Happy Friday.
It’s a rainy morning on my day off so I’ve spent the time painting my city guard. I think I’m calling them done now, so next I’ll be varnishing, rimming and then adding tufts.

For my pledge I’m going to dig out and paint some of spooky miniatures I bought a year ago from Northumbrian Tin Soldier, an upside down cartoon bat, and two witches and their cauldron.

Have you ever been to Spiel in Essen (Germany)?

No, but I did go to Games Day in Birmingham back in the late 90’s on the Games Workshop coach.

How was your experience?

It was a lot of fun and quite a busy day. I remember it was the same place where they filmed Gladiators (the TV game show, not the movie) at the National Indoor Arena  so I was also excited about being there because of that.
I got to chat with James Wallis, a long time figure in the UK gaming industry, and at the time head of Hogshead who were republishing WFRP first edition. I also had a chat with the editor of Warpstone, a WFRP fanzine which kept the game going between editions after GW abandoned it.

The queues to see Jervis, Rick and all of the other famous names from the GW design studio were ridiculous so we didn’t even bother with those.
I seemed to remember picking up a few Warhammer Journals there, but, alas, I don’t have them anymore.

Will you go again?

Not now. Do GW even have Games Day anymore? Even if they did it’s a very different company and game(s) than it was then, and I’ve mostly drifted away from their stuff.

I would go to Essen though, seems like fun. I’ll just need to wait until we all have money again. We could all go over as a group and stay at Sundancer’s house, lol.

Jonathan Green has announced he’ll be doing a new Kickstarter soon for new coffee table sized book all about the 40 years of Fighting Fantasy. He’s already released this video with some exciting music.