Cavern Crawl 2.5
I HAVE recently modified the combat rules, condensing three tables into one and thus considerably streamlining things. This and the correction of some errata which I noticed after the release of 2.0...
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MR. Regan over at Oubliette Magazine has got the right idea! I hope he gets the call...PS. If you're a fan of 1st edition AD&D and/or it's various retroclones then check out Peter's inexpensive KS...
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Models what I have Painted in January
THUS far my pledge to paint at least one model per week throughout 2013 has been honoured, with the current tally for January standing at a respectable fourteen. My tardiness in bringing these latest...
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The True Mayhem
NO, not the Norwegian Black Metal act who turned crap after their founding member was brutally slain, but a new rule-set by Brent Spivey who some of you might remember for his HAVOC system which came...
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Models what I have Painted in February
GREETINGS loyal reader. As is becoming somewhat customary I feel that I should first apologize for my silence over the last month, but you all know how life has a vexatious habit of getting in the way...
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Models what I have Painted in March
I'VE not been quite so productive this month, but then I've taken rather more time over these models than February's crop. Also, fracturing my radial head on Tuesday at work certainly hasn't helped the...
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The Good, the Bad, and the, er, Undead
JUST a brief update to share some pictures of what I've painted thus far in April. Being signed off work for two weeks with a fractured elbow (which is, incidentally, on the mend now) has given me...
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Cavern Crawl 2.8 Unleashed!
OKAY, I know this is about the hundredth incarnation of Cavern Crawl (eh?), but will you stop yelling and throwing stuff if I promise that this is the final revision prior to 'proper' publication?...
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Cavern Crawl 2.8 Update
SINCE launching CC2.8 a little over a fortnight ago my mediafire account informs me that (as I write) it has been downloaded 294 times. This is very impressive - not to mention a little startling! -...
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Ironsides!
I HAVEN'T done much work on my 'Burn Witch Burn!' project for some months, instead concentrating my energies on getting my 28mm fantasy miniatures painted. However, last week I managed to finish five...
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Cavern Crawl: Charging Amendments
CAVERN Crawl forum member Sergio has kindly shared a number of house-rules he is using with his group. All of them are excellent and worth checking out, but his idea regarding the charging rule...
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Phantom Miniatures (ex-Olleys Armies) News!
I RECEIVED an unexpected message from Francesco, the former proprietor of defunct Phantom Miniatures, yesterday. For those unaware of the situation with PM I have covered the situation in a previous...
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It's Not the Size that Counts...
...IT'S what you do with it. Don't worry, I'm not dedicating this post to my genitals (things haven't yet got that desperate*). No, this title instead refers to my first steps into the arcane world of...
View ArticleCavern Crawl: Changes to Jumping
THE jumping rules on p.7 of Cavern Crawl 2.8 are to be replaced by the following text:Models can attempt to jump over pits and low obstacles (tables etcetera). The model must be adjacent to and have...
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Something wicked this way comes...
...WELL several things, actually. As I forecast in a previous post my next purchase of 15mm miniatures was indeed from Khurasan Miniatures, and comprised models from their newly expanded 'The Great...
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'Burn Witch Burn! Rules
ASIDE from my recent(ish) foray into the diminutive world of 15mm gaming I have also been attempting to progress my 28mm 17th century horror project (explanation). Originally conceived as a game to be...
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Build me an Army Worthy of...'Mayhem'!
I WILL start this post with a rather shameful admission: in all my on-off years of gaming I've never completed an army. To be fair to myself I've only actually regularly played mass battle games...
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Allhallows Greetings!
A COUPLE of models that I've recently completed for my seventeenth century horror game. I thought that today would be the ideal time to share the diabolic duo. Old Nick on the left is from the C18...
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Cavern Crawl Introductory Adventure Map
THE crawl map accompanying the introductory adventure featured in all of the beta versions of CC - provisionally titled 'The Orc's Lair' (this will be changed!) - was crudely scanned from a hand-drawn...
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Old Skool Lead For Sale!
OKAY, I need a bit of cash pronto and so decided to have a clear-out of some of the old lead that I have stowed away in the attic. Most of these were given to me by a disinterested friend many years...
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