Warhammer Cafe

Yes, please! But where the Hellblasters is it? Last time I checked, "North America" is a pretty big place...

History (Sort of) Repeats Itself

Although we were unable to connect with Matt and his daughter for our transcontinental Shattered Realm campaign over the weekend, the boys were keen on getting back to their high-level Shattered Realm characters. After managing only one or two game sessions over the four months we've lived in our new house, I was eager to accommodate their interest. We ended up spending most of the day getting into the early stages of a massive dungeon crawl that focuses on stealth and creativity rather than combat. It involves the heroes infiltrating the main stronghold of the dark elves and stealing a magical item from them.

The adventure has some narrative parallels with "The Raid of Naxxia", which surely ranks among the top two or three adventures in the history of the Druid Cycle campaign world. In that storyline from way back in 1995, longtime Porch players Scott and Jason each selected two of their PCs -- as Matthew and Nathaniel have done for this Shattered Realm adventure -- to engage in a clandestine assault on the dark elf city of Naxxia. It's hard to believe that we played through "Raid" over 22 years ago -- I hope this new adventure has as much of an impact on the Shattered Realm world as "Raid" did on the Druid Cycle.

Victory Is Not Her Destiny

Turns out that Captain Phasma doesn't have any better luck in games than she does in the films. Nathaniel and I were trying out Star Wars: Destiny this afternoon -- he was Rey and Poe, and I was Kylo and Phasma. Rey and Kylo killed each other pretty quickly, leaving us with a one-on-one between the two supporting characters. I was one turn away from finishing off Poe when Nathaniel played a card that allowed him to reroll my damage dice, turning a certain kill shot into a glancing blow. Then Poe was able to call in a strike team and...well...it was curtains for poor Captain Phasma! At least she went down in a blaze of glory, unlike her rather unceremonious defeats in the two most recent Star Wars films.

Finally!

Working on and off for the last couple of months, I've finally finished painting our starter armies for the Ultramarines and Death Guard. First up, the Ultramarines, consisting primarily of the new Primaris units...

And now the Death Guard, in all their grody glory!

Temple of Mithras

Hey, Druid Cycle players, the next time you're in London, you can check out a real Temple of Mithras...

Happy New Year!

The boys stayed up until midnight for the first time this year. We played a family game of Pandemic and then I painted Nathaniel's new 40k vehicles while Nathaniel worked on Legos and Matthew got back into Knights of the Old Republic. We didn't get around to playing Star Wars: Destiny -- another gift from Santa -- during our holiday vacation, but we'll put it on the to-do list along with painting...lots of painting. Here's to a 2018 filled with gaming fun!