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Hang out and chat while I paint some Malifaux miniatures.

If you're looking for some cheap yet effective DIY tools to make your miniature painting experience more enjoyable and convenient, look no further.

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So, if you use speedpaint or contrast paints, you've likely adopted zenithal priming, the are of priming in black, grey, and white, in order to simulate natural shadows, mid-tone, and highlights, as the foundation for your translucent paints. You've probably also heard this entire routine referred to as slap chop, which is how I often refer to it. Well now get ready for the next evolution in this process, ZENITHAL WITH COLORED PRIMERS.

Here's a quick look at the new painting station and paint shelves that I build for myself after returning from GenCon 2024 and feeling rather inspired to spruce up my space.

Here's a quick little look at Everdell and the new Everdell Farshore, which we grabbed at GenCon 2024. If you've seen the new MTG set Bloomburrow and thought "I'd like that in a highly rated and highly expandable worker placement board game..." well have I got news for you.

Let's take a quick look at one of the several RPGs that we picked up this year from GenCon 2024. This game has a very unique plot and setting, and will likely offer players a roleplaying experience like nothing else.

We had a blast at Gen Con this year. I'll be making separate videos for all of the new RPGs, Board Games, Miniatures, and Gaming Gear that we purchased, but for now please enjoy this smattering of footage from this year.

After devouring the 30-ish page paperwork rulebook for Mothership, I can tell you it is without a doubt one of the cleanest and most efficient designs for an RPG I have ever come across, and I cannot wait to run my first campaign of this game.

Thanks to an improvement in my groups gaming schedule, we'll not only be gaming more often, but will be playing a wider variety of board games, RPGs, and tabletop miniatures games, and because of this increase in RPG frequency, I decided to look into Quest Portal, a new Virtual Table Top and GM toolkit program.

NOTE: I spent the first few minutes of this chat discussing why we broke with tradition and didn't attend Gen Con 2023 last year, which is a COVID heavy rant. Feel free to skip it, this video is long enough on it's own haha. GO TO @6:55 to SKIP. This year we'll be returning to Gen Con, the worlds largest table top gaming convention, held in downtown Indianapolis, IN. Our favorite part by far is walking the exhibit hall and taking a nice long look at the goods that each of the 500+ vendors have to offer. However this year, in order to make certain we don't miss any of our favorites, we've developed a plan!

I recently traveled to Greece for Work, Leisure, and lots of sweating, but now I'm back, so let's do some babbling about my trip and these two great Japanese themed games we recently played.

MASSIVE NEWS! Privateer Press, after 25 years of developing their beloved and highly successful tabletop miniatures wargames, Warmachine and Hordes, as well as their Tabletop RPG, Iron Kingdoms, has sold almost their entire catalog to Steamforged Games, the UK based game developer and publisher that is likely best known for their failed, yet now rebooted, steampunk miniatures game Guild Ball. This acquisition not only includes the above mentioned titles but almost every single IP they have ever created. Is this the end of Privateer Press? Will Steamforged be able to save the waning legends, Warmachine and Iron Kingdoms? What will become of the plethora of newer and less developed privateer press games such as Riot Quest, Warcaster, and Company of Iron?

What is an RPG? What are they all about? What are the basics? What are some does and don'ts?

How many times have your non-gaming friends mocked you for the time and money you spend collecting board games? Well, I'm to tell you those aren't your friends, I'm your friend, and I agree with you purchases 99% of the time... We'll talk about that other 1% another time.

Just wanted to pop in and explain why I haven't posted in months, as well as let everyone know that going forward things should smooth out.

Here's a look at the several games that we played for the first time while attending CaptainCon 2024.

This past weekend was CaptainCon 2024, the 10th year of the con, and we've attended each of them. However, even though we had a great time, just as much fun this year as any other, we had some interesting realizations by the end of weekend. ALSO! I failed to mention that there are 5 or 6 people that we only get to see at CaptainCon, and we'd really miss not seeing them. So, add that to the 'in favor' side of things.

Decided to take a stab at a homemade DIY display shelf for my new complete SpeedPaint 2.0 paint set.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Crazy Kwanzaa, Tip Top Tet, and a solemn and dignified Ramadan. Here's a run down of the new games I've been so kindly gifted this year.

Just a quick video breaking down my somewhat unique tabletop game rating system.

If you're a fan of the popular MTG format Commander, you may want to just skip over this one. However, if you're up for a fun little rant about the Godfather of all TCGs being turned into bloated trendy nonsense, maybe stick around.

A quick look at the titles I picked up on Black Friday. Bonus Attack On Titan Season 4 Confusion if you're willing to stick around till the end.

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