Gloomhaven is a game that lives and dies on (among other elements) its emerging story and sense of stakes to every decision. With that in mind, I recommend avoiding the contents of this article until the Angry Face and Circles classes are unlocked in your game. Gloomhaven spoilers ahead! Players not finished with the Gloomhaven… Read More Painting Gloomhaven’s Angry Face and Circles
This stuff is inordinately delicious, I don’t mind telling you. Long ago in my early teen years, I discovered the Dragonlance campaign setting for D&D, and started researching it online to find out more about the flavor of that world (no pun intended). I stumbled onto a fan site that I sadly can no longer… Read More Signature Dishes: Summer Juice Blend
Let’s talk about Gloomhaven, a game so big and complex that I’ve hardly played it at all despite my substantial investment in it. Storing it is nearly impossible without a $80+ custom insert, setup takes 30 minutes even with that, a given playthrough can last months of consistent play, and you might not even see… Read More Painting Gloomhaven’s Starting Six
Shifting Realms, a game by Soaring Rhino (a team-up between veteran designer Craig Van Ness – the creator of Heroscape and Battleship Galaxies – and his brother Jeff), is in a nutshell a strategy board game heavily inspired by typical RTS video games including worker and warrior units and resource-producing buildings as major mechanics. The… Read More Painting Shifting Realms’ Dragon
Mice & Mystics is published by Plaid Hat Games, designed by Jerry Hawthorne, and sculpted by Chad Hoverter. It’s the first in their growing line of Adventure Book games, in which there is an ongoing narrative between sessions. They’re generally family-oriented and the concepts for them are consistently very cute and fun – see also… Read More Painting the Mice & Mystics Core Set
I recently completed a commissioned repaint of an Advanced PET toy, as you can see above. Unfortunately I don’t have terribly many progress photos but I’ll do my best to put together a coherent tutorial on my process as I’ve had requested a few times. Note as we go through these steps that this is… Read More How to make your own PET!
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