Here are the in-process pictures of my painting efforts for my Hero Forge Miniature of Griswald, my representation of my favorite AD&D character, from my brother Robert’s AD&D campaign. While I was at it, I also painted my miniatures that I have had from back in the day and not yet painted. I began with … Continue reading Painting Hero Forge Mini – Part 1
How can I not mention the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae? While 300 blog posts is not as impressive as the feat of those long-dead Spartans, as someone with a BA in history and a big interest in ancient and medieval history, I could not help it, nor did I try. Someone posting daily for a … Continue reading 300!!
Back in the mid to late 80’s I bought a quad ruled desk pad from an office supply store. That was back when desk pads and pen and paper were still the mainstay of business. I have only one sheet from that desk pad that holds the map to the town for Griswald, the longest … Continue reading Quad Ruled Desk Pads
Hero Forge is one of the Kickstarters that I backed. they are a victim of their own success and are backed up due to the volume of orders placed in the last few weeks, and rather than a planned two – four weeks until shipping, it is delayed to be four weeks. I received a generic … Continue reading Hero Forge Update
The Hero Forge Kickstarter was one of the first Kickstarters that I backed. I got swamped with real life and missed out on playing with the beta websites. Tonight I finally made time to go online and design my mini and place the order. My Kickstarter pledge for $30.00 gets me a detail mini and … Continue reading Hero Forge Backer Mini Ordered
Some creatures from mythology and fiction that do not already exist in a game are fun to develop stats for in game use. I have only created stats for a few creatures myself, and have yet to use them in my campaign, but have played in games that had them. For me, the most memorable are … Continue reading Creatures you stated from fiction
Half-elves were rare in Tolkien’s world. Unlike D&D half-elves, in Tolkien’s world they had to choose between being an elf or a human. If they chose to be elves, they had the same immortality as any other elf. Elrond and his brother were the first with this choice. Elrond chose to be an elf. His … Continue reading Day 8 H is for Half-Elf
In the AD&D rules, a fireball is a 40′ diameter sphere, which is 33,000 cubic feet. My longest played character, Griswald, got quite good at throwing them underground in what we called dungeon wars. Under the castle evil was detected and the king order the lower dungeons sealed. When a few scullery maids disappeared, Griswald … Continue reading Day 6 F is for Fireball
Here is entry #2. Actually, this is the version for AD&D. I will post all three items with the S&W Rules versions all together in one post. I got this idea from my brother Robert’s campaign. My character, Griswald, owed a favor to a powerful wizard, Moran Redbeard. It turned out that all the high … Continue reading Magic Bookstand – Entry #2 into OSR Superstar Contest
As I watched “Jason and the Argonauts”, which is taken straight from Greek mythology, I thought about how much divine intervention there was. The ancient Greek divinities were nothing more than super powerful beings exhibiting the traits of human kind to an exaggerated degree. They meddled in human affairs, played favorites in their schemes against … Continue reading Divine Intervention
