The Gaming Den

Here's the last one for today, the end of my write-ups on Giants. Tomorrow there will be three more things, all sharing one over-arching creature type, and the day after that will be a final batch of three, where things get a bit wild. Eldritch Giant MM3, page 56. CR 15, level 15 if you change its h...

Storm Giant MM, page 125. CR 13, level 14 if you change its hit dice: 14d12, Full BAB (+14), Good Fort (+9 +4 +4), 4 + Int skills (x17). Maybe level 13 if you do the Ability Score thing for +24 +6 +8 +4 +6 +4, its abilities at a range are certainly limited. Storm Shepherd Yes, we're continuing the ...

Cloud Giant MM, page 120. CR 11, level 12 if you change its hit dice: 12d12, Full BAB (+12), Good Fort (+8 +4 +4), 4 + Int skills (x15). Probably level 11 if you do the Ability Score thing for +20, +0, +8, +4, +2, +0. It's still very close-range oriented and with few actual tricks up its sleeve. Cl...

You thought I was done, I thought I was done, Nostradamus probably predicted I'd be done after that last batch. But here we are! Stone Giant MM, page 124. CR 8, level 9 if you change its hit dice: 10d12, Full BAB (+10), Good Fort (+7 +3 +3), 4 + Int skills (x13). Stone Giant Elder You like rock-rela...

Wait hang on, I've got it. We have a new housemate so we had a traditional celebration so I've had something like ten standard drinks and have come to a great realisation: crafting is performed by finding ingredients, that are all in Tetris piece style shapes. And you have to fill a grid (cleanly) t...

The atelier idea? I'm pretty sure that breaks on contact with multiple actual players and the limitations/costs of table top rules admin. You would be better off playing atelier. Yeah I knew that when I typed it up, but didn't specifically say that, because I want more people to come to the conclus...

Here are two ideas on how you might be able to make item creation fun or interesting. No guarantee, but it's possible: 1. Everything needs a bunch of weird ingredients, so you're basically going on adventures (the thing the game is ostensibly about) in order to craft items. It doesn't necessarily ha...

I can explain this one: after a lot of Googling DuckDuckGoing with no success, I asked rad if he could find the CYOA post in question. Not only did he find it, he then applied html magic (or php or whatever) to make it into that little thing that doesn't involve scrolling around the screen. Posting ...

Godbound has an identity crisis where it desperately wants to appeal to people who play X, Y and also Z so it flutters its eyes at all of them. AC is "low is good", where you add your AC (which is fairly rigidly fixed, in the 2E style) to the attack roll. Meanwhile, saving throws are all l...

A guy slapped another guy at the Oscars. Sorry Ukraine, it's no longer your turn to be in the news. People are sick of hearing about it and are moving on to something more important! Anyway, Germany is apparently preparing for the possibility of Russia just turning the taps off. And... if that happe...

Yeah, their new leader took cues straight from the Trump playbook, and talks about how multiculturalism and feminism go against the very foundations of the country. Not sure how long before North Korea becomes the best country called Korea simply by dint of South Korea throwing itself off a cliff, b...

They are some mix of adorable and hilariously awesome in the way the really early RT/40k minis were.

Yep. Every once in a while you come across Chrono Cross apologists who insist it was better than Chrono Trigger and inevitably they end up being completionists that enjoy mystery for mystery's sake and find mutually exclusive party members and shit fascinating. If you like that sort of thing, let m...

That sounds like it could be Legend of Dragoon (PSX), where every character had a bunch of different "default attack" combos (I think your equipped weapon determines which one you use? I can't remember, I know you don't choose it from a menu in battle, it's set and just happens when you se...

Nice work there. Is the dozer 3D printed? The rest looks completely smooth, Baal Predator IIRC?

The Tactical Dreadnoughts look great, I love the idea. Great work on the freehand details too.

Yeah, the wings are actually individual pieces you glue on. I don't mean "this pair of wings is glued onto the back", that's normal, but two separate wings, each with a 1x4mm area of contact. I'm going to add some neon grass tufts to the bases, because I have them and it needs to happen. I...

And part 2. 20220101_194327.jpg 20220101_194334.jpg Yeah, that's it, an entire year. For what it's worth, I have assembled and undercoated (yes, zenithal style) a new plastic Canoness, some Deathwatch marines and some genestealer hybrids. And did some base layers on the hybrids. So I hope to do more...

So, looking at these photos, I've realised I need to clean some hair off them. Anyway, here are the wyches. Part 1...

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And here we have the succubus:

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That's incredible.

So last year, I painted all of the following: 16 dark eldar (5 winged fuckheads that are a fucking pain to assemble, 10 wyches, 1 succubus)

Here are the flying assholes

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Those hazard stripes are really well done, still has shome shading there so it isn't pure two-tone, lines are basically straight... good stuff. Not shit-talking the rest, but it stands out as something well-done that is harder than it looks (I know from experience putting it on tank dozers).

I've seen "Choose your Element that influences you" as a replacement for race, and that worked just fine. There's no reason why star signs couldn't work just as well. I briefly started the "Soulled Out" game where instead of "being born with pointy ears or a beard or w/e&quo...

I picked it for the picture because it's called Imperial. When what I want is *strong* drink, not a specific brand or flavour or whatever, my brother in law makes whisky (and others) and normally bottles them at 60% so people can water them down to taste.

Here's how I would fix it: