Weekender XLBS: Maybe Skulls Are Cool Again?
September 29, 2019 by crew
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Happy Sunday Brothers and Sisters of CoG!
Attention!!! This show is for OUR EYES ONLY.
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***** It’s the XLBS Show *****
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Grab your favorite drink, something to snack on, and hold on to your FEZ. This could be quite the show!
OTT asked…. How have you been enjoying the codes in the CoG newsletters? R pmld gsv olxzgrlm lu gsv gvnkov zmw gsv vmw lu Hgzi Dzih Wvhgrmb rh hzw rmwvvw.
As to the question of the day…..What have you been working on?
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Well, I’ve been working on more Flames of War minis. I’ve also been 3D printing landing craft like a ‘Mad Man’! I really need to update my Project were I’m sharing my results with the LCVP’s and other watercraft. I promise I’ll get it updated.
I’ve also been watching the older ‘FOW FTW’ episodes and came across this little gem that I thought I’d share with everyone, in case you might have forgotten it……..
https://youtu.be/fZ5Kfwa3Yzk
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*****Also, on a serious note…..today as I was leaving the local coffee shop I proceed through an intersection after having waited for it to turn green. I waited a full second after the light turned green and then drove across like I have for what is probably 10’s of thousands of times previously……when out of no where comes a flash of a great white rushing blur and I think to myself, “What the hell is that” and then braced for impact…………
Luckily, I did not let up on the accelerator and kept driving forward, not trying to do anything other than get through the intersection. As I braced I heard and felt a light thud and the only change of movement was to possibly be forced forward slightly faster than normal. I was extremely lucky! You see I drive a tiny little convertible two-seat car, (British racing green of course), and any impact other than what I experienced would have altered my day or possibly my life.
I cruised forward to a parking lot, parked the car and got out to check for damage and of course to see if I needed a change of shorts! The car has no sign of damage and my shorts were still intact so all is well……
Today has been a time for reflection and some quiet time. I put the entertainment system on the Beasts of War youtube channel and let my friends, Warren @warzan and Dr. Dave @lafayette ramble about gaming and help me to stay chill and relaxed with gaming goodness.
I’m glad to be able to spend another Sunday XLBS with all my COG friends! Thanks for reading and thanks to the OTT crew for being here when I really needed them to fall back on for a secure sense of ‘the world is ok, and so am I’.
stay safe out there son
What was the white blur? Here in Canada we’ve had a few young officers getting a bit to excited driving their cruisers!
A fairly new White SUV. Driven by an older lady who had her granddaughter in the vehicle with her. She was running red lights and stop signs trying to get to a damn cattle show at our local fair grounds, where her other granddaughter was showing some livestock.
After I had parked and gotten out of my car so I could check it, she did show up after ten to fifteen minutes.
After I heard her story and assured her that I and my car were ok, I’m pretty sure I switched into dad mode and lectured her about how a cattle show is not important enough to risk lives, mine and her younger granddaughter who was in the car with her let alone her own, so SLOW THE HECK DOWN!
Happy Sunday!
A few minutes of show then off to bed to dream of Merkava’s ahead of the monthly Team Yankee game.
So has everything for @warzan lately been about de-crypt-ion?
So Justin is saying there should be an app-arition in the dungeon?
Happy Sunday!
Skulls have always been cool, as long as they’re used appropriately; in others words not in a GW lazy aesthetic way 😉
Doesn’t a 4, (6) or 8 sided pyramid have at least one more hidden side (the bottom)?
Is Gerry’s sudden love of Greeks anything to do with the rumoured Saga:Age of Hannibal release?
I this case Clash of Spears is what’s encouraging me
That’s an hour or so of my life I’m never getting back.
@avernos stole my Knights of the Old Republic Puzzles, check them out there are tonnes of them.
A great one for kids would be the Skyrim Tomb puzzles with the claws. Basically you have three symbols one of top of the other and you have a claw which has the same three symbols on it. You just have to match the same symbols in the same order but for kids it might take them a few minutes to figure out. Just don’t tell them that’s what they have to do.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQCejSLnhJ03qFMm6s8fyWqQFxn2Vz-XRXd5Rc8RjcZkr_jUP2f
For Crypts check out the Hallstatt Bone House where they paint the skulls or the actual Chapel made out of Skulls in Poland.
Congrats to all the Golden Button Winners.
The strips are called Pteruges which means feathers.
Morning all
I was having a stab at Caesar’s cartoon then realised that non-admins can’t post pictures into comments. Should have done this at the time but I’ve now created a forum post if anyone else fancies a go!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/in-sync-caption-contest/#post-1441794
Oh great start…. “look the OTTer W-Ankher” XD
Yeah, the Chinese really do NOT **** about when it comes to their monumental architecture…
Happy Sunday guys
Woohoo thank you very much for the Golden button nomination, sadly I have been on exercise for three weeks which is why I haven’t been able to add more but back now so will get stuck in this week and continue to prepare for the upcoming campaign.
With the help of @avernos I have managed to settle on two lists. One for Fortress Europe and one for D-Day. It has been a really nice project to be part of due to our great community and I hope we see other companies take on something similar so we get another opportunity to take part in another Hobby League.
@warzan designing puzzles for your children in D & D is something best done by you and Andrea. As you know your children best you can tailor the puzzles to their knowledge and build in layers of clues to help them get the answer if needed.
Hope everyone has a great week.
Apart from the Wargames Atlantic skelebobs, I don’t have any ancient Greeks. Must say Gerry’s are lovely and tempting me to go Greek… I might even buy a box of hoplites as well 🙂
Happy Sunday fellow CoGers.
That cork moment 🙂 reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJ0iGZ7Ms8
@warzan here is a search on DnD Beyond that will help give you some ideas, ghosts etc. are classed as undead.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters?filter-type=16&filter-search=&filter-cr-min=&filter-cr-max=&filter-armor-class-min=&filter-armor-class-max=&filter-average-hp-min=&filter-average-hp-max=&filter-is-legendary=&filter-has-lair=&sort=name
and look here as this is DnD For kids
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/monsterslayers
Justin’s idea of a janitor elemental isn’t that bad. It could be a automaton or the spirit of a loyal servant. Rather than providing another combat encounter it adds another point of interest to the dungeon. Perhaps if there is a puzzle that requires physical manipulation of the dungeon it is the janitor that resets the puzzle if the party get it wrong.
Ghosts can still be a threat even if they are unable to physically do anything. They could still be able to use magic, or they could be able to instil strong emotions such as horror, sorrow, or hopelessness. They are also another way of adding in a puzzle – the classic let the ghost achieve final rest plot.
My kids are three and seven and the eldest has been encountering peer pressure for a couple of years now for various things. She has expressed interest in logging in to Minecraft to meet friends once or twice but so far we can evade it by saying her kid’s tablet can’t do that. In general I have noticed that all the fads at school last no longer than a few months so it doesn’t matter if they miss out on it. At the end of the day most of their interactions with their peers are still running around in the playground. What struck me about the switch party story is that I don’t think a parent should be running parties where they know some of their kid’s friends are excluded.
I know I’d be worried if Hong Kong Phooey was a janitor in a dungeon
I thought the same thing @Torros
skulls are all ways cool. love them to death. GW does skulls well just look at their “beastgrave” hexagonal bits
Happy Sunday to all.
I’ll be watching after the rugby has finished.
A skull on a Space Marine or Imperial was just a devotion to the Emperor – more skulls just meant you loved the chief zombie a bit more. Makes you wonder about Captain Khorneflakes loyalty, though.
@warzan I know exactly what you mean with the kids and their gadgets, it’s a tricky one for sure trying to do the best by them. I’ve got 2 boys who are 11 and 6 (😢 still can’t believe they are that old!) and it’s been one of the more frustrating things about parenthood for me is the realisation that no matter what we do for our kids to teach them ‘good’ behaviours in lifestyles it all goes to shit when they go to school because in a class of 30 all it takes is one kid to undo all that work 😂 I exaggerate of course but we cannot escape the influence of other parents who do things differently, to make a point not always wrong…just differently.
Without going too deep here, it’s not that weekender 😀, through a lot of the experiences I’ve had in life there is one thing that always seems relevant and that is balance. You can apply it to so many aspects of life but in this regard I use to help my boys get a good experience with these gadgets. We actually have gadget days in our house, so there are some days that they can play these games as much as they want and others where they don’t go on it at all. There are a lot of positives with kids playing these games, problem solving and communication skills in multiplayer games and also when they grown the will be online whether we like it or not as that is the way the whole world is. As long as we have a balance in our house where they get outside and get covered in mud, climb hills and chase pigeons as much as they play these games we’re happy and they’re happy too.
It’s also worth pointing out that on out gadget days that its not what they want to do all day, even the 6 year old is happy to have a break and build some Lego or go out find slugs and snails, it’s almost like giving them the freedom to do it all day takes away the void that is left by not having it all.
I would absolutely recommend the Marvel Lego games as they are a great mix of problem solving and working together.
Got to say seeing all the great stuff you do with designing these games for your kids is fantastic and a real inspiration, I feel like I should be doing so much more with my boys as they love looking at all the painting I do I’m sure they’d love to see it come to life. Great job man!
I got same experience with my offspring.
I have no idea how to use tv and change channels with remotes because I was so back up with technology, i type 30 symbols a second – does not help in my work.
we have laptop , pc, google home mostly to play music but she knows where to look for answers if she needs to, and projector for watching movies that we use once a week if not less.
I own a switch myself and find it strang that your kids weren’t invited for a switch party because they don’t have a switch. With a switch you can also play with mutiple players a game(not all Games have mutiple player option) on a TV. So I would say the parents of those kids are wrong to let their kids not invite another kid just because the kid hasn’t a switch. I started with the atari skip the NES and SNES era and started playing again on a playstation. I had to make choices about were the spent my money when I was younger but I still did buy modelkits. Now that I’m older(50) I love to build and buy modelkits and play certain videogames.
@warzan I can understand your view about videogames but you must also think about when your children get a little bit older and go play with friends at their house then they might come in contact whit the world of videogames and then you don’t have control of what the play. They might even not play at your house anymore because they find the “forbidden” games more thrilling. I think when you would introduce your children to videogames they have already have choices that most other children don’t have playing with their father D and D, boardgames, building and painting minatures or videogames
my partner just said maybe try dungeon masters guild for the dungeon puzzles and books done by 3rd parties for it too
*green goblin press
*kobald press
*drive through rpg might have them under maps and “aids”
hope this may help
Happy Sunday all you lovely backstagers. Nearly the end of Septemebr already??? bloody hell – near time for Orktober!!!!
Great episode again guys.
@warzan you might want to check out Matt Colville’s running the game playlist on YouTube, he brings up some great points for…well…running the game. He discusses the undead in a couple of episodes too – https://youtu.be/icQx5NH_h88 this is the first of the undead episodes. Yes, it’s mostly discussing D&D 5e but the ideas etc can easily be transferred to other play systems.
Happy Sunday all
Happy sunday!
So pyramids… well the biggest pyramid to my knowledge is an old Aztec one in Mexico. Tlachihualtepetl or as its know as the Great Pyramid of Cholula ;D
So skulls… you can never have enough skulls. There is a church in Czech Republic Sedlec Ossuary or something its called.
I suck at those codes, someday i will find out… maybe I will cheat… ;D
apparently the biggest pyramid is in china but the government really doesn’t like people talking about it
Are you sure that’s not just some new casino they’ve built in Beijing?
Oh does it have name ? 😉
I presume Gerry means the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Ah well i just followed on my QI knowledge ;D thanks
I remember reading that the 3 pyramids did lineup with Orions belt but the earth isn’t quite in the same position anymore so they look offset. The position of the milky way also matched the position of Nile in relation to the pyramids