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October 3, 2016 by lloyd
We're back with the next 'Digital Digest' that is Re-Roll Issue #2. In this issue, we talk with Fantasy Flight Games and their plans for RuneWars and Mythic Games about Mythic Battles: Pantheon!
As well as that we've taken the opportunity to look at giving Backstagers something more permanent to take away with them.
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Two new series, Tactics Tome and Mortal Realms, kick off in this issue alongside an amazing painting tutorial from John.
Free Fat Dragon Downloads Inside
You can also download some free files from Fat Dragon Games giving you the chance to try your hand at 3D printing with their 28mm Lizardfolk. If you just have access to a normal printer we also have a cool Tower Ruin for you to download and put together.
We hope that once again Re-Roll gives you a taster of this month's exciting news and maybe you'll spot some things you missed. We had a blast (even if it was exhausting!) putting this issue together and can't wait to hear your feedback.
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awesome
Good read. I think if you wished for more community involvement you would release high res pictures of Justin on bluescreen so we could all have a go! Could lead to some interesting last pagers… (or unprintable smut)
Maybe this is something we’ll have a go at – although I shudder to think of exactly what you’ll all come up with!
This is either the greatest or most terrible idea ever.
probably a little bit of both.
I’d say that is unfair to Justin.
Let’s get everyone of them involved.
Then again … it’s those unscripted moments in their own vids that might make for the best meme-worthy material 😀
I really like the strategy and tactics section, it’s really well done. Thinking of articles, could you collate an article series, for example Oriskany’s excellent battle tech series and give it the reroll touch? I would love to see that in a PDF all in one section, possibly even a themed reroll dedicated to one game system, as a ‘special’.
All in all, Reroll is a worthy addition to the BOW arsenal, may it long continue
We have really enjoyed pulling together Tactics Tome and hope that will build up into a great series.
Nice idea on the article repackaged, we’ll have a chat about that at the next meetup and see what’s involved 🙂
🙂
Loved the Tactics Tome? But no Horns of the Bull Buffalo tactic? An ommission surely?
I really like this idea – themed download ‘specials’. Very good idea
I totally agree…repackage some articles from the site for Reroll. And to be honest, I can’t find crap with the search window 🙂
Re-Poll…
I have to say that this months issue was a better read than the new issue 2 of White Dwarf.
lol nice, be sure to let us know what you liked/disliked when you get some time 🙂
Will do on both magazines lol
I liked John’s painting tutorial. It was very practical and well documented. For me the cherry on the cake is the rune wars exclusive. The style of the magazine is visual appealing and made me read articles that I normaly wouldn’t read.
Thanks again lads, my last months kept me entertained for a couple of weeks. cheers
This issue should keep you entertained a good bit longer again I hope 🙂 (it was just shy of 100 pages)
really impressed by reroll warren has someone who rarely uses backstage other than xlbs this has opened my eyes to what’s on offer hope this is something you manage to have the time to continue long term
For me personally, this issue gave me much more to read than the last one. I literally just flicked through the pages last time out, but I read several of the articles this time out.
We get the terms strategy and tactics from the ancient Greeks. ‘Strat’ is a root word for things to do with the military. So a strategos is a general, a strategika is a military treatise, and a stratopedon is a military camp. Strategia is things to do with generalship, and from that we get strategy. Tactics is derived from the verb tatto, which means to arrange in order. In a military sense, it means how you arrange your army on the battlefield.
I would agree with Redben here, I have to say this is a vast improvement from the first one here, mainly due to new content, and it is stuff that you can dig your teeth into a bit more. A lot of the internet content is set and forget look at once and then move on, however with this is stuff you are going to go back to.
Well done.
(have more to say but won’t still Redben’s spot)
Oooooh That’s good news for me! I haven’t real internet connection here, and I’ll be able to see some of my favorite show on the web!
Thanks BoW, ReRoll is excellent! You’ve making my day!
BoW – Can you help me claim my terrain download?
I attempted to download at work and for some reason I wasn’t able to.
(Kept attempting and said “FAILED” followed by “Try Again” each time.)
When I visited DriveThruRPG on my phone the download is no longer available in my library.
🙁
Can you try it at home? If that dosn’t work, lets us know.
I liked the free stuff. The interview with leonidas was very good, no interest in game whatsoever but very interesting learning how it all came together etc. Lastly I am a big fan of the captions from user comments. The tactics bit was good but could use some stills from BoW batreps/demo games/bootcamp battles to illustrate/brighten it up. 8/10 😉
I had the chance to play Mythic Battles during the week and was very taken with it. Much more so than I thought I would be. It jumped from ‘keep an eye out for it’ to ‘need to find the money to back it’.
@igotskills – see what @redben said above, this is so true.
“The tactics bit was good but could use some stills from BoW batreps/demo games/bootcamp battles to illustrate/brighten it up.”
@igotskills – We went with illustrations so it wouldn’t feel tied to any particular game system and we feel it works.
I even found myself thinking about X-Wing while going through it. I’d done something similar in a game I’d played 🙂
The illustrations are good because they are clear and fit for purpose I mean just as extra small photos (various systems) just for added eye candy. This is mostly because the thing that sticks out most to me from the magazine is that it was a joy to see such high res photos of such great looking minis, more of that can only be a good thing.
@redben @lloyd
Don’t get me wrong it looks great but the “I have no interest whatsover” is more a stance I force upon myself as I am fed up with the amount of games available. This leads me to constantly buying new games then selling them before playing them in order to afford a newer game/kickstarter and free up some of my limited space for these new minis. It’s a cycle that I have successfully broken by writing off anything new as “looks great but not my cup of tea”.
hey @igotskills, I know exactly what you’re talking about 🙂
Haven’t had a chance to go through in detail yet, but looks mighty fine. Love the free downloads, great idea.
Great stuff! I never expected another so quick! Thank guys and keep up the amazing work!
What happened to the second half of the Empire of the Dead basing/painting?? Great issue, read lots and lots more to read, but was searching for that bit!:)
Cool another one , i really like it ….. Good Job Guy’s 🙂
A very impressive ezine. A lot of hard work has gone into making it a great read.
I cannot download the file. It does give me the counter, but the page I am transferred to, does not load.
OK, I sorted it. I needed to take down the VPN and other privacy measures on my PC. Not that I think you are the data kraken, but why do you need to track me for the download?
Thanks guys, i will check it out in the next few days and come back with some comments.
Alright first off guys thank you very much for this issue not with standing that I got a half page spread 😛 no it’s not that made me really like this one but it did help ha ha 😉
Onto the more serious comments. First off the downloads.
The downloads were a welcome surprise and I have to commend you on what and whom you chose to partner up with. I have done there paper craft stuff before it is actually pretty difficult to use or at least it has been for me, but it has a high quality. Having two product does really add to the whole thing. A lot of people won’t have ready access to 3D printers but they like the idea of having something to print and it makes the idea more approachable. As well as that of the tiles, just like the 3D printing, most people won’t actually use this, but they will enjoy having access to it.
I think you guys hit home run in that department. A+ 😀
The second thing that I really like was the Photoshop tutorial. I think it was really good very in-depth and I think it could share the hallowed halls with many of the works in deviant art. I think what really hit home for me with it is it was something I felt I could do. I have worked with Photoshop a bit mostly for my project, however looking at, it looked like something I could produce. Not something that is beyond my abilities or anyone else. And the way it ‘spoke’ wasn’t toddler like, it felt like it was someone who understood the difficulties of the program, and who was like don’t worry I get it.
All and all another piece well done.
Finally I as always really liked the community picks and I absolutely loved the painting tutorial, I am not sure I will be doing anything like that in the near future but have tucked away as something I can reference is really helpful 😀
So I just want to say really well done guys.
Give yourself a pat on the back and well done.
I like the new content in re-roll that is not on the site. This gives it that bit more compared to the last issue.
And I will definitely keep my eye out for Mythic Battles Pantheon. Beautiful minis.
I really enjoyed this – a step up from the first one (which was still nice). It looks beautiful. Adding in the few meatier articles to this issue really takes it up to the next level compared to last month and I enjoyed reading them.
I like the personal touches, with suggestions about what figures could be used for and comments from the team and forum members.
Warren’s article about modifying that photo for his family gaming was very original and interesting – I play “daddy games” with my five and three year olds, using stuff like dungeon saga and some made up rules, so this was right up my street!
Great job guys
Don’t tend to read forums so the points to really interesting posts is my highlight
Great read,
Well done
Some might not have the time to see all you guys have put up – I’m maybe seeing 70% – but that’s all the main stories.
I’m maybe not the one to comment, but in this fast paste world, if I can get my news and information from a video, that’s the way I’m going first.
BoW is online videos to me, its my gaming TV channel for table top games. And for that reason I won’t be downloading a magazine. I’m sure I’ll be in the minority, and I’m sure, as always, it will top shelf (in quality not contect 😉 ).
If making more videos suffers from it though, I’d rather have the ‘more videos’…;)
Keep up the great work fellas, see you at the DFC Bootcamp.
paced* lol
Why not download this one, have a flick through and see if its different from what you expected or gives you ideas for other things we should do instead 🙂
That way we can test your opinion a little (because your particular opinion is interesting on this) 🙂
Out of interest, why are you going to stop Reroll 1 being available? If you’re not charging for it, what’s the harm in building up a library of magazines that people can download if / when they discover BoW?
I’ve been impressed with the quality of the photos throughout the 2 issues, but this second paint tutorial by John gave me pause. I would expect Roman (not sure of the spelling) to add a splash of color, but hyper-realistic, weather everything Tank-boy choosing to finish off the Deadzone commander with the bright red, “shoot-me” cape went, I thought, against character. I guess he was flashing back to the redcoat days? I do plan to use the scheme up to that point but some color a bit more muted for his cloak.
My im for the Re-roll schemes is to focus on simple, quick and effective schemes. Maybe i’ll set down the Dragon Red for the next one 😛
Great issue! Loving the format 🙂
fantastic stuff really enjoyed this last time
thankyou
The recap on the month, miniatures highlights, golden buttons and a kickstarter watch list are all good stuff for the people who missed them. would like to see the kickstarter watch a little longer as games like moonstone, arch worlde and purgatory hit kickstarter this month. these are the sort of indie companies that might slip under the radar for a lot of people.
the relic wars and pantheon articles hit the sweet spot. I don’t think these two would have been better even as video content. those close up high definition shots are great.
the jury is out on general tactics though. the article was well written but ended up being general tactics done generally.the historical references were good though.
I think there is a danger in this type of article which I will mention at the end.
the painting article is great for the close up high definition shots. but I think you should just take high def shots of the video tutorial miniatures and add a link to the video content. this would leave the article needing just a brief overview as well as fitting the general theme of the magazine.it would also add an extra dimension to the video tutorials by giving you still images to work from.
the magazine needs to stay trim and streamlined. there is a danger when you focus on a project that you lose sight of the wider view.
I think the way you have organised and shown off the highlights of the month has worked really well and adds another layer to the beasts of war experience. an article or two like relic wars and pantheon that benefit from the medium are great and maybe the odd article from the community ,if it makes the grade. just leave it at this for now , it serves as a platform for you to expand upon in the future. I know its tempting to turn this into a sellable product but I don’t think that’s the right move. John could be painting house armies for battle reports and you should be matching others out there for quantity as you surpass them in quality. five days a week battle reports when you switch to beasts of war 2.0 along with the magazine should be part of an overall price increase for an altogether sleeker and sexier 2.0.
we could have campaigns played rather than stand alone games. four of you doing a frost grave campaign or kingdom death would be hilarious and entertaining as would Lloyd be in an imperial assault campaign.
hopefully the price increase would allow for an extra body if your a little short handed for achieving this goal. as well as freeing up someone to help ben cover events in the uk . you could get ben involved in some game content that way. loads of us would be game for making up the numbers for narrative or campaign play if you went that way.
I guess i’m saying I think there are better ways of generating income and moving forward than writing long winded time consuming articles that would not likely be as successful as other more dynamic options.
hope that was a least though provoking as it took ages to write.
I forgot to make a comment about the first one (I enjoyed it), but this one was definitely an improvement on that. Production wise it compares very favouribly with the digital magazine I actually pay for (Figure Painter), and probably surpasses it in many ways. That itself is pretty amazing.
For me, I enjoy the high res images and seeing stuff that I missed completely on the website. In this issue it was the dark age minis, which I thought looked amazing but had not seen them before reading the magazine.
John’s simple to do paint scheme was another good article, more of those for various games would be a great way to build a library of inspiration for new projects.
Overall, I was really impressed from both a production and content point of view.
Big thanks from me.
Excellent job, I like the way you guys are improving the content for the community.
Keep going.
I’m really enjoying the reroll experiment and have found it to be very useful to keep up to date with things.
To keep BOW up to date on how far their e-magazine travels here is me in a special spot reading it whilst the girlfriend ate picnic and watched Dolphins in the sea, the mussenden temple. We hail from Surrey but had been on holiday touring the causeway coastline (very pretty by the way, people should go visit it!) in Northern Ireland….maybe the e-zine didn’t travel as far as the team had hoped… I did want to drop in last Friday and bring you all doughnuts coffee and relentless but according to my girlfriend that was a bit odd and I wasn’t allowed, sorry!
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Ok so after reading the first two issues and having some time to think about them instead of jumping straight from the toilet and writing something like it’s so awesome I cannot even find the words how awesome it is I will say:
1) I like the huge amount of pictures.
2) I like I can zoom in and out and everything looks perfect.
3) I like that it works fine on my tablet.
4) I like the articles that are not news.
5) I especially like the painting tutorials @johnlyons adopt me.
5) Knowing the sole purpose of the format being a toilet catch up of the news thing I must say that I do not like the news articles. Not because they are bad or I have seen all this stuff on the webpage on which I am everyday. I just do not like the news in miniature’s connected magazines like White Dwarf for example. It’s just not my stuff. However, what I like about it is the fact that it is BoW so there is no explicit WD like marketing.
6) All in all, I can see what it is meant for and I appreciate it. I give it a strong 5/6 and that’s only because I am biased when it comes to the news.
Great job on issue 2 guys. I am primarily a historics guy i really enjoyed the variety of articles and large quantity of photos of inspirational figurines. Exceptional job on the world building series. A truly great start to the series on tactics. You guys did an amazing job here as you kept it simple, to the point and generic without getting list in historical examples.
Re-Roll when compared to the top magazines for the industry, that you have to buy, can hold its head high and proud. Better still it carries the soul of the BoW community at its heart. 😀