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 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...

was on vacation last week and got to a point where i got a bit bored. in the middle of that boredom i was watching a few episodes of DMScotty on Youtube and started to have the creative juices flowing once again. saw a video on how to make your very own gelatinous cube and thought well i got some time on my hands maybe i'll give it a go and try to make one. group of heroic adventurers finds a gelatinous cube in a sunken temple. using the instructions in DMScotty's video i mae my a little bit bigger because i used a common land  card from my Magic: the Gathering collection, in case for some reason the card got damaged. the cude is about 2inch x 2inch and roughly 3 or so inches higher, easily able to cover enough space to trap (depending on miniatures) two to three, maybe four depending on how the miniatures are sculpted.   awhile ago i was given some extra miniatures from the Mythic Games Solomon Kane: Against the Vampire box set. i took the giant snake from it and gave it a qu...

it's been a long time Rita and i had a day off together so we spent the day and continued our second chronicle of HATE. we didn't have a lot of time but even the time we had it was just enough. what seemed like a full afternoon of gaming was only a few hours.   Rita took some pics so if the pictures are kind of whacky and back and forth that's because we were both taking pics of the gameplay. first battle because of time restraints we played Rita's favorite scenario first. i was the attacker and this one normally im the aggressor but this time around i played a little bit more conservative and kind of spread out.   layout of this scenario. at the end of a turn a random game board tile is removed, and all the dead or alive figures. trying to avoid risks, i didn't bring my mercenary, Char. beginning of my downfall, i was losing members of my tribe quicker than i wanted. have to admit Rita is getting better at this game. Rita held her ground and gave me a run for my mo...

 with the newly purchased dungeon box set from Gale Force 9, i invited few of the D&D group over for a small impromptu session using the set. not going lie, this set is really nice. already planning on buying another set to create an even bigger temple, and even getting the dungeon and castle sets as well. Breena and company enter the temple and find along the sides small statues of something they have never seen before. these are nice to where if you do not want to reveal certain rooms you can just have the room upside down and ready to be placed when the time comes. Valeriya enters a room with more of these unique statues. taking a sneak peek through a door, the party sees a small band of jackalweres. going down a hallway Valeriya breaks down a locked door to enter, but without knowing a monstrous tentacle slams through the door and pulls the half-orc through. for being an impromptu game and nothing really planned at all, these make it easy to just throw together and have an...

 going into Fall In! 2023 i didn't really have a planned list on what to buy or had anything in mind that i really wanted or needed. we hit up the flea market first and took a look around. being it was early saturday morning it was crowded so we really didn't get a chance to stop at every stand but we did manage to find some great items. my flea market finds. don't think i have ever been so happy and satisfied on the great things i found. a Scarsfell Griffon warbeast from the game Hordes from Privateer Press. this was a great find. fully painted Reaper Miniatures "Lord of the Jungle." normally marked at $25 but got this gem for only 10. found these Cthulhu pieces. couldn't resist buying them, plus i got them for a good deal. more pieces that must be from a board game. i went to buy two of them, but somehow i ended up with six. few years back i had the fortunate pleasure of acquiring two Magic: the Gathering pewter miniatures. this time around i was able to fin...