I love everything about this article.

Ken Hite has written an article that shakes every one of my mythos fantasy bells, and it makes me immediately want to throw down everything I'm doing (work, breathing, etc,) and go run a weird tales fantasy game. Since I backed 13th Age, it would be unforgivable to do it in anything but that. The article is just littered with idea seeds any one of which would spawn into a twisted bean stalk whose pods bear horrible fruit and that leads to a non-euclidean realm, home to a giant both octopus and bat.  

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Great shot kid, that was one in a million

I'm officially a Veteran Of The Long War. I have a certificate to prove it. I think my surprise and disbelief is palpable in this photograph. I won the accolade by being the top placed Chaos Space Marines player at Throne Of Skulls in theGames Workshop HQ in Nottingham. I won 4 of my 5 games. This is by far the best I've every done in any of the campaign weekends I've been at, so to say I'm pleased is an understand statement. To temper that a little, two of my games were against other Chaos Space Marine players, which meant by winning them, not only did I raise my score but lowered theirs. One thing that is nice to be able to say though is that I never felt particularly lucky. The dice swung back and forwards, as they should and it was my decision that help win me the games. The game I lost was against a 9 Missile Broadside, 18 Missle Drone Skyshield Tau list.

For those interested here is my list.

Bile Lord Metaxus. Chaos Warlord on a Bike with Mark Of Nurgle, a Powerfist, Aura of Dark Majesty. Blight Grenades.

5 Chaos Spawn with Mark Of Nurgle

10 Plague Marines, with a Meltagun, Plasma gun and Champion with a Poweraxe in a Rhino.
10 Plague Marines, with a Meltagun, Plasma gun and Champion with a Poweraxe in a Rhino.
11 Cultists with a Heavy Stubber.

5 Havocs with 4 Autocannons
A Forgefiend with Hades Autocannons and an Ectoplasma Cannon

A Helldrake with Baleflamer.

1500pts.

A lot of work

After the fantastic roller coaster of running the Owl Programmable Pedal Kickstarter, I've been preparing and starting my new job [Development Manager @ Gamesys] and have been pretty exhausted. This weekend however I'm at GW's centre in Nottingham for Throne Of Skulls. I decided to take a similar lists to last year but with a Helldrake and more MoN Chaos Spawn, so I've been busy painting them. Here is a picture of the Plaguedrake, made from a bitz from a Vampire Counts Zombie Dragon, Daemon Prince and Forgefiend. I'm very pleased with it, although the painting needs a lot more work, it's 3-colour ready.

I'm getting a really strong itch for some roleplaying again though, after our Inquisitor game finished. While I really want to run the D&D Slavelords campaign, with A0, my group isn't so keen on fantasy, so I'm tempted either by The Armitage Files ToC or running GUMSHOE Inquisitor using Bleeding Rim Ashen Stars rules.