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Dr H yes the tiles mean that your dungeon is different everytime and you never know what's around the next corner until the GM or a random dice roll reveals it. Its usually a nasty surprise.

I can use all those dungeon bits I made from milliput to expand it!

Monkey I do often wonder about how cramped your barge is? I bet its more spacious than my studio flat, but damper... How I long for a hobby room.

SJM I can always mod it to make it easier if it gets too lethal. Or I can play GM and laugh when the heroes die.

Well I better stop spending money for a bit (lies! damn lies!)

I am totally jelly.

I wanna see some Valhallans.

Let the lady get there first.

I'm so sorry. I did not mean that to sound rude. I was just stating my love for Valhallans. I know she''ll get to it when she is ready and able, and they will be perfectly lovely.

Ah yes vallhallans - I have to say they are not at the front of the queue because I must get my skaven and my heroes ready for play. But don't feel bad valhalla130 we all know you love those warmly dressed warriors. I expect they will find time to get painted in a few weeks or so.

Thankyou miss dee, mustn't rush these things.

JB You know what you have to do, shell out $100 and get a copy! There are a few on ebay, but competition is fierce - also I've heard that if you put the word out on bartertown or other swapshop type place then people will drag their box out of the attic for you. Personally I just couldn't wait any longer and so I paid £50 for the first nearly complete one I saw. Basically the same price as new (or adjusted for inflation, way cheaper!)




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A band of wannabe heroes assembles in the small hamlet of Watsitcald. Meeting at the local tavern, they answered the call to arms of a local noblewoman desperate for help against the forces of evil (small ads, help wanted, Heroic Gazette 'band of heroes wanted for heavy lifting work underground, must have own weapons and GSOH, no time wasters please').



Phineas Hengison the druid broke the silence in a condescending tone of voice; "You chaps here for the job? I met up with the Marquessa Allexandrina earlier and she's put me in charge, Doesn't want to rub shoulders with the riff-raff I expect, what what. Here are your contracts sign here and here and here, don't worry about that small print its just legal disclaimers and wotnot. I say are you fellows sure your up to it? I thought you'd be taller"



"A dwarf makes up for height with strength!" growled Asgrim Baldrekson gruffly. Already through his first pint, the dwarf was visibly angry, his eyes flashed, "ye doth not want to make an enemy of ME with your foolish words, wizard or I will hit ye with mine hammer!"

"Now now calm down and I'll carry on (mumble mumble short man syndrome mumble)" Muttered Hengison, "Our first mission is to head into the caves in the mountain above and map the first level of dungeons within, not forgetting to kill all the filthy mutant ratmen we find. The Marquessa wishes us to discover as much about their plans and disposition as we can."



Johndar the illegitimate piped up for the first time "What say thee druid? Ratmen? Speakest thou of the Skaven of legend? Such tales are for the kinder! I have fought in the imperial regiments and never seen such a thing. Men with the heads of goats yes, but rat-men! What proof have thee?!"

"Its all in the contract Johnny boy, all in the contract. We get paid 2 gold pieces each for every section of the under-realm we map, we can keep anything we find and there will be a bonus for any tactical information we can uncover. Now if you can just give me the details of your next of kin we can get this wrapped up... I say, isn't there supposed to be an elf? Anyone seen the elf?"

(everyone looks over their shoulders for an elf)

"Sigmar Damn that elf. Well we cant go in without an elf it breaks all precedents and traditions. Best wait a day or so; here seems as good a place as any"

"MINES A PINT" shouted the dwarf raucously "AND YOUR BUYING WIZZZZARD"

"Bloody dwarves can't handle their ale, I'll buy the little twerp a shandy" muttered Phineas to himself as he made his way to the bar, "where could that bloody elf have got too"
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(I'm bidding on 4 different wood elves, hopefully I'll win at least one or the party will have to have a fancy-shmancy high elf)

Excellent wordsmithery, weets.

Nice one Weety. Could just imagine that at the start of a FF book.

Cheers

"oh my head, It feels as if I am an anvil and a great hammer is forging axes on my brain." groaned Asgrim as Phineas shook him awake.
"Wake up stumps I'm fed up of waiting for that damned elf. I met a couple of local fellas at the bar who can fill in for now. They're expert hunters, better than an elf, humans make the best warriors anyway"
"One of these days wizard..." Asgrim stumbled out of his straw pad and staggered about, clutching his head, "But wait did you say two men? What about the contract! Less gold for me if there are two."
"Well there's safety in numbers. And anyway, I'm on a very personal level of friendship with the Marquessa, I'm sure we can work something out"
Foolish little man, thought Phineas, you don't think we'll all make it out alive do you?
"Now lets go wake these hunters and I'll get you acquainted"

Boris and Loris Manburglerson the hunter brothers:

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The two brothers look a little pale at the thought of the danger ahead......

Good job on the adventurers, and nice work on the fluff too

I love those guys.

Delicious fluff...

I'm pleased with how they came out - the one on the right has had his hat remodeled and I made him a feather, I'd better get painting them, the game could arrive today!

Looking forward to sending them into the dungeon, I feel slightly safer with 5 heroes.

It will be a randomly generated dungeon with the heroes earning 8 gold per dungeon section mapped (to be shared out amongst the survivors). The quest room will contain an important skaven leader who has a bag of maps the heroes must bring to Alexandrina for their bonus - something carefully selected but low powered from the magical treasure section I think. Any steps going down will be of use for their next quest...

"well team! I'd like you to meet Boris and err Loris. I met them in the tavern last night after you all passed out and they impressed me muchly with tales of their hunting prowess."



Asgrim snorted in disgust and turned away, rolling his eyes, "so what have these two prize beauties killed before? Rabbits and pigeons I'll wager. Speak up for yourself you two"

"Vee kill zee bear vun time... err and many badger! zey ver fierce, is truth. You tell them brother" Said Loris in his thick Watsitcaldian accent.

"Oh ya ya ve kill all type of animal, even stoat! If I hit small fast target like stoat then how much easier kill evil rat-man who terrorise village, simples"

What am I doing, thought Phineas, I'm taking these fools who've never faced death into the dark untested. They think it will be easy, but the Skaven are not like other animals, they carry shields to catch your arrows and blades for your guts... But we must hurry... the threat grows.

Very nice. I painted my two Mordheim henchmen to resemble the Green Arrow and Speedy. I need to take pictures of them.

Mine are a lot louder than yours are too. MIne are very bright. I've always liked how muted, yet still distinct, your colors are.

Watsitcaldia, a fine place to vacation but no one can ever remember how to get there.

 JB wrote:
Watsitcaldia, a fine place to vacation but no one can ever remember how to get there.

Reminds me of Welcome to Nightvale, when Cecil was backpacking through Europe.

The Archers look gewd. Though the wizard is currently my favorite as of late.

Well I looked that up Chem and now I'm amused and confused. Maybe I'll read or listen to it properly sometime!

JB Glad you got my silly joke name, there'll probably be a lot of those. I can never manage to take roleplay completely seriously.

Cool thanks vallhala - I had to look up Green Arrow and Speedy, very archer appropriate!

Painting up skaven today and watching for the postlady. Also I won some late 80s wood elves.

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Finrod And his friends Edrahil and Finarf trudged damply though the thick woods.
"You must face facts Finrod, we are lost, you do not know where we are, this damned mist has covered the heavens so we don't even know which way is north" moaned Edrahil, "and these trees all look the same, damned swamp willow, how I long for a bit of birch or an elegant elm, you had to lead us through the worst kind of forest"
"You call yourself a wood elf? I am sure this is the way, my spirit animal said so, don't you have a spirit animal Edrahil?"
"Don't you know that's just a story they tell to baby elves Finrod? Why I figured that out when I was only 75, how old are you Finrod? 50? 60? There had better be a job waiting when we get there. I'm am tired off living of the land I am so skinny"
"Wood elves are supposed to be skinny."
"There is a reason for that! Its because we all live in the woods where there's *#@!!-all to eat! I want out."
The wood elf party trudged on, unaware that without the sun and the stars to guide them, they were traveling through the swamp forest in an enormous circle ...

Fantastic archers.

I may have a commission for you soon.

Ohman. Yeah, Welcome to Nightvale is something I listen to with my friends while we're painting.

For those of you who have no idea what it is... it is a podcast that is a Community Radio Program for a fictional town out in the desert somewhere in America. It is like H.P. Lovecraft meets NPR with an incredibly healthy dose of dark humor.

http://commonplacebooks.com/ Is the website, you can download the podcasts for free. I think there are aroudn 40 something right now. I'm still getting through them all.

I finally took pictures of my Marienburger warband, the Donetz Procurement Company, led by Wulf Donetz and his four brothers. Among their henchmen are the Green Arrow and Speedy. (sorry to toot my own horn in your thread, Weets. I can remove this post if you want.)

No problem valhalla. I like to see people are still playing mordhiem - it always struck me as being a bit like advanced heroquest.

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The new band of heroes stumbled into the sunlight, Phineas limping, covered in his own blood, the others looking triumphantly healthy apart from Johndar who had a few ragged bandages, but he grinned from ear to ear! Even the two hunters had proved their boasts of marksmanship with a dozen kills between them.

"next time we should keep count" suggested Asgrim "I am sure I killed most" Asgrim stroked the softly glowing magic bow he had found, he wondered if he would give his old crossbow to Johndar or sell it at the market...
"Its a good thing we found those healing mushrooms or I don't think Phineas would have made it... Hey Phineas, next time you want to faint in the heat of battle let me know beforehand alright"
Phineas looked worried, he wondered if he'd been wrong about the group, they had acquitted themselves in battle with honour, whereas he... he had lost consciousness twice in the heat of battle and had come close to death. 'I must learn more of the ways of wizardry and find artifacts of power, and I must train to be tougher or next time' he thought... "say can any of you chaps lend me a little of your gold? I'll pay you back!"

Ok the heroes have had two expeditions into the first level of the dungeon now and I'm surprised to say are all still alive - it was touch and go for phineas a couple of times. To be honest they all got really lucky with their rolls, so far rolling low on the monster lists (I think they got about 37 skaven including 3 warlords and 4 champions) they found stairs down to the next level and the first quest room off the first passage they explored. They had a good look round to get the mapping bonus money and found two more quest rooms, 2 more stairs down and two lairs making a total of 30 mapped sections (48 gold coins each). Next time they're delving deeper...

I played one game of Heroquest, had no idea what was going on, but absolutely loved it. Glad to see you're enjoying yourself with it.

Yeah its tricky to play. I need a reference sheet with all the rules in one place. I started of playing solo but then my bloke came home from work and insisted on GMing "to stop me cheating". Slander! I would never... So he has to learn the rules too now.

Great news - I'm doing the display paintjobs for Not Yet Dead miniatures new survivor/zombie range. Check them out here: www.nyd-miniatures.com (its all in german but its not hard).

I wish I were still playing Mordheim. It died out around here about 10 years ago. I may actually try to get my daughter to play this weekend. She expressed interest in it last night when I was photographing the little dudes.

Good news indeed, Weety. Well done. Look forward to seeing what you do with those models.

 Miss Dee wrote:
How does a deradnaught get up in a tree?

And let me know when they get there please.

It fell out of a stormraven

Nice haul on the heroquest and I love me some skaven.

First time I played AHQ I was selected to to go through to the second round and then won the core games, Necromunder and AHQ and that was at a gamesday.

Ah I'm back! Back from the dead! Our town had a carnival day (Mazy day, you may have heard of it) And I got a touch of the heat stroke from dancing in the midday sun. I'm getting too old for all this fun business! I got asked for I.D. the other day while buying a bottle and I was so happy I thanked her profusely; "thankyou so much, you just made my year" Its been years since I got the doubtful look from a cashier!

Anyway enough griping. Here are some newly painted skaven fresh from the sewers

Wow, checkin out the thread. I really did the first few pages of old metal. I'll be coming back here often and littering the place.

Great miniatures man and excellent paint!