Next Friday's 40K Army List In Full...
...and if Commander(*) Pedro Cantor survives The Battle At The Farm then next session he may get to defend the road tunnel at Jadeberry Hill that runs under the Pakamac(**) river and leads to the gates...
View ArticlePhotoIntel From Rynns World
In another dimension lost within The Warp is a place where it is still 1987 so fuckyeahtimeforroguetrader!Phil S, Steve B and myself played Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader yesterday (Friday 19th), 1987...
View ArticleThe Battle At The Farm 3 - This Time It's Personal!
You thought last Friday's game of 1987 vintage Rogue Trader was retro? Well you ain't seen nothing yet you heretical xenos scum.Those of you who's memory reaches back 25 years may well remember that...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time I Sent an SAE to Nottingham
Once upon a time, which I now know to be around the July of 1985 I saw this in the back page of a Lone Wolf book, quite possibly the very one I photographed this from twenty minutes ago.So I begged a...
View ArticleDO NOT WANT!!!
Right then, that's fucked it. How many years do you reckon it will be before they decide the "franchise"(*) needs a gritty, reimagined reboot for a more modern age and they wipe the slate clear and...
View ArticleBuild A Dungeon From Me
Winter nights are drawing in, clocks have gone back, time for a new project.http://buildadungeonfromme.tumblr.com/ is an idea I've had for a while now, a tumblr blog dedicated just to pictures that...
View Article'Neath Whatever Isle
A dungeon outline built up from a few clicks of the RANDOM button on buildadungeonfromme.tumblr.com. (Click to embiggen, else much of the below won't make any sense)All the PCs realise that they have...
View ArticleSometimes You Find a Random Picture...
...and think "Bloody Hell, that needs keying up as a dungeon."Not mega-, not giga-, straight to yottadungeon that one.
View ArticleHere, Have 1000 Dungeon Rooms
No, seriously. Here you are.The first 21 rooms look like this;Ugly, but functional.Here's how it works. This is basically the Moldvay dungeon stocking tables streamlined down to a single d1000 roll, so...
View ArticleSome Points
XBLA Spelunky is great if you are the sort of person who likes Old School D&D and liked Rick Dangerous on the old, proper machines. It's basically Rick Dangerous Rogue-like. It's one of the few...
View ArticleTwo quotes from Rick Priestley
"The modern [Games Workshop Design] studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department...
View ArticleHelmet Camera Footage Found on iPhone
While tidying up the Camera Roll...Didn't end well for the lone Silver Skulls Space Marine.(Sorry kids, it was 6th edition rules. Nephew's Christmas present and all that).
View ArticleAncient & Modern
Back to August 1986 now, and a fascinating experiment by Graham Staplehurst in the pages of WD80 and WD81.A&M is a sort of multi-media scenario/campaign/magazine special, the sort of thing that...
View ArticleIdentify That Dwarf
Back in the Rogue Trader era of White Dwarf (i.e. from WD93 onwards) there was a mention in one issue of a forthcoming event at Games Day. It would be really helpful for a prospective project if...
View ArticleZanbar Maul Darth Bone
This is Zanbar Bone the BBEG of the fifth FF book, City of Thieves. Designed and illustrated by Brit(*) Old Skool favourite Iain McCaig, 1983.This is Darth Maul, Sith Lord from that Phantom Menace...
View ArticleThe Oldhammer Warband
Right then, for the Oldhammer day to be played out at Foundry in Nottingham later in the year, it's time to sort out the Coop Chaos Warband. With dice rolling and everything. See here for all the stuff...
View ArticleOldhammer Warband Thoughts
I need two Hobgoblins for the warband (who will be known as Naztibrootiz and Zhort), so I went through the box with my very old (now retired) Hordes of the Things Goblin army, The Goblins of...
View ArticleOldhammer Theme Music Is It?
You are all wrong.It's this.I suggest it is played on continual loop at Oldhammer day at Foundry this summer.
View ArticleOldhammer - Umlaut Goreshitter
Once upon a time, in the Reikland village of Alt-Hammer, deep within the dark forested Principality of Upper-Rungun, a minor petty princedom whose only known exports were congenital deformities,...
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