The Sock-Monkey As Alone

  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...

  There are two ways to respond to tacky kitsch one is be extremely jaded and resentful to the non Olympian status of something’s aesthetic value. As if life is cheaper by existing on a spectrum… and the other more inclusive let’s call it the “yes and that is ok” School of thought. The never ending story (1984) resides in a strange position (at an impasse). Much like all the major final fantasy games you could include the movie in the same genre of most YA fiction… let’s call it Babies first existential crisis. So what is so divisive about this film? Depends on when someone saw it and if they have read the book (a classic in the vein of the phantom tollbooth or Alice in wonderland). If you saw it when you were a kid it could be a door opening you to neighborhoods of ideas and perspectives all in a wonderful camp 80s style that was just out there in the air (The camp 80s fantasy style is defined Jim Henson and his creature shop though there are many great films you could bundle ...

  Ken's Labyrinth is a 1993 first-person shooter for MS-DOS , created by a teenage Ken Silverman…. It is weird and fuggly and I love ever so much. I was playing on an old ms dos computer as a young lad (like five or six). I played Ken’s Labyrinth most of a year (till my mom caught me playing Wolfenstein 3d and I was banned from games for a couple of years). Real fond memories of that game. The strange sound affects and surreal vibe of killer clown meets the journal art of that one kid who gets bullied to much. It really spoke to me. Now I know after the last month or so of anecdotes some peoples eyes might be rolling while quoting every person who has ever watched a happy console gamer YouTube video (“that guy sure has a lot of memories. I mean it seems he has forgot NOTHING.”) Anyways played it recently and decided I would never likely beat it again. The midlife crisis in me felt so sad. I am coming to terms with these recent blog entries that I am bogged down and burdened b...

  I seem to have my hours turned around finally and other than some random nose bleeds finally seem over the flu. The last couple of weeks have been hard or week was so sick I was borderline delirious and all while taking care of a baby bird that needs to be out of her cage at least two hours a day. I tried my hardest to get her out for thirty minutes every three hours but there are times when I was far too sick. Though she at least has been out of her cage an hour every day. I don’t feel completely unredeemable but am happy to be back on schedule. The goals for the day are to write some for the grim metal bedlam rulebook and read some more of the lord of the rings. I am still trying actively to cut back on how many blogposts I share a day though… I feel it’s good for me to share more keeps my brain having some traction on reality by having to process what is going on instead of going numb to the iniquity of the world. On another note I have decided to make a separate game...