GenCon Wrapup – Picture Heavy!
Michael / Chgowiz GenCon 50 is over and it was, in a nutshell, crazy awesome and freakin’ overwhelming. The area was ginormous. The gaming hall was huge as in, it took serious minutes…
Michael / Chgowiz
See you at GenCon & a Swords & Wizardry hint…
Wow! The 50th GenCon is just a couple of days away! Will I see you there? Are you in any of my games? Here’s what I’m running… stop by and…
Tips for Improving My Minis Painting
I’ve been incrementally improving my painting over the last couple of hundred minis or so. A lot of them I’ve cranked out with the focus on tabletop quality. I’ve become…
Chgowiz goes to GameHoleCon – Attempt #2
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…