so your painting really shines. Send your pictures to <a href="mailto:deadcember2017@gmail.com">Deadcember 2017</a></li>
<li>You can enter as many times as you like - the more the merrier - but each entry will be independently considered.</li>
<li>The winner will be decided by me and will be based purely on my honest choice of which is my favourite - quality of painting, oldhammeriness, any conversion work, etc. will all feed in to it, I'm sure.</li>
<li>There is a prize! A new Tom Meier zombie dragon and some skeletons, kindly donated by Ral Partha Europe.</li>
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I'm really looking forward to what everyone produces! Check the tab at the top of the page for last year's entries.</div>
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