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Further extracts from the diary of Rioja Hyrule (17th May 2012)
Whilst Rioja was recovering from his ordeal against the skeletons, Korum snuck another peak into his personal diary. Here follows Rioja's latest entry ...From the diary of Rioja Hyrule:(written by Russell, Rioja's alter-ego)---I have never had much t ... Read More
Khorvaire - Session5 - 16/05/12 (17th May 2012)
Session 5: The Dungeon Complex (16th May 2012) The cast of heroes Arken (Half-Elf Cleric) – leader of the partyBardan (Human Fighter) – the muscleKnil (Elf Ranger) – the trackerRioja Hyrule (Human Mage) – the wizardKorum Proudfoot (Halfl ... Read More
Khorvaire - The Journey so far (10th May 2012)
Just thought I'd publish the map of where the adventurers have been so far on their journeys. The map is from an official D&D campaign set, but the DM (Craig) has reduced the size of the continent from being about the size of North America to an ... Read More
Khorvaire - Session 4 - 09/05/12 (10th May 2012)
Session 4: The Underground Caverns (9th May 2012) The cast of heroesArken (Half-Elf Cleric) – leader of the partyBardan (Human Fighter) – the muscleKnil (Elf Ranger) – the trackerRioja Hyrule (Human Mage) – the wizard (absent from this session)Kor ... Read More
A Day Off work (3rd May 2012)
Normally when I take a day off work I have something else to do. Not so today. I have a day where I can do what I like until 3pm when I collect the kids from school.Sooo, I have taken the opportunity to catch up with my gaming and later on will get some r ... Read More
Nick Lund's Chronicle Hobgoblins (3rd May 2012)
I have had these figures for many, many years. They were bought when they first came out. I saw them in an advert in White Dwarf, so I saved my pocket money and whizzed up to a shop somewhere in London. My memory is hazy of the precise location of sa ... Read More
Khorvaire - Session 3 - 02/05/12 (3rd May 2012)
Session 3: Wizard’s Tower (2nd May 2012) The cast of heroesArken (Half-Elf Cleric) – leader of the partyBardan (Human Fighter) – the muscleKnil (Elf Ranger) – the trackerKorum Proudfoot (Halfling Thief) – the scoutRioja Hyrule (Human Mage) – t ... Read More
Extract from Rioja Hyrule's diary (26th Apr 2012)
Whilst the rest of the party are sleeping, Korum Proudfoot gets bored on watch. He has struck up a good friendship and level of trust with all of his new companions, but he is forever curious. Since arriving on the new plane looking for unicorns, he has f ... Read More
AD&D Campaign - Session 2 - 25/04/12 (26th Apr 2012)
Session 2: Other Planes (25th April 2012) The cast of heroesArken (Half-Elf Cleric) – leader of the partyBardan (Human Fighter) – the muscleKnil (Elf Ranger) – the trackerRioja Hyrule (Human Mage) – the wizardKorum Proudfoot (Halfling Thief) – t ... Read More
New Blog title (22nd Apr 2012)
I thought the old blog name was a little tired and needed a bit of razzing up. So, after much scratching of heads (they don't call me Zaphod junior for nothing) I came up with the latest title; actually, I had just been watching Wallace and Gromit wi ... Read More
AD&D campaign - Session 1 - 18/04/2012 (19th Apr 2012)
Well, I plucked up the courage over the weekend and emailed a local-ish RPG club. The Role Play Haven is based in Lewisham, south-east London, which is on my way home from work. The club meets every Wednesday evening.So, I attended my first AD&D ... Read More
AD&D Version1 Characters (11th Apr 2012)
These are the stats I got from randomly rolling 11 characters on the online random character generation system on the Dragonsfoot website. Sex Class Align Str Int Wis Dex Con Cha Age Height Weight 1 Mal ... Read More
Songs of Blades and Heroes: Beyond the Andraswald (9th Apr 2012)
Saturday saw the hordes of the Cantwara descend upon the Suth Sexena. A crossing of the border through the great Andraswald was needed to disguise the numbers involved. Upon arrival at Chez Dunc, battle, or more accurately three battles, commenced.We star ... Read More
Princesses and Rainbows (3rd Apr 2012)
I ordered a few figures from EBob for my daughters a few weeks back. I got them a queen and lady miniature each to start their painting careers on. My youngest daughter, Cerys (she's six), finished hers the weekend just gone.Here is the maid...And he ... Read More
More of Alex's LotR minis (1st Apr 2012)
We were all busy with the brushes this weekend. First up are Alex's efforts. He has moved along with his Lord of the Rings figures and managed to complete 3 major heroes with another few almost ready.First up is a mounted Aragorn. He has started to put ... Read More
Songs of Splintered Lands - The Druid's Children III (11th Mar 2012)
Here are the final figures for the Splintered Lands army I ordered up. Now I need to get them into battle and see how they fare. First up are the Badger Command warriors...And, the final warband of shrews...I also knocked up one of my really old Ral Parth ... Read More
Songs of Splintered Lands - The Druid's Children II (8th Mar 2012)
A few more miniatures for my Splintered Lands collection were finished up today. I just had to varnish them and add some static grass, so it wasn't too much effort.First up are a Mouse Warband, very much based on the Redwall colour scheme...Next up is a c ... Read More
Wargames Soldiers & Strategy 59 (6th Mar 2012)
Well, I succumbed to yet another magazine today. Whilst browsing in Smith's waiting for my train to arrive on Platform 7 at Victoria Station, I decided this would be a definite one for me. Lots and lots of Viking goodness.Used without permission - Karwans ... Read More
Songs of Splintered Lands - The Druid's Children (4th Mar 2012)
At long last I have finished up some of the Splintered Light minis that Dunc ordered up for me several months ago. These were about 90% done within only a week or two of getting them, but for some reason I ground to a halt on them, always finding som ... Read More
Grey Knights Terminators (4th Mar 2012)
Alex finished off some Grey Knights today. He hasn't really had the painting bug this year so far, but he managed to pick up the paint brushes and get these Space Marines completed. He has lost his painting mojo recently, he said, because he is bored of t ... Read More
Games Workshop (1st Mar 2012)
I took a trip to my local Games Workshop the weekend just past and noticed quite a few changes there. They no longer sell metal miniatures for any of their ranges in store - they are going through the phases of replacing them with resin FineCast models. I ... Read More
20,000 Page Views (23rd Feb 2012)
Another milestone has been hit on the blog. A year or two back the hit counter was hovering around the 3-4,000 mark and I never really saw it growing that quickly, so thank you very much to my readers and followers. I haven't been up to much in the last w ... Read More
The Village of Hommlet - Map (15th Feb 2012)
It took me a while, but here is the final version of the Hommlet map I have been working on recently. I have been working on it in one or two hour stints over the last few weeks (but not every day).I wanted to remove the grid lines and represent the villa ... Read More
Miniature Wargames 347 (14th Feb 2012)
I was weak. The lure of wargaming crack brought me back to the shops to get my next fix. I sold the house, the car, the kids... After overdosing over the last few weeks I succumbed and bought the next MW on a whim rather than my usual calculated skim thro ... Read More
HotT - Barbarian Archers (9th Feb 2012)
Here is another stand for my Hordes of the Things Barbarian army; a stand of archers...They are part of the Dark Age range from Heroes of the Dark Ages . I have a few of their figures (the general's stand is also from their miniature ... Read More
Romano-British Archers - part deux (6th Feb 2012)
I managed to finish these chaps off over the weekend and this evening...They are the last of the Gripping Beast Arthurian archers I picked up at Salute last year. My post-Roman force is now quite respectable but just needs a few more adding to it to round ... Read More
This month's wargames magazines (5th Feb 2012)
I don't usually pick up that many magazines, but this month wound up being a bit different to normal. I bought four of the usual suspects. I am aware there are others out there, but as I generally only pick them up in WH Smith or direct from GW then these ... Read More
White Dwarf 386 - February 2012 (2nd Feb 2012)
I thought I would do a quick run down of what is included in this month's White Dwarf. As I have little interest in Warhammer or 40K, I will limit those entries and concentrate more on the Lord of the Rings stuff - the reason I bought the magazine... ... Read More
Romano-British Archers and Games Workshop (29th Jan 2012)
We had a family trip to the Bluewater shopping centre this afternoon. Not my idea of a cup of tea but at least there is a Games Workshop to lose myself in whilst the Mrs does some girly stuff. I popped in in the hope of seeing the new Lord of the Rings re ... Read More
Romano-Brits vs. Saxons in the Land of Tangent (29th Jan 2012)
The roiling sea mists beagn to evaporate under the baleful glare of the morning sun. The weary Saxon warband were returning to their ships after a night's raiding, longing for ale and meat to break their fasts. The silence was shattered on both ... Read More
Dungeons and Dragons (24th Jan 2012)
I thought I’d collect my thoughts and recent research on Dungeons and Dragons, the first RPG I played.I started playing back in about 1978/9 with a friend from school. I was around his house and came across a couple of really old White Dwarf magazines. ... Read More
Update and Chat (22nd Jan 2012)
No photos on the blog this week I'm afraid. I did do a fair bit of painting and finishing off work though, but nothing was actually completed fully. So, hopefully there will be pictures either next weekend or the week after.I was hoping to get the Splinte ... Read More
Shadow and Flame (15th Jan 2012)
This is an old Citadel Greater Demon or something similar. I don't think they could use the term Balrog as it may have been copyrighted by Tolkien Ents. The Advanced D&D Monster Manual had them down as Type VI demons if I recall, and there were only e ... Read More
Hordes of the Things - Magic User base (8th Jan 2012)
This HotT base has taken a long time to put together. I finished the Amazon priestess a year or so back but wanted to put something else on the base as she looked a bit alone when it was just her on her horse. One of the wargaming magazines had a cover mo ... Read More
Doggerland - the Final Turn (2nd Jan 2012)
Peace, at last, comes to Doggerland. Bran mak Morn, the lord of Cantwara, managed to win the support of the other warlords to become overlord of Doggerland. Here is the final map of the campaign which includes all details of how the forces lined up in tha ... Read More
Happy New Year (1st Jan 2012)
Here's wishing you all a very Happy New Year...I didn't get up to much this New Year's Eve - just watched a few episodes of the BBC Frozen Planet series with Mrs Odo and had a couple of glasses of wine. We saw the New Year in and went straight to bed ... Read More
Merry Christmas (24th Dec 2011)
Merry Christmas to all of my readers, old and new. Thank you for dropping by and taking a peek into my little world of gaming. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and get everything you ask for in these difficult and austere times. Let us all be tha ... Read More
Warriors of Rohan (18th Dec 2011)
I haven't made an update in a short while, but I have been busy painting some Lord of the Rings miniatures. I managed to finish up 36 Warriors of Rohan today. These, along with the Riders of Rohan from last year, make up teh core of a Rohan army I am tryi ... Read More
Dragonewt on wierdy beast (29th Nov 2011)
I actually finished this little monster mash-up on Sunday, but thought I'd write up my gaming session with Dunc first.The rider came from the Runequest set of Dragonewts I painted up a few months ago and would ordinarily ride on a terror bird (painted ... Read More
Into the Perilous Realm... (27th Nov 2011)
I got down to see Dunc, my new online gaming buddy, this weekend. I packed the chariot with all the requirements for a day's gaming and set off through the Dark Wood into the Perilous Realm of Sussex. My landlubber's legs trembling at the thought of ... Read More
Roman Top Brass (20th Nov 2011)
These took me forever to finish. Not sure why, but I just lacked the enthusiasm for them for a long time. Maybe it was because I had painted so many legionaries and auxiliary troops in the last year I had just lost the will to do any more, or maybe it ... Read More
Nick Lund's Kobolds (13th Nov 2011)
I bought these way back in the day when they were first released at a shop in west London. I cannot remember the name of the shop now but, as far as I know, it is no longer there - a shame really as I only went there the once (to get these and their Ho ... Read More
Centaur (9th Nov 2011)
This is my oldest shop bought figure; a Ral Partha Centaur from 1976. I don't remember why I bought him as I had no use for him at the time. I think it was a case of I saw what I thought at the time was a fantastic figure and made an impulse buy; the f ... Read More
Some random fantasy stuff (2nd Nov 2011)
Here are the rest of the miniatures I painted up over the weekend. They are a random assortment of fantasy and historical figures painted to be fantasy miniatures of sorts.First up is a Warlord Games Celtic boy being chased by an old Citadel Amazon.And ... Read More
Reaper Cleric (1st Nov 2011)
The weekend allowed me to finish off quite a few fantasy minis to the stage where they just need to be varnished or have their bases completed. This is a fairly modern take on the Cleric character class by Reaper Miniatures. I bought him at Colours abo ... Read More
Bretonnian Duke (31st Oct 2011)
Alex finished up this Bretonnian lord over the weekend. I thought I'd give it an entry of its own as it didn't really fit in with the Doggerland stuff. He also started to glue up another unit of Men-at-Arms to augment his growing Bretonnian army. At the s ... Read More
The Real Doggerland (30th Oct 2011)
I was reading the Metro (a free daily newspaper in the UK) on the way to work a few weeks back and came across the following article, which I duly cut out and scanned into my computer. It is a very simplistic view of what Doggerland may have looke ... Read More
Doggerland - 17th Campaign Turn (30th Oct 2011)
A filler to be getting on with until I can get some painted miniatures up on the blog. Here is the 17th Campaign turn summary for Doggerland.The great battle of Dogger was more than a contest of swords and spears, it was also a battle of the sharpes ... Read More
Update and Chat (28th Oct 2011)
I haven't been up to much gaming-wise recently and, as a result, the blog has gone a month without any updates. This is because real life has got in the way of gaming. I have been very busy at work with a new project that will last until the end of Novemb ... Read More
Brytenwalda Command (28th Sep 2011)
I am on a bit of a late one tonight, so thought I'd post the latest pictures of the minis I was working on a week or so ago. They are of a new building I bought from a company called Conflix and half-a-dozen Brytenwalda command troops from Gripping Beast. ... Read More
