The Sock-Monkey As Alone

  Luna has been out and flying around for a hour today (I woke up and cleaned her cage then napped till about 12). I just put her back in her cage and came down to write a blog. I don’t think I want to talk about Armageddon today. What will be, will be. I been thinking about sharing some of the rules I been working on. Though I know I go through spontaneities bouts where I share works in progress and then shutdown for a months at a time. I definitely am still working on it though. In design terms I have heard the rules set for grim metal bedlam described as a boomer shooter of a Tabletop game. I kinda get that. Quick deaths and  near unlimited movement though it may take too much terrain and it has over watch as well and kind of a cover system. I think I really like the captan a first mate and squad leader system of star grave. May introduce a captain and corporal as a kind 2nd in command. And those will more detailed stats and are the only units that can use channelin...

  Not been awake very much today. Sleeping for an hour or two and then letting Luna out of her cage to fly around, then rinse and repeat. I feel like harping on the apocalypse is getting to me. Though, I sincerely believe it could be the end (if not biblical then secular). Though some of my hallucinations line up with it a bit too much for my own comfort. I want to read some today and write some and play test some of the game I am working on. All the while the black cloud of the day hangs over all our heads. I think that is where we’re are all at. Trying to move on and get on with it all.  I am staring at the crucification on my coffee table and I am scared. The last judgment is a terrifying thing and not something I understand. So all that out of the way the solitaire I play while waiting for the measuring of my soul towards eternal salvation or damnation it starting to plan a 15mm miniature collection so I can play some of my games on a more manageable scale and so I...

  I got really depressed over the process of having to live through the word ending. I think it started really getting to me so spent most of the day listening to music. Some days it feels like there is no point to sharing anything anymore. Almost afraid to talk about it because things are getting so iffy in my country. I kind of regret sharing the rules for storm crow so early it was more a Proof of concept. Just getting the ideas out and on the page. A step in the in the right direction of starting to work on it. In many ways Tarn and Zach Adam’s are my heroes. Just a relentless pursuit of following their bliss. And they arguebly made the greatest video game of all time in the process. Now it does not often work out that way. But, it will never work out if you don’t try. I am paraphrasing but there was a Zach Adam’s interviews where he said “I have still have all these childish dreams of writing a grand fantasy novel and it will likely never happen but then again dwarf fo...

  Storm crow: or, a glimmering in the dark. What you will need: 4-d6 and a D-20 dice, at least five dwarves models and at least ten goblins models. These should be about 28mm but as a grid based game doesn't really matter. A piece of paper for book keeping and a pencil. Setup: acquire a chess board and place on level surface. Take 4 d-6 and hold in a closed hand four inches above the chess board. Open hand and align the dice without rotating them to or centered on the nearest square. The d-6 represent treasure chest and the number they rolled is how many how how many hundreds of coins are in the chest. Deployment: you wills be facing 4 + 1-d6 goblins roll a d6 and get number of models acquired. Place the goblins any on the first two rows of the opposite end of the side of the board your dwarves will deploy. Place the dwarves anywhere on the first row of the opposite side of the board of the goblins. The point of the game is to get away with as much treasure as you can without ...

  Been a long day so far as I am very tired and probably will not sleep for a while more. That being said I had an idea while sitting listening to dungeon synth trying to decide what to work on…. And I think I will do a daily development blog for the game I am designing (I will post it in the evening.)  Still intend to do the weather report (named in memory of David Lynch’s daily vlog). But it will be a general update on life and the happenings of such. Though I have not worked on grim metal bedlam ruleset directly today. I have been cutting up miniatures and painting them badly. They are specifically being made to be used for play-testing the game. And are painted in a very whim dark way.  Bought an army painter beginners basing kit so I could flock up some models. I feel it was overpriced for what you get but it came with all the essentials needed to do what I need to do this month. The last couple of days the dwarf skirmish game has been on my mind more than ...

  Butchered, Utterly destroyed four of my station forge models I built and painted to play test Grim metal bedlam.   As an experiment I layered washes and dry brushing and it got muddy and messy. Utter frustration lead to grabbing of the model clippers and cutting off the head of the model. I found some left over chaos marine heads from some night lord conversions I did years ago and glued it on waiting for my green stuff to arrive so I can clean the sculpt cuts… while not great it is ok. The other three I have more mixed feeling about. I based them but they look pretty bad. The problem with using so many washes and dry brushing in layers is there is no coverage of the middle ground of the three dimensional space unless you’re heavy handed with both the washes and the dry brushing. On other notes I am thinking of reviewing the mad max movies in the next few weeks: because it is my favorite franchise. though may wait I have to make sure I am not repeating myself too much....

  If it’s Not the Biblical apocalypse then it is the secular one… though, personally… I think it is Biblical. The vibe today is tension. A fear of naming what is going on. A fear of discussing what is happening and the repercussions of those cultural tensions. I would be lying if I said I understood it. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t struggling but still we continue. Still we try fina a voice of our own in a destiny out of our hands. The die is cast rule: a simple rule for rpgs I came up with years ago. Where at the beginning of a session you take a deck of cards and deal all the player characters one. If they get knocked out of the game you flip the card over and if it is black your character is dead if it’s read they are only wounded (I know it is the it is the die is cast rule and uses cards but the original idea of using a dice and having a saving throw down a cup and then revealing a roll at the beginning of the game and reveal when you die was far to melodramatic a...