This week, I are been mostly been printing...
A Treant - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2847442
A Judge Dredd Hover Wagon (H-Wagon) - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4266152
Intellect Devourers - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4186672
Thursday 9 April 2020
Jessie's Prints: Episode 1 - Treant, Hover Wagon and Intellect Devourers
A Judge Dredd Hover Wagon (H-Wagon) - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4266152
Intellect Devourers - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4186672
Monday 6 April 2020
Plastichunter - Adventures in the 3D Printing Zone
Every GM should have one. They are cheap to buy and run, they are readily available, don't take up a lot of space but can literally add an extra dimension to your games.
What am I talking about? 3D Printers of course. I've owned one for a couple of years and found a limitless amount of things to print and here are just a few ways they can help to bring that extra something to your games.
From large to small there are plenty of great models which can be downloaded for free from 3D warehouses such as Thingiverse, Pinshape, MyMiniFactory etc.
We all have a bunch of the common or garden minion miniatures (I'm looking at you orcs, goblins and skeletons) but who wants to spend a ton of cash collecting those speciality foes. A quick search online and you are printing off your mid level minions in minutes at a fraction of the price you would normally pay. Only need it once? No problem you've not invested that much and you can always give it to someone as a Christmas or birthday gift if you don't have the storage space.
If you are playing a long dead unsupported game and you need minis, you can always make your own. I touched on this in a previous article, when I ran a Judge Dredd game a few years ago. I was using the 15mm scale because the Laserburn Lawmen from Alternative Armies are just about the best simulcrum out there. Modeling and printing vehicles and scenery items for your game is easy using free software such as sketchup and tinkercad. You are only limited by your imagination.
What am I talking about? 3D Printers of course. I've owned one for a couple of years and found a limitless amount of things to print and here are just a few ways they can help to bring that extra something to your games.
From large to small there are plenty of great models which can be downloaded for free from 3D warehouses such as Thingiverse, Pinshape, MyMiniFactory etc.
Scenery Items
For those of us who still like to meet in meatspace every week, dressing your dungeon with scenic accessories is a great way to enhance your game and helps the players immerse themselves in your story. It's much more satisfying for a player when they hide their mini behind a plastic pillar rather than a circle drawn on some lino. Some items are functional in combat, other are just there for dramatic effect but they all make a huge difference to your game. |  |
| D&D Demon Idol - Download | Destroyed Colums - Download |
Monster Minis
We all have a bunch of the common or garden minion miniatures (I'm looking at you orcs, goblins and skeletons) but who wants to spend a ton of cash collecting those speciality foes. A quick search online and you are printing off your mid level minions in minutes at a fraction of the price you would normally pay. Only need it once? No problem you've not invested that much and you can always give it to someone as a Christmas or birthday gift if you don't have the storage space.
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| Umber Hulk - Download | Beholder - Download |
Unobtanium
If you are playing a long dead unsupported game and you need minis, you can always make your own. I touched on this in a previous article, when I ran a Judge Dredd game a few years ago. I was using the 15mm scale because the Laserburn Lawmen from Alternative Armies are just about the best simulcrum out there. Modeling and printing vehicles and scenery items for your game is easy using free software such as sketchup and tinkercad. You are only limited by your imagination.
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| H-Wagon | Homemade Judge Dredd Spinner |
Gadgets and Accessories
Probably one of the most useful objects whilst being entirely frivolous at the same time are the game accessories. Who doesn't want a cool looking Castle Grayskull Dice Tower, a dice box or even some spell templates to enhance your enjoyment. |
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| Castle Grayskull Dice Tower - Download | D&D Spell Templates - Download |
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Reaper Bones #11 - Pirate Captain Thorin Stoneheart
I, like many around the world, am on lockdown thanks to the Coronavirus outbreak. This means that I have a lot of free time on my hands which I could use constructively but instead have chosen to catch up on my painting pile.
Barnabus Frost (Bobby Jackson SKU:77132)
My Barnabus Frost is known as Captain Thorin Stoneheart, a swashbuckler of advancing years who has given up the life of the ocean waves and settled down with his Dwarven wife Wilomena to run their Waterdeep tavern "The Rudderless Clipper". However, this is merely a cover for his real passion in life as by night Thorin roves the streets and back alleys of Waterdeep in search of the young waifs and strays exploited by the criminal elements. He and his wife give them bed, board and protection in exchange for their help running the tavern.
Thorin is also a member of the Company of the Corgi, a strange band of misfits who delve into the undermountain in search of fortune and glory. "So it is!"
Reaper Bones #1: The Marathon Begins - Where I paint a dozen Giant Rat
Reaper Bones #2: Kobolds, Are They Dogs or Dragons? - Where I paint a dozen kobolds.
Reaper Bones #3: A Carcase of Skeletons - Where I paint a half dozen skeletons
Reaper Bones #4: A Shuffle of Zombies - Where I paint five zombies.
Reaper Bones #5: Introducing Shaina Coppervein, Dwarven Orc Hunter - First PC mini
Reaper Bones #6: Mimic, Treasure Chest and How I re-base my Bones - Where I paint furniture
Reaper Bones #7: Fire Elemental Meets Novelty Lamp - Where I hack a mini with LEDs
Reaper Bones #8: Flaming Sphere LED Tealight Hack - Another mini LED lighting project
Reaper Bones #9: Elliwyn Heatherlark, Gnome Bard - Another PC mini
Reaper Bones #10: Horace "Action" Jackson - A Baddass disco dancing Motherfucker
Barnabus Frost (Bobby Jackson SKU:77132)
My Barnabus Frost is known as Captain Thorin Stoneheart, a swashbuckler of advancing years who has given up the life of the ocean waves and settled down with his Dwarven wife Wilomena to run their Waterdeep tavern "The Rudderless Clipper". However, this is merely a cover for his real passion in life as by night Thorin roves the streets and back alleys of Waterdeep in search of the young waifs and strays exploited by the criminal elements. He and his wife give them bed, board and protection in exchange for their help running the tavern.
Thorin is also a member of the Company of the Corgi, a strange band of misfits who delve into the undermountain in search of fortune and glory. "So it is!"
Bones Progress
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Friday 3 January 2020
2020 - the Dark Future is here
A random post on twitter reminded me that we are now living in the year of one of the greatest genres roleplaying has ever known. Cyberpunk 2020.
I have been a fan of the genre since discovering it in the early 80s through the literary works of Gibson, Sterling, Williams and Effinger. Visual stimulation came in the forms of films such as Bladerunner, Akira, Bubblegum Crash, Black Magic M66 and Ghost in the Shell.
It changed the way I looked at technology and society and changed my future career choices. I was never much of a punk but I immersed myself deeply in the dark gritty disposable future of a new breed of heroes.
The new 20s sees the cyberpunk alive and kicking in the form of the much anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 and a new version of the RPG from R.Talsorian.
Salut my friend
It changed the way I looked at technology and society and changed my future career choices. I was never much of a punk but I immersed myself deeply in the dark gritty disposable future of a new breed of heroes.
The new 20s sees the cyberpunk alive and kicking in the form of the much anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 and a new version of the RPG from R.Talsorian.
Salut my friend
Sunday 11 March 2018
Prog 6 - Vive La Resistance
A continuing series of session reports from my current Judge Dredd game using Starblazer Adventures rules.
Wallace sees a silhouetted figure in the cab of the truck and fires a GP round through the right window. A miss. Still positions himself strategically behind the office wall and serves up a slice of justice pie with a three round burst of HE rounds hitting ED209's left gun pod and blowing off some panels. Que likewise fires an HE round at ED209 further damaging it's left gun pod. Holmes tries for the truck's rear door handle and as it begins to move away she leaps onto the rear step. ED209 strafes Steel and Que's positions hitting Que in the left arm shattering her radius. Call Me Edd rams the truck punching his loading prongs through the metal door sandwiching Holmes between the truck and it's torso. The truck drives out of the loading bay carrying Holmes and EDD with it.
Fearing that the truck will make a clean gettaway, Judge Wallace throws a bleeper onto the side of the truck. Steel fires another three shot burst of HE at ED209 damaging his right gun pod. Que follows suit firing a three shot burst which only does superficial damage to ED209's carapace. Holmes climbs up Edd's loading prongs and clambers onto the droids large domed head. ED209 stomps through packing crates to close the gap on Steel. A case of squeaky toys explodes like a shower as twin rockets emerge from the wardroids gun pods. With a woosh they shoot towards Judge Steel missing him entirely and blowing a huge hole in the wall to his right and blowing the main building doors to his left to smithereens.
Calling for his Lawmaster, Judge Wallace jumps down into the truck pit firing off an HE round at the trucks rear tires causing one of them to explode. The truck rocks violently left and right. Steel fires another three shot burst at ED209's damaged carapace hitting with one round. Smoke begins to pur out of the hole as Steel calls his bike "To me!" Que spots that ED209 is directly below one of the roof beams supporting the massive reinforced concrete floor slab above. She shoots an HE at the beam which buckles and creaks as the heavy floor bows and sags. Holmes, clings onto the truck roof like a human spider, slowly edging towards the cab. The truck careens around the corner onto 76th Street and Call Me Edd is thrown violently off the truck across the street and slams into the building opposite. It's single menacing red eye flickers and dies. With an unmistakeable gutteral roar Wallace's Lawmaster leaps through the destroyed front doors and into the warehouse. The Lawmaster's superior combat computer immediately identifies the vintage war droid as a threat and fires it's cyclops laser at ED209 melting off the joint between the torso and the right leg. ED209 hits the floor, it's chicken like legs flapping about in panic.
In hot pusuit Wallace fires another HE round at the front right tire, blowing off the entire wheel. Que spots ED209's energy cell through the tangled mass of wires and circuitry. Thrusting her fist through the sparking mess she triumphantly rips out the energy cell. As Holmes crawls towards the front of the truck, the vehicle veers violently to the right and crashes into the warehouse wall throwing her onto the glass roof of the cab. Wallace runs around the rear of the truck as Steel arrives on his bike accompanied by Holmes's Lawmaster.
"Citizen you are under arrest, prepared to be judged" orders Steel.
As the driver stumbles out of the cab, obviously concussed, Holmes drops onto him and they both crash to the floor. Wallace pulls Holmes to her feet and then drops on the perp. Steel dismounts and cuffs the perp's hands behind his back and drags him to his feet. A male in his mid to late 20s, he wears a black and white stripey turtleneck jumper and a beret. Que arrives round the back of the truck on her bike and gives Holmes the sniffer. As they open the doors the sniffer needle bounces off the end of the scale but the truck is empty. The Nitro-9 was definitely here but it has long since been unloaded.
Under interrogation, the perp is identified as Marcel Le Peu. He admits to transporting the Nitro-9 but defiantly informs the Judges that they are too late and it has already made it onto the streets. Running Marcel's ID through their bike computers the Judges discover that he has an older brother, Pepe. Another career criminal, Pepe is at large, having most recently been released two years ago for handling stolen goods, his registered address is 258–33 Mitterand Mansions. Despite having facing a 70 year stretch for numerous crimes, Marcel is uncooperative and resists further interrogation shouting "Vive La Resistance!".
Faced with closing down a uge crime scene the Judges call for immediate backup and Tech Support. Judge Belloch confirms the order and despatches an entire clean up crew. With the discovery of a cache of weapons and a homicidal War Droid the investigation has been upgraded and an hour later Judge Hiro joins the patrol to bolster their numbers.
The contents of the warehouse are summarily catalogued by Tech Judges and forensic accountants. The cacge includes a number of interesting items including several cases of guns, ammo, riot foam and anti-personnel grenades destined for several Citi-Def units in the Eurozone such as Berlusconi Block, Mitterand Maisons, Merkel Mansiona and Costa Blanca Conapts.
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| Moma Fratelli courtesy of Brian Daigle on Dribble |
Wallace sees a silhouetted figure in the cab of the truck and fires a GP round through the right window. A miss. Still positions himself strategically behind the office wall and serves up a slice of justice pie with a three round burst of HE rounds hitting ED209's left gun pod and blowing off some panels. Que likewise fires an HE round at ED209 further damaging it's left gun pod. Holmes tries for the truck's rear door handle and as it begins to move away she leaps onto the rear step. ED209 strafes Steel and Que's positions hitting Que in the left arm shattering her radius. Call Me Edd rams the truck punching his loading prongs through the metal door sandwiching Holmes between the truck and it's torso. The truck drives out of the loading bay carrying Holmes and EDD with it.
Fearing that the truck will make a clean gettaway, Judge Wallace throws a bleeper onto the side of the truck. Steel fires another three shot burst of HE at ED209 damaging his right gun pod. Que follows suit firing a three shot burst which only does superficial damage to ED209's carapace. Holmes climbs up Edd's loading prongs and clambers onto the droids large domed head. ED209 stomps through packing crates to close the gap on Steel. A case of squeaky toys explodes like a shower as twin rockets emerge from the wardroids gun pods. With a woosh they shoot towards Judge Steel missing him entirely and blowing a huge hole in the wall to his right and blowing the main building doors to his left to smithereens.
Calling for his Lawmaster, Judge Wallace jumps down into the truck pit firing off an HE round at the trucks rear tires causing one of them to explode. The truck rocks violently left and right. Steel fires another three shot burst at ED209's damaged carapace hitting with one round. Smoke begins to pur out of the hole as Steel calls his bike "To me!" Que spots that ED209 is directly below one of the roof beams supporting the massive reinforced concrete floor slab above. She shoots an HE at the beam which buckles and creaks as the heavy floor bows and sags. Holmes, clings onto the truck roof like a human spider, slowly edging towards the cab. The truck careens around the corner onto 76th Street and Call Me Edd is thrown violently off the truck across the street and slams into the building opposite. It's single menacing red eye flickers and dies. With an unmistakeable gutteral roar Wallace's Lawmaster leaps through the destroyed front doors and into the warehouse. The Lawmaster's superior combat computer immediately identifies the vintage war droid as a threat and fires it's cyclops laser at ED209 melting off the joint between the torso and the right leg. ED209 hits the floor, it's chicken like legs flapping about in panic.
In hot pusuit Wallace fires another HE round at the front right tire, blowing off the entire wheel. Que spots ED209's energy cell through the tangled mass of wires and circuitry. Thrusting her fist through the sparking mess she triumphantly rips out the energy cell. As Holmes crawls towards the front of the truck, the vehicle veers violently to the right and crashes into the warehouse wall throwing her onto the glass roof of the cab. Wallace runs around the rear of the truck as Steel arrives on his bike accompanied by Holmes's Lawmaster.
"Citizen you are under arrest, prepared to be judged" orders Steel.
As the driver stumbles out of the cab, obviously concussed, Holmes drops onto him and they both crash to the floor. Wallace pulls Holmes to her feet and then drops on the perp. Steel dismounts and cuffs the perp's hands behind his back and drags him to his feet. A male in his mid to late 20s, he wears a black and white stripey turtleneck jumper and a beret. Que arrives round the back of the truck on her bike and gives Holmes the sniffer. As they open the doors the sniffer needle bounces off the end of the scale but the truck is empty. The Nitro-9 was definitely here but it has long since been unloaded.
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| Fratellis Pizza Wareouse Crime Scene - Click to Enlarge |
Under interrogation, the perp is identified as Marcel Le Peu. He admits to transporting the Nitro-9 but defiantly informs the Judges that they are too late and it has already made it onto the streets. Running Marcel's ID through their bike computers the Judges discover that he has an older brother, Pepe. Another career criminal, Pepe is at large, having most recently been released two years ago for handling stolen goods, his registered address is 258–33 Mitterand Mansions. Despite having facing a 70 year stretch for numerous crimes, Marcel is uncooperative and resists further interrogation shouting "Vive La Resistance!".
Faced with closing down a uge crime scene the Judges call for immediate backup and Tech Support. Judge Belloch confirms the order and despatches an entire clean up crew. With the discovery of a cache of weapons and a homicidal War Droid the investigation has been upgraded and an hour later Judge Hiro joins the patrol to bolster their numbers.
The contents of the warehouse are summarily catalogued by Tech Judges and forensic accountants. The cacge includes a number of interesting items including several cases of guns, ammo, riot foam and anti-personnel grenades destined for several Citi-Def units in the Eurozone such as Berlusconi Block, Mitterand Maisons, Merkel Mansiona and Costa Blanca Conapts.
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| Mega City One - Sector 55 - The Eurozone |
Judge Que receives medical attention from the support crew who put a synthi-cast on her arm. They head for Mitterand Maisons whilst Holmes attempts to contact her stoolie Jimmy the Spiv.
NEXT PROG -> Mitterand Maisons
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