Weekender XLBS: Maybe Skulls Are Cool Again?
September 29, 2019 by crew
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Happy Sunday Brothers and Sisters of CoG! Attention!!! This show is for OUR EYES ONLY. —————————— ***** It’s the XLBS Show ***** —————————— Grab your favorite drink, something to snack on, and hold on to your FEZ. This could be quite the show! OTT asked…. How have you been enjoying the codes in the CoG newsletters? R pmld gsv olxzgrlm lu gsv gvnkov zmw gsv vmw lu Hgzi Dzih Wvhgrmb rh hzw rmwvvw. As to the question of the day…..What have you been working on? ………………………………………………………. Well, I’ve been working on more Flames of War minis. I’ve also been 3D… Read more »
stay safe out there son
What was the white blur? Here in Canada we’ve had a few young officers getting a bit to excited driving their cruisers!
A fairly new White SUV. Driven by an older lady who had her granddaughter in the vehicle with her. She was running red lights and stop signs trying to get to a damn cattle show at our local fair grounds, where her other granddaughter was showing some livestock. After I had parked and gotten out of my car so I could check it, she did show up after ten to fifteen minutes. After I heard her story and assured her that I and my car were ok, I’m pretty sure I switched into dad mode and lectured her about how… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
A few minutes of show then off to bed to dream of Merkava’s ahead of the monthly Team Yankee game.
So has everything for @warzan lately been about de-crypt-ion?
So Justin is saying there should be an app-arition in the dungeon?
Happy Sunday!
Skulls have always been cool, as long as they’re used appropriately; in others words not in a GW lazy aesthetic way 😉
Doesn’t a 4, (6) or 8 sided pyramid have at least one more hidden side (the bottom)?
Is Gerry’s sudden love of Greeks anything to do with the rumoured Saga:Age of Hannibal release?
I this case Clash of Spears is what’s encouraging me
That’s an hour or so of my life I’m never getting back.
@avernos stole my Knights of the Old Republic Puzzles, check them out there are tonnes of them. A great one for kids would be the Skyrim Tomb puzzles with the claws. Basically you have three symbols one of top of the other and you have a claw which has the same three symbols on it. You just have to match the same symbols in the same order but for kids it might take them a few minutes to figure out. Just don’t tell them that’s what they have to do. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQCejSLnhJ03qFMm6s8fyWqQFxn2Vz-XRXd5Rc8RjcZkr_jUP2f For Crypts check out the Hallstatt Bone House where… Read more »
Morning all
I was having a stab at Caesar’s cartoon then realised that non-admins can’t post pictures into comments. Should have done this at the time but I’ve now created a forum post if anyone else fancies a go!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/in-sync-caption-contest/#post-1441794
Oh great start…. “look the OTTer W-Ankher” XD
Yeah, the Chinese really do NOT **** about when it comes to their monumental architecture…
Happy Sunday guys Woohoo thank you very much for the Golden button nomination, sadly I have been on exercise for three weeks which is why I haven’t been able to add more but back now so will get stuck in this week and continue to prepare for the upcoming campaign. With the help of @avernos I have managed to settle on two lists. One for Fortress Europe and one for D-Day. It has been a really nice project to be part of due to our great community and I hope we see other companies take on something similar so we… Read more »
Apart from the Wargames Atlantic skelebobs, I don’t have any ancient Greeks. Must say Gerry’s are lovely and tempting me to go Greek… I might even buy a box of hoplites as well 🙂
Happy Sunday fellow CoGers.
That cork moment 🙂 reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJ0iGZ7Ms8
@warzan here is a search on DnD Beyond that will help give you some ideas, ghosts etc. are classed as undead.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters?filter-type=16&filter-search=&filter-cr-min=&filter-cr-max=&filter-armor-class-min=&filter-armor-class-max=&filter-average-hp-min=&filter-average-hp-max=&filter-is-legendary=&filter-has-lair=&sort=name
and look here as this is DnD For kids
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/monsterslayers
Justin’s idea of a janitor elemental isn’t that bad. It could be a automaton or the spirit of a loyal servant. Rather than providing another combat encounter it adds another point of interest to the dungeon. Perhaps if there is a puzzle that requires physical manipulation of the dungeon it is the janitor that resets the puzzle if the party get it wrong. Ghosts can still be a threat even if they are unable to physically do anything. They could still be able to use magic, or they could be able to instil strong emotions such as horror, sorrow, or… Read more »
I know I’d be worried if Hong Kong Phooey was a janitor in a dungeon
I thought the same thing @Torros
skulls are all ways cool. love them to death. GW does skulls well just look at their “beastgrave” hexagonal bits
Happy Sunday to all.
I’ll be watching after the rugby has finished.
A skull on a Space Marine or Imperial was just a devotion to the Emperor – more skulls just meant you loved the chief zombie a bit more. Makes you wonder about Captain Khorneflakes loyalty, though.
@warzan I know exactly what you mean with the kids and their gadgets, it’s a tricky one for sure trying to do the best by them. I’ve got 2 boys who are 11 and 6 (? still can’t believe they are that old!) and it’s been one of the more frustrating things about parenthood for me is the realisation that no matter what we do for our kids to teach them ‘good’ behaviours in lifestyles it all goes to shit when they go to school because in a class of 30 all it takes is one kid to undo all… Read more »
I got same experience with my offspring.
I have no idea how to use tv and change channels with remotes because I was so back up with technology, i type 30 symbols a second – does not help in my work.
we have laptop , pc, google home mostly to play music but she knows where to look for answers if she needs to, and projector for watching movies that we use once a week if not less.
I own a switch myself and find it strang that your kids weren’t invited for a switch party because they don’t have a switch. With a switch you can also play with mutiple players a game(not all Games have mutiple player option) on a TV. So I would say the parents of those kids are wrong to let their kids not invite another kid just because the kid hasn’t a switch. I started with the atari skip the NES and SNES era and started playing again on a playstation. I had to make choices about were the spent my money… Read more »
my partner just said maybe try dungeon masters guild for the dungeon puzzles and books done by 3rd parties for it too
*green goblin press
*kobald press
*drive through rpg might have them under maps and “aids”
hope this may help
Happy Sunday all you lovely backstagers. Nearly the end of Septemebr already??? bloody hell – near time for Orktober!!!!
Great episode again guys.
@warzan you might want to check out Matt Colville’s running the game playlist on YouTube, he brings up some great points for…well…running the game. He discusses the undead in a couple of episodes too – https://youtu.be/icQx5NH_h88 this is the first of the undead episodes. Yes, it’s mostly discussing D&D 5e but the ideas etc can easily be transferred to other play systems.
Happy Sunday all
Happy sunday!
So pyramids… well the biggest pyramid to my knowledge is an old Aztec one in Mexico. Tlachihualtepetl or as its know as the Great Pyramid of Cholula ;D
So skulls… you can never have enough skulls. There is a church in Czech Republic Sedlec Ossuary or something its called.
I suck at those codes, someday i will find out… maybe I will cheat… ;D
apparently the biggest pyramid is in china but the government really doesn’t like people talking about it
Are you sure that’s not just some new casino they’ve built in Beijing?
Oh does it have name ? 😉
I presume Gerry means the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Ah well i just followed on my QI knowledge ;D thanks
I remember reading that the 3 pyramids did lineup with Orions belt but the earth isn’t quite in the same position anymore so they look offset. The position of the milky way also matched the position of Nile in relation to the pyramids