Man.....I feel old.

Was crusing YouTube today and I came across these gems. I remember having one or two of these bad boys when I was a kid (don't remember which one thou). If you remember these, you are getting old, just like me (next thing you know you'll be looking forward to getting that AARP card in the mail).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Adventure

Over at Cononfire http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/index.php  I have a new Adventure for greyhawk fans. It's called "Lost Treasures" Something I did one day when I had not much to do. Hope you enjoy it. Until next time I leave you with this.......

Game night back!!

Well, got back to gaming today! Yea !! Playing in a 3.5 camp. So, had to break out the "Old School Dice" today.

 

My Dm had me make a local map for him. The one thing I can do is make map's.

 

And here we are heading out too our doom!!!!

 Had a great time today. I'm playing a Factotum class. It's a new class out of Duneonscape book. It is a jack-of-all-trades class. Can do a liitle of everything.

 

 

 

My day at Gencon

 Made my way down to Mecca over the weekend to pay omige to the Nerd Gods! Myself and a good friend just went down for one day. Not much planned except to spend some cash and meet some friends from a Canonfire (a Greyhawk webpage) at the Ram. The one thing I was looking forward to getting was the two expansion packs for The Red Dragon Inn, but they were sold-out by Sat. Stopped by the OSR both and meet Frank Mentzer. Very nice guy.

 Didn't bring much back, but here is the swag. Two OSR modules, got a couple magic cards, some new dice, Bolt Action core rule book and some Forgeworld 40k mini's. I spent more cash on my badge, buying breakfast, chipping in for gas, getting dinner and buying a crap load of drinks for people. But had a blast.

Had to step away from the computer........

 So after 3 days of typing last weekend, I had to step away for a sec. Have had a military model diorama i've put off for some time now (about a year ago).The diorama depicts the 5th panzer div. on it's way to the Balkans in 1942. I had the Sd.kfz 223 armored car (on the road) and the Steyr RSO/1 (parked in the grass) tractor done. On monday got back to the project. Went to Wal-mart and got a $8 wooden picture fram for my base. Glued a peice of 1/4 ply-wood in the frame and so on. The diorama is FAR from done, but here is what I have done so far. Still have 3 more figures to put together and LOT'S of painting ahead. Took the pictures with my phone.

   Off to Gencon tomorrow to spend a crap-load of cash.

London Games

Been watching the London games for the past two weeks. Here are some of my fav. highlights. Hope you enjoyed the games as much as i did.

Gamer Girl, Country Boy - Felicia Day & Jason Charles Miller

Not much of a country music fan, but funny!

Man/Nerd Cave

Thought I would send out some pic's of my man/nerd cave. Sorry about the white fuzzy'ness, using my camera on my phone. Anyone else have pic's of their man/nerd caves? I would love to see them!

Imagine Magazine

Was on ebay just the other day and came across someone selling a few copies of Imagine Magazine. I remember a local gaming store was selling used one's a LOOOONG time ago. I was just wondering if they are worth putting in a bid for them?

Burnt Out

 I might need some help. As of late, I'm in that "Man.....I just don't want to anything but stair at the TV"
I just got done moving, work has been in overdrive, and so on. Work on my new project has almost come to complete stop.
 And to make things worse, our gaming group has stopped playing to take a break from gaming. My question is this: does anyone have a cure for the "I just don't want to do shit" mode i'm in?

Bounty Hunters

Don't know how many of you are NFL fan's, but I've been a Saints fan as long as I can remember. Well with the new investigation on the New Orlean Saints got me thinking. How would you like to be a O-line men facing across these bounty hunters. HeHe. Now that's a set of fearsome linebackers.

Zombie's

Just got done watching "The Walking Dead" tonight and was just wondering. What kind of zombie's do you run in your game? The Slow moving zombie's from the show and the movie's. Or the fast moving one's from "28 Days Later".
 1-The slow moving one's can be killed by a axe to the head, turned by the cleric and can be made from your local necromancer.
 2- The fast one's who are not "dead" but infected. Run very fast and cannot be turned (Surprise Mr. Cleric!).
 So what's your favoret ?

Good things happens when a refrigerator fall's on you?

Well back in June of 2010, I just got done with FFG3 Spitting Image and was thinking of what to do next. My land lord ( who just passed away last Nov.) just went out and bought brand new double door refrigerator for the apartment I live in. Her handy man ( her 65 year old uncle) and I had to take both doors off to get this monster up the stairs.
 Half way up the stairs he lost his grip and, well....the fridge rolled right over me. After going to the hospital and finding out I now have 2 herniated disk's and a dislocated one. Thank goodness for my work has short term disability so I was able to get a pay check each week.
 With nothing to do for the foreseeable future, might as well start on my next project. One of my friends said why don't you try and sell one of your stories. I thought " not a bad idea, but just about everything has been done" as in location wise.
 So after 2 weeks of drug induced numbness, one of my favorite movies came on TV "Force 10 from Navarone" A world war 2 movie with a great cast ( Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford just to name a few). Then it clicked, A DAM! Dont think it's ever been done. Then it was all down hill. Everthing just rolled for the story, the plot's, the map's and so on. But then who to offer it too?
 My first thought was the nice people at Expeditious Retreat Press. So I sent a email off to Joseph Browning about my module. A couple days later they agreeded to buy my adventure.
 So I would like to thank Joseph Browning and Suzi Yee for publishing my idea. Here is my first published module, I hope you enjoy it!
http://josephbrowning.blogspot.com/2012/01/advanced-adventures-22-stonepick.html

The web is a buzzing!

Well, most of you have heard by now that wotc is working on 5th edition. I've read allot of other blogs and theirs lots of complaining to stop, don't do it, re-tool it, and so on. Most posts or comments have been negative.

So what I want to hear is "What would you like to see in 5th edition?". "What would you like Wotc  to do?"

Another funny pic.

Soooooo True, So true.

Some artwork from Michael Dashow.

http://www.michaeldashow.com/index.html

Funny Pic

                                                 Elvis, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Busy,Busy,Busy.....

 Have not posted anything as of late. Work has been in overdrive. Work on the new "Top Secret Project" has been on schedule. Here's a clue to what it is. The new logo, a great drawing by Stephan Poag.

And one day last week as all old gamers do, was reminiscing with a few friends about the "Good O  Days" of gaming, movies and TV shows.  My friend John talked about a show I forgot all about. Been catching up on the shows on You Tube. Yea I should be working on the new project, but Dam this show takes me back. McCall was the shit back in the 80's!! Edward Woodward was a big mini wargamer as well.

Cool new item for ASL players

 Over at countersmith.blogspot.com they have come out with AFV Logic off-board counter system cards.

If anyone has ever played ASL, you know sometime's  it's a pain in the butt looking up all of them rules on AFV's. Countersmith Workshop has come up with a great idea. I give the smart cards 5 out of 5 stars.

Helmets!

   Been home today feeling a little under the weather ( took a sick day from work). Not much on the boob tube today and so I was looking over some of my 1st edition modules and core books. The one thing I noticed was the fact that some of the pictures of characters who were wearing some of the lower armor class armor wearing helmets. Like the PC's on the back cover of S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, two of them are wearing studded leather armor with helmets.
 Now in the Dungeon Masters Guide on page 28 it reads " It is assumed that an appropriate type of head armoring will be added to the suit of armor to allow uniform protection of the wearer. Wearing of a "great helm" adds the appropriate weight and restricts vision to the front 60', but it gives the head AC 1. If a helmet is not worn, 1 blow in 6 will strike at the AC 10 head, unless the opponent is intelligent, in which case 1 blow in 2 will be aimed at the AC 10 head ( d6 1-3= head blow)"
 This is a little used rule. Every thief I have played or GM'd, the thief wore leather armor but not a helment. Now, lets say the thief was wearing a +1 suit of Leather Armor, would this give his or her expossed head a AC 9? What if a thief was wearing a +1 suit of Leather Armor and had a dex. modafier of +2. The theif would have a AC of 5 but a head AC of 7? When I was GM'ing, if I would have looked at this overlooked rule, all of my guards would have been aiming for the head.
 Just want to know what your stance is on Helmets!!!

Sad news for Forever Free Games.org

 Just to let every one know, I'll be shutting down foreverfreegames.org on the 22nd of this mo. Not because of the money or anything else, but I've been working on a new project. I will still have this blog page going. So if you haven't downloaded any of the modules, go now!

So on that note.......