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while i was working on the bearded devil miniature, i was also painting miniatures in batches. i guess i was doing this to keep my sanity in check and also from feeling overwhelmed. i recently got several miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons and some for Perilous Tales. and what is nice about some of these figures i got specifically for Perilous Tales, i can use them in D&D also. so that is a win-win. here of late i've been having this ambitious idea of creating a character for each class in Dungeons and Dragons. not including the npc's i have created for story-lines, i mean actual leveled characters. several weeks back i got a Wizkids Frameworks orc barbarian. when i went to assemble him i decided to arm him with a great sword. still haven't picked a sub-class for him, i might go with something that fits the racial traits of being an orc. originally i was going to add him to the Red Fangs orc tribe i created back in 2024. ( click here  to see the post of the Red Fangs. ...

i am not gonna lie, this model is probably going in the trash after it is defeated in Dungeons and Dragons. this particular figure had to be the most pain in the ass to either convert or even paint. to give a little context this model is a Wizkids horned devil. and this horned devil is the main villain of one of the story-arcs that we have going on in our D&D campaign. and to make things grand and awe inspiring i wanted this villain to be something else. Dale's character, Wynze, a tiefling sorcerer was in possession of a deck of many things. and after drawing a few cards, he became haunted and the catalyst of a devil's hatred. then after some time Wynze became an owner of some land that had some what of a stronghold which was pretty nice. and Dale decided that was going to be the base of operations for the group. and then not too many sessions ago, Wynze was duped into a card trick and pulled a card that would make all other cards disappear and also his soul pulled from his...

i came across another hobby challenge hosted by Dave over at Wargames Terran Workshop , this time around it is getting terrain built, painted, and on the table-top during the month of July. and of course here i am waiting until the last minute. waiting for bills and other real life situations to play out i finally was able to order some wild west buildings from Atomic Laser Cut Designs through Amazon. when i placed that order the estimated time arrival was going to be August 1st. but lucky me i got it on the 25th. i purchased a hotel just because i wanted to add some height to the table for my wild west table-top and a mortician shop, mainly for a scenario for Perilous Tales. the hotel was interesting to build. Atomic Laser Cut buildings do not come with instructions so with a little common sense and an open mind, i was able to get this built with some ease. for nice storage the stairs on the side of the building i decided not to glue to the actual building. i painted it in a watered d...

a few days ago i made some blobs and oozes mainly for Perilous Tales, but i'll probably find more uses with them in other games. and since i made them i was anxious to play a scenario for Perilous Tales. to see them on the table-top i kept having thoughts from the movie the Blob. panic and hysteria filling the streets of town. in this episode, there was a mysterious meteor that fell from the sky and landed a bit on the other side of town. ever since then weird things have been happening. little globs of ooze have been found all over town, so the heroic party led by Abraham Puckett is charged to investigate and deal with whatever is lurking in the shadows. for this scenario i'm using the beta rules to use the Blob, since it was not included in the final publication of the rules. the objectives are: Kill the Master, Get Evidence, Set the Explosives the perils in the game are: Driven Back, Creeping Horror, Unsteady Underfoot which all were randomly generated. the group begins to w...

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...