tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post814174233967237575..comments2024-03-28T08:50:57.015+01:00Comments on Beyond Fomalhaut: [REVIEW] The Mines of Wexcham Melanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-52365430459782094082020-05-01T02:26:38.987+02:002020-05-01T02:26:38.987+02:00==Should a girl kiss on the first date?
I let the...==Should a girl kiss on the first date?<br /><br />I let them kiss my foot if they are pretty.Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-66122145764989736982020-04-30T09:28:42.841+02:002020-04-30T09:28:42.841+02:00It is fairly easy to engage me in discussion. Abus...It is fairly easy to engage me in discussion. Abuse and trickery, I sidestep.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-82610014172167917222020-04-30T08:28:45.173+02:002020-04-30T08:28:45.173+02:00Should a girl kiss on the first date?Should a girl kiss on the first date?Voljahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08826776454392269862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-52506069385973393512020-04-30T01:08:42.389+02:002020-04-30T01:08:42.389+02:00Melan, it is hard to engage you in discussion beca...Melan, it is hard to engage you in discussion because you tend to declaim in your posts and merely respond to praise in your comments.<br /><br />Is there any subject you would like to discuss, as if you were someone who did not know everything about D&D?Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-4143879150153649722020-04-28T01:40:49.670+02:002020-04-28T01:40:49.670+02:00I could buy flocking here for €15 for a small bag ...I could buy flocking here for €15 for a small bag but have used sand and PVA instead for a wasteland of mud and gravel, and looks better on figures when in dungeons than gorgeous grass. Baking powder works better for actual desert sand because of the scale. I admire the young lad's determination to find dirt cheap solutions for any terrain feature.<br />Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-45123829861907005882020-04-27T17:53:29.562+02:002020-04-27T17:53:29.562+02:00I am not sure I entirely get the point of making y...I am not sure I entirely get the point of making your own flocking. At least in Germany, model railroad quality flocking is available at every corner and it's very affordable. I do some tabletop terrain modelling and gaming.<br />But a very interesting video nevertheless!Settembrinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984331488913431858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-85267249797765111832020-04-27T02:54:01.618+02:002020-04-27T02:54:01.618+02:00I have watched many terrain crafters online and th...I have watched many terrain crafters online and this lad has a gift for maximising the effect while minimising the cost. His dry humour and modesty are also appealing. In fact he is a younger version of me. I understand your position on use of figures, and so terrain, because I share it. You can describe anything without models and might be constrained with them. And yet of the several thousand euro I spent on gaming material, while I enjoyed reading some of the runequest, TSR, tekumel, and judges guild work I find almost all of un-rereadable, but half my expense was on carefully selected figures and this I feel whas been money well spent. I can look at them, paint them and use them. The way to use figures is to show them to players saying, 'Laddos, come on, aren't these terrific?'. Then put them on the table casually, vaguely 'Right then these buggers have been creeping among the ruins, here on the map.' I don't believe in using them 'positionally' or 'tactically' because the game is fluidly mobile but they can be used as something like photographs with slightly abstracted terrain, or holograms.<br /><br />The campaign I am working on is in the early stages is a Jack Vance take on the Vietnam War, special forces, lurps, sog, helicopters are longboats piloted by demonologists and powered by their captive imps imprisoned in dangling glass vessels. Have you read The Miracle Workers novella 1958? one of Vance's best. Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-52663946940148663612020-04-26T08:47:12.419+02:002020-04-26T08:47:12.419+02:00That's creative stuff, and the videos are good...That's creative stuff, and the videos are good. If I was into the craft side of gaming, I'd probably watch these.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-84236966117620685542020-04-26T03:10:42.814+02:002020-04-26T03:10:42.814+02:00The guy I mentioned last time, the best D&Der ...The guy I mentioned last time, the best D&Der online has a new update, how to make cheap flock<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8GylIKlGTsKenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-83128348729432682622020-04-25T18:16:44.129+02:002020-04-25T18:16:44.129+02:00Thank you! This is something I will read with inte...Thank you! This is something I will read with interest.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-9974173240974367372020-04-25T18:16:18.479+02:002020-04-25T18:16:18.479+02:00Thanks for the additional details! I somehow "...Thanks for the additional details! I somehow "knew" this module had a connection to early gaming history, but could not determine where I got that idea even after searching the usual blogs and forums. I thought it was a lost tournament scenario; some of it reads a lot like Bob Blake's <b>GenCon IX Dungeons</b> or even <b>Of Skulls and Scrapfaggot Green</b>. Common yet iconic encounters that feel like the first time meeting a bunch of orcs in a mine, wrestlnig with the adventure format, etc. Even if the connection was personal, this is a fascinating artefact - and it is unfortunate we would not see the sea caves.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-80838447854670661472020-04-24T16:39:52.494+02:002020-04-24T16:39:52.494+02:00Thanks for that information. Very interesting. Thanks for that information. Very interesting. Stripehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956310256102950543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-84589616531781567282020-04-23T09:15:01.558+02:002020-04-23T09:15:01.558+02:00BTW, I got around explaining my simple alternative...BTW, I got around explaining my simple alternative for point-crawl/hex crawl wilderness decision-making and monster whereabouts modelling:<br /><br />https://hofrat.rsp-blogs.de/2020/04/21/quasi-kontinuierliche-wildnismodellierung-in-dd/<br />Settembrinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984331488913431858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-73005118680460238792020-04-23T08:28:34.516+02:002020-04-23T08:28:34.516+02:00Oh wow, this is an interesting turnaround of event...Oh wow, this is an interesting turnaround of events!Settembrinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984331488913431858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-77420840085186686482020-04-22T16:21:42.886+02:002020-04-22T16:21:42.886+02:00Thanks Melan - I was pleasantly surprised you saw ...Thanks Melan - I was pleasantly surprised you saw it. So the story here is that Gerry (Pieces of Eight and Wild West) was one of the founding members of the Schenectady Wargaming Association and would sometimes play in games I hosted there. He told me that back in the 70's he designed all the "White Box" scenarios for the annual SWA convention and that Gygax himself had played one. Intrigued, I asked if he still had them. "No" he said, but he would be happy to write a new one just like them - hence Mines of Wexcham. He then started sending me lots and lots of backstory and the map of a whole continent - I think creating the setting and characters was great fun for him. There's a lot more history material I left out the published adventure when I edited it for him. He began work on another adventure after this involving a much larger sea cave complex, but sadly, all he sent me prior to his sudden passing was some more characters and a story outline.DHBoggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02170439175265397893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-5380132120769378492020-04-22T02:08:41.012+02:002020-04-22T02:08:41.012+02:00Well, I certainly love the orc in the cover. Well, I certainly love the orc in the cover. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-60597728495813847072020-04-22T00:23:40.138+02:002020-04-22T00:23:40.138+02:00I got a very Dungeon of the Bear vibe from it. Tha...I got a very Dungeon of the Bear vibe from it. That same pre-standardized thing that I find so charming. Bryce Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02937707770681963948noreply@blogger.com