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 for those who take time and read on what little ole me is doing with my tabletop hobby and projects like to say thank you for least taking an interest in what i do, and i hope everyone is having a safe and merry christmas and happy holidays. the most wonderful woman in my life surprised me this christmas with a new edition to my tabletop terrain collection and got me the Castle set from Tenfold Dungeon. just like the Temple set but only a more darker tone and more gothic setting. with the new addition of this set i'll be able to upgrade my game instead of using the 2D dungeon tiles i made back in 2022. another great product. i apologize for the way these pics came out, i was sitting on the opposite side of the game table than i normally do when taking pics hence i believe why these pics are slightly darker. a few heroes has cornered a death knight. creeping in the courtyard, the ghost of Sir Maldred, the Red Dragon appears. a dragonborn necromancer casts spells to march forth into...

 since nearly half of the D&D group was absent this past weekend a few of us got together and i was able to introduce them to a game of Fistful of Lead. i ran a very basic version of the game for them. since i had my wild west figures all out and about i took this opportunity to set up a wild west game since my D&D never really saw the terrain for it.  basic set up of the buildings. still meaning to get more scatter pieces for my western collection. everyone had a three man group to keep things easy. but since i was running it i had to throw a wrench in there to make it really interesting. i had scattered all around number tokens. when an ace card or the joker cards are used to activate a model, whoever played the card rolls a d6 to select which location zombies will appear from. then roll d3 to see how many will appear. if a joker card is used only one slight more aggressive zombie is summoned. the objective of the game though is to get every member of your group to ...

i haven't done a whole lot of painting for a while now, with the exceptions of what i did get done early last month. but with a new D&D campaign looming i am pretty much gearing up for a winter of painting and crafting. with the basing of my pulp collection and redoing my wild west also, i will probably be working on some new terrain for some encounters for the new D&D sessions, hopefully get another temple box set from Tenfold Dungeon, and also collect some scatter terrain pieces for the middle east and wild west collection i already have. but for now i only got a few D&D characters painted. a dragonborn sorceress is cornered by a group of jackalweres.   another dragonborn spellcaster for an upcoming D&D campaign. this time around i am in the process of painting several dragonborns but as black and blue dragonborns with a few in and there of other colors. i do indeed need to get a few other different style of dragonborns as metallic dragonborns. need to balance out...

 for some time now i have been debating on swapping out the 3mm MDF bases for thin 1.5mm plastic bases since i am starting to collect quite a bit of figures that can be used between my fantasy and pulp collections.   and since i have been playing with my fantasy stuff a lot more because of Dungeons and Dragons i decided to begin the process of changing the bases. i figured i would start with my mummies since they might make an appearance in my upcoming campaign next year.   the world is not big enough for two "gods." Pharaoh Khem-hotep II and his wife Shukura.   the royal high priest, Nefer-amen.   Merka-neshu, the general of the army of the Pharaoh Khem-hotep II.  i was gonna get duplicates and just put them on the 1.5 bases but do a different color scheme but i was really happy how these came out, so i just had to redo them.   after some time i actually couldn't find my rat swarms. but once i started converting the bases over, i found them in figure ...

 was able to squeeze in a game of Fistful of Lead with Rita the other day along with her oldest son, Lonnie. i wanted to try out another game system instead D&D while using the Tenfold Dungeon temple set from Gale Force Nine. i promise every game won't be with this temple set, i just love this product and i figure more i use it, it's almost advertising how well it works with whatever you play along with it. this time around i wanted to play a pulp themed game using the Fistful of Lead rules and see how well everything meshed since it wasn't going to be a normal table setup. layout of the temple to be explored. the adventurers (from l to r): Hando Solomon, Javier, Harrison Jones, Rita Lynn, Garrett Cunningham, and a few members of the Knights of the Crescent Moon.   the party prepping to explore the temple. a turn for the worst.. the group runs into giant rats... very large rats. a very tenacious and stubborn giant rat. nearly took several attempts of gunfire to be taken...