Pendraken Miniatures Forum

For some time now, the desire to start a new fantasy role playing campaign has been playing around in my mind, steadily growing from a small seed of thought into flaming passion and happy contemplation. The desire for a good game is like a hunger to most gamers, and every now and again the inspiration takes a hold and the driving will to set something up and play a game becomes an imperative must.


Sadly, family commitments, college studies, work, and a legion of other considerations have an all too frequent tendency to get in the way of `playtime`, and the thought of all the hard work needed to set up a decent game can act as a stiff deterrent; which results in a lot of us never seeing our grand machinations reach mature fruition.


A hastily constructed game often leads to that feeling of slight disappointment and a distinct lack of satisfaction. All those plans, all those devious plots, all those euphoric thoughts of how the game was supposed to play out in our mind`s eye at least, end up being scrapped and replaced with the domestic practicalities of needing some personal space to play in, and all too often, the restrictive confines of time, force us to reconsider our grander schemes and to take some lesser road of contentment.


Over the years I`ve bought the choicest selections of miniatures, the most select collections of exquisite pieces... usually just ending up on the pile with the rest of the half forgotten, half painted, totally unloved and uncared for heaps of metal. In the end I would end up either selling these all off or giving them away to perspective enthusiasts who, I hoped, would make better use of the miniatures than I ever did. Sooner or later, I`d end up starting a new collection, and away I`d go again; full of enthusiasm, images of glorious battles and games ahead of me. But sooner or later I ended up in the same place, with that same old pile of unused lead. Again, I`d end up disposing of them, and...


....and then...... one day I woke up to what I was doing, and that was the very start of a personal lesson I`ve never forgotten or fallen foul of doing ever again.


Now I paint everything I buy or am given. I don`t stop or lose focus on any project until I have finished what I am doing, even if it takes me a year or longer. A prime example of this is when I had a brain storm and decided one day when all the bills were paid and I had the money in my pocket I`d go and buy the entire range of Games Workshop 28mm Lord of the Rings range of figures all in one go!


I can remember that day well. I walked into Other Realms in Cork City and started looking at one entire wall of the shop, upon which, on hooks, hung all the packets I was looking for with a greedy and desirous eye. “May I have a box please?” I enquired to one of the store keepers. After a few minutes, a lazy looking individual appeared from the store room and approached me in disbelief as I sat amidst a steadily growing pile of blister packs. The box was way too small. “Sorry” I said “I think I`m going to need a bigger box than that." I laughed. By now I was gaining some attention from both customers and staff alike.


After a few more trips to the store room, a disbelieving and excited shop owner came over to me in person with the biggest box he could find. I swear to this day his hands were shaking as he realised his overall sales for the day were suddenly going to rise very sharply.


I piled packet after packet into the box (ticked off on my double sided A4 notepad as I went along), and an hour later when I was done... I did indeed have almost 95% of the figures I wanted (the rest I would pick up at my leisure from GW`s online store - which I did do a few weeks later, to complete my collection). Actually the box didn`t hold all my purchases, there was the Mighty Castle, Helms Deep Wall and Keep, the hardback rules set and supplement manuals, various paints sets, packets of Dwarven Forge terrain accessories, and sundry extras I deemed I would need and might as well pick up at the same time... especially as I had, by now, gotten the store manager to agree to a hearty discount and I didn`t want to miss out.


After the awed murmur died down as I dropped 2500 quid on the counter, I had three staff falling over themselves to help me carry the stuff out to the car, they bought me a cup of coffee (on the house hehe), thanked them all happily and departed home feeling like a King. The store keeper shook my hand happily as I left, and I swear this time his hand was shaking visibly at this stage.


Well, no one believed I would ever maintain the interest to paint everything I bought, but I proved them all wrong. A year and a half later, I put paint and varnish on the very last miniature, and my Middle Earth Collection was finally complete and ready to be played with. To this day, my one time purchase remains a pride and joy I treasure greatly, and I always will.


But I had proven a point to myself. It didn’t matter if I only painted a couple of pieces a week. It was the forward motion and the act of doing something, of staying focused on one thing and seeing it through to the end, that had helped. Tenacity and single minded dedication prevailed.


After half as lifetime of not getting things done, I was finally achieving my goals, my ambitions, and bingo! I had found my personal reward and hobby road to success. It all sounds like I`m patting myself on the back and going “hey, what a clever fellow I am”. But I`m not, quite the opposite actually. I had just grown tired of collecting wonderful things and letting them all go to waste.


I must have played literally hundreds of games with these figures, and written up at least a hundred battle reports and short stories, complete with colour photos and detailed maps. One day I may even put these all up on my website and share, with others, the pleasure I had. As soon as Peter Jackson`s part 1 of The Hobbit comes out, I`m sure I`ll break out the minis, relive my glory days and start playing games with them all over again.


So I guess I`ve started all over again, only this time with a project in 10mm. Hmmmm! not so much painting figures this time, most of them are already painted; no this time I will be concentrating on putting together a detailed campaign to use WITH the already painted 10mm figures. Having said that, I do now have two new packages from Pendraken which I
must get cracking on to get finished. But that already in hand, so I won’t worry about that too much. I have a target in my head of January next year to get that little lot ready by. But that’s a separate project anyway.


So, where to start? I already decided I will be doing it all from scratch; a homebrew campaign if you like. I suppose I could have made things easy for myself and chosen a pre-existing campaign world like the Dungeons and Dragons existing game aids: Forgotten Realms, or Eberron, but at the end of the day I didn`t really want to go that route. I`m already playing another role playing campaign with my partner and family that is heavily based on an existing commercial modules and figures - mostly bits and pieces from : “Descent, Journeys in the Dark” “Well of Darkness” “Alter of Despair”  â€œRoad to Legend” and “Sea of Blood”, "Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Skirmish" and the new WotC Boardgames, some converted "Mage Knight", a few other bits and bobs, and of course various Dungeons and Dragons campaign material from various editions of the game; except I`ve ditched the rules and have replaced them with a hybridised amalgamation of the Dungeon World ones - with a lot of homebrew material added on.

So, back on topic: the new 10mm campaign will be called Albion, and will be firmly set in the old land of Albion. To me that name summons up images of Arthurian legend (The Mists of Avalon) Celtic mythologies, Norse Sagas, and the Welsh Mabinogian; a quasi- Dark Ages/stroke romanticised early Medieval romp through the thin veil of the seen and unseen: a dwimmer saga of light and darkness, freedom and subjugation, the plot unfolding slowly under threatening yoke of utter tyranny.


But more on this later.


I have run out of time and must go attend family things... in other words, they`re waiting for me to come join them watch Star Wars *wink*


Six   :D

Might I suggest getting hold of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_(board_game) which is great fun, if you don't already have it, either that or Kingmaker as a map board.

Quote from: sixsideddice on 16 August 2011, 07:36:51 PM
So, back on topic: the new 10mm campaign will be called Avalon, and will be firmly set in the land of Avalon. To me that name summons up images of Arthurian legend (The Mists of Avalon) Celtic mythologies, Norse Sagas, and the Welsh Mabinogian; a quasi- Dark Ages romp through the thin veil of the seen an unseen: a dwimmer saga of light and darkness, freedom and subjugation, the plot unfolding slowly under threatening yoke of utter tyranny.

Now that sounds like my kind of campaign! I shall certainly look forward to hearing more. I started planning a campaign on similar lines when Warmaster first came out and I discovered 10mm miniatures, and more importantly Pendraken. I wonder if I've still got the A3 map I drew back then ....... I'm going to have to go searching now!!

Cheers,

Kev

QuoteMight I suggest getting hold of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_(board_game) which is great fun, if you don't already have it, either that or Kingmaker as a map board.

I`ve heard great things about that game, but its not really my kind of game I`m afraid. I like hands on wargames, figures, loads of role playing, making my own maps, being able to go on dungeon crawls... and the occasional mass table top battle thrown in.

:)

QuoteNow that sounds like my kind of campaign! I shall certainly look forward to hearing more. I started planning a campaign on similar lines when Warmaster first came out and I discovered 10mm miniatures, and more importantly Pendraken. I wonder if I've still got the A3 map I drew back then ....... I'm going to have to go searching now!!

Cheers,

Kev

Woooohoooo Kev!!! Way to go mate  ;)


Six  :)

Okay, I have had to amend things slightly since the last thread, to take into account a few changes on how the campaign will be run. Last night as I sat down with Polly (my partner) drinking tea and talking about the events of the day in general; the conversation steered towards the campaign I`m putting together, and she told me the type of pen and paper/miniatures game she really would like to play. She is currently totally addicted to two online MMO`s* “Dungeons and Dragons (Eberron) Online” and “Lord of the Rings Online” and I think, although she doesn`t have a lot of experience with proper role playing games, she very much equates her likes and dislikes for a new game based on her knowledge of the two games she currently enjoys - because she can visualise them in her head very clearly from the computer images.


*{it’s funny really... there was a time not so long ago when she hated anything to do with computer games like World of Warcraft, Perfect World, Lord of the Rings, etc. She saw it as “wasting your life playing trivia”. Now I can hardly get her away from the computer, as she has not only discovered the joys of World of Warcraft, but also Lord of the Rings Online. Her favourite though is Dungeons and Dragons Online â€" ironic really}.

My eldest daughter is starting college in a few weeks, so I`1l be losing her as a main player, and as Polly really enjoys one to one interaction with Dungeon Master anyway, I have decided to drop my 28mm game and combine everything into one package and play this new campaign solo... with her as a player and me as the DM. So newly armed with fresh information about her gaming wishes, and better equipped to deal with the type of campaign she expects me to put together... I had to do a quick mental shift (a complete U-turn on my original idea) and start afresh. It`s always a good idea to listen to your players` wishes. It avoids mistakes and wasting time on creating something they ultimately might not even enjoy. Always better to ask and listen I think.


Meh! Teething problems. No biggie. I already had a backup plan in mind anyway, just in case my idea didn`t pan out smoothly.


I`d already decided that I would write the campaign material for the blog/website using a generic form of rule description. This way anyone collecting Pendraken Miniatures to play their own dungeon crawls and mass battles wouldn’t feel restricted to playing with just one set of rules. Rules are a subjective thing at the best of times, and when I think about it, the best game aid modules I`ve ever read have always been the generic ones... describing details, characters, monsters and events in a way that leaves the players free to re-enact things for themselves using which ever rules they themselves prefer to use. This means the main blog emphasis for me now with be on showcasing the 10mm Pendraken minis themselves... showing just how amazingly they come alive using literally ANY set of rules you like to play with. I may even switch rules systems from time to time (a Dungeon World game here... a Dungeons and Dragons game there) and just point out what I`m doing - as side notes.


So I`m going to go totally retro. Yes I`m going to have to make another U-Turn and base my game in a pre-designed world after all. But now this leaves me stuck with three completely different choices about where I`m going to place my game? I DO know (based on listening to her talking) that I will be playing in a Dungeons and Dragons setting. But which one?


Playing Solo (i.e. one player and the DM) is not always easy. I did it successfully and enjoyably for a number of years with an old friend of mine. But we were both very experienced, and by joint effort we collaborated to make the game come alive. This time round it will be harder because she is still inexperienced with `hands on` play and role playing.


Hmmmm....


The Classic Dungeons and Dragons game setting is Mystara, and I have a lot of material for that campaign setting. It’s easy to read, probably quicker to remember and to teach to her, and it has all the classic role play elements she seems to be looking for in a game. But the maps are a little uninspiring at times. Still, that leaves room for me to draw my own.


Greyhawk 2nd edition works on many levels. Its visually appealing (the maps are truly exquisite), the campaign world is diverse enough to cater for many styles of play; and the back story is open ended enough for me to be able to put in a lot of my own ideas (I`d still be able to get my Albion fix in). Uuuugh!! But I no longer have the Campaign boxed set... only The City of Greyhawk itself and the immediate surrounding environs. Not necessarily a problem in itself and I`d still be able to `drop in` the “World Largest Dungeon” if I wanted to. She likes the idea of an urban setting dominating the game, complete with vast dungeons underneath the city and sewers. But I can see that one day I`d run out of options here and would end up needing to find a copy of the Campaign Boxed Set (1st edition I think, if I recall rightly). As this set is now out of print, and I don`t really want to go the eBay route or have to use a PDF copy of the maps; I`m unsure what to do about this one... however, as a setting its ideal for my needs.


This leaves me with Forgotten Realms 2nd edition. I have everything I need for that. The City of Waterdeep, Undermountain (dungeon crawl extraordinaire), and a vast collection of supplement modules to expand the campaign in practically any direction I want to take â€" be it Arabian adventures, nomadic desert clans, Oriental adventures, or horror (Ravenloft)! The game is easy to learn, and yet still has a totally retro feel to it.


After we move on to 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons, we lose that old school feel almost entirely, so I`m pretty loath to look further forward than 2nd edition if I can help it.


Hmmmm, Mystara is out the window I think. I love the idea of simplicity. Actually I`ve always wanted to play a campaign based in Blackmoor, but as very little or nothing exists for this campaign setting (and I won’t touch 3rd or 4th edition Blackmoor with a ten foot bargepole) I`m pretty stuck on that one.


Yes, I think it’s really a tossup between Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms at this stage.


I`ll know for sure by tomorrow, at which point I`ll finally be able to get to work on the campaign properly. I hate this preliminary “what shall I do” stage. I want to be up and doing. Ahhh! Patience young Padawan... patience.


Okay, I`m off to have a bit of a ponder.



Six   :-\

Ah, you can always rely on the 'other half' to throw a curve ball just when you think you've got everything sorted out in your mind ;D

I'm not sufficiently familiar with D&D settings to advise directly, so with Polly's experience as you describe it, I'd go for the one you know best. Having said that, you could still use your original backgroud idea of Albion - but tailor it to Polly's experiences by introducing the creatures and factions that she is used to. Maybe ......  :-\ Londinium would be big enough to call an urban sprawl, and who knows what might lurk beneath ......

As to which rules, again in the style you will be playing, whatever you know best and can use unobtrusively will work best. Been in a few situations where a great game setting, using a good set of rules, was spoiled because the DM (and some of the players) were not familiar enough with the rules for things to flow smoothly. Everyone involved (including the DM) was left frustrated. We switched back to the old and familier rules (T&T at the time) and a great time was had by all.

What ever you decide, have fun with it, and remember - we're watching :D

Cheers,

Kev

QuoteAh, you can always rely on the 'other half' to throw a curve ball just when you think you've got everything sorted out in your mind

I'm not sufficiently familiar with D&D settings to advise directly, so with Polly's experience as you describe it, I'd go for the one you know best. Having said that, you could still use your original backgroud idea of Albion - but tailor it to Polly's experiences by introducing the creatures and factions that she is used to. Maybe ......  Londinium would be big enough to call an urban sprawl, and who knows what might lurk beneath ......

As to which rules, again in the style you will be playing, whatever you know best and can use unobtrusively will work best. Been in a few situations where a great game setting, using a good set of rules, was spoiled because the DM (and some of the players) were not familiar enough with the rules for things to flow smoothly. Everyone involved (including the DM) was left frustrated. We switched back to the old and familier rules (T&T at the time) and a great time was had by all.

What ever you decide, have fun with it, and remember - we're watching

Cheers,

Kev

jeeeese, talk about a curve ball, this one hit me square in the b..........  =O   grrrrrr, Women     ;D

As for Londinium (or its new disguised name)...  don`t worry, I`ll get my Albion campaign in, whether it kills me or she knows it or not. *drat, I forgot she reads these threads*  :o <-- will probably kill me.

It`s really funny you should mention T&T, I was just pouring through my old books and came across it sitting at the back of a shelf.... love at first sight - as always  :D  :x

Anyway, things are coming together apace. She`s started taking an interest in T&T now, so I may be able to grab those D&D manuals when she`s not looking and keep her interested in this new idea.

"You SHALL go to the ball Cinders" <--- just might not be the same ball she thought she was at ^^

Six  :o

Once upon a time when I was a lot younger (according to my kids, I was never young.  Anyone over the age of 25 is old in their eyes â€" little swines) I used to make everything up myself. I was so purist I even shunned using rules I hadn`t written myself. My role playing campaign was home brew, the maps were my own, the background history , the family genealogy  and coats of arms of various noble faction, my thieves guild was my own (heavily based on Fritz Leiber`s writings), and a partridge in a pear tree, bla bla bla. I was a home-brewer through and through.


Well... I`ve grown older and wiser since then. It’s easy to be the way I once was when you`re young, arrogant, not yet conceived the concept of a full day`s work, intense study, family ties, raising children, and the sundry other problems that crop into our lives on an almost weekly basis as we juggle the responsibilities of `being grown up`.


I sigh with relief nowadays when I see a professional gaming product which I can buy and use straight off the shelf with minimum fuss or expended energy. I take my hat off to the companies offering hundreds of pages of excellent material for immediate use by the purchaser.  For the mere equivalent cost of a couple of tickets to the cinema and a bag of popcorn... or to put it another way, the price of a week’s supply of cigarettes to an average smoker, the gamer can walk into his local store (or browse online with a credit card) and pick up a hardback campaign manual for his chosen role playing game, and get literally hundreds of hours of use and entertainment from it. And when you get to my age, I tell ya... these books are like gifts from the heavens.


So, after a ridiculous amount of deliberation, I finally decided on a direction for the new campaign.


I knew I wasn`t totally comfortable about starting with Forgotten Realms. I used to know the history backwards and inside out, but many years divorced from playing Dungeons and Dragons left me with only a passing knowledge of the campaign world. Looking at my bookcases with 20 odd hardback campaign manuals for this world all lined up for inspection before my weary eyes, I realised I could not put together a rich story tapestry or a convincing game any time soon; I`d need weeks just to re-acquaint myself with the world, and that was going to be a problem right now. Who`s to say I can`t move things in that direction at a later date? But for now my eyes shifted beyond the Realms and onwards towards Greyhawk... hmmmm, similar story! Too much to learn and not enough time to do it in. Sadly, the practicalities of putting together a new campaign often hits the brain`s logic censors long after the initial enthusiastic  “yaaaay” factor starts to fizzle out.


And then it came to me.


Okay, time for another of my long meandering stories.


Long long ago, in another decade, another home, and (sometimes it seems) almost another life; I discovered a game by Fantasy Flight Games, called “Descent, Journeys in the Dark”.  Now I don`t really like this game as it plays using the official rules. But the wonderful game components and miniatures gave it enough merit that I played around with it for quite some time until I got everything working the way I felt it should. As it happens, FFG gave me the other five boxed supplements for this game for free in payment for writing a lot of on line site and magazine reviews about their new product - and for the alternative additions I wrote for the game. I`ve never played with these supplement boxed sets, and in fact three of them still remain in their cellophane wrap on a book shelf in my hobby room.


I rectified this last night. I sat up most the night (I felt a bit like Ken St Andre writing his first draft of Tunnels and Trolls), and I systematically went through each module. I guess I wasn`t too surprised to find I was able to convert all the cards and almost all the rules for use in Dungeon World. The myriad of cardboard components alone will add a wealth of new material, playing aids, outdoor map tiles dungeon corridors and chambers to my game.


Used alongside Dungeon World, I just discovered me a whole new bunch of shiny new toys to play with.


The interlocking game tiles themselves are almost perfect for using as an alternative to the Pendraken Dungeon Tiles, and will certainly ensure things never get stale (the Descent ones are about the same size as the ones in HeroQuest, yet seem aesthetically to `fit` 10mm fantasy figures a lot better). The hundreds of treasure piles, furniture, traps, trip wires, pit counters, tomb stones, King`s throne, pools of water, fountains, waterfalls, statues, wall rubble, potions, elixirs, scrolls, crushing walls, rolling boulders, patches of goo, quest items, and a hundred other useful bits and bobs will ALL come in useful, essential even.... the hundreds of miniatures that come with the game are spectacular too, but that’s another story. For me, the other game components were what I was after. Most importantly, I started to study the campaign maps closely. Printed on heavy duty card stock, foldable like a Monopoly board (only much thicker card), I was immediately struck by their beauty.  There is a pair of campaign maps, one from each on the two latter supplement boxed sets. Combined with the hundreds of campaign cards, chance cards, encounter cards, and so on, I could see I had enough ready to use material to get my own game started with the bare minimum of effort... all the stats and everything were all ready-made for me in card deck form.


WOW, in a single night of preparation, I had not only discovered everything I needed to enhance my game, I also had the nucleus of a complete campaign at my fingertips; and a beautifully rendered one at that.


Combined with the new Dungeon World 3rd edition rules (which includes a few new neat ideas of their own) and the Dungeon World Variations (which will allow me to incorporate a lot of D&D Monster stats into my game...I have finally found where I am going to place my campaign.


I`m a very happie chappie.


Six   8)

I need to stop reading this... ;)

Six - this is great & inspiring stuff - you're making me want to go ransack my RPG library which, to be honest, is sadly neglected really: both hardcopy & digital...I would be seriously hesitant to cost out the money I've spent on RPG material since my first exposure to Basic D&D in ~1980.

I absolutely hear what you're saying about the beauty of 'newer' material as it's presented; I know you're not keen on 3.5 but the hardback [self-contained] "Expedition to" books for Ravenloft, Undermountain, Ruins of Greyhawk, Demonweb Pits etc are stunning. Really.

I can also relate to your thinking about switching systems through the course of the campaign: for me, this is akin to wargaming: if I'm doing big battles I'll look to WM - if I'm skirmishing, I'm looking at Mordheim / LotR etc....horses for courses & all that: makes perfect sense to me...I think my favourites would include D&D [all editions to be honest - including various 'clone' systems that streamline the older versions] & bung in some Mystic, Risus, and others including RQ, T&T...

Anyway, enough rambling from me - keep it up fella, this'll be interesting  8)

I need to stop reading this...

QuoteSix - this is great & inspiring stuff - you're making me want to go ransack my RPG library which, to be honest, is sadly neglected really: both hardcopy & digital...I would be seriously hesitant to cost out the money I've spent on RPG material since my first exposure to Basic D&D in ~1980.

I absolutely hear what you're saying about the beauty of 'newer' material as it's presented; I know you're not keen on 3.5 but the hardback [self-contained] "Expedition to" books for Ravenloft, Undermountain, Ruins of Greyhawk, Demonweb Pits etc are stunning. Really.

I can also relate to your thinking about switching systems through the course of the campaign: for me, this is akin to wargaming: if I'm doing big battles I'll look to WM - if I'm skirmishing, I'm looking at Mordheim / LotR etc....horses for courses & all that: makes perfect sense to me...I think my favourites would include D&D [all editions to be honest - including various 'clone' systems that streamline the older versions] & bung in some Mystic, Risus, and others including RQ, T&T...

Anyway, enough rambling from me - keep it up fella, this'll be interesting  

Cheers Nik  ;) if this only makes one person want to thumb through the books on their shelves, or rush out to the local games store to find that game they`ve always fancied trying but never have; or If this all makes you want to starting a brand new game of your own... then I`ll be happy to have helped in a small way.

Hmmm, it’s not that I`m not keen on D&D 3.5 Nik, its more that... well, I just can`t seem to get along with it. Every so often as I pass the shelf I`ve put aside for my D&D books, I can`t help myself and I pull down a beautiful, lavishly illustrated, crinkly new paper smelling, shiny looking hardback of something in 3.5: Players Handbook, Dungeon Master`s Guide, Monster Manual 1, 2, or 3, Fiend Folio, The Book of Vile Darkness, Underdark, Waterdeep, Undermountain, Unapproachable East, Faiths and Pantheons, City of the Spider Queen, Serpent Kingdoms, all the Ravenloft books.... oh god the list could go on and on, I have them all sitting on my shelf (and thats just my 3.5 collection), and even more on file backed up on my external hard drive. They are exquisitely beautiful books, and they repeatedly entice me to want to forgo using my White Box original set, Basic, and 2nd edition rules in favour of these magnificent tomes.... and now 4th edition (which I have in their entirety on computer file) is doing the same thing to me... largely due to the YouTube stuff by Chris Perkins (Robot Chicken), which always inspires me no end. No I don`t hate 3.1 or 3.5, I just find it all incredibly complicated to use. I mean, OMG just look at character creation, how is anyone meant to create a new character or NPC in anything less than a good hour? And that’s just a single new addition to the game... imagine filling a city full of NPC`s using 3.5, you`d be there a year before even sitting down to a game. As for the combat options, OMG again, there are more rule conditions, options,  and intricately detailed exceptions  than there were in the treaty of Prague LOL.

I`d LOVE to be able to use 3.5, but I just can`t seem to get my head round the 900 or so pages of rules contained in the three core manuals  :(

I know what you mean about the `clone ‘systems, I collect those myself. As for retro games, I think RQ, T&T, WHFB, etc are fantastic  :) My all time favourite is probably Judges Guild`s City of Invincible Overlord, utterly awe inspiring. As for the D20 system, I`ve always liked World’s Largest Dungeon and Worlds Largest City, The Lost City of Barakus and Freeport the City of Adventure.

Six  :)

Quote from: sixsideddice on 20 August 2011, 12:03:16 PM
I`d LOVE to be able to use 3.5, but I just can`t seem to get my head round the 900 or so pages of rules contained in the three core manuals  :(

I know exactly what you mean ;D I love the whole concept of D&D but it always feels too 'heavy' to me. Your Dungeon World just makes game play so much easier.

I often search out scenarios for inspiration though.

Looking forward toseeing how you progress.

Cheers,

Kev

QuoteI know exactly what you mean I love the whole concept of D&D but it always feels too 'heavy' to me. Your Dungeon World just makes game play so much easier.

I often search out scenarios for inspiration though.

Looking forward toseeing how you progress.

Cheers,

Kev

yes, "too heavy" puts it exactly; it`s too heavy by far. I just keep getting seduced by the cool concept, the wonderful artwork, maps, and... well I guess the professionalism of the look (that’s why they employ master designers and artists with  yearly salaries in excess of  five and six figures.

With so many tempting choices available to us nowadays, it is sometimes hard to remember the cardinal rule about gaming. i.e. the rules are only there to help us make in game decisions... the rest is up to creativity and suspension of disbelief.

As long as the rules serve their purpose, are clear, concise, are not `clunky` and do not hinder the DM from doing his job, the rest is really all up to the DM`s design work - and it is NOT the size of the rules which will inevitably make or break a game. However, an overcomplicated set of rules (however lovely they may look and feel) will reduce a game in no time... unless you have a DM who has both the time and patience to learn the system intimately so he can run things in his sleep. Personally, I do not have the inkling or the desire to want to dedicate myself to such a troublesome venture. I just want to GET ON with playing by the shortest enjoyable route possible.

Looking at things like Dungeons and Dragons, Dragon magaine, Dungeon, etc inspires me no end, gets me in the mood, and the artwork thrills my imagination and steers me on to good ideas of my own. But ultimately, I take all this stimulation, and use it to further my own simple Dungeon World experience.

Six  :)

All good points - and ones that I'd agree with entirely really. I'm off this week & am going to have a decent read of some stuff - particularly looking at my old Basic & Expert and 1st edition AD&D modules [I can feel an urge to play B4 The Lost City coming on...]

Once I've immersed myself fully in the plane of nostalgia, I'm then going to have a read of 4e - and it'll probably make my head hurt [although the graphics are beautiful].

Oh - and I'm a big fan of Chris Perkins DM-ing on youtube too; that Robot Chicken series was excellent. Going to re-watch that too. I love  having time off  :D

QuoteAll good points - and ones that I'd agree with entirely really. I'm off this week & am going to have a decent read of some stuff - particularly looking at my old Basic & Expert and 1st edition AD&D modules [I can feel an urge to play B4 The Lost City coming on...]

Basic and Expert are really cool, coupled with the fact that if you know where to look on-line, there are literally dozens on free PDF adventure downloads for these systems. Strangely, I missed 1st edition AD&D and moved straight into 2nd edition from Basic and Expert. I believe the favoured official campaign at the time of 1st edition was Grayhawk, yeah?

QuoteOnce I've immersed myself fully in the plane of nostalgia, I'm then going to have a read of 4e - and it'll probably make my head hurt [although the graphics are beautiful].

Same here. 4th edition is inspiring on so many levels. But I find myself being drawn more and more to my 3rd edition... which is where the bulk of my material lies. I know I know I said I wanted to keep things retro (i.e. 2nd edition or earlier), but the 3.1 and 3.5 stuff is just so damn good. The campaign I am putting together (both for me to enjoy solo and to play with my partner and friends) will include a lot of 3rd edition DnD I think - especially the two books  by Jim Pinto/Alderac games "Worlds Largest Dungeon" and "Worlds Largest City". Both of these are fast becoming classics, despite many peoples` prejudices against them.

QuoteOh - and I'm a big fan of Chris Perkins DM-ing on youtube too; that Robot Chicken series was excellent. Going to re-watch that too. I love  having time off  

I especially love Chris Perkin`s Celeb game at Gen Con... I love Will Wheaton in that one hehe.

Ooo enjoy your week off Nik, indulge yourself mate.... you deserve it.


Six  :D

Well, I now finally have my own website. All I have to do is work out how to run the bl***y thing is all (not as easy as it sounds, if you`re me â€" a puter idiot). I have to transpose material to it from various sources, work out how to size images and stuff, make it all look nice and pretty. And all in all, I think I`m looking at a lot of work, so it won’t be up and running publically for quite some time I`m afraid. However, when it`s ready, the campaign will kick off with regular instalments for anyone who wants to read them.

Just I warning though; it will be big, a complete photographed and written out campaign, as it happens - covering many many episodes/sessions (I`ll be videoing the sessions, and backing these up with MP3 recordings as well; so I don`t miss anything).  Actually, this is all good because it will give me time to play about, and write everything properly at my leisure. Sadly I don`t have all the time in the world to mess about with the web site as I`d like, because I have other writing to do (need to earn a few pennies) and I`m on a few deadlines I`m afraid.... and I have a few mini adventures to complete for Leon (which are a joy to do), which I believe might soon be included with all expansion Dungeon Packs purchases. Anyway, as soon as the website is ready, I`ll announce it with a fanfare. I`m really looking forward to being able to show off my proper collection of 10mm fantasy  figures in this way â€" especially as they will be shown in action on the table, as it were, in all their `old school`  glory.

Meanwhile, I`ll be starting the actual game sessions within the next two weeks I hope.

Can`t wait.

Six  :D

Excellent news Six 8) Good luck with setting up the web-site - I've never been brave enough to attempt it myself.

I shall look forward to 'many' episodes once you begin :D

Cheers,

Kev

Yep - I'm looking forward to seeing this too [sounds like a mega-project though - you're a brave man!]

I had a (brief) chance to look some stuff today - so what I did was to pull out:

- Basic & Expert D&D
- 1st ed AD&D
- 2nd ed AD&D
- 3.5
- 4ed
- Pathfinder

...and then read the 'Combat' sections in each...

I was right: once I got to 3.5 & beyond, my head hurt...and it stopped being fun  :( From the reading I did today, I think my preferred systems for a game now (and I've not played for a while - not even solo) would be Basic or 2nd edition.

I'll see if I get a chance to look through some of the 'clones' I've got tomorrow & see how much they improve on what I think is pretty elegant & simples...

It's probably time to have a clearout of stuff I know I'm not going to use / need as well really...would make sense while I've got some time off  :D

Hello all
Six I have read (with great enthusiasm) all your blogs and I must say I find them rather inspiring!! so much so in fact that I have decided to plunge myself back into the mystically world of DnD and purchase my own dungeon. You have really given me a sense of longing to play the game again. I remember back in college when we use to play with simple figures and graph paper what a difference it will be to have my own fully furnished dungeon, an order must be placed at once with great haste. I only have the first edition books and know nothing of the new editions, but they always served me well so seems like the correct place to start

I look forward to seeing your great campaign develop with baited breath six, thank you for the inspiration.

QuoteHello all
Six I have read (with great enthusiasm) all your blogs and I must say I find them rather inspiring!! so much so in fact that I have decided to plunge myself back into the mystically world of DnD and purchase my own dungeon. You have really given me a sense of longing to play the game again. I remember back in college when we use to play with simple figures and graph paper what a difference it will be to have my own fully furnished dungeon, an order must be placed at once with great haste. I only have the first edition books and know nothing of the new editions, but they always served me well so seems like the correct place to start

I look forward to seeing your great campaign develop with baited breath six, thank you for the inspiration.

Hi Hector,

it’s really great to see you have been inspired to want to join the gang, and start delving deep into some fantasy dungeons of your own. I think there are probably a fair few of us who played in our youth, who suddenly got the urge to `get back into it ‘again at some stage.

If I were you, just my advice... I`d certainly get the Dungeon Starter Set first: this will contain a complete set of dungeon tiles and doors, some dungeon furnishings, and all the miniatures you need to get playing right away - including rules. After this, and at your leisure, I`d pick off one or two of the add on packs "Domain of the Drow" "The Rat King's Lair" etc. These will add more miniatures to the game and give you a wider range of in game options.

Did you know that a set of rules called “Dungeon World” already exists and were specially written for the mini dungeon... and are free from this forum? You may want to download a PDF copy so you have something to read while you wait or your own dungeon set to arrive.


Free Rules

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FileBin/DungeonWorld%282nd%20edition%29.pdf

And the Supplement:

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FileBin/DungeonWorldAdvancedSupplement.pdf

Battle Report

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FileBin/Dungeon%20World%20BatRep.pdf

Review

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1017.0

Cheers, and happy gaming,

Six   :)

So, the scene is now set for my new game.

The Heroes will wake up one cold, windy, rainy morning to discover the walls of their beloved City Tamalir has been besieged by a terrible enemy, “The Overlord” and his nefarious dark forces.

Secret Council is held within the City by the noble hierarchy, and a desperate and cunning plan is conceived in an attempt to thwart the terrible `enemy at the gates`.

Magical, Sacred, Pure, and Powerful heirlooms, lost through the ages, need to be recovered and brought together that their combined might can aid all of Terrinoth in defeating the danger now threatening to overrun the entire land.

Heroes must be found with the hearts and courage to face many horrifying and deadly quests, to find the artefacts and restore the balance... that the forces opposing The Overlord may at last openly stand and face the enemy on an even keel.

True Heroes must be found to slip past the enemy`s besieging army, and complete their arduous quest before the City falls.

The Maps are ready, the encounters prepared, the back-story in place, the miniatures painted, the terrain pieces finished and varnished, and my notes are all in order. Dungeons are stocked with Monsters and the tunnels and chambers neatly assembled on numerous charts and tables. City street and building plans have been poured over, studied and memorized, and correlating numbers for NPC`s and City encounters worked out and fully indexed.

I`m just about ready to go.

I need another week or so to finish painting some additional Monsters I might need (you can never be too prepared), and then we can begin.

All I got to do now is write everything that happens in the campaign, take numerous photos, and make it all come together properly. Meanwhile, I`ll slog away getting used to working my website so that I can transpose everything there when I know what I`m doing.

Wish me luck,

Six   :D

Good luck Six.
Every hour spent in preparation is an hour of glory in a campaign. 8)
Now just wait for you players to go completely off track and circumnavigate all your carefully laid plans!  :P They always do...   >:(
Dibs on the halfling thief...

QuoteGood luck Six.
Every hour spent in preparation is an hour of glory in a campaign.

Now just wait for you players to go completely off track and circumnavigate all your carefully laid plans!  They always do...  

Dibs on the halfling thief...

hehe, thanks mad lemmey  :-bd

Gosh yes, players never do the expected do they.

HAHA, what is it about halfling thieves. That role was grabbed within minutes of me telling the gang I was going to put this thing together.


Six  :)

Looking forward to following your campaign and you happy band of heroes . . . including the halfling thief  :P

 =O

I`m sure the Thief will thrive and do well  ;)

 :-bd Please start your blog soon ! Looking forward to read how your party is doing!

Quote from: sixsideddice on 25 August 2011, 01:53:33 PM
HAHA, what is it about halfling thieves.

Well, in AD&D it was the bonuses  ;D

soon... very soon. I`m getting closer to understanding and cracking this website monster every day.

Yeeeey! I just worked out how to add images to the site  <:-P

Hmmmmm, now I got to work out how to add sounds and animation  :-\




Six  :D

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,

So far we have a huge City layout to drop into the game (isolated and mountainous), with a vast sewer system underneath that, and an even bigger `deeps`below it.

I wonder how she`d react if she knew its all set in a customized version of Expedition to Ravenloft (its okay, if she sees this, she still wont have a clue what Ravenloft is)   ;)



WOOOHahahahahahaahaaa <------   :d




Six   :D

QuoteHmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,

So far we have a huge City layout to drop into the game (isolated and mountainous), with a vast sewer system underneath that, and an even bigger `deeps`below it.

I wonder how she`d react if she knew its all set in a customized version of Expedition to Ravenloft (its okay, if she sees this, she still wont have a clue what Ravenloft is)  



WOOOHahahahahahaahaaa <------  

I just realised my last thread wasn`t totally accurate in its clarity :-\

I`m using Worlds Largest Dungeon and Worlds Largest City, placing these in a slightly customized version of Ravenloft  (i.e. Expedition to Ravenloft and about ten other supplement manuals for that world)  with plenty of scope for expansion in any direction I want to take after that.

The game will be run using Dungeon World and Dungeon World RPG Variations; with a host of DnD 3.5 edition material added where needed. DnD Stat blocks for NPCs, Monsters, etc will be converted to Dungeon World Variations (which is really why Variations exists) to make things easier to run - in keeping with the rest of the Dungeon World mythos... and all in all this adventure will be pretty extensive and very diverse.

The campaign will also include a lot of FFG `Descent`material, as already mentioned.

The website in coming along apace, and all the intro filler is in position already (about 40 pages of A4 to date), and all that remains is for me to read up on materials, paint the last (50 or so) miniatures, take a deep breath, and begin. I`d guess I`ll make the site public (publish I think the `webbies` call it) in about a month from now.

Cheers,

Six  :)

Hi six
Just to say thanks for the links and for the advice, at the moment am just placing small orders but when I have the money I will definitely get the big starter set and go from there.
Looking forward to following your adventures on your own website
Thanks again

QuoteHi six
Just to say thanks for the links and for the advice, at the moment am just placing small orders but when I have the money I will definitely get the big starter set and go from there.
Looking forward to following your adventures on your own website
Thanks again

Thats cool Hector, but how are you going to play your games without a 10mm dungeon, I`m just curious?

As for placing small orders... its a good way of ensuring you get everything painted, because you don`t get snowed under with unfinished metal  :)

Did you look at the DUngeon World (DW) rules? If you take to them, you`ll notice you can play really great games with very few miniatures. Let me know how you get on.

Cheers for now,


Six  :-h

First campaign session is scheduled for tomorrow.... lavish set up and photos, I`m hoping (note to self: must charge the cameras and cam). Results will be put in the website - which will be open sooooooon.

Party starts at last  <:-P


.... naturally its starting in a hybridised Ravenloft; with a deep Warhammer “Old World” feel to it, including  elements of WLD & WLC, Pathfinder D20, and plenty of FFG and Underdark.

Six

Excellent news Six, I shall look forward toseeing you report :D

I'm dead jealous too, as things have been so hectic around here I've not had time to even think about modelling or gaming for several weeks :'(

Cheers,

Kev

QuoteExcellent news Six, I shall look forward toseeing you report

I'm dead jealous too, as things have been so hectic around here I've not had time to even think about modelling or gaming for several weeks

Cheers,

Kev

Yep I know the feeling Kev. You go through those months when you just can`t find the time, usually because other more important commitments (which, of course, always come first) tend to get in the way of things. In my case lately, I`ve simply lacked my usual `non stop` motivation ... you know how it is sometimes; no matter what you do, you just can`t seem to face getting out all the toys and laying out a table, let alone sitting down to put in all the literary back-work to bring a game to life. Call it writer`s block, or energy drain, whatever, it hits the best of us at times and you either have to ride it out and wait for the enthusiasm to return, or work through it to come out the other side. Hard always to be focused though. But in my case I`m too heavily committed, financially involved, and I have too many players wanting to play that I kinda owe it to them to work through the gaming block. The game, originally just going to be for me and my partner, has sort of expanded now, and I have a line up of friends wanting to get in on the new campaign hehe. So I`ve had my work cut out to pull it all together.

However, I`m ready to go (yeeey) and the first session is tonight, so fingers crossed, the effort will pay dividends. For them, they`ll get to play a good continuing (on-going) game  â€" and for me, I get to start the `meat and veg` of my website, i.e. the `living` campaign itself.

So far the wesite has just been pages and pages of info, homebrew rules, and various bits and pieces. Mind you, it still fills a good 50 pages to date hehe. It’s been hard to concentrate on the filler when all I`ve really wanted to do was get on and play.


Six  :)

......   theres even a bit of gothic style sci-fi added for good measure  ;)

Quote from: sixsideddice on 14 September 2011, 12:38:56 PM
But in my case I`m too heavily committed, financially involved, and I have too many players wanting to play that I kinda owe it to them to work through the gaming block.

No pressure then :P

Quote from: sixsideddice on 14 September 2011, 12:38:56 PM
However, I`m ready to go (yeeey) and the first session is tonight, so fingers crossed, the effort will pay dividends.

Awesome :D Looking forward to hear how it goes 8)

Quote from: sixsideddice on 14 September 2011, 12:38:56 PM
So far the wesite has just been pages and pages of info, homebrew rules, and various bits and pieces. Mind you, it still fills a good 50 pages to date hehe.

Blimey - no wonder you've got writers block after that lot :o

Cheers,

Kev

Okay, nearly back on track.... its been a hectic week and I`ve not been able to do anything in days  :(

Site should be open after the week end, late in the week.


Six  8)

Great to hear Six.  Looking forward to visiting your website and reading about and seeing your first day of campaigning!!!   :D


As an aside, have any of you see the Red Steel variation?

cya

Good news six - looking forward to this  8)

UUUUgh!!!!  lost some of the photos, my silly mistake; so I`ll have to set up/stage the missing ones again - so tiny slight delay here, sadly  :(


meh,


All good things....... as they say

This weekend?  :-w  :)

Got a friend coming over tonight... and I`m guessing she`ll be here `til sometime Sunday, so probably tuesday I`m afraid  :(


Six  :D

Just a l-i-t-t-l-e more time... loads going on which is stopping me doing the important stuff, like gaming  :D

Dang, its always the little things   :D

.... like losing my 10mm Giant Fungus for an entire day, tearing the house apart - and finally finding it sitting on top of a pant jar exactly were I had left it to dry a week ago  ;D   

.... like suddenly realising I`d entirely forgotten to paint the dead giant skeletal beastie thing I needed for one of the crossroad encounters, and then it dawns on me that my jar of bone white paint is totally empty   :'(

Oh the joys of gaming    :o


Six    :D

. . . like looking everywhere for your magna glasses to finish painting when your wife say - touch the top of your head dear  :-[

. . . like getting to a tournament to set everything up and realizing that you left the score cards on top of the computer  :P

...like forgetting where your memory stick (always do this)!  :P

Soon, soooooon. I know I know I keep promising it will be ready soon. I`m really trying to get it all sorted. Just a couple of battle reports to add... just too many domestic responsibilities to find the time I need uuuugh!!!!



Six  :)

Wooow a lot of expectations on your blog!!   ;D

My usual blunder is rushing off to a game at another venue, then finding that the Turkoman light horse that I want for my Ottoman army are still in the box with the imperial Indians, who use the same figures. Or similar slip ups with Cossacks, Tatars, or any other multi-army troops.

Away a week....  when I get back, the site should be ready to open :-)

Six  ;)

YAY  :D

I don`t believe it uuuugh!!! LOL

I am away from home until next Thursday running/DMing a campaign through its paces (Beta testing some new Paizo stuff for them), and I have just discovered there is no internet conection here... just a USB port dongle...dingle... doogle... thingy, which allows me to check email, the forums, etc but is almost useless for anything else. So the website is delayed yet AGAIN UUuuuugh.

Soooooory.


It WILL happen.... you shall go to the ball Cinders.... just not this week  :(


Six

beforethe end of year?  this year of course....   ;D

Hi guys,  :-h


Sorry I`ve been so quiet of late... Christmas, then New Year, and I`ve been away too (needed a break to recharge my batteries hehe).

I`ll be back to annoy you all again in a few days  ;)  ;D


Six

welcome back :D

Quote from: sixsideddice on 25 January 2012, 09:43:52 PM
Sorry I`ve been so quiet of late... Christmas, then New Year, and I`ve been away too (needed a break to recharge my batteries hehe).

I`ll be back to annoy you all again in a few days  ;)  ;D

No worries, good to have you back!

8)

Welcome back amigo - good to see you here again  <) :-bd

Hi Guys,

well, I`m finally back   :)

The other day when I popped in my lappy finally gave up the ghost the same day (typical timing) and I have been without a computer this last week; but I am now back in business with a brand spanking new 4 gig piece of loveliness, and now I`m happy as a dog with two tails.... amazing how lost we get when denied our computer access and the internet; like a kid having his X-Boy or PS3 taken away hehe.  :o


Okay, I`ve been away from here for quite some time now. It was never my intension to stay away this long but a series of events meant it became increasingly hard to concentrate or get stuff done here.

Basically, my partner of many years and myself split up rather messily back along and the knock of effects of that led to so many changes, I simply couldn`t find time, motivation, or the incentive to think about gaming for a while. Unfortunately, another consequence of all this is that the main bulk of my Website (which I intended ages ago for everyone to see and enjoy) has now come to a crashing stop, as a vast majority of the on-going material (a good few hundred pages or so) has now become somewhat academic and has reached a dead end; as I have lost the momentum of the group on-going game(s) we had been using to bring the whole thing alive is the form of a sort of `living` campaign world journal.


As a result, even with my tenacity...  I finally have had to realize that this website will have to undergo a radical face lift from the foundations upwards before it can be ready to open publically... sorry guys, I really have tried.  :(

In addition, I am now in the process of moving house (over the borders of County Kerry and into beautiful sunny West Cork). Unfortunately, internet connection in Bantry Bay isn`t nearly as good here as it was in Kenmare and I haven`t yet figured out how I`m going to resolve this... right now I can`t play my beloved “World of Warcraft” “Dungeons and Dragons Online” or “LOTRO” Uuuugh it`s agonizingly frustrating!!! Maybe it’s finally time I stopped online MMO gaming and concentrated more on wargames and table top rpg in any case?  :-\

Soooo, finally I am back with a vengeance to my Pendraken 10mm yumminess; and am looking forward to catching up on all the things I`ve missed over the last couple of months, which means reading the forum threads with a hungry eye to see what I`ve missed.

Cheers guys, it feels great to be back  8)

Six

Howdy Six,

Great to see you back!   =D>   =D>

Sorry for the breakup  :(

And besides, you need to lose those MMO and use the saved money on Pendraken goodies  :D

Check out Maxwell's Cave dungeon he made it is very cool  m/

Looking forward to your "dungeon world adventures" broadcasting from Sunny West Cook and Bantry Bay  :D

cya

Give....... up....... World...... of....... Warcraft...........  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

you cant do that............... ever!

What's your Realm, Faction and Character name???

I'll come and either persuade you to stay,

or

take all your gold and stuff.  :D :D :D :D

Gordon

Great to "hear" something from you again  :-h


Cheers!


PS:
Don't regret of not being able to play those MMO-games.
The more time passes, the more you later wonder how you could spend so much time on these  ;)

Yep - more time with figures you can touch six  :)

Ooo  hands on gaming... yeeeeey!! Nik  :)


.... besides, giving orders to 25 man teams in WoW raids was geting a bit - samey  :D

GordonY: I was playing in Steamwheedle Cartell rpg - Alliance, and Horde on... can`t remember the server name, its been that long. If I do get back to it, I`ll give you a guild invite... maybe a few level boosts ;-)


Six  :)

Good to hear from you Six.

Sorry to hear about your break up - it knocks the stuffing out of you doesn't it?  :(

Good luck with the move and I hope you get back on track soon.

Cheers,

Kev

Ok Six, new Night Elf hunter in your town, look him up, goes by the name of Gordonhunter, yeah I know, no imagination.  :(

QuoteSorry to hear about your break up - it knocks the stuffing out of you doesn't it?

Yep, it sure does... but like all things - it gets better in time and eventually fades away entirely.

QuoteOk Six, new Night Elf hunter in your town, look him up, goes by the name of Gordonhunter, yeah I know, no imagination. 

hehe if I DO get back to WoW, I`ll certainly look you up, could be fun. But in all honesty, even though I LOVED WoW for years, I really hated the changes Cataclysm bought into the story, and I hated the land changes.... and I hate paying nearly 30 Euro every two months, when other equally good MMO games (Everquest, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons, Perfect World, etc) are out there for FREE.

I do miss it though  :)

Six  :D

But anyway, back on track.... I`ve decided to restructure the campaign to make it an entirely solitary affair. Its about time I did another of these solo games actually, but this time in 10mm.

I AM about to start a new rpg campaign with most the lads and lasses from the old game, but even though the table is huge... it can get a bit crowded when all are assembled round it trying to lean in and “Ooo” and “Aaa” the 10mm loveliness. So I tend to switch Dungeon World to 28mm for these `live` sessions; then transpose the action back to 10mm when I recreate the photos and campaign diary/journal.

I also find 10mm is really useful for pre-viewing cameo encounters for forthcoming sessions. It means I can plan out encounters to check the balance and enjoyability before I spring new things on the players at the week end games.

I WILL work on the website, and though will now take a while to re-create.... and I wont make any sweeping statements about when it will be ready, I shall grind away at it until it once again takes shape.

Six :)

Sounds good Six, glad you've still got the RPG crew at the ready :D

I'll look forward to hearing how you progress with the solo campaign, my biggest plan for this year is to get my 10mm Albion campaign kick started - and it's all your fault ;D

Cheers,

Kev