Saturday, February 04, 2012
The cover puts me in mind of the old Dragon Quest RPG. Get it while its still free. I have no idea how long the offer lasts.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Don’t know how long this will last, so get it now. You also can get it for free on the Nook.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Shadowcat does an amazing performance of Tolkien’s Misty Mountains song from The Hobbit. More amazingly, she does all 27 verses:
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Its for the Kindle, but since you can read it on practically any platform these days ... I’ll be reading it on my Android tablet. Also, it says “buy,” but that’s just a euphemism. I just “bought” it for nothing.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
The Spellscape blog has a couple of good tutorials on painting skeletons. They look absolutely terrific.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
A little bit of nostalga here: There’s a Flickr set of illustrations from the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons coloring book, circa 1979
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship of Her Own Making is an online fantasy novel that apparently has been picked up for publication.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
All 6,000 plus pages of the classic fantasy comic Elf Quest now are online.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Here’s an interesting blog with photos of the fantasy miniatures of your youth.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Last Ringbearer is a reenvisioned Lord of the Rings—from the “evil” point of view.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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