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I don't know about the rest of Europe, but Christmas in the English speaking world has a long history of being a raucous affair full of drinking, feasting, and fighting. It is the orkiest of holidays.

You are not the only person. I've bought a few gimmick dice over the years, including a $50 metal dice set more than twenty years ago, and they just sit in my dice bag unloved and unused. At least they did. I recently took them out of my bag and they're sitting on my desk. I'm contemplating...

This is exactly where I am with both Dark Sun and the AD&D 2nd edition Ravenloft material. It's why I'm not too upset about changes made to Ravenloft or the idea of changes to Dark Sun. I'm one of those weird people who thinks you can respect the original IP and still make changes. Maybe it...

Nobody else has posted here since Tuesday? Really? I like the opening scene and how it was reminiscent of combat in the games with limb being blown off and grenades tucked into people's clothing.

My stance on brushes, and this applies to airbrushes as well, is for new people to avoid purchasing expensive brushes. I wouldn't spend $18.00 on a single brush either. You're new. You're probably going to do a lot of things that aren't good for the brush or even clean it properly. I do...

As a battered survivor of GW, I've got some thoughts on this as well. (I spent more than $1,500 on Imperial Knights alone within a 12 month period.) While I do think GW makes what are arguably some of the best miniatures on the market, you pay an unreasonable premium for them. A single...

You never saw Spartacus, 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, Roots, or Amistad? We have a tendency to turn even the most terrible things into entertainment including war, poverty, plague, genocide, and persecutions of all kind, etc., etc. The biggest problem isn't the subject matter it's how...

I'm picturing Bubba from Forrest Gump now. "You got your hot and dry deserts, your semi-arid deserts, your coastal deserts, and your cold deserts. But you also got your Desert Eagles, desert foxes, desert iguanas, desert eagles, desert rats, and desert hares. Oh, and you can't forget food...

My Deadlands Kickstarter started shipping out a few weeks ago and I've been patiently waiting for it to arrive. I found it in my office today and my wife told me it had been delivered two weeks ago. She thought it was hers, and she's the type of person who will wait days or weeks to open a...

I don't know if I've ever painted any of the grey ones, so thanks for pointing that out. They really are. If for no other reason than because they hold detail a lot better than the old, white plastic they were using. Though I'll give Reaper credit for producing inexpensive miniatures you can...

Morrus is right about Star Wars being an odd duck when it comes to licenses. As unimaginable as it sounds, for the better part of a decade, if you wanted new Star Wars material it was likely produced by West End Games. Kenner had stopped producing Star Wars toys in 1985, the Droids/Ewok...

In January 2025, I started a Greyhawk campaign using the 5th edition 2024 rules. That campaign should end in late January or early February 2026. It's been a lot of fun because I've got some great players who are invested in the campaign. The high point of the campaign was how the players...

Don't apologize. A few years back I painted a bear that ended up looking like it had the worst case of mange in the world. Even after all these years, I still paint some horrendous figures. Your painted minis look better than an unpainted mini (and better than my mangy bear). Keep up the...

Other than sexy fun time, I’m hard pressed to think of anything in BG3 that isn’t appropriate at a table top D&D game.

You can touch on mature subjects without being explicit. Curse of Strahd deals with genocide, domestic abuse, human trafficking, drug abuse, and several other mature themes and its considered one of the best campaigns for 5th edition. I think there’s some disagreement regarding what kind of...

One of us! One of us! I have mixed feelings about slapchop, but it's definitely quick. While I have mixed feelings about slapchop, it's quick. I have mixed feelings because my success rate with slapchop hasn't been great. I painted a lot of my Fallout miniatures using slapchop and I...

I forgot about Dungeons & Lasers. They're a pretty good value, especially some of their larger miniatures like the dragons and other monsters.

I used work in the sense of a literary or artistic composition. i.e. Star Wars is a work of fiction. It's fine to be influenced by someone else's work. If I were to make a swashbuckling space adventure game, I couldn't help but be influenced by Star Wars, Buck Rogers, and Flash Gordon. But...