Tom Meier shutting down Thunderbolt Miniatures on Christmas
Michael / Chgowiz Tom Meier, famous miniatures sculptor since his teen years in the 70s, is shutting down his online store – Thunderbolt Miniatures – on Christmas Day. “Who is Tom Meier and…
Coming soon – The Dungeon Master’s Handbook Podcast!
I’m launching a podcast in early December to share the love of old school Dungeons & Dragons campaigns! This old school gamer is coming out of the blogs and into…
GameHoleCon Recap and Pictures
Back from GameHoleCon – it was a glorious weekend of gaming, surprises, seeing some history and having fun! Friday was spent playing a wacky game by Inner City Games Design…
The Agreement to be More Welcoming to Non-White-Male Gamers
I’ve been thinking about this since news of Ms. Price who felt sexually harassed by Frank Mentzer and twittered about it. Since reading the 50-odd page thread on rpg.net about…
ChicagoWiz’s Goblins
The poor, maligned goblin. First shown as some sort of a strange dwarf-like creature in 1974 D&D … then reintroduced as a small, fierce but weak creature in 1st edition…
WIP – Korg, Orc King miniature
I am heading into Autumn and Winter in another push to complete some Ral Partha figures for Chaos Wars units and games. I also have some fantastic Horror Monsters that…
Heading to GaryCon X – Events submitted!
The TENTH GaryCon is coming! Holy cow, where did the time go? It’s coming and I’ve submitted three games for consideration. I’m hoping to play as much as I can…
Chronicles of Etinerra – September post
A lot has happened in my campaign world since I last wrote about it in … well hell, it’s been almost a year! I have three campaigns currently running in…
How I Started My Sandbox
Nine years ago, I started on a little experiment. Over time, it grew in directions both bad and good. Over those nine years, I’ve blogged a lot about my Dark…
Cheap Water Effects for Inexpensive Terrain
It all started, as many things do, by hearing someone else talk about an experiment. In this case, it was by a Twitter user named @qyjari (Anne Palmer): Well, that…