WargamerX's Game Blog

Years back, I was at a convention in Biloxi, Mississippi and saw a guy running a massive dungeon crawl with miniatures and an enormous miniature dungeon, using the D&D 3.5 rules, The thing took up maybe ten large tables. Coolest thing ever. And I always wanted to do something like that - although the dungeon and how to build one on an economy escaped me. Fast forward a decade, and I am sitting at mt workbench looking at a Miniature Building Authority castle and some Dwarven Forge dungeon corridors...and I think, hmmm maybe I could run Sailors on a Starless Sea at a miniature convention. In this case, Fall In at Lancaster, PA in early November. Thus a project was started...which I am still nervous about, yet less so after my CCPA gaming group allowed me again to use them as playtesters for a mad scheme... Here are some pictures. The mob approaches the mysterious keep... A view of the courtyard, abandoned chapel, the sinkhole, the tower, and the well of souls. ...

So, I am running a play-by-post of 12 to Midnight's Last Rites of the Black Guard. Lots of open story and plenty of handouts and detailed information, maps, etc. Perfect fit for me, since I've never run a published adventure "as written".  Anyway, they just found the "occult basement" And the zombie living there... As I said; 12 to Midnight and I share a fetish for maps...good stuff and plenty of them! And in my World's Largest Dungeon game...we are still on the third ring of rooms, level 1...

Confession. I am a fan of the Batman mythology, the extended story, and  of writers and directors and actors who DO their homework.   As a result. I have found new nerd love in the Fox series Gotham. 1) I am convinced that Castle is now insane with jealousy of Jim Gordon, regardless of whether Inara turns out to be Mrs Gordon or Harley. 2) Whether or not he is up to the awesomeness that is the Joker, Cameron Monaghan and/or his director or writer earns my regard for the filming of this scene, or well, the entire scene...of Gordan's interrogation of Jerome. In two screen shots, watch them, Monogham subtly channels first Jack Nicolson's Joker, THEN in the next  camera shot Heath Ledger's lip smacking Joker. Well done sirs, Well done. Slow clap.

Yeah. Its winter, Again. I think that dark fantasy must often be written in winter,  The author, an indoor occupation, must often get the extra dark of a good winter season. I certainly feel it. Long nights, and darkness. Very depressing. Inspiring,