2013 Season of Random Gaming

Welcome to the season of Random Gaming!
From now until the end of the year, we'll be playing a random board or card game each week. So every week is something new.
Here's a list of some of the games I'm thinking of running. If anyone has preferences, leave a comment below (your school email account is a google account, so you'll have no trouble leaving comments - you might need to sign in though.)

• Zombie Plague
• Deadwood Studios USA
• Light Speed
• Agora
• Colossal Arena
• Elder Sign
• Red November
• Heroica
• Super Cowboy Rope Steer Adventure
• Carcassone
• Hoyuk
• Super Munchkin
  
  
  

LSC MASTER PAINTER 2013

We're underway with the Master Painter 2013 contest. Painting starts Friday 11th in C0, and continues for a couple of weeks. After that, a poll will be posted to this blog and the whole internet can vote on who is the best painter! There are fabulous and shiny prizes! Well, there's a fabulous and slightly glossy Reaper dragon figure anyway.

This year there's a level playing field since everyone is painting one of two figures - A Reaper Bones Goblin or a Reaper Bones Kobold. These are really cool, low-cost figures made from a kind of flexible plastic which takes paint nicely, resists chipping and can even be painted without an undercoat! The range has just been expanded, and there's a second Kickstarter campaign running now to expand it even further, so next year's contest will involve even more exciting figures and prizes. I bought these ones a while back, and the expanded range has not hit Australian shops yet, so the dragon was the best figure available. Prizes next year can be more spectacular, thanks to the expanded range.

Geekery has a new home in Gippsland!

Yes! From October 17th, there's a wargames club running at Coal Creek! Full and startling details are available here!

Castle Ravenloft

From september 14th, we will be playing Castle Ravenloft every friday lunch. Be very quick, places are severely limited and the game is awesome. You have been warned.

Martian Zombies

Here's a link to my newly published game, Martian Zombies.
There's also an article on Terrain for Hippos which explains how to prepare the game.

A successor to Heroquest?

I may have found a replacement for heroquest which is actually currently available and looks damn cool! There is a series of 'dungeons and dragons adventures' board games, including Cstle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon and Legend of Drizzt. All of them use a simplified version of the dnd rules, have plenty of missions, weapons and options and use randomly generated tile based dungeons and really cool minis. I am thinking of getting either ravenloft or ashardalon in september... Castle Ravenloft on he Wizards website

Change of venue

The wargames club will now run in c0 every week so that anyone who wants to paint or make terrain etc. can do so while the others play. There are still some people who need to finish painting their squads before they can take part in Grunt/Off, but the others will be able to start playing tomorrow.