Chgowiz goes to GameHoleCon – Attempt #2
Michael / Chgowiz GameHoleCon is a very popular regional gaming convention held in November in Madison Wisconsin. I wanted to go a couple of years ago, but work and timing wouldn’t let me…
Library D&D – Session 1 – Kobolds! Zillions of Kobolds!
I hosted my first session of 5th Edition D&D at a local library this past Wednesday. The game takes place in my (mostly) OSR campaign world – Etinerra. The game…
My new favorite brushes – Kalish Finest
Miniatures depend on 4 things – quality of the figure, skills of the painter, the paints they use and the brushes. The first three are worthy of other posts, but…
Library D&D – or teaching an old dog new tricks
The big move is complete and the new place is shaping up really nicely. ThePrincessWife and I call this our Dream Home because it really is. I mean, look at…
Hey Chgowiz? Why so quiet? Moving!
It’s summertime! And with the coming of the warm weather (90 degrees already in Chicago? WTF? I thought climate change was a hoax?!?) comes another auspicious day… moving day. Yep,…
Chgowiz goes to GenCon!
Going to GenCon’s 50th anniversary shindig will be amazing! I am running games out of my Entinerra/Dark Ages campaign, and I hope you’ll come join them and say hi! Here’s…
On using a wargames campaign manager – Berthier
So about a year ago, I mentioned how I was starting to move towards using Roll20 to manage my wargaming in my Etinerra campaign world. It was pretty cool, to…
Betrayal at the Border (Chaos Wars Battle Report)
“Marshal always said ‘Trust your fellow Man and little else.’ and sure enough, he was right. Damn Elves! We’d heard reports that a large force from somewhere was moving up…
Storms over the Golden City (Chaos Wars AAR)
“I remember the morning they attacked. It was a quiet morning, nothin’ much ever happens around Nyrana. So we was enjoyin’ a cuppa hot hintea and suddenly horns are blarin’…
Little Wars – Picture Time!
I attended Little Wars on April 28th through 30th in Lombard, Illinois. It’s put on by the folks from the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Midwest chapter (HMGS-Midwest). I ran two…