Rangers of Shadow Deep - Ninjilly's DayKnight 30 Day Project

I have a confession to make – I, Ninjilly, find my hobby backlog so intimidating that I avoid it completely. I’ve not painted in months, I haven’t even played that often because I feel ashamed by how bad everything looks. I have some great stuff in there, games I want to play and many more I want to try out. Enough is enough.

Inspired by streamer, host and all round great guy Day[9] and his DayKnight 30 Day Projects (see https://dk30.day9.tv/ for more information) I decided to challenge myself to embark one for the first month of the year. DayKnight Projects aim to take big things and break them down into smaller, manageable projects with a four week structure. So to my challenge…

Rangers of Shadow Deep ticks some very important boxes for me – it can be played solo, it doesn’t need a lot of minis and it has a strong narrative focus. I want to try and get some of my RPG group to foray into miniatures games this year and RoSD looks like a good bridging game for us. It has RPG elements in it and more importantly is co-operative.

The PDF is $20 and January is a five week month so I’m holding off buying it but that doesn’t mean I can’t get something ready to go for when I pick it up. The goal then for the challenge is to get enough kit together for the game, preferably for the less than the cost of the PDF. What I need is broken down into 4 elements – minis, buildings, trees and scatter terrain.

Week 1 – Minis

I need ranger/hero models, zombies, giant rats/spiders and some villagers. I have heroes and zombies in an unopened copy of Zombicide: Black Plague. Spiders, rats and villagers sadly I don’t think I can do from what I currently own but I do have a big pile of Pathfinder Pawns so I’ll just have to use those.

Week 2 – Buildings

This is where I think my only real expense. I don’t own any fantasy buildings and this is budgeted for under $20 so I’m going to focus on printable buildings.

Week 3 – Trees

Pretty self explanatory on this one – make a large volume of trees, shrubs etc to help populate the table.

Week 4 – Scatter Terrain

I have a box of resin terrain a friend gave me a while back that has carts, crates, ruined walls etc in there. The final week of the challenge will be to get the usable stuff painted up.