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the other night i had a moment where i was like i want to work on the next Perilous Tales scenario. i have been wanting to do the Blob villain scenario for the game for some time now. i had a good idea of how to do it and i was going to do the globs of the Blob like i did my oozes for Dungeon and Dragons. i asked Rita if she wanted to help out and so we had a craft day making blobs. i had her make small little globs using just regular hot glue. straight from the hot glue gun to a sheet of wax paper. there bigger ones had hot glue put on and then dipped into cold water to create some form of a living blog of mass. so i mapped out a diagram of how many of each type of globs i need to play the scenario. after messing up on a little glob, i settled for one less needed because at that point i was getting tired and wanted to clean up before bed. the next morning i took them out and sprayed white primer on them and let them dry for a few hours. then in the afternoon i added watered down pink ...

spent the last few weeks building miniatures and setting time aside to begin painting. i am kind of excited about what i have planned to get painted and finished. a few wild west buildings, a handful of fantasy figures, and most certainly the ever lasting MotU collection i have been cracking at for the past year or so. in between working and messing around with this and that, i have been looking at some agnostic tabletop games so of course i built some miniatures for those games. one game i am looking forward to is Forbidden Psalm. i know it's been out for a while and i know of it but never looked into it until now. recently a former group member got in touch with me and we chatted, one thing led to another and we chatted about Dungeons and Dragons and the old campaign sessions. he told me about some life changes and a light bulb went off. i asked about his character he was running in our old campaign and was curious if he wanted to rejoin with the group we had running right now. a...

 i spent all of the month of June not doing anything. i hardly painted anything maybe a few D&D miniatures but nothing excited to post about. despite a few D&D sessions, i didn't do any gaming of any type. about a month or so ago i was given a new work schedule and now have been working morning/daytime shifts and when i come home i don't want to move. so any aspirations of wargaming were non-existent in the last 30+ days. but during this "time off" from the hobby i did do some reading and watching videos on Youtube of other tabletop games and such. was reading some MotU comics online and got some inspiration to create another faction for my Masters of the Universe collection. i looked around and did some reading and got myself a few sets of the MotU Battleground board game from Archon Studio to build me a Preternia heroic faction. with some reading and looking around the internet i mapped out what i want to do. with what i have on hand at the moment the Preter...

several weeks ago i was reading some posts on Dave's Wargames Terrain Workshop blog page , and he was in the process of adding some terrifying Gnarloc Raiders for i assume is a Kroot army. but i noticed it was for a painting challenge that i did not know about. so i went over to Dead Dick's Tavern and checked out what this challenge was about. for the month of May, this challenge you had to paint a monstrous creature or something big. i thought this challenge would be cool, but unfortunately i didn't really have any big monsters to paint or whatnot. until i remembered i did have some things somewhere. last year i bought a terrain crate from Mantic Games called "the Haunted Manor". and in it was what they called a goliath monstrosity. which basically to me was a chunk of hard plastic in the shape of an eldritch monster of sorts. picking the color scheme for it i didn't want to go with the green i have been doing lately for these Lovecraft creatures. and what c...

this past week our D&D group went on their first quest to find a magic item to relinquish a threat that has a hold on the local town.  i didn't want to throw them a hefty encounter, but i did make it interesting and odd at the same time. taking a short cut through some ruins they come to find out the ruins are covered in spider webs which made the players uneasy. cutting through some ruins, the group takes a shortcut to the manor to save some time before the sun goes down. getting ambushed by several giant spiders. through the trees, Wynze hears some bellowing... an overweight gluttonous troll makes its way to see what's happening.  rolling for the troll's claw attacks, once again another amazing dice roll on my part. Thorgrimm summons some thunder and lightning and connects his warhammer underneath the troll's chin. i got a plastic "hour glass" from the last convention i was at, as a joke to Rita because i always say she takes too long deciding what to do...

on this cloudy April day i figured i would get in a game of Perilous Tales since i got the time and nothing to do productively. in this episode the group is trying to find out why it's so quiet and still. the skies are darker than normal and whispers of winged creatures terrorizing the skies. this episode is the night haunters. ( the gargoyles in the rulebook. ) the objectives are: Recover Equipment, Get Evidence, and Rescue the Prisoner. the perils in the game are: Tempted Forward, The Captain, and Disoriented. which all were randomly generated. as usual, began the game using Eagle Eye to take a peep at some threat markers. Mr. Dennis advances towards #7 threat marker and it reveals the "The Lady" McKenzie, which is terrified as she launches herself and attacks. the following turn a parley was successful and she became part of the group. the threat marker William Loomis saw, was one of the two night haunters. i had to think of a tactic to spend the least amount of time t...