Elbows' new Fantasy Thread

[Elbows]

Yeah, he's very Skeletor-esque for sure...I even debated putting him in purple robes when I went with the greyish skin tone.

[Elbows]

So...I took an intentional break from the dungeon crawl for several months.  I wanted to get out from playing it constantly so I could view it freshly with the goal of Version 3 test prints.

Having fired it back up lately, I've been adding some miniatures to the horde...

Firstly a 3D printed Centaur that was a real joy to paint.


Secondly, a new Monk from Reaper.  A nice Tre Manor sculpt.  I've added the Monk and Halfling as character classes for the game.


Thirdly some cultists...I'll be adding another six.  They're a new Magic minions - they can sacrifice themselves to boost fellow Monsters, etc.


A Halfling getting splatted by a Stone Golem...


The party interrupts a torrid love affair between a Stone Golem and a Minotaur...love knows no bounds!

[Digits]

I like the monk figure...nicely painted too.

[LouieN]

i love the stone Golem.  Excellent work on that

[hubbabubba]

Lovely pj on thay centaur

[Elbows]

Thanks, I was actually really happy with the way he turned out 

[Metternich]

All are wonderful, but I particularly liked the cultists.

[Dr Mathias]

All are wonderful, but I particularly liked the cultists.

Agreed, they came out great.

[Elbows]

So, I've been doing work behind the scenes for the dungeon crawl.  I received a new playtest set of cards...immediately revamped another 30 or so of them, edited some heroes, etc.  Started work on the actual glossary of terms and have taken baby steps into the storyline book.

Since I don't have any painting updates, I figured I'd throw in some random pics from test games over the past few months.  I figure everyone like pictures.  I do have some fantasy minis showing up next week which'll find there way on here.

A test dungeon...


Heroes fleeing the dungeon and leaving the warrior and an ally to a grisly death...


When I travel to friends' houses I often still take the simple D&D tiles for ease of use.


Needless to say, this ended...poorly...



The story to this last pic is...pretty fantastic.  After a proper ass kicking, our heroes decided to flee a dungeon.  We'd awoken a giant who kicked my Thief across a room, killing him - and the rest had fled down a hallway, kicking open a door to a room with an exit (this staircase shown).  We spawned two groups of baddies; ghouls and skeletons.  However they started at a decent distance so our group expended all of their action dice to flee up the staircase.

The final hero, a sorceress played by my friend Ashley had three action dice...but was reduced to two because of wounds.  All she had to do was roll a 2+ on either dice and she'd have enough to move off the table.  She rolled snake-eyes...and was immediately consumed.  She even made the mistake of saying "Eh, all I have to do is not roll double ones...."

Poor girl.  Poor sorceress.

Hoping to maybe playtest again this weekend and I'll try to actually take some solid pics this go round.

[Elbows]

Couldn't get a good picture of this guy...but a large Elephant man from Etsy (a 3D print).

[LouieN]

A great setup. 

So the test was a Total Party Kill (TPK)?

Sounds like a successful test

[Elbows]

Oh, thus far I'd say...50% of games have been TPKs.  This is a bit biased as I've been playing large-ish dungeons, instead of smaller starter dungeons, so it's been a little lopsided.

The game is intentionally very difficult.

[Luigi]

I recognize that HeroScape dragon!

This thread has easily some of the best painting I've seen in a while , keep it up!

[Elbows]

You mean Hero Scape?  I think that's what it's from.  I'm not sure, it was from eBay many moons back - and was maybe $7  

[Luigi]

Yep. that's what I meant. 

 i corrected my mistake.

My statement about your painting still holds true though.