10 January 2018

Dungeon delving

Regular 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 my sons and, separately, a group of students (sadly on hiatus while they're off at university). We've been using the excellent opensource Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game (BFRPG) rules by Chris Gonnerman (Solomariah on several forums), and doing so purely with dice, pencil and paper in full "theatre of the mind" style.

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:

A Chessex Battlemat:


Some of the great dry-wipe monster tokens from Billiam Babble of Inked Adventures:


And an impulse purchase of some adventurer miniatures in Autumn last year yielded what I needed to provide suitable figures for the Averaigne crew. Last night I started blocking out metals and a first layer of flesh in front of McMafia:


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.

6 comments:

  1. now we just have to get you gaming with us!!! or have we lost you to the dark side of role playing gaming......

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    1. Not at all! In fact I've got a day a month sorted up until Easter for gaming. I'll send you, Chris, and Dan the dates later and see if we can work something out. Otherwise I'll just sit and paint all afternoon!

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  2. Funnily enough I got a Chessex Battlemat in November, but only got around to picking up a non-permanent OHP pen yesterday. I can see it becoming a regular feature in our rpg sessions. Those dry-wipe monster tokens look very handy too - might have to invest in a pack. Ta!

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    1. You're a step ahead of me - I haven't got the pens yet! It looks like it should be useful for some set-piece encounters. The tokens are pretty neat.

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    2. WHSmith sell individual black non-permanent OHP pens for 1.99, or slightly discounted packs of five with assorted colours. Being a cheapskate I went for the former option! They work fine.

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    3. That's a great tip, thank you! I was umming an ahhing about the price of the Staedtler pens that Chessex recommend.

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