A slight hiccup

Earlier I posted that I intended to start my "Tales of the Imperium" to recount Kai's adventures. It seems I've hit a small, er well not so small problem. The problem is I've got to much info. I intended to have the first write up done and posted on Saturday but had written 2 or 3 pages and I'm not even a third into the adventure. So, it's going to be a while before any of that gets published, hell I didn't think I'd need an editor for posting some old RPG info, but it appears it's turning into a small novel. So, please stay tuned to this channel and I WILL have some of it done by the end of the week.

Thanks,
FunDave

On second thought......

Ok, went ahead and finished the second Autarch. He didn't turn out to bad. He's still not my favorite model (that belongs to the Avatar) but I'm fairly impressed with how he turned out.

Character Profile: Kai 'Al Sun

The Man. The Myth. The Legend. The Character with the most death threats made against Him. Kai 'Al Sun. What else can I say about him. Kai was the character I made after a very long hiatus from RPGing (11 years to be exact) for the Dark Heresy campaign I was going to be in. He's a character that almost didn't get off the ground. I knew I wanted to create an Imperial Psyker so I didn't roll for that aspect of him, everything else I did and that's where the weirdness started. I almost started him all over again when I rolled his homeworld as being a feral world. Basically an Imperial backwater world with no or very limited technology. Generally associated with warriors and the like. Not a good start for someone whose supposed to be good with his mind. Then I made the stat rolls. High toughness, high strength, on and on his stats were becoming extreme with the exception of his ballistic (shooting) skill, and his fellowship (how likely people are to follow him) score. I now had something I had never seen before. The way things usually go is that a mage, psyker, caster, whatever they're called in the particular game are always good at range but once you get them in close they die. Now I had someone that could say "I'm going to kill you with the power of my mind, and if that doesn't work I've got an axe!" I set out to make him a close combat monster and by the time the campaign had to break up due to the GM leaving, he was doing around 25 points of damage per hit and he got 3 hits per turn!

I have a lot of material on this guy, his backstory is around 4 pages long and I'm working on writing up the missions we were on for my "Tales of the Imperium" series I'm doing. All of that will wind up on these pages eventually.

Frustrations

So, still painting away doing my second Autarch. Tried to do a different variation on my normal scheme to keep them from looking the same and I just don't know about the results so far. So, I'm asking for opinions. Is it really that bad(you can tell, me it won't hurt my feelings) or am I just being crazy cause it's not my normal scheme and I should push through?

You make the call, keep it or strip it?

Finished

Well, like I said last night when the paint bug bites it get it bad. So here's the final results for my Autarch. I'm actually happy with the results for once. Hit the jump for more.

With this Ring........

  Calin closed his eyes and began to meditate. He thought back to his days at the temple training, he remembered his old master having objects with power directly in them. How they had been made was never directly revealed to him, only that he would learn them at a later time when the order felt he was ready. That time had yet to come and because he was still in the field he couldn’t go back and petition for the rote. He didn’t have a choice though, since coming to Austin he had seen a couple of things that already had him thinking this was a rough neighborhood. It seemed to be some sort of supernatural nexus. Which was all the more reason he needed to have his defenses up at all times.  “I know I can place this on me, I just have to figure out how to get it from me to the ring” he thought to himself. Opening himself up to the Aether he began channeling pure prime energy. The warmth of it always overwhelmed him when he first held on, but what else do you expect when you are pulling down the power of Heaven into the earth?

                Slowly Calin began to try and maneuver the shield woven of pure force onto the ring. He first slid it wholly on, but that just seemed to protect the ring and not himself. Recasting the shield again he began to chant using the high speech he had learned. As he did the world around him began to flicker and change. He could see the waves of heat coming from the vents feel the pulsing of the electrical wires in the wall, hear the winds blowing outside. It made the shield around him become more defined and have sharper edges. “There has to be a way” he thought “Maybe if I could join them together that will work" Using his hands Calin began forming a tube impossibly thin by material world standards. He stretched and thinned it out even more, then placing one end in the shield he "welded" it in place with Prime. Doing the same for the other end he could feel the force of the shield flow into the ring. Elation filled him as he believed it to have worked, however it was short lived as the ring was now tethered to him and he couldn't move his hand without pulling on the thread of Prime. Frustrated and starting to lose concentration Calin dug deeper into himself and drew deeper on the power of the Aether. "What am I missing?" Looking around himself he could see everything now. He could hear the chourus of the angels singing around him and he could see the energy going from his body into the shield. "I got it! It's not the shield, but the source of the shield that must be moved. No wonder they keep this from you. I have to give up a part of my self to sustain the energy in the shield. I understand now" Summoning all the will he could Calin reached into his essence and took the tiny bit that was powering the shield and placed it in the center stone of the ring. The smallish brown stone that was once plain now clearly had a star of light in the middle of it shining with the power placed in it. As Calin released the flow of Prime he nearly fainted as his body slumped over. A quick glance at the clock showed the reason why. He had spent 15 straight hours chanting and channeling, but it worked, the shield was still up.

Painting update

I finally got bit by the painting bug again. It happens from time to time, I'll paint for a while, then stop, then get tired of seeing unpainted stuff and start back up again. So here is my latest project. My Autarch's are my new BFF's in my army so I'm trying to do this guy up right. I'm still trying to figure out how to to the ribbons/seals coming from his helmet, the crest on top and the fusion gun so if ya got any suggestions let me hear 'em.

40k batrep week 3

Welcome to another edition of my 40k batreps. This week saw me go up against the "Blob for One and One for Blob" guard player.

40k list revision

Week 3 of the league starts tomorrow, and that means a bump up to 1000 pts. I'm thinking of adding the always deadly 5 man firedragon squad in another wave serpent and a doomseer. The seer is there because I seem to find my Autarch in a lot more CC than I would like and letting him re-roll to wound will make him much much better. The dragons are there to blow the crap out of some sort of heavy armor or crack a squad or two, usually they get to do one thing, then they die as my opponent destroys them.

Character Profile: Mr. X

This is the last of my 3rd ed. D&D characters I'm going to do. There were others but they were just new guys generated for one certain scenario or another.

Beginnings

Ok, so one of my non-gaming hobbies is computer repair/building. I love it, probably cause I don't have anyone but myself to answer to if it screws up or doesn't work. Anyway. My mom, knowing what a genius I am ask me to put a system together for her. I got most of the parts in today and will get the rest tomorrow. I plan on putting together a how-to on this just because. For now just enjoy the pretty pic of some new shiny parts.

40k batrep week 2

40K league week two saw me play against one of my Ork playing buddies. I used the same list from last week.

Movie Review: The Green Hornet

Just a cautionary advisement. I will use spoilers in my review below so if you don't want to see them, don't read this.

Character Profile's: Kira and Pence

Gonna set the way back machine again for around 1998-1999 when I was playing a lot of D&D 3rd ed. Our group was kinda small and sometimes it would just be the DM, my friend and me playing so we would have to double up on characters in order to run a game. That's were these two polar opposites come in.

Kira, the shining paladin of Heironeous fresh out of training at the tender age of 16. Her training did not go as she had hoped however. A prodigy she might have been, but ready to take the field of battle she was not. Which was why her first assignment was to watch over -

Pence. What would you get if you put Quagmire from "Family Guy" in the body of Frodo? You'd get Pence. Pretty much the loudest, most obnoxious character I've ever played. He was your typical Halfling Rogue. Though he had learned you can distract just as many people being loud as you could sneak up on being silent. His latest exploits had put him in the bad graces of the local defense force. The only thing that saved his tiny little neck, was that his "skills" were needed by the king to retrieve something of the highest value. In order to assure his co-operation, he was assigned a watcher, protector and defender.

Sadly we never finished the story arc these two are in. It's a shame too, I had some of the most epics in-character fights I've ever had. Ever felt crazy for having a conversation in your head about whether or not to do something? If you have, now try and imagine doing that out loud and with imaginary people who only exist on paper. It's enough to make a shrink see little cartoon $$$$ in his eyes. But it was sooooo much fun. Pence would run off and try to do something, Kira would yell at him. Sometimes he would feed her bad info, make her a distraction for a group of people, just to steal money pouches. I used these two for all kinds of crazy things. Once I made the DM pissed because I kept looting with Pence instead of Kira to avoid having her give any gold away. I just explained to him that since she was so young that she was a bit naive and trusted where he was telling her to look while he went and got the real goods. Like Bakish though, I haven't had the opportunity to ever play them again and they only progressed to lvl 3. Pitty, I think if we'd continued I could have driven everyone nuts arguing with myself.

Anticipation

I really hate it when I get worked up about something then the final product just doesn't deliver. I've had this happen quite a few times and I've gotten pretty good about not letting it happen again. Well, I guess no ones perfect as I'm letting it happen now with the new "Green Hornet" movie. I've spent the last few years watching this movie go from stage to stage in progression, only to have hope dashed against the rocks with it's untimely demise. I have to confess I love this franchise. It's not the most popular, but it's something kinda near and dear to me since my dad is the one who got me into watching it with re-runs of the old T.V. show. Speaking of which, SyFy has been running a marathon of it all day today and it's really getting me ready for the movie. Sure it's campy as hell and the effects are horrible, but Bruce Lee is bloody awesome and Van Williams makes a very convincing hero. So yeah, I'm letting this one build up on me and hoping that Hollywood doesn't see fit to destroy me once again, I'm looking at you "Wolverine Origins" I'll have a review up after I see it on Friday, I'm planning on taking a quick trip down south just so I can watch it with Dad on friday night, then come back up for World of Darkness on saturday. It's a hell of a waste of gas and pretty damn taxing on me, but I get to watch it with the man that introduced it to me and that's worth quite a bit.

FunDave out.

40k batrep week 1

I'll make this short and sweet. I don't batrep the way others do. I don't take pics during the game as I'm too busy figuring out what I'm doing to stop and snap off a pic. I don't do narration cause I don't have that kind of time, and I don't publish my opponents list cause quite frankly, I don't remember them and don't make an effort to.  So with that in mind, here we go.

First up was a deathwing termie list, played by the toughest player in the store.

First turn was easy enough, as he deployed only a single dread and left the rest of his army to come in from reserve. I in turn, did my usual strategy (which no one is surprised by anymore) of leaving my entire force in reserve. So, in essence, not a damn thing happened first turn.

Second turn saw half his army come in (he only had two troops) and deep strike on his objective. I chose to not use my Autarch bonus and try to keep my guys off the table for another turn and give him less chance to kill me. It worked........almost. One stubborn  squad of warwalkers decided to come in on their own, and took a potshot at the termie squad he had just dropped in.

Third turn saw the other half of his force drop in on his second objective (thus giving him completion of his primary), and the taking out of one of my warwalkers. My turn, I turn on the bonus and bring the rest of my army screaming in. Ok, so maybe it was more like whimpering in. Here's where I made a pretty large blunder, instead of hiding my two fast skimmers to block LOS and keep them alive (all I had to do was get two vehicles in his deployment zone) I chose to go for the win on turn 3. Not a good idea. Shooting sees my walkers fail again against his dread and one of his termie squads.

Turn four things took a turn for the worst. With nothing left to do but hold his objective, he turns, drops one squad of walkers, and uses his dread to down one of my wave serpents. My turn four sees little action from me as I realize the error of my way and back my remaining serpent behind a wall.

Turn five saw the loss of my other walker ensuring that I could not complete my objective. I made a last ditch attempt to contest one of his objectives, but was way too far away. Roll for turn 6 and get a 1. Sadly that was seemed to be the theme for me for the night, "oh, something important needs to happen, eh, here's a 1".

Reflecting on the game, I could have done it a little different. If I had hid my skimmers behind the wall, not only could I have made a late turn charge to his deployment zone, but I could have landed them near enough his objective to possibly contest thus denying him any points at all. Oh well, live and learn.

Looking forward to next week and my next game though, cause win or lose, it's all about the fun.

40k on the horizion

There is a new 40k league starting at my local game store. Escalation, with an alternative rule set. First game is 750pts, and my Eldar are hungering for a fight (usually though, they end up biting off more than they can chew).

Here's the list I'll be taking for the first two weeks.
HQ- Autarch - Power weapon, mandiblasters, fusion gun.

Troops- 5x Dire Avengers w/ Wave Serpent - TL Shru. Cannons
             5x Dire Avengers w/ Wave Serpent - TL Shru. Cannons

Heavy Support- 4x (2 squads of 2) War Walkers w/ EML

That leaves me 50 points to play around with for upgrades to either my Avenger squads or the vehicles. I'm thinking Spirit Stones on the vehicles would come in the most handy. Then, that leaves me only 30 points.

Character Profile: Bakish of Ravenwinter

This was one of my favorite characters from D&D 3rd ed. Only the second one I ever had (the first being a 2nd ed character played once). I leveled him from 1-12 and would have went further but my group fell apart and I haven't been able to use him since. So, he wound up being a lvl 6 sorcerer lvl 6 dragon desciple and that's it. Seeing how I was a lot younger and less into the role play aspect of the games, I never got around to writing a backstory for him. I would just make up small details here and there to explain away some of the "quirks" in his personality (like his drinking). I played him as a very loud, very agitated drunk. The main problem with that being he was half-elvish and a sorcerer, not the best combo for being a drunk. That is what led to what I consider one of my more humorous moments, though the party didn't think so.

We had just slogged through a long dungeon (the reason for being there is lost to time) the session before and we started the new one off in a tavern (of course, where else are you going to start a new run). Bakish was being his usual cheery self when he noticed a dwarf at the bar. Having just survived quite a bit (our DM could be a very harsh dude) he considered himself ready to take on just about anything. So, much to the dismay of the rest of the group, he goes up and challenges the dwarf to a drinking contest. Some of you can see where this is going. He starts off well, then as usual, the dice start to let me down and I fail a couple of stamina tests which leads to an exchange something like this.

DM: Ok, you are totally drunk out of your mind now.
Me: Sure, not like I haven't been here before. In character: "Hey everyone, look what I can do!" (my intent was to cast a couple lvl 0 spells and make a light show of sorts. I succeded.........kinda)
DM: Well, if you're going to start trying to cast something while drunk, Let's see if you miss cast.
(Dice roll: 1) Oh, that's not good. (DM smirks, never a good sign) You just learned Fireball didn't you?
Me: Yeah, why?
DM: Ok then, you miss cast fireball inside the tavern. You hit the kegs behind the bar.
Me: (no words just a grim expression as I realize the entire bar is about to go up in smoke)
To make a long story short, the entire bar caught fire and we were ran out of town without rest and without food. I was not very popular after that.

I am still working on the backstory for this character so maybe I'll have it up someday.

FIrst Post

Ok. So this being my first official post I'll just let ya know, this blog is going to be all over the place. I'm a gamer and like multiple games and I plan on talkin' about them all. From D&D and World of Darkness, to Warhammer 40k and maybe, if I really hate myself that day, I'll even talk about Magic: The Gathering.