I stumbled across this fan made trailer the other day and was gripped. Watch it right to the end and see if you agree with me. This needs to be made into a feature length movie.
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Monday, 24 January 2022
Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures - Map Tiles
Cast your mind back to 2003 when WotC released the D&D Miniatures Game. Each set came with a 5"x8" single sided cardboard map tile.
Dungeons & Dragons Pokemon
The D&D Miniatures Game was essentially WotC's attempt tocreate a D&D miniatures Collectible Card Game and cash in on the popularity of Pokemon which was everywhere at the time. This isn't meant as a slight, basically every games company was trying to do the same. It was popular among regular D&D players as a cheap way to get officially licensed versions of painted miniatures for your AD&D Game (3.5 at the time) and was instrumental in introducing D&D to a whole new audience of young players.
The Map Tiles
These maps are a useful addition to the Game Master's arsenal of tools either for inspiration or for that on the fly dungeon, the one that is inexplicable and doesn't make any sense.
A complete archive of the map tiles seems nowhere to be found. Come on internet do your thang.
- Assembly Tile 3
- Assembly Tile 4
- Aftermath
- Ancient Temple
- Blood Rock Cave
- Burial Chamber
- Spike Stones Cave
- Torture Chamber
If you know of anywhere that has a complete listing of the tiles which were available or you would like to share your memories of playing the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures game please feel free to use the comments section below.
Sunday, 23 January 2022
RIP - Meat Loaf (1947 - 2022)
This week we lost one of Rock 'n' Roll's greatest voices.
I don't have much to add to the volumes of heartfelt thanks for an amazing contribution to pop culture, movies and music but I'll leave this piece of artwork here as my memorium.
Saturday, 22 January 2022
Dungeonmorphs Vietnam - Junglemorphs 1
In response to the August 2021 RPG Blog Carnival topic "Let's Build a Dungeon" I wrote an article "Where we're going wee don't need walls!" for my friday night club Dragons Keep Roleplay Club.
I opined that the principles of dungeon building could, with a bit of imagination, be used to create any wilderness encounter.
The focus of my attention was an upcoming Savage Worlds: Tour of Darkness campaign set in the steamy jungles of Vietnam sometime during the Vietnam War (1969 to 1972).
In that article I suggested that patrols could be mapped using geomorphs or rather Junglemorphs. True to my word this weekend I began scratching away at squared paper and came up with the first set of Junglemorphs.
Friday, 21 January 2022
Sir Ian Livingston
The 2022 New Years honours list had a surprise in store for Gamers, with the legendary founder of Games Workshop, Ian Livingstone, getting a knighthood.
Arise Sir Ian Livingstone CBE
Sir Ian became a Knight Bachelor, the most ancient sort of British knight who can trace their history back to the 13th-century reign of King Henry III.
He is a giant of the UK Games Industry (and I would argue the global one as well), being responsible for founding the behemoth Games Worshop which alledgedly is more profitable than Google. Growing up in the 80s they dominated the boardgaming scene with epic titles like Space Hulk and Heroquest.
The founding of miniatures company Citadel rocked the little lead men idustry at the time and they were soon dominating the shelves with their excellent sculpts in never before seen detail.
In later life Sir Ian got involved in Computer Games with Domark which was bought by Eidos and he was instrumental in securing the licenses to Tomb Raider and Hitman. He ended up contributing to the Tomb Raider Anniversary game.
I don't think there is another man who has made such a big impact, and continues to play a role in the UK games Industry and it is such a pleasure to listen to him speak at events like Dragonmeet which he regularly attends as a guest of honour.
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