New Game Room on the Horizon!

We bought a new home last month (yay!), and will be moving out of our small-ish apartment soon (double yay!). One of the great things about this house (besides not having an upstairs neighbour who, though a petite young lady sounds as if she's training Clydesdales over our heads as she moves around her apartment) is that I will have a truly, obscenely large game room over the garage.

How big? Well, it's irregularly shaped, but the longest length is just shy of 37 feet (about 11-12 meters) and the widest point is about 22 feet (7-ish meters). Big. And already carpeted and drywalled and painted. Even has some built in shelves. Happiness.

I am taking photos, but it's mostly a big empty room right now while we finish some updating and remodeling of the living areas. I promise to share as it gets completed.

Uh-oh, Pledge Trouble...

But it's not too bad. I got three minis, a pack of 28mm Schreckenwulf for Konflikt '47.

  The plan is to use them for Doctor Vardu in VSF, but of course, I can use them for their intended purposes as well... I love double-dipping on figures.

   So the tally is three purchased, zero painted. But I am really close on like a dozen or so finished painted. I may have started them in 2017, but it only counts when they are finished... right?

2018: The Pledge

   I think that this year I will try to fulfill The Pledge. It's been a while since I even tried, but I'm going to go for it this year. What's the Pledge, you ask?

   I will paint more minis than I purchase and/or receive as gifts in 2018.

   That's a mighty bold statement for most gamers, and for me in particular because I am incredibly slow at painting.

   Pre-painted pieces count neither for nor against the Pledge.

   I will break this into three categories: miniatures, vehicles, and terrain. I am not going to track by scale - that gets too complicated. However, for the smaller scales, I will count a base in place of a figure. Essentially, a single playing piece worth.

   So, keep an eye on the Pledge Tracker I am putting in the sidebar. Let's see if I can stick to it!

Pugmire RPG

   At first glance, this game is a bit silly. I mean, you're an anthropomorphic dog, who wants to be "a good dog" and follow the Code of Man. 

   But we played for the first time on Thursday night, and it was surprisingly fun. As I can tell, the engine is a simplified and modified D&D 5E. I'm not very familiar with 5e, so not too sure about that. It is a very low crunch game, though, and a lot fluffier than many. 

   A lack of minis was part of the difficulty I think. We are all used to having a battlemat and minis out so everyone can tell at a glance how close things are. Made a few mistakes in how combat works - only movement provokes an attack of opportunity, for example, and there is no penalty for shooting into a melee.

   Although we didn't finish the adventure (I was DMing), I think the four players still had a lot of fun being their dogs. And that's really the point, isn't it?

Happy Christmas... well, Boxing Day.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, Y'ALL!

   And now, to the loot! My younger son, who is a mini me, has begun DMing his own friends in D&D 5E, so I bought him a  ton of the prepaint minis and some dungeon tiles from Paizo. He also got some Starfinder stuff to help with that, including the hard to find Incident at Absalom Station adventure... but that's his toys, not mine.

 Merry OGRE-mas!

  I received several boxed sets for OGRE, as well as four singles of the Combine "Minotaur" Howitzer, and a Cigar Box Battle Mat marked in large hexes... That's three more OGREs and sundry smaller vehicles to help pad out the forces.

Leather Bound Limited Edition Hardback of two MHI books

   I lost a lot of my books in the flooding of Harvey here in Houston. So my family is working on replacing them for me! Good family. I got several Larry Correia books, which are a lot of fun, and some David Eddings novels (the Belgariad, original editions in paperback, just like the ones I had before). My mom also pledged a custom "Book of the Month" for me - I just send her a title once a month and she orders it for me! Yay!

   I also got an expansion for SmashUp, which brings me very close to having all of the factions for that wacky game.