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Out latest set of paper minis - The Attack of the Mygnskerö - three fearsome Fungoid invaders, alongside three craft working defenders, hand-drawn in old school black and white is out now.I've always wanted to do something similar to the Citadel box sets like Runequest Box 3 -Attack of the Broo and LW1 Lone Wolf - Giak Attack. Aside from the nostalgia (the set cover, photo above, is loosely

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Crooked Dice are currently running a Kickstarter that includes a number of miniatures based on my concept art. Sculpted by Ari Níelsson, and painted by Matthew Leahy, both have done outstanding work on bringing the concepts to life. For me the project started a while back, when Karl at Crooked Dice asked if I wanted to do some concept drawings based on The Breakfast Club and the 1980s

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As the wheel of time grinds ever onwards, it's time to unleash the Oldhammer 2025 Exclusive Edition t-shirt into the old world, and jettison the 2024 Edition off into the grinning goblin faced sun.This years Exclusive Edition Original Oldhammer T-shirt colour-way rewinds back to the dawn of the fantasy wargaming revolution, taking inspiration from the warm mustard and earthtones of the 1970s,

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Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath inscribed in ancient runes.Wyr'nlek - the serpentine blade, untarnished by time and slaughter.Tyrne-Garth - a lesser daemonic spite manifest in swordform.Knath-Nÿrn - torn from the jaws of a still living Elder God. Dranaken - forged in

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The latest addition to the growing range of Vlätkrig Paper Minis - The Rangers of Myrkváld comprises nine outdoor adventuring characters of different ethnicities and genders brought together with matching equipment and a variety of common weapons. Þryda Vald - a moody sword armed Urük pathfinderLjonoah - weatherbeaten sword weilding Kobling forest keeper.Mykalmir Koch - sword carrying Gnörf

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 Sometime earlier this year I noticed that there still remain several gaps in my Terry Pratchett collection. Well, there are gaps in most of my 'collections', not being a particularly obsessive collector, and having developed a philosophy that 'buying stuff off eBay' is not the same as the hobby of 'collecting', which in my mind, at least is an activity that involves wandering around second

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Currently there are three sets of Vlätkrig Fantasy Paper Minis being actively worked on at various states of development, the Eotnas Helawort, The Rangers of Hölavej and 'The Raven Coven'.Set Six: Eotnas HelawörtStage: LayoutThis is something of a companion set to the Vackreth Deorghast, consisting of large wooden magical contructs, or zoomorphic Ents / Treant type creatures, based on traditional

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Vlätkrig Set Five: The Gáldaethraja Alliance contains 6 unique, hand-drawn, black and white antlered elvenfolk characters for you to print, cut-out and play or use with virtual tabletop software.The Gáldaethraja Alliance sheet 1 contains six different characters of a single gender, multiple cultures and ethnicities with varying arms and armour:Myrré Volkāncraeft - war-axe and shield &nbsp

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The Deörghast are the vengeance driven undead revenants of animal genocide, who have crossed the filth choked river that once separated the world of the living and the realm of the dead.Vlätkrig Set Four: Vackreth Deörghast contains 5 unique characters, representing different undead animal species based on endangered British wildlife* for you to print, cut-out and play.Cörach Gjölich | Water

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Köblings are small sneaky types that emerge from the undergrowth to waylay unwary travellers and skulk through ruined metropolises after dark, enforcing their irrational territorial claims with arrogant thuggery.Köbling HûdreathVlätkrig Set Three: Köbling Hûdreath features 12 (!) printable Köbling characters of a variety of gender identities and ethnicities - all armed with Shànks, wearing

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Haemogoblins are those slightly deranged manic sorts often found hanging around ruined cities in small gangs fighting and robbing from each other and anyone one else who cross their paths. Their snottily aggressive attitudes often belies a cruel sense of humour.Vlätkrig Set Two: Haemogoblin Könkerors features 6 printable Haemogoblin figures, each armed with their flailing weapon known as a

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Here at Zhu Industries, we've been been busy developing a range of 2d print-and-play, flat-packed, digit fantasy paper miniatures. So far we have released two sets into the wild, The Gnorf Wardens of Legend and  The Haemogoblin Könkerors.The first set The Gnorf Wardens of Legend contains seven paper figures and a sheet containing 3 pieces of scatter terrain.Gnörves are the weird

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 Miniatures sculptor Andrew May (Meridan, Otherworld, Crooked Dice, Impact! Minitures and many others) is running a short Kickstarter to launch a set of 10 multipart miniatures inspired by the works of Heironymous Bosch.It goes without saying these figures would make for an amazing and unique warband for Warhammer Realms of Chaos, steeped as it is in the Late Gothic historical-imaginary, and

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My contributors copies of Daniel Merseys Lion Rampant: Second Edition arrived earlier this week, and it's due for general publication next week so took the book outside into the blazing solar heat of the ecopocalypse, to have a quick look through. Epic front cover by Mark StaceyAs the Daniel states in his introduction to the book, Lion Rampant isn't a "detailed and scholarly simulation of

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In the world of 7TV, Rick Rhodes and the Pirates of Lunar City is a 1940s retro-sci-fi cinematic serial following in the footsteps of the classic Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, with a bit of King of the Rocketmen - and perhaps a slight hint towards a proto-Star Wars and later pulp sci-fi escapades. In reality, Lunar City is a collection of miniatures and a

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[ZHU] Industries International Womens Day 2021 T-Shirt Drop  Rogue Trader Battle Sisters vs. The Clones of Nu-Earth gone Rogue. Profits donated to Womens Aid and The Center for Womans JusticeSustainably produced via UK production and fulfilment house Teemill.Ltd. 50 pieces worldwide.Black box-cut tee featuring ombre graphic print, available exclusively through [ZHU] Industries

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A look at some of my drawings appearing in Knock! magazine. Self described as "An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for Old School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike." Knock! Magazine is an as an A5, full colour, nicely designed, 200+ page magazine, in both print and PDF  published by The Merry Mushmen compilation of mostly 

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James Maliszewski recently shared this awesome cover mock up for the Secrets of Sha-Arthan designed by Lester B. Portly featuring my illustration of a mysterious cult deity.There are 3 exits from this room:Disccover more about sha-Arthan at Grognardia Support the development of sha-Arthan at James' PatreonView some more illustrations from the sha-Arthan campaign 

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A look inside the Orsa the Fearless, the first Feature Pack for Crooked Dice's 7TV:FANTASY  VHS Box CoverFront cover is a duo-toned blue version of the original poster created for 7TV:FANTASY, in a tough VHS clamshell case which contains all the materials need to recreate the epic adventures of Orsa on your tabletop (providing you've got a copy of 7TV fantasy and some miniatures of course!):

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Join the Legions of the Working Dead!Rent-A-Ghost is a one page role-playing, comedy story-telling game about very odd ghosts doing very odd jobs, strongly influenced by 1970s children's television, improvisational theatre and scoffing sweets!Each player creates and takes on the role of a peculiar ghost, hired by Rent-a-Ghost Ltd. to solve a problem for one of its many awkward customers. All the

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A look at some of my work inside the Lurkers from the Deep Feature Pack for Crooked Dice. A Feature pack is a series of linked scenarios, special rules and gaming elements, cunningly packaged inside a VHS cassette box.Lurkers from the Deep VHS box frontLurkers from the Deep VHS box openLurkers from the Deep VHS box contentsLurkers from the Deep VHS box backLaser cut tokens I designed for the game

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Some photographs of the pen and ink character design artwork for James Maliszewski's Vaults of sha-Arthan campaign, which for some time resided in my files as "Untitled Sword and Planet Project".The world is something along the lines of Edgar Rice Burroughs, M.A.R. Barker, Andrew Leke, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Kirby, Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe.AdeptWarriorScionSorcererThe four humans

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As 7TV: FANTASY has finally been unleashed upon the world, the dust from the ancient crypt has just about settled across the land I thought it's about time I took a look at the epic contents and the illustration work that went into the latest big box release from Crooked Dice Game Design Studios.7TV: Fantasy BoxFull colour box. I wrote quite a lot about the cover, Jungian archetypes, the balance

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A look at some concept art for Otherworld Miniatures Wood Elves. The initial brief from Richard at Otherworld was for three figures of a small patrol band, armed with Spear, Bow and Sword and lightly armoured, (not entirely coincidently as the Elf entry arms them in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual) referencing Jes Goodwins 1980s Elves for Citadel Miniatures,

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" Joe over on Uncaring Cosmos recently posted some interesting thoughts on early ludological influences on the development of tabletop role-playing games, and some strands of influence on early adoption of Dungeons & Dragons that I've been thinking about again recently. Curiously both strands feature simultaneously on front cover of Games & Puzzles magazine #23 from March

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