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In our ongoing Warhammer FRP gaming group (full session videos on YouTube), the party is currently attending the annual Carnival celebration in Middenheim. Part of the Enemy Within campaign material is a great amount of events and details around the calendar of events for the 10 day festival, along with the notable NPCs that are present at each of the locations. Although the source book provides some basic information on each such encounter, for obvious reasons the writers could not fully develop all the details around all the scenes, as the book would have been far too large. Thus, on…
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This last Sunday was scheduled to be our final episode of the Extinction Curse campaign, with the final big climax battle against the Xulgaths. The game happened (video coming Friday), but the battle ran longer than expected. Thus far, we are 9 rounds in, and the big bad evil guy is still fighting strong. This seems extreme, and it is. Part of our challenge is still a struggle with the technology – Foundry VTT works well, and is rather stable, but there is enough that is not programmed or automated to cause slow downs. In addition, despite the length of…
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In our recent Star Wars Legion games, it has become obvious that token tracking is challenging. The game operates with a collection of tokens, which are intended to be placed on the board near the respective unit, in order to track various affects and modifiers. This works well and is easy to track. However, when the units get crowded, and the number of tokens grows, it can become very easy to confuse which unit gets which tokens. https://h13hobbies.etsy.com As a result, the concept of these token organizers was born, a method to collect and organize the tokens, and clearly indicate…
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Our long running Pathfinder 2e campaign is just about to wrap up, we have perhaps 1 more session before the final big climax battle. This group was formed way back in 2021, and the group has steadily worked their way thru the storyline. Some characters have been lost, but a few are still the originals from way back at the start of the circus. As is my tradition, for any groups who can complete a full adventure path, I provide a momento of the adventure. Something customized to the group and storyline, but ideally still somewhat practical. Although we play…
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As we expand our Star Wars Legion games, and look into a few other game systems, I got inspired to create a swamp terrain board. This was heavily inspired by Black Magic Craft on YouTube, in which a similar technique is used to make roads. In my case, I reversed the negative space, and instead created cutout pools. When the terrain is layed on our existing forest gaming mat, the effect is a fairly good “green algae” pool swamp. With a bit of scatter terrain, it is a very nice setup. The entire base is a single large piece of…
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Going to be heading for a bit this weekend and attending the family day at Gencon 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has been several years since we have gone, what with pandemics and schedules, so it will be nice to go again. Sadly, schedules and budgets restricted us to only a single day, so we will have to take in all the events and sales floor in that limited time. As a result, there is no Carrion Crown session this week, though the rest of our publishing will continue unimpeded. I had thought to wear a hat or a shirt…
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This past weekend, one of our players attended a local tournament, and offered to spread the word of our channel and efforts. With appreciation, I engraved a set of order tokens for him, using our Logo for the back image, and the unit type for the front image. These worked well, and it had a few other players interested, but we didn’t actually have anything to give away. A bit of brainstorming later, and I have settled on “line of sight” indicators as a give-away. These are simply to create, inexpensive to produce, and useful for all players. As a…
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As mentioned earlier this week, the latest battle report (available HERE) is the start of our Battle for the Golden Vader tournament. I crafted a small traveling trophy, which will be held by the victor in this and future tournaments, with a label recording the past victors. Yes, that is an official Darth Vader (Dark Lord of the Sith) figure, painted in gold and perched on a basic 3d printed stand. I had an extra copy of the model, so figured it was a good use. Each week, we will update the standing with the results, likely on Friday after…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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