Female Elf Fighter Today's figure is a vintage Ral Partha figure from 1990. She is a female elf fighter or ranger: wearing a chain shirt, a leather harness, pauldrons and greaves, wielding a longsword and shield. I could not find her figure online and don't remember where I bought her, probably a game store in… Continue reading Figure of the Week: Female Elf Fighter
A few weeks back while falling down a Pinterest hole I stumbled on these adorable dice holder beholder figurines made out of Sculpey. I liked them to darn much not to try my hand at making them myself. So I pillaged the spare Sculpey that was laying around the house and set out to make… Continue reading Crafting Corner: Dice holder, Beholder
Recently on Twitter, I saw a Tweet from Mike Mearls on the topic of Using Fate Dice in a game of D&D. The idea was to allow players to tempt the fates for luck. His example in the game he ran was this. House rule I used in AD&D this last weekend: Get a big pile of… Continue reading Tempting Fate with FATE Dice in D&D
Maricoxi This creature stands like a man, yet is half again the height of most men, with blue translucent bluish skin and covered with a coat of thick white fur on the head, forearms, and legs. Maricoxi                  … Continue reading Maricoxi- Outsider Paraelemental
To be honest, writing this year has been a bit of a struggle for me on my blog. Last year I raised my personal expectations for the blog through the roof. The result in doing so I missed the mark utterly. The popularity of my blog under a year ago came from the fact that it… Continue reading Writing for Myself Again.
Skylanders Haul I had a great find at Goodwill for $8.99, a bag full of Skylanders. Everything came in a carrying case: inside were 20 Skylanders and the Portal. The figures included: wash buckler (swap-force), whirlwind, horn blast whirlwind (swap-force), blast zone (swap-force), pop fizz, terrafin, knock-out terrafin (swap-force), ignitor, super gulp pop fizz (swap-force),… Continue reading Skylanders Swap-Force Haul (Good Will)
Sea Creature of Blood Reef Today's figure is the Sea Creature of Blood Reef, it is from the Reaper Bones (plastic line). It only has natural weapons and armor. I painted it in dark blues and greens with a blue wash to shade the crevices. I decided on yellow eyes, as a lure similar to… Continue reading Figure of the Week: Sea Creature of Blood Reef
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