Painting in May

 I didn't get so much done in May, real life got in the way for the first couple of weeks.

I did manage to paint a dragon for Midgard Heroic Battles. This was a 3d print a friend printed off for me.

Some frog people, some cheap 3d print off Ebay. I thought they had a lot of character and would fit in with my Boglanders.

Some more tentacled aliens from Ramshackle Games.

Another of Curtis' sculpts from Ramshackle Games, an orc shaman on a dungar. I've no idea what I will use this for, but I am sure to find a use somewhere.

Finally, some more war trolls for Middle Earth, based up for Midgard. These are the rest of a box of 1/72 trolls from Dark Alliance.

June is going to be a bust as far as painting goes for me. I just hope I can get back in the swing of things in July and regain the momentum.

Sellswords in Bogland Game 3 The Finale

 Ian and Ross came over for the third, and final, instalment in my Bogland campaign using Sellswords and Spellslingers. Ross lost his wizard in the last game, so the party elected to delay their advance until the wizard's apprentice joined them.

The party must now locate the last two parts of the mystical necklace, hidden in the Fearsome Forest and the Ghoul's Barrows (I wonder what they will find there?).

As the party cautiously advanced through the Fearsome Forest they heard ominous crashing sounds coming through the undergrowth behind them, and a marsh troll burst upon the scene. Ross's elf turned and shot the beast with an arrow before moving off to join the rest of the party.

Another failed activation triggered an Ambush. A  strange plant burst into life and flung a purple fruit at Ross's fighter. The missile burst on impact and released a cloud of vapour, breathing this in the fighter immediately felt his limb turn to lead and his energy drain away. (PC need to pass a will test or else lose 1" off of their movement, if they are reduced to 0" move they collapse in a coma).

Another activation fail drew the Scenario Event card, which activated half a dozen sentient man-eating plants, including the rather nasty large jawed monstrosity on the right.

The PCs press on, with the elf bringing up the rear-guard, pausing occasionally to shoot at the on-coming (and rather annoyed) troll. 

As the walking plants close in, another ambushing fruit bush appears, throwing poisonous fruit at the PCs and causing Ian's ranger to slow in this tracks.

Ross's fighter finds himself surrounded by man-eating plants, as he chops bits of the largest assailant.

Ross's apprentice cast a heal spell on Ian's ranger to restore his movement. The apprentice proved to be a far better spell caster than his master, and had healed most of the party in one way or another by the end of the game. Unfortunately this delay allowed the troll to catch up and attack the elf.

                                      
But what of Ian's fighter and his faithful squire? Well to be fair the squire spent a lot of time chopping plants and rushing around to aid various PCs in their combats. His lord and master, however, just seemed to wander about the forest, oblivious to the various dangers, stumbling upon treasures! First he found another piece of the missing necklace, and then, after drawing the hidden treasure card, found a chest full of silver coins!

The party finally escaped from the Fearsome Forest and approached the Ghoul's Barrows. In from of an ominously stained alter, stood a pile of skulls. Ian's fight examined the pile for evidence of the final part of the necklace, only to bring the whole pile crashing down!

In response ghouls charged out from all the barrows and leapt upon the PCs!

In the meanwhile the persistent troll caught up with the apprentice, wounding him. The elf and the ranger rushed back to his aid and succeeded in killing the troll.

Just in time, as a giant spider was closing in on the PCs from the forest. Leaving the spider to feast upon troll meat, the three hurried off to join their comrades in the epic melee that swirled around the altar.

Slowly but steadily the PCs cut their way through the ghouls, until all the foul beings lay dead. A quick search of the barrows found the last piece of the necklace and the party beat a hasty retreat as another troll was rapidly approaching.

Finally success for the party of heroes! Undoubtably the apprentice earned his place by his excellent spell casting. In the course of the game he had cast a successful Heal spell on each of the party and cast a Enhance Others spell to boost one of the fighter's combat skills. I think he had been more use in this game than the previous wizard had been in the first two adventures out together!

Sellswords in Bogland Game 2

Ian and Ross came over for the second game in our Boglanders mini-campaign. This time they needed to traverse the Webbed Wyldwood and search the Giant's Lair for the missing pieces of the necklace of Jenny of the Bog. 

The table layout. The three standing stones mark the extent of the Webbed Wyldwood and the pile of skulls marks the entrance to the Giant's Lair. A piece of the necklace is with one of the mummified spider meals scattered around the wood, the other in the friendly-sounding Giant's Lair!

Not a great start. With Ian's first activation his Ranger stood on a poisonous scorpion and took a point of damage and stepped back into a spider web trap he hadn't noticed! Did I mention he was a ranger?

This attracted the attention of a giant spider, who started moving closer to the party. 

Fortunately the bad luck didn't continue. The group quickly despatched the giant spider and a wandering bugbear and, after pausing for the Sorcerer to cast a couple of healing spells, found the necklace part in the first body they searched!

The Squire led the way out of the wood, but paused at the edge and called bgack "Sir, I think you should come and see this!"

 

The Knight, Squire and Warrior (why are they too lazy to name their characters?), lined up shoulder to shoulder to face the charging giantess. Not a good move as she threw boulder at them as she advanced, knocking them all to the ground. Luckily their armour saved them from serious injury. The Sorcerer was no so lucky when he was hit by a second boulder, as he doesn't wear armour!

All the commotion attracted the attention of another threat, the much feared onion knight!

The party managed to kill the angry giantess before the onion knight reached them, which was fortunate, as the fumes exuded by the onion knight causes the PCs eyes to sting and water copiously (-2 on all combat rolls!).  Ian's Knight was unable to assist his friends as some dodgy activation rolls meant that he was trapped as sentient vines wrapped around his legs while, simultaneously, a poisonous spider attacked him!

The Ranger and the Squire fought off the onion knight's attacks and eventually killed him, although both were wounded.

Still in the woods, Ross' Elf saw a strange figure stirring a bubbling cauldron and went to investigate, only to be attacked by another poisonous spider.

Having dealt with Mrs Giant, now Mr Giant turned up!

The Sorcerer valiantly faced the giant down and zapped him with a brace pof magic darts (channelling Gandalf and the Balrog?)

The giant took exception to this behaviour and ignoring the rest of the party, charged towards the Sorcerer (Ross had drawn the Target on Your back card!). He flattened the Sorcerer with a boulder, then stamped on the prone mage, taking him Out of the Fight.

The Warrior and the Knight plunged into the fray, killing the giant after a bloody melee. But, on pulling the Sorcerer's body out from under the fallen giant, they discovered he was dead!

Searching the Giant's Lair, the remaining PCs found the next part of the missing necklace in the pile of skulls. As everyone was injured they decided to leave immediately, while they could still walk!

With no magic in the party now, they decided to wait before continuing their quest, to allow time for the Sorcerer's apprentice to join them. Especially as they had now found another magic wand the giant had taken off a previous meal. One good thing for the PCs, once the Elf re-joined the party, they discovered he had been given 4 flasks by his mysterious new friend that turned out to contain healing potions. Probably going to come in very useful.

Painting in February

 In an effort to keep my painting mojo going, I am going to post a monthly update of my "achievements"  (or at least I am going to try to).

So, for February:

Some more Wild West Zombies from CMON's Zombicide Undead or Alive.

A blast from the past! A 90s sculpt from Heartbreaker, sculpted by Phil Lewis

A 3D print I found online, I have cunning plan in mind for this.

A couple of nasty mutant gribblies, also CMON models from Zombicide Undead or Alive.

Martian Fighting Machines, 3D prints from Etsy. I'm using these in 28mm, the taller ones are about 50mm high. they would be brilliant for 10mm or 6mm games.

Reaper Bones Graveyard Golem. I picked this up at a show 4/5 years ago and it's sat in the pile of shame ever since.

Assorted dead bodies, alway useful!

Two Bogander Fishmen from Ramshackle games.

The ruler of Bogland: Bortrand, eighth of his name, and Nigle, the second of his name, the two kings who wear the crown simultaneously, Bringer of War and named vassal to the Dark Lord, who he tricks.

Another random 3D print I took a fancy too, not sure what I will use it for yet, but I will probably find all kinds of occasions to put this on the table!