Dwarven Forge on Kickstarter

In case you missed it!

Our goal with Dwarvenite is to offer the world’s most compelling, durable – and yet affordable – terrain for 25mm scale gaming. Your support during last year's Kickstarter was staggering. We were determined to validate your trust, and our team worked feverishly to produce and ship on time. We are thrilled to say that we did!

Now, we aim for the next level – deeper detail, more intricate shapes, an even more complex environment. We’re proud to present: Dwarvenite Caverns! Every piece in this great new line (including all the stretch goals and add-on sets we have planned) was designed by our founder and chief sculptor, Stefan Pokorny, and sculpted by Stefan and his extraordinary team.

Find out more and Pledge here!

Trailer ~ Maleficent (New)

Headless Bodies & Magic Wands

It seems researches have unearthed a wand of wonder . . . as a CK and player I hate that magic item, its almost as annoying as the deck of many catastrophes . . . while unearthing a burial site 9000 years old. The site contained the headless bodies of 20 people, their heads conveniently stacked elsewhere, but it also contained a wand with the likeness of a face carved on both sides. It was discovered in southern Syria in 2007.

The wand is suspected to be part of a funerary ritual. It is the oldest realistic representation of the human face found in that area and probably represents a shift in early man's thinking, from the dark primeval to the mundane.

Armor Up (Iberian Warrior)

Pegaso Models

Word of the Day -- Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, other building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defense. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In later periods the moat or water defences may be largely ornamental.  In medieval times, moats were excavated around castles and castles as part of the defensive system as an obstacle immediately outside the walls. In suitable locations they might be filled with water. A moat made access to the walls difficult for siege weapons, such as siege towers and battering rams, which needed to be brought up against a wall to be effective. A water-filled moat made the practice of mining, digging tunnels under the castles in order to effect a collapse of the defences, very difficult as well. Segmented moats have one dry section and one section filled with water. Dry moats cut across the narrow part of a spur or peninsula are called neck ditches. Moats separating different elements of a castle, such as the inner and outer wards are cross ditches.

The word was adapted in Middle English from the Old French motte "mound, hillock" and was first applied to the central mound on which a castles was erected, and then came to be applied to the excavated ring, a "dry moat". The shared derivation implies that the two features were closely related and possibly constructed at the same time. The term moat is also applied to natural formations reminiscent of the artificial structure, and to similar modern architectural features.

DC Bombshells!

DC has announced a series of variant covers for their most popular titles, with "bombshell" covers. These covers are inspired by all the pin up art from World War II, so look to see a throwback to those many images that decorated the B17 and B25 bombers (and all the other planes) as they thundered across the skies of Europe.

More from ICv2.

Evening cosplay

 

 

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Imaginarium - simply amazing

 

 

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Terrain idea

While moving junk around and trying to locate the minimal amount of stuff to do something to scratch my terrain itch, I came across this....

Please forgive the horrible picture. I will have to learn how to take pictures with this iPad. So this is a 4x4 piece of tile I turned into a terrain piece. I had a lot of tile left over from a bathroom remodel so instead of chucking the tile, it sat in a box for a year until it struck me, I could use it to make terrain.

I built the terrain up on the underside of the tile as it was a roughed up surface and would allow for better adhesion of whatever I put on it. On the 'show' side I put four felt sticky pads so I could move it around on the table without scratching it.

My idea was to put terrain features on dozens of tiles and the use them as modular outdoor terrain. I never finished the project. That particular piece came out of junk bin along with a few others. I think is the execution were perfected it might work out all right for small scenery pieces. One of the problems I ran Minot was locating larger tile for larger terrain pieces that would match up to the 4x4.

Just thought I would through that ther so anyone who sees potential in that approach could run with it.

 

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Speaking of sprites

Hodekin the helpful kobold

Looking at the mess in my storeroom got me to wishing I had a helpful house sprite. Quite the opposite, I have four very mean spirited house imps. Be that as it may, I recalled that kobolds, unlike in the game, not necessarily evil sword wielding, backstabbing, underground freak shows.

They could be helpful.

So there is tis kobold, Hodekin, who lives with the Bishop of Hildesheim. He has some adventures and such but the one or two in particular is when a boy in he kitchen pesters Hodekin. The kobold asks eh chef to chastise e boy, but the chef refuses. Hodekin, angered, catches the boy, cuts him to bitty bits and serves him in the stew. Hodekin was chastised for this. Hodekin in turn kicks the Bishops meat offa wall an into the moat. He was then exercised from the premises.

He was kicked out for kicking the meat in the moat, not dismembering a child. Ha.

Anyway, it was suggested by a turn of the century scholar tat Robin Hood is actually derived from a variant of Hodekin ( meaning little hood) . Another suggested that Robin Hood is derived from another sprite collectively called pucks or, a famous nickname for one or more is Robin Goodfellow.

Robin Hodekin.

Robin e little Hood.

And there you have it. Another delightful romp through Wikipedia.

And off course, I do not vouch for the accuracy of any of it.

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My worthless scenery day

I was sorta excited about being able to get to some scenery work today. I had to hours uninterrupted to work on something. Well, ell, that did not turn out well. I had thought my stuff was collected in one area. I moved last year and moved office about three months ago. In the process of those moves my hobby stuff got moved around, mixed up, lost and then found and stuck hither and non as space and priority dictated. The hobby stuff is spread out in not one area, not two places, not even three or four, but it is spread out from my mom and dads house, to steve's house, to my 'reorganized office', basement and garage.

Ugh, maybe, I'll just organize first. It's like I have too much stuff and too little space.

 

 

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