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Mazes & Muppets: A Labyrinth Adventure Game Review
PRELUDE It is December, 1982. In the back of a limosine sit Jim Henson, Brian Froud, and Froud's new wife Wendy. The three had just attended a San Francisco screening of The Dark Crystal. An...
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Tour of the Underhives Part VII
A long time ago I wrote a post devoted to the Skaven's erstwhile 40K equivalents, The H.R.U.D. (Rats in Spaaace). For those intrigued by the idea of taking our love for Rodents into the 41st Millenium,...
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A Rat By Any Other Name Update '20
It's been a while since my last update to this series, and the explosion of Kickstarter and 3D Printing means that the number of Ratmen miniature alteratives out there increases expnentially every...
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Tour of the Underhives Part VIII
In 2010, Micro Arts Studio, a company that makes a variety of scenery, bases, and customization options for numerous miniature wargames, released a series of "Nezumi" ratmen heads for customizing...
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BattleTech Roleplaying
A Brief Overview of The Various BattleTech RPGs Through the Years and My Thoughts on Them OK, Mechwarrior first edition - this is better thought of as a supplement to the wargame than a self-contained...
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Broken RPG Theory: The "Six Cultures of Play"
In April 2021, The Retired Adventurer (henceforth TRA) published a blog post entitled "The Six Cultures of Play", the latest in a line of attempted taxonomies of playstyles present in...
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Return to the Old World
Well, first post in a while. Life got busy, I drifted away from the hobby as Covid kept everyone apart and most of my gaming group, including myself, have been leading different lives. My hobby focus...
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The Great Skaven Army Project - Redux
Part the First - The Collection It was only a short time before I started this blog that I became seriously invested in the Oldhammer community. Before that 8th bedition Warhammer Fantasy Battles...
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The Great Skaven Army Project Redux
Part the Second - Essentia Rattōrum All right, I'm going to save the army list itself for Part III, and start a bit "bigger picture" with the visual design and inspiration. I. Foundational Influences...
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