Finished Elder Race, by @aptshadow.bsky.social. Really enjoyed this book. Loved the language differential between the elder and the princess. A story that brings that famous Arthur C Clarke quote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology..." to life. Great story, well written!

But I am serious about this, if you want someone to help you get started on YT, please reach out. I built an intervention proposal and everything! There's a theoretical model!

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

Read The Summer War, by @naominovik.bsky.social. A beautiful book with the enchanting soul of a fairy tale. Well worth your time.

Australian TTRPG Round Up 2025 bundle is now live: itch.io/b/3462/ausrp... #ttrpt #tabletop #rpg

Still looking for a last minute Christmas present? Check out the AusRPG Round Up Bundle. A selection of 16 Aussie TTRPGs, showcasing some of the amazing work created Down Under in 2025. Get it now for just $10 itch.io/b/3462/ausrp...

Everyone seems to be doing a '10 games I want to play in 2026', funnily enough I wrote a blog post for mine before I saw the trend, and it happens to have 10 games... 😂 castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/rpg-...

I honestly thought I had joined this. Oh well. Great games in here, not least Growing Thylacine by @pidj.bsky.social Well worth picking up this bundle!

Finished The Mercy of God's, by James S.A. Corey. Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not sure what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed the characters and the story. Great read!

Finished The Expert System's Brother, by @aptshadow.bsky.social. I've really liked the novellas I've read by Tchaikovsky. This one has an interesting world, I enjoyed it a lot.

My RPG Goals for 2026... the games I would love to get to the table next year. Not an exhaustive list, but more ambitious than reality will no doubt allow. castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/rpg-...

No excuse to keep delaying putting paint to model now…

Hoping that the next game to take over in our Candela Obscura spot is Mouse Guard. I’ve had this game for years and have never played it, but love the comics it’s based on.

Last night we finished a campaign of Candela Obscura I’ve been in for over a year. It’s been a blast, very ably run by our GM, & culminated in multiple game groups playing the same climactic session together. I think it might be the first game I’ve played where our characters chose to retire.

I’m currently running two long campaigns (and loving it), and all I can think about is what games I could be reading or running next…

4th Rate Painting... am I referring to the ship, the paint job, or perhaps both... :D castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/4th-...

Undercoating time....

My Bretonnians assembled. Nice miniatures. They go together well. GW have done a good job with the assembly guide. Looking forward to painting them!

Played Castles of Burgundy today. Had some good luck in the tile draws and dice and managed to run away with the game in the end. I like this game quite a lot, plenty to think about but it moves along at a nice pace.

Played Ecosystem: Coral Reef today. Solid game. I like the drafting system, and trying to build your network of animals etc to score points. Some nice differences to the original game.

Played Zooloretto Mini today. It's been a while since I played, and honestly it made me feel like breaking out Zooloretto. It was good fun.

Half the Bretonnian team assembled. The other half to go.

Cascadia with my wife tonight. Been a while since we've played this one. Solid game.

Finished painting my 4th rate for Oak and Iron. That's the Men of War box finished. Very happy with how these ships have painted up!

Sums it up...

You gotta a lotta Gaul there... A post about painting my 15mm Gaulish army for De Bellus Antiquitatus (DBA). With lots of photos of the models! castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/you-...

Ran a session of Star Wars: Edge of the Empire tonight... the characters are reaching out to try and make contacts in a nascent rebellion they are fomenting, they're finding enemies around every corner, or potential allies with amoral dealings. It's interesting to see them navigate the landscape.

Played a solo learning game of Hispania last night. Some interesting choices throughout, would be a challenge on a different difficultly level and played cooperatively.

Played a game of Necromunda today. Lost one ganger against the Palatine Enforcers, but put 9 out of 10 of the Enforcers out of action. It was a blood bath, and my gang farmed a ton of XP. It was a great table to play on, but it helped I was lucky with the dice.

Game of Necromunda today, my gang got taken apart, and set on fire. Had to retreat to stop the carnage. Still, it was good fun.

Some rambling recollections and musings on the role playing games I have played and run this year... castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/endi...

Ok, did a post sort of in response to this... A retrospective on the games I've played this year. Less of a series of awards, and more some general rambling thoughts, but here they are! #Endies2025 castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/endi...

You're into RPGs. You've maybe played one this year, or ten, or... sixty-two? What if you told us about them? Like, in a blog post, or on here. Tell us what you played, maybe for how long. You could say if you liked them and why. You could even hand out awards. Welcome to The #Endies2025.

Painting Oak and Iron... Photos of all my painted ships for this Firelock Games naval wargame. castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/pain...

Initially tried using Google docs to track the Star Wars Edge of the Empire game I am running, but reverted to a note book. Which is fine, until I have to flick back through twenty pages of crawled notes to find the name of an NPC that is suddenly relevant again... 😂

My Gallic DBA Army all painted and ready to use. Pretty happy with how they've come up!

Light horse done, my Gallic force for DBA is complete!

Coming full circle... blog resurrection. I have posted again to one of my oldest blogs, and it's mostly about my Necromunda gang... castlebymoonlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/full... #Necromunda #GamesWorkshop

I set up a Substack for Caradoc Games, but with that on a hiatus for a little while, I am really considering going back to my old blog site. I miss the simplicity of typing and posting, and Substack feels difficult to navigate.

Finished my battle board for DBA, came up pretty well in the end. With some terrain and miniatures it should look good.

My game board for DBA. The base paint is mixed with sand to give texture, then multiple layers of static grass added (a mix of winter green and tundra tones). Now I need to let it dry and give it a spray of matt varnish to help seal the grass to the board.

I'm making a game board for DBA, and testing the static grass. The one on the right is the so called winter grass I ordered (somewhat too green), the one on the left is mixed with some 'tundra' tone static grass I had.

My Gallic camp for DBA, painted and done. Pretty happy with how it came out.

Light chariots finished for DBA, as well as a base of psiloi.

15mm Gaulish chariots, the charioteers are currently awaiting paint. I think they've come up nicely!

Played two games of Necromunda today as a part of the campaign being run by our local store. Was lucky with some rolls and managed to win both. Was a lot of fun!

A game of Oak and Iron today, was good fun. I was lucky woth my rolls and had a few powerful combinations. One ship sunk, and I met the objectives with little my opponent could do to respond.

At the doctors and the TV is playing a children's show where they go in a time machine to the 1980s. If I wasn't in a state previously I am now.

Some 15mm Gauls painted for a DBA Army. Chariots and light horse to be completed...

Started painting miniatures again after a friend asked me to play in a Necromunda campaign he was planning. It's been a while since I've picked up the paint brush, but I thought it might be a fun diversion from the study I was doing this year, and it has been.