Underappreciated YouTube channels
There’s no shortage of gaming content on YouTube. Here are some of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/@52Miniatures https://www.youtube.com/@RandomMakingEncounters https://www.youtube.com/@magicdicemanufacturing https://www.youtube.com/@MattsHobbyHour https://www.youtube.com/@hammerthebacklog https://www.youtube.com/@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring https://www.youtube.com/@TheBattlinBarrowGaming https://youtube.com/@thedungeondive
Will there be a (new) Old Word TTRPG?
What I really mean is, will there be a new Old World Warhammer Quest? I hope so. But I suppose it depends on how well the Old Word does in general. Table Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPG) are really the sweet spot for me. A pure roleplaying game is too much. A GM is needed, few if any miniatures are used, and the playing surface is normally in the player’s minds rather than the table. I really like the minis. I like seeing the valiant hero engaged on a board or 3D terrain. My self-diagnosis is that growing up with HeroQuest locked my brain into the positiveness of board squares. I really like squares/hexs. There’s no tape measure necessary. Line of sight angles are obvious (normally). I’m sure full-on roleplaying games appeal to a lot of people, it’s just not what I prefer. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was first published way back…
Reevaluating Silver Tower Painting Effort
OK, so I may have underestimated the painting difficulty of the Silver Tower minis. Long story short: Having fun, but taking longer than expected. Rigor Ranking explained The number of miniatures tells you something, but not the whole story. So I went through and graded the miniatures based on the perceived rigor necessary to paint. Here’s my grading scheme: The updated table below shows Silver Tower jumping from a weighted average of 2.0 to 2.5. Quite a leap. Right up there with Blackstone Fortress. Here’s the updated details: Description Quantity Original Rigor Adjusted Rigor Chaos Familiar 8 1 2 Grot Scuttling 8 1 3 Kairic Acolyte 8 3 3 Tzaangor 6 3 3 Blue Horror 4 2 2 Brimstone Horror 4 1 1 Pink Horror 2 2 3 Skaven Deathrunner 2 2 3 Darkoath Chieftain 1 3 3 Excelsior Warpriest 1 3 3 Fyreslayer Doomseeker 1 3 3 Gaunt Summoner…
Qulathis’s Oaken Arrows
For being integral starting equipment for a major character, little information is provided about Qulathis’s oaken arrows. These three little tokens are powerful totems. So what are these arrows? Why does Qulathis have them? And why are they special? It’s easy to miss the only mention of them in the rulebook. At the very bottom corner of page 16, in Step 3 of Getting Ready to Play: “If a player picks Qulathis the Exile, that player also takes the three oaken arrow counters.” There are only a couple other mentions of them in the books. The first is on Quest Book page 16. The Quest Book shares some juicy info about how Qulathis stole “an arm-thick splinter of the Oak of Ages Past… and split it into magical arrows”, thus becoming Qulathis the Exile. Then, on page 27; how to keep track of them in a Decapitation Journey: Not pictured…