ebay been very very good to me…
Woot! I just scored two of the old Ral Partha Ogre figures on ebay; a MK III and a MK V, for about what they would have cost new from Warehouse 23, if they were still available. The mighty armies Read More
Kickstarter
For those who don’t know, Kickstarter is what’s known as a “crowd-funding” website. It allows individuals looking for funding for various projects to get together with interested investors. What usually happens is that the fund-seeker gives several different “levels” of Read More
The Thousand Worlds
One of the standard tropes of 1950’s/60’s science fiction was the Imperial future. That was embodied in Issac Asimov’s Foundation books (as well as many others such as Dune), and was pretty much the standard for many years. In the Read More
Demographics and the Coming Gaming Bonanza
Back in the late 1970’s and 1980’s, I had all the time in the world for gaming. Many’s the night I would stay up until the wee hours of the morning painting miniatures, reading modules and rulebooks, solo playing wargames, Read More
Wargaming Videos
There are, at least to my mind, a surprising number of videos on YouTube relating to both hex-and-counter wargames and miniatures wargaming. The latter is perhaps not as surprising, as it’s a game genre that’s undergoing a decade-or-longer resurgence thanks Read More
We Game: Ogre Miniatures
Tonight we had a small contingent for gaming– myself and three players– so we struck on the idea of doing a game of Ogre miniatures rather than an understaffed D&D game. Since it’s now my new favorite game, I was Read More
