WIP Wednesday! Working on this fun little mouse and his trusty steed.
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#minis #minipainting #mouseguard #scalemodeler #tabletop #wargames

#HobbyGamesRecce
A broad knowledge of game mechanics can serve as a resource when designing our own #boardgames and #wargames. Original ideas remain key, but we shouldn’t hesitate adapting elements from other games when they, in a modified form, might improve our own games.

https://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2025/04/emulation-as-inspiration-strategy.html

#HobbyStreak day 1248

Printed some #scenery for #SpaceGits and/or #Gorkamorka. White PLA filament is the worst. Had to restart a few times because it needed different build plate heating from black. Well these school printers are forked old anyway.

Dear Tony Blair: "Salute 2025 - the game's afoot again"

http://www.deartonyblair.co.uk/2025/04/salute-2025-games-afoot-again.html?m=1

My daughter has a game of Star Wars Legion organised with her cousin for next week and as her father I believe it’s vitally important to brush up on strategy, rules knowledge and tactics beforehand

… she’s 4. (And she’s kicking my butt)

ttrpg fortunes

fortune is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”.

To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from fortune cookies. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously.

You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task).

What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well.

You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured fortune to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like cowsay which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out.

 ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady.    / ----------------------------------------        \   ^__^         \  (oo)\_______            (__)\       )\/\                ||----w |                ||     ||

There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find Discworld quotes, or, I dunno, your favorite Chuck Norris facts.

Anyway, I was futzing around with our IRC network lately and while playing around with a bot that could use fortune, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).

So I decided to make one.

Right now it’s only a small page on campaignwiki.org: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.

If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there.

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I like the Rampant series of games a lot, so I’m really happy to see Dragon Rampart emerging from the thin blue book range to get a chunkier and more comprehensive tome.

https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/dragon-rampant-second-edition-9781472868640/

Figuring out what to spend a gift card on

The uh... search engine on #amazon does not understand the brief.

#HobbyStreak day 1243

Well, in prep for #SpaceGits, the #Kickstarter for which was released today and funded in literally no time at all, I graffiti'd the #KlanBlootoof klan hideout. #Gorkamorka. Enjoy some of the #NerdCulture stuff I slapped on there. Hard to do on corrugated iron texture

Calling it done. I've got bigger grots to fry!

grass battlemat or throw blanket.
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#HobbyStreak day 1242

Got some minutes to work on my #KlanBlootoof #Terrain for #Gorkamorka.

In under 30 minutes I airbrushed, drybrushed, stippled paint and glued the top floor and then I inserted #magnets and it worked. Enjoy my love letter to magnetism

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