The Bogeywoman's Cave

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 ...

Our heroes for this evening were: Meme the (now level 2) half-orc barbarian A bard whose name and race escapes me (level 1) A magic user whose name also escapes me (level 2) And, you guessed it, a dwarf cleric whose name is a mystery (level 1) The party was investigating the Weirdwood forest, a dangerous wood off the edge of town. They had heard rumors of a creature that turns its victims into stone, guarding a magical weapon.  The party first encounters a swarm of strangely coordinated rats, feasting on the mutilated and disgusting corpse of an orc. The rats are scared off, spreading out in a perfect circle after a quick fight. As the party proceeds deeper, they find some orcs taunting a dying snake. By reflex, the magic user kills one of the orcs with a magic missile, causing a quick but deadly battle that the orcs retreat from. Meme takes the snake and tries to patch it up to health. The party finds a pit full of green snakes after the path branches, and recover a 500 GP neck...

Our heroes for this evening were: De the dragonborn thief Lettuce the elf magic-user Gnakia the gnome ranger Jicama the half-orc bard The party enters the Pink Rose bar, the only tavern in the town of Halfway, to meet with Spengis. Spengis is an ex-wizard whose bird familiar lives in his hat and finishes his sentences. He has put up a poster asking for adventurers to clear out a gnomish mansion full of bandits. After a brief argument about payment, Alexa, the bar’s owner, steps in and threatens to cut the heads off of anybody who starts a fight in her bar. Gnakia persuades Alexa that they meant know harm, and using her charms convinces Spengis to raise the payment from 50 GP each to 55 GP each. Spengis tells the party the history of the mansion, saying that “A while back some gnomish aristocrat named Bert had the brilliant idea of constructing a mansion on a necromancer’s property. Well, when the necromancer came on back to find some bearded bourgeousie having stol...

Our heroes for this evening were: Vim the human ranger Lettuce the elf magic-user Meme the half-orc barbarian The party is approached by the Trash Man, a man who wears a trash can like a hermit crab and claims to have been contacted by the god of garbage. He tells them that a nearby ruin contains treasure and goblins, and that the god of garbage told him that they must visit it. He then bumbles off into an alleyway. The party takes his advice and goes to the ruin. They encounter some goblins who were hiding in wooden crates. After a quick battle, they kill 4 of them, taking the last one hostage. Vim decides to leave while he still has all his bits attached. The remaining two adventurers reach a room with a checkerboard pattern for a floor. Lettuce falls through and hurts themselves badly, but is saved by Meme. They continue forward, encountering a band of halfling teenagers who threaten to kill the party to boost their reputation. Meme intimidates them into running off b...

I don't like orcs that much as a concept. A species of brutish, uncivilized creatures with barely any culture aside from war and destruction just doesn't hold much appeal. However, one day whilst musing this, I remembered some information about army ants. Army ants are an ant species which gets its name from traveling in vast hordes. They protect the reproducing queen of their colony and devour anything that gets in their way. Suddenly, there is a precedent for orcs in nature. If we go further with the ant similarities, one could have reproducing orc mothers produce pheromones which prevent orcs from reaching sexual maturity, thus leading to orcs of sexless appearance. The orc "queen" (I'd probably refer to her as a War Mother), is supported/protected by a group of guards/husbands, the orc equivalent of drones in bee hives. Of course, the War Mother should be no slacker in combat either. In the real world, naked mole rats are a species of eusocial mammals, so...

This session's characters were: Ricky: A foolhardy thief with a large sword and no common sense Sir Timothy Smithony XVIII: A disgraced former general turned adventurer Cade: A halfling cleric and traveling preacher Reuben: A perceptive tiefling (cambion) fighter The session begins when Ricky and Sir Timothy assaulted in the streets of Bellguard by the mafia, who noticed Ricky's new pistol and believed that he had taken it from one of the mafia's members. After killing one of the gangsters, the mafia leaves, swearing to "tell the boss about this". After this incident, Ricky and Timothy talk with Cade and Reuben and join forces to adventure in the Faerie Forest. They encounter a strange cat-like creature with blades from its shoulders, which is driven away after Ricky fires his gun, scaring it off. The party then encounters a group of elves fighting some hobgoblins. The party assists the elves, who in gratitude take them to their city, called Fayshade. Alo...