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With the excitement of Covid, I am working to provide a small distraction, and decided to start streaming movies thru Discord each night. The Discord instance is open for anyone who cares to join in, though I make no claims about the age-appropriateness of any movies. Each day, I will post the planned movie for that night, and the next day will be dependent either on my random preference, or any feedback I receive. Movies start at 8 PM EST, and run until the credits are done. https://discord.gg/HNYSba9 March 23, the movie was the classic Star Wars March 24, we…
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Expanding my Star Wars: Legion terrain with several models in progress. First completed is a scale model of an X-Wing, complete with movable wings, landing gear, and a removable R2 druid. Ideally, yes, I would paint the model, but realistically it is not a high priority. The model is available on Thingiverse, and scaled specifically at 1/64. I upsized it to 133% to approximately Legion scale figures (not sure of the exact math, but several forum postings indicated the scaling). The detail on the model is impressive, and I was particularly impressed by the creativity in the moving parts. Everything…
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No idea if it will work, be stable, or even worthwhile – but with our conversion to social-distancing gaming, I am going to attempt to live stream out Age of Ashes campaign. This of course will be the raw session – likely rather technically challenging, and slow moving. This will be the first time we have tried to use Fantasy Grounds remotely, so there will be a lot of tutorial and likely less game. If you have interest, feel free to join us. Live chat will be enabled, though I doubt I will be paying any attention to it. This…
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Episode 2 of the 2nd Chapter (Cult of Cinders) of our Age of Ashes campaign is being released now on YouTube. If you are a supporter on Patreon, you can view the content up to two weeks early. Otherwise, the content will be released in pieces over the next couple of weeks. If you are not a supporter, but find some entertainment in my content, please consider a subscription. Or at least drop a comment to leave constructive feedback so I can improve what I am publishing. Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/halfling13 YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaR1aYMgQE2UYsOU8coklQ/
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As part of my growing terrain collection for Star Wars Legion, I opted to 3d print a scale model of the Razorcrest from the Star Wars Mandalorian series. This was a pretty long print, even with the low infill, but the model ended up pretty good. It is perhaps a bit too small and out of scale, but in my mind it is “close enough” – pictured here with a few of my Wookie warrior figures. Unless I had wanted to break it into even more pieces, this was the limit of the Prusa i3 printer. The model is from…
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As part of my video prep for the latest Age of Ashes session, I finished up the painting of the Dragon Pillar terrain piece I was working on. As mentioned previously, this is less “dragon” and much more “tiki”, mixing up the various cultures, but for our gaming purposes this was solid replacement. Painted, it is I think a rather good piece for the storyline. The model is based on the Tiki Statue by Elstorm on Thingiverse, which itself is mixed from prior models. I scaled the model, duplicated and rotated it for four faces, and added a bulk block…
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Up until yesterday, I had hopes that we would be able to continue with the face to face gaming schedule. Unfortunately, as the reality sets in, this is becoming less likely, so I am taking steps now to convert to online formats. I have configured a Discord server for our use, for voice chat. Conceivable it will be usable for video as well, but prior efforts have shown that to be difficult and unreliable. I have also configured our Fantasy Grounds instance for multiple players – fortunately with my Unity Ultimate license there is no additional cost required. The big…
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As the Coronavirus continues to demolish the economy and most social interaction, I am working to proactively protect our hobby and gaming efforts. To this end, although we have not yet stopped our current live games, I am putting together processes to migrate to an online format. Fortunately these days, online RPG tools are abundant and fairly solid. We will be converting voice and chat to a Discord format – we used this previously for a Shadowrun campaign and it was rather successful. At the time, I was overly optimistic and opted for video conferencing – that wasn’t too useful.…
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