Cult Of Games XLBS: Time To Return To The Tabletop – Are You Done With Digital Gaming?
September 26, 2021 by avernos
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happy sunday,
1st and watching the greatest movie ever made at that
Happy Sunday indeed!
I never really started digital gaming. Were we meant to?
Nice 10mm dwarves @ninjilly
@fcostin Tralee is a nice part of the world. I vaguely remember a dog track. Pretty sure it’s Tralee. The Tralee museum of modern life or the mediveal experience as the rest of us call it is pretty good from memory. Lovely fell beast. I do think @avernos idea od the flesh toned one is the way to go
@brennon I like your project but was disappointed you haven’t started the Middle Earth and Burrows and Badgers crossover as promised in the projects title
I do agree with vids showing How ‘I’ paint things are much better than the ‘If you don’t paint like this your a failure’ ones as most of the monetised ones seem to be now
@johnlyons I like the idea of painting with inks but can be expensive to get started as high quality ones do seem to be quite expensive. I presume your still using metallic paints for the uum metal bits?
I did look through the Oathsworn collection to see if I could make a Burrows & Badgers Fellowship. It kinda works but I need them to make more Mice 😉
Well, I’m only using greenstuff worlds intensity ink range. So price wise. Not bad. And yeah, keeping traditional paints for when they are “needed” I just find inks more to my liking with speed and ease of use
@johnlyons I woukd think about going back to inks and even possibly trying contrast paints if if was easy way to work out military colours with them
Thanks @torros – especially nice to hear from you as you were the reason I bought them. Thank you for introducing me to the scale
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
The Warriors videogame for PS2 from Rockstar was freaking aces
When I painted my ring wraith recently I started with a base coat of Skavenblight Dinge, but any dark grey will work. I then applied two coat of Army Shader Dark Tone, Nuln will also work. Then I highlighted with a mid and light grey. The shade will make the recess look black and the rest will like a mid tone.
Good shout – I have finished five of them but going to have a pop at experimenting with the others I have 🙂
@brennon have you tried Vajello German grey. It’s almost black and a black wash over the top would be noticeable in the folds of the clothing
Power to the People!✊✊✊
I have been using Roll20 for the DnD campaign I play in along with the Star War Game I ran. Wizards took the stance of getting people to remove content. They support DnD Beyond (Not owned by wizards), Foundry VTT, roll20 and Fantasy Grounds. All these platforms apart from DnD Beyond support other games found has grown popular due to some of the additional tools they have however requires a server or for you to buy space in addition to buying Foundry. The interesting one is DnD Beyond, in our group one of the players has been getting the books digitally because we have set up a campaign on it and we are all part of it we have access to all his books but only in that campaign.
kill team 2 took me four days to do start to finish
I’ve been working on roll20 building atmospheric Alien RPG cinematic maps for a campaign I have coming up at the end of October. Trying to get all the bells and whistles work for plenty a jump scare
Very cool – would be neat to see some of the maps at some point!
hit me up on discord, when you got some free time and I’ll give you a tour
Hit me up on discord as I might have some things you might like for the LOTOR game
Grim does have a lot more experience with Roll20 than me , but I have learned a huge amount about it in under a month
What you showed me looks amazing, I just put something into the Alien RPG section you might like
Hope my tour of my star wars campaign helped as well 🙂
the space station was built 100% from Dakka jet spares
Confession time: I’ve owned the Silmarillion since the 80s and never finished it (contrast with LOTR that I read annually for a good few years). In the past 12 months I listened to an audiobook from some dude on Youtube and it was terrific. The narrator had a Posh Welsh accent. I don’t know if he was an enthusiast or an actual voice actor but it was a great rendition and realistically the only way I’d ever get through it.
Hi COG,ets it’s the insanity Sunday Show.
Fab work on your figures @brennon.
Never stopped playing the RPG campaign that me and my friends are playing. Not a single week lost due to the pandemic… 😉
We could move around, and the only limit was to groups of less then 10 people, sooo… no problem
An next week we will have hundreds of comments about broken GW paint lids.?
Happy wankday as it is voting time in Germany and we get new top wankers! Wank awaaaay!
Just as a reaction to the show title: I never went full digital. I haven’t played any boardgame digital. Most I had done was using the app to play Imperial Assault by myself and that was pre pandemic!
Now on with the show!
00:00 I will try to do hexagonal terrain! Sometime…
02:00 Ben of the Shire… all the things he showed over on Twitter. (Yes, Ben has a twitter)
10:00 Birdshitradagast! XD
12:00 Stripping is hobby work because how else can you afford all the stuff?
19:00 LEGO Talk? oO
27:00 Gerry Cans.. weird concept. But cool. Will catch on methinks!
30:30 clear FLOCKING medium 😉
35:15 Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben… this is a love story starting? 😉
40:30 Australian Fellbeast?
42:00 No wrong way to paint? Millions of YouTube commentators beg to differ XD
49:00 moving away from 28mm? Have I told you about my ideas for Star Wars: Epic Legion? Well strap in there lads…
59:00 You never played with pegs like that Ben? We did that in school… in the grey dark beforetimes…
1:02:00 Rigdrop
1:05:00 Somehow I expected a “Free… two… one…” after that “Free” from Gerry
1:06:00 Apart from the mentioned RPG.. no, nothing…
1:08:00 Oh speaking about board games… Gloomhaven, the back-breaker from Brick & Mortar stockists is getting a Steam version…
1:37:00 Pay to wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!
And now off to the remaining Sunday
The fell beast/dead crow looks great Free.
Is their a saddle for the fell beast???
Fell beast Peppa pig meet’s the Chaos God’s.
So is the pipe the badge of COGz guy’s? like the commander of the escape committee in the war film’s.
John raid’s Hogwarts for the sorting hat.?
RE: Tabletop Simulator etc.
You can copy and paste to make more miniatures in Tabletop Simulator. You can’t do that in real life. I think it is a great way to try out new games or new armies in a game. Things like TTS can also be the only outlet for people who live in remote areas.
There are a few games that I think are actually better in TTS, like X-Wing, where TTS saves you from having to spend an hour before and after the game sorting cards and tokens.
I think TTS is more flexible and extensible than Universal Battle, but to fully unlock that you do have to be quite technical. I know most people are not going to learn to write code or learn about CG and colliders and whatnot. Even if you are that technical, it does have fundamental issues for some types of games which makes it clunky. And I know technology just doesn’t click for some people like it does for others.
One of the things I hate the most in TTS is the limitation on rotation steps and the way they snap to increments of 15 degrees. If you vote for this feature it would help people like me create content for TTS and it would make a lot of miniature games easier to play.
https://tabletopsimulator.nolt.io/500
And if you really want to know what I’m going on about with this rotation thing, I made a little video about it a while back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxs1nD9wrzE
We should see about getting a crowd fund for John to get faster hamsters?
I can actually add something to these conversations.
I always wanted to play a game of Vampire the Masquerade but I could never find one in and around my area. I finally got a game via roll20, it was a bunch of Americans and myself but it was great to do. From that I got involved with DnD with some of that group, and even more games with a different group from it.
Online is the only way I’ve ever RPGs and while I’d love to play in person but with the event (remain indoors) its been great. One group of mine was all american (bar me) and the newer group has 2 Germans, a Polish person and one English guy.
But when it comes to wargaming online, I’ve never properly dabbled. Can’t find anyone interested in trying it or if the opportunity presents itself I get busy doing something else.
Anyway that was a bit rambling and I dunno what point I was making…
@brennon Matte varnish typically uses talc as an additive. Its probably the addition of more talc than normal that makes it “extra matte”. I’d have to dig around for it on You Tube (there are quite a few) but I remember there was one reviewing Testor’s glosscoat and dullcote. Just a thing I remembered.
Happy Sunday lovely people. @brennon My Foundry paint bottle lids gunk up too. The collection is 10 years old. Some split and then dry out within weeks. I’m moving to Vallejo. I’m a Dellimoreian painter, black undercoat, 3+ layers of gradual lighter tints.
@fcostin Lovely work so far. I’m following.
Three fantastic community projects, well done.
So where was John’s pipe and why do I feel like there is a Magritte reference I’m missing?
My friends were already scattered around California but several have moved out of state in the last few years so I anticipate our continued use of online game platforms. We are especially fond of Boardgames Arena; https://boardgamearena.com/welcome. My role playing has actually expanded in the last year and with players all over the world (two of the groups are bi-hemispheral!) I know I will continue to inhabit Roll20 and Discord (GM preference depending) for the foreseeable future. Having said that, I just spent a wonderful afternoon playing a huge miniatures game in person with five other people in real life. Had forgotten how fun it can be to push toy soldiers around the table.
Happy Monday???
My local gaming club opened its doors on Saturday for the first time in months and I did not hesitate one bit to get my arse down there for a bit of Conan and my first game of Mezo. Nothing like interacting with people across the table.
Though on the flip side I have been rolplaying with greater frequency these days because we can do it online. And the best thing about it is I now play with guys I’ve gamed with for decades but now live in other cities. First it was cuthulu over google meets and lot sof ‘theature of the mind. Then we moved to DnD obn Beyond which has been a hoot as I hadn’t played DnD for over a decade.Now we are also looking at Twilight 2000 on Foundary.
I was suprised to find just how helfull DnD Beyond and Foundry etc are at the bookeeping side and rules access sideof things while not necessarily binding you hard to the rules so GMs have the flexibility of yweaking numbers and massaging results as they see fit. talking to my GM on the weekend we agreed that if we get to meet in person again its worth GMiong from behind a laptop screen with one of these systems just for the book keeping.
For me, digital gaming just isn’t gaming. I just stopped gaming altogether during lockdown. The actual gaming bit isn’t that much of an important part of why I do it anyhow. Having a screen and crappily rendered “models” just gets in the way i
Since restrictions eased I’ve had folks over to my house for gaming, and finally my club got back up and running this month, so its been nice to shoot the breeze with friends over an evolving tabletop story and a beer, which is the bit of social gaming I enjoy. I have to say I never really missed the pushing models around and rolling dice bit all that much.
I didn’t have the clear stand in the box either @fcostin emailed Gee Wulla Support and they send one out for free. Worth checking the Rider bases, as mine had hex holes and they need round holes otherwise you will have a nightmare assembling them, GW sent replacements for those out aswell.
It’s a bit tricky to fit the stand after assembly but it will push fit into the socket for it.