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 few weeks ago i bought several more packs of Wizkids Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and got my girlfriend a pack of harengon characters. harengons are like rabbitfolks, which Rita was in awe with them. this time around i bought all sorts of different classes and races including, human barbarians, different lycanthropes, dwarves (just because you can't have enough), and some different classes such as rogues and fighters. out of this recent pile of shame i got several painted for a group to get on the table to game with. a motley crew of thieves and cutthroats with Rook, the death domain cleric. Valeriya, female half-orc fighter and Pierce M., male human bard. Usagi, female harengon rogue and Ottolycus Firahel, male half-elf rogue. band of misfits stumbles across a recently summoned warband of skeleton warriors.   out of the recent miniature haul, i bought another pack of dwarf clerics, i painted up another one of these figures. i love this miniature in particular because it g...

gave another go with Perilous Tales but this time instead of having a pulp tale i went with a fantasy genre story, just to see how this would play out. layout of the table.   the dwarven warband. (left to right) Ragnar Redmane (teammate, trait: Brute) Ulric Falstad (teammate, trait: Medic) Grungni Whitebeard (leader, trait: Tough and Relentless) Snorri Ironheart (teammate, trait: Handy) Feldspar Corundum (teammate, trait: Eagle Eyed) the objectives for the game. the dwarven warband enters the ruins. Redmane triggers a threat marker, a spirit is revealed. with one spirit disposed of another does appear. the warband fans out within the ruins, Whitebeard sets off a threat marker which reveals the main threat, the Ghast! a peril card is revealed and deals damage to Redmane. as Feldspar goes around a broken wall to look for equipment, a peril is activated which deals a fatal blow to the dwarf, killing him. luckily the rest of the group didn't have to take any fear tests because lack of...

i always wanted to put on the table ooze monsters and such but the miniatures from Wizkids only came in one size and style. so i went looking for some tutorials on how to scratch built ones. i looked on Youtube for any instructional videos and as usual i end up on DM Scotty's channel called TheDMsCraft. click to view video.   the only thing i did differently is i used regular hot glue, spray painted it with a black and then few coats of gloss Mod Podge. in Dungeons and Dragons if a ooze or pudding is struck down by certain weapons or damaged by particular types of magic spells, they will split into smaller versions of itself. one large ooze will split into two medium size pile of ooze. if one medium size is damaged it also will split into 2 small versions. i made enough to a large size black pudding is able to split into the correct amount of puddings down to the smallest form.   group of adventurers is ambushed by a fairly large black pudding.   after some time fighting ...

was going through some unpainted Wizkids D&D miniatures and realized i had gotten a pack of kenku characters and totally forgot. one was a melee and the other is a spellcaster. so me being me i wrote up a character that i wanted to run with for some time now... a death domain cleric. one of the reasons why i really love Dungeons and Dragons is that i can create characters i want to see. and who doesn't love a walking raven with an ability to raise the dead. now i did not realized until i wrote the character sheet that the kenku does not have a spoken language so when role-playing, i have to make cackle and bird like sounds to communicate with others. (LOL 😂) Rook strolls through a graveyard looking and curious who will answer his call.. few of the recent dead comes to life as zombies. Rook is confronted by a rival necromancer. the zombies begin to advance towards the dark wizard. as i did the cleric's sheet, i also decided on what spells to use. i picked Spiritual Weapon a...

recently i was able to get some more undead miniatures from the Mantic Games Undead Encounter plastic set. expanding my skeletons with ten more to giving me a nice small horde of flailing bones and armor. i have more zombies in queue to get painted and done. and with the ghouls instead of adding them to my D&D/fantasy collection, i glued them to 3mm MDF bases and will add them to my pulp collection. the expanded legion of skeletons. with most of the skeletons having fixed poses, i was able to make different dynamic poses with a few. a sword thrust into the air or even having an axe stuck in one's head, it was fun to be able to do this. spellcasters of the dark magic summoning the soldiers of days past, awaken once again to do their bidding.

 finally got a pdf of the Perilous Tales beta rules printed out, and made tokens and markers for game play use, using 3mm mdf bases. also had objectives and perils cards printed out so now i can play the game properly. for this game, there's a merc team who is in charge of placing demo charges around town in targeted areas, but unbeknownst to the team there is something lurking around looking for prey. layout of the table.   misfit band of mercs, Hando Solomon, Garrett Cunningham (pilot of the Screaming Rooster),  Harrison Jones (team leader), Deion Baracus, and Hector Rivera (left to right). merc team begins to advance across the town square, to set up demo charges in particular spots. threat markers set-up on the villainous half of the table.   picked out three objectives to complete. the mercs begin to take caution, knowing there is something wrong here. after a threat test that seem to go well, everything got closer and minions began to be revealed.  rat sw...

 another model from the Mythic Games board game, Time of Legends: Joan of Arc. this time around i took the huge griffon. i do not own a griffon figure from Wizkids but i'm sure this fellow is a little bigger than the offical griffon miniature. gave this monstrous beast a 1.5mm base so it matches rest of my D&D collection, with some texture and a small pebble for some character. i used GW Citadel paints for it. base coat of Space Wolves Grey contrast paint, did about 3/4 of the wings and the head with Corax White and did some drybrush also with the Corax on the feathers on the body. Kislev Flesh for the beak. the base like all my D&D miniatures was done with GW Citadel Technical paint, for a texture instead of using sand like i do with my miniatures that are mounted on 3mm bases. i use a base coat of Armageddon Dust, then a touch up and base edges with Citadel color called XV-88. i do a smaller touch up with Pewter Grey from Apple Barrel and finally a nice drybrush with Gran...