The Bogeywoman's Cave

So, I like dungeon tiles, but they're ludicrously expensive, difficult to make, and cardboard ones suck. The solution? Perler beads! These little things are easy to use, and all you need to do to put them together solidly is fuse them with an iron (make sure to cover them with ironing paper though). They're also pretty cheap! They sell them at the party supply store I work at for a around 3 dollars for 1000 of them. And here is the end result! I only have 3 at the moment, but tomorrow I'm hoping to make 6 more so I can have a decent amount to use on the table. Not as fancy as other solutions, but they give off a nice pixelated vibe.

Guess who just got some new miniatures in the mail? Well, probably a lot of people, but also me! I got a Dreamblade starter set off of eBay, and have decided to show off what I got. Here is the Doomball, next to a D&D paladin on the left. This is one of the few miniatures I’ll get almost no use out of, he’s just a bit too boring and modern. Might be good for a sci fi game though. The Rune Tagged Brawler, I think is what this guy is called. He has really crappy feet, which I messed up even more after I cut him off of his base and put him on a 28mm one. Oh well. He’d probably be good as a golem (not the boring living statue D&D ones, the kind from Jewish folklore). The faceless stalker is a very good miniature, and would work well as a faerie or doppelgänger. Her paint job leaves something to be desired, but she is quite a usable figure. The Boneclaw Hunter is a nice sculpt, but I’m not sure what to use him for. He’s a bit too monstrous looking for a PC, due to his sh...

I’m on a roll of making miniature posts! This post is gonna be about custom minis that I’ve made, ranging from repaints to me sticking a toy on a plastic coin and calling it a day. I bought a pack of 36 “guardian knights” on amazon, made by toysmith. They have some good molds and as you can see are almost in scale with standard miniatures. They costed about 9 bucks. Here is an ogre/hill giant and a troll, both made from figures from a Lord of the Rings chess set. I haven’t used them much, but they look pretty good in my opinion. This is a spider-person, which I made using a cheap spider toy, the torso of an “alien warrior” party favor (more of those later), and the head of an Aliens toy. I painted the whole thing purple with black for the weapons. This weird looking figure is based on a demon from the Appendix M blog, and mostly made from a xenomorph figure. On the left is an old toy skeleton I had that I painted up. Its quite a bit bigger than the standard D&D skele...

This is a heroclix miniature of Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy. I have a couple other sci-fi minis in 28mm lying around so I thought this was a good purchase. He would also work well as a modern day wrestler or cultist, and with a little suspension of disbelief he would work okay as an orc thief. He looks a lot like the goliath race from 4e, so he could also work as one of them.

So this is the first blog post in a while, I haven’t been doing too much, though I have finished a very early draft of a 2d6 based OSR dungeon crawling RPG. Comment below if you want more details/ the .pdf. Anyway, recently I purchased the Magic The Gathering: Arena Of The Planeswalkers boardgame and all 2 of its expansions. This cost about 35 dollars (though I did get a really good deal on one expansion). For 35 dollars, I got 75 miniatures, some terrain, and some dice. Wow. The quality is pretty good, roughly equivalent to the standard D&D miniatures, which makes sense, given that both games are made by the same company. These are the planeswalker miniatures, the only painted figures. Some would make good PCs (mostly magic users) and a couple work well as NPCs or monsters. I particularly like the mermaid and werewolf miniatures, as well as the brown robed fellow with the translucent blue flame. Here we see these 3 rhino people. They’re the few miniatures I probably won’t ...