Weekender XLBS: The Backstage Bazaar & Here Be Dragons!
September 6, 2015 by dignity
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Mornin’
First?
First.
I don’t need to say it for it to be true 😉
Happy Sunday!
Take a look at the Bones dragons from Reaper.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday
Warren will you list out the monster books you have ? i need sculpting reference ….
Happy Sunday!
oh and fight Baby Cthulhu in the dungeon
If I had Justin in my dungeon….
… Well I wouldn’t throw a mammoth at him because he’d probably like that. Maybe the big trilobite body hugger thing from Prometheus, a pack of those giant skeleton dogs from Darksouls, rats (every dungeon needs rats) and what ever his childhood fear was.
Happy Sunday!
Warren just reminded me of one of my first forays into “wargaming”; 25-30 years ago, Dragon magazine published a set of rules for pitting all those green army men toys that everyone had against toy dinosaurs.
Great fun.
We started houseruling things to include my friend’s giant, 12″ mega-dinosaurs and later modified it to just play army men vs. army men.
At some point, we decided that we needed “proper” wargames rules and so a decades-long hobby began…
Have a look for an old game called ‘Tyrannosaurus Wrecks’!
Dragon Magazine was absolutely incredible! One of the best magazines ever.
I agree!
Thinking back to it reminds me of what could be done with a magazine, such great content.
My favourite article of all time? One about rope.
I kid you not.
Being as 50 feet (or preferably, 200) of rope is the most important thing in any adventurer’s backpack, learning about different thicknesses, weights and tensile strengths of this stuff was really cool!
I would have a look at the old Grenadier dragons as well.All of them are in the €20-30 price range
http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=fantasy-2528mm-dragons
Hi guys, did some googling on Schleich, they also do a cool castle, they are just crying out to be weathered and used as a focal point for your table, and if you are so inclined you could glue some skulls on it
Best thing about those Schleich models – very droppable!
I think they also did a mammoth, but I’m not sure if it is still in production.
Traps, puzzles, moral dilemmas, random teleporters are all great dungeon staples. Have the heroes kill some nasty dungeon monster and then discover it’s orphaned little ones in the next room. Or unexpectedly rescue someone who wants you to escort them out of the dungeon when you need to press on, potentially having them becoming increasingly uncooperative/panicked. Sending players all over the dungeon looking for hidden gears to rebuild a mechanism to repair a portcullis lifting mechanism so they can advance is always fun too 🙂
happy sunday. thinking about monsters. Chuck my ex wife in a dungeon to fight Justin. truly horrifying. use the mantic troll model. but thats doing a dis-service to the beautiful sculpt of the troll.
I would make Justin fight a zombie mammoth, or his evil doppelgänger Ming the Merciless.
Was thinking of a similar thing. Have Justin swallowed by a giant zombie mammoth and use that as the dungeon, fighting creatures that are living off of the decaying flesh of it innards. Maggoty creatures and the like. A clan of goblins in the rear etc. Ghost’s of past victims with souls he has to save. A Ming style necromancer that lives in it’s skull as the final encounter, appearing from a mirror.
Hi Warren, a few ideas for monsters and encounters:
Mimic,Roper / Pierces, Riddle Doors, Room with collapsing floor, Gelatinous cube, room with various doorways – each doorway teleports you to another random doorway in the same room, Mummy or any form of undead, room with reversed gravity, flame jet traps, rust monster,
…too much coffee!
For Traps etc you could download the Warhammer Quest event generator
http://www.binkystick.com/whq/whqevent.html
Or just find some old basic D&D module’s. A lot were dungeon bashes and I am sure you could convert any outdoor sections into DS. As in the end a fight is a fight no matter if its inside or outside
Rival adventurers inside a dungeon can make interesting antagonists.
i wanna see more outtakes
Great show guys, @warzan hows this for a mammoth from West WInd?
http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=828
Is anyone else having issues with the backstage videos? For the last 4 or 5 episodes of the backstager it gets to the 45 minute mark then pauses itself every ten seconds or so. Today it did it for a while before Firefox crashed altogether :S
I had something similar happen during last week’s video. I needed to restart Chrome to get it playing properly.
Yep same here last few weeks,
Me – nothing will play.
Big issues on playing BoW vids through my browser on my Android tablet, YouTube versions are fine, but BS videos obviously aren’t on there.
I have had it when I was doing different stuff. Like checking other websites or using battle scribe.
Schleich also does Smurfs lol. Justin could end up being locked in a dungeon with a horde of smurfs ‘looking after’ him while singing the smurf song nonstop.
Scarred for life..
Great show today, I for one am very happy to see rpg/dungeon crawling getting some attention.
I was just thinking, what about a Beasts of War Bestiary? Staff and community members could post creatures of their own design (or from folkloric/mythological sources for example) with descriptions about said beastie (possibly no stats though). Others could post illustrations for the creatures possibly. Then games masters etc. could dip into the bestiary when they need something a bit unique. Just a thought.
Fantastic idea! +1 for this
Justin doesn’t belong in a dungeon, he should be roaming the steppes with his mammoths.
“he should be roaming the steppes with his mammoths.”
Or riding at the head of his horde of conquering Mongol warriors.