I posted a number of articles on Canonfire in the past. I’d like to put another copy up in my blog just in case CF disappears. So, here is a pair of linked Greyhawk articles which may have relevance to current campaigns… The Church of Xan-Yae (September 2001) The Church of Xan-Yae never had a strong following in the City of Greyhawk. A few years ago, … Continue reading The Church of Xan-Yae
Peter Lee on maxminis.com The visible figures have an uncommon rarity assigned for collectability purposes, but the average number of the paint steps for those figure exceeds the current rare paint step allocation. Effectively, the visible figure has double the paint steps that an average uncommon had in the old system. Continue reading Peter Lee on visible mini quality
In response to a post on Wizards.com forums: I’m certainly not ready to show miniatures from a set that won’t release for nearly half a year, but I’ll take your desire to see the paint master next to a production figure under consideration when it is time for me to write the previews for the set. Continue reading Peter Lee on previews
At present, I’m running one of my groups through the H series of Wizards adventures; we’re about half-way through H2 at present. To some extent, I think the adventures published for a game display the feel of that game far more than the core rulebooks do. When I think about AD&D, it’s not really the rules that I concentrate on: it’s the early adventures. T1-4, … Continue reading Thoughts on Wizards’ 4e adventures
Well, another weekend – and my parents are back from Europe. More on that later. I also had my regular D&D 4E sessions, and both were excellent in very different ways. The Castle Zagyg campaign was wacky and really enjoyable. Martin and Peggy were fairly tired, so it was left up to Adam and Nate to do the running… oh, dear. They reached the … Continue reading Weekend D&D 4e Gaming
Peter Lee WoTC‘s ability to co-ordinate the miniature releases with the adventurers released at a similar time continues to be less than impressive. Yup, you’re right. I’m working on it. Here’s the problem: The miniature path is close to 18 months to go from concept to your FLGS’s shelf. The path for getting a module from concept to your FLGS’s shelf is a lot … Continue reading Peter Lee on issues facing D&D Miniatures
Scott RouseWas the 8-mini for $15 model not profitable? Why the change to a 5-mini for $15 model. What exactly does WOTC see as the value-add here? I tried to explain this in my post but I have to be careful on the level of detail I provided (publicly traded and all). Costs were (are) climbing so to maintain the business at its current level something has … Continue reading More official responses to the change
Stephen Schubert A few years back, I decided I wanted to use minis on my table, to help illustrate my game. I picked up some assorted metal, learned to paint, all that sort of stuff. Picked up Chainmail. Then Chainmail was canceled – in its place was to be a new, randomized, pre-painted minis game. I hadn’t bought into clix because they didn’t look enough … Continue reading Stephen Schubert saying farewell
Posted on Hordelings.com: So I’ve gotten a few emails so far (figure the post goes up the second I logoff a computer). DDXP will have DDM tourneys. From my understanding the last sanctioned ones. We will have a limited championship using Demonweb. We will have the standard $5,000 prize pool for the winners. Win some cash and be the last champion standing. There are no … Continue reading Dave Christ on the final sanctioned tournaments
Peter Lee The decision to not have skirmish cards in the boosters was made a few months ago. There were other discussions going on about other methods to support the game, and that decision was made relatively recently. It wasn’t decided until a day or two ago that there would be no skirmish stats going forward in an alternate distribution method. (from Hordelings.com) Continue reading Another post on the change…
