AAAAAAH!!! It’s mail day! New Tarzan novel by JOE LANSDALE (!!!), printed to match the Ballantine editions that my grandfather started me with when I was a little kid. I’m BEYOND excited to dig into this!

@roebeast.bsky.social Just put together a mock-up of the packaging for the Ophidian Menace set! It needs a bit of tweaking, but it’s basically there.

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing these painted!

One of the Forge of Ice Dragon Turtles seems to have found a good home!

more potential unlocked minis on the Bronze Age #RubbleCity kickstarter. can't wait to get these in hand!

And to fight the cultists, a team of heroes! I’m feeling pretty good about how these turned out, including 2 of my new-to-Forge of Ice Barbarian minis, painted here as Goliaths (sculpted by David Soderquist). Those two’ll be in the online store this week! Most of the rest are Nolzur D&D figs.

Planning out a terrain piece for a friend’s game.

I’ve mostly stopped buying miniatures - I already have enough to keep me busy for literally the rest of my life. But sometimes I see something that’s so cool or so fun that I can’t resist. This T-Rexecutioner from XTREME CORP was something that I absolutely HAD to have!

Today’s envelope skull.

I had to buy new shelving to make space for all these new minis. Which meant rearranging the garage. Which started a whole domino effect of stuff I need to do around the house. It’s taking WAY longer than I had hoped, but, maaaaan… it’s pretty cool seeing the castings lined up like this.

I think I can call these guys done enough. Tomb Guardian cultists: very nice sculpts. Crisp details that take paint well except the feet & faces. The details on the masks are so shallow that they’d be a nightmare if I wasn’t just speed painting them. Overall I’m very happy, would buy again.

These games truly are transient, temporary experiences/stories. Like ice sculptures. Art that exists in the moment, and is gone very quickly afterwards.

My curiosity about this sort of RPG ephemera history is boundless. Who is or was this guy? Why did he get a shout-out? He meant something to somebody. Or is it a character’s name or an in-joke? Or something completely different?

Speed painting some cultists from Tomb Guardian minis. They’re about 3/4 finished here - bases, skin, feet & hands are all I’m gonna do more detail on, plus a few odd bits like the bell and book.

@birdninjaart.bsky.social ‘s watercolor landscapes make for excellent mini photography backdrops. I took this pic as a test piece, I set it up in about a minute. I’m gonna have to try it again with proper lighting etc. Even so - I’m pretty happy with how these character minis are turning out.

1/2 In some ways, I’ve tried to make my lost world setting, Azor, something of a personal utopia. A bit. There are dinosaurs & ancient ruins & you can have a pet lion, etc. And, if things get bad enough, the kings & the high priests are seized & burned in the great temple. They are powerful &

Doing a bit of painting for myself - a Nolzur Druid. Some of the details are frustratingly soft (even for a mass-produced bendy plastic range, although at $3 the price is very fair) and the fishing net & seashell accessories are a little unexpected, but he’ll look alright on the tabletop.

New Barbarian, painted by Redbeard miniatures.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Some of the new barbarians I’ve recently added to my range, painted by Redbeard Miniatures!

Been feeling really low lately, but fresh paint on some little D&D guys is having a measurably salubrious effect.

Concept art for the Mis-born, by Mr. Zarono!

First of the Ophidian Menace set, Vriss the god serpent, now in stock for the UK and EU from Fenris! 125mm tall, 70mm diameter, single-piece resin model. Slippery stuff !

The full Ophidian Menace set: Vrissth’ra $50 Zassek, the Fang of Ael-Karna $9 Xuss-Duhl, the Primeval $9 Xa-Hsthuul, mis-born Arcanist $8 The Regurgitated $8 Neanderthal servant warrior $8 Fertility Idol $10 If you buy the whole set, it’s $100 with free shipping until my initial stock runs out.

Late at night at Kinkos with scissors and glue… man, those were incredibly good times.

The last two members of the Ophidian Menace set - Zassek, the Fang of Ael-Karna, and, Xuss-Duhl the Primeval. Sculpted by David Soderquist and Matt Gubser, cast in metal, both display models were painted by Chris Walker.

Two more servants of the Ophidian Menace - Xa-Hsthuul, a mis-born Arcanist, twisted offspring of a serpent and a human with innate sorcerous abilities, and, the Regurgitated, a prisoner swallowed, transformed, and vomited back out of the serpent’s belly, enslaved to her whims.

I will always repost pics of my Deep One Herald painted; extra moreso when the herald is carrying such an excellent message.

The centerpiece of the Ophidian Menace set - Vrissth’ra! Sculpted by Dave Cauley, painted by Chris Walker, based on concept art by Mr. Zarono.

I haven’t yet settled on names for these figures, but, since I’ve added Barbaric Splendor’s Ophidian Menace set to my range, here’s the first two: A Neanderthal servant-warrior & Idol to the serpent as a fertility god. Both hand-sculpted by David Cauley, cast in metal, & painted by Chris Walker

Well, dang - good for the Academy!

Chris Walker, painter, working on one of my new Ophidian Menace figures - a Neanderthal servant warrior in service to the serpent men.

Apparently there’s something screwy going on with my online store - I’m working on fixing it. If you need to place an order immediately, get in touch and I can send you a direct invoice via PayPal. I should hopefully have this fixed in a few days.

“A Short Stay in Hell” by Steven Peck - I picked this up yesterday & immediately read the whole thing. Delightful. Maaaaybe(?) a little unsatisfied by the ending, but, it’s not about the end, it’s about the journey. I loved it; I’m sure I’ll be thinking about it for a long while.

Today’s entertainment: SHRIEK OF THE SASQUATCH - A 2011 attempt at re-creating a 1970’s-style grindhouse Squatchsploitation film. Sign me up! … … it’s not gonna be to everyone’s taste.

I’ve got these glorious Ophidian centerpiece resin castings - Vrissth’ra, the progenitor of all serpents. They’re $50 each, plus shipping. Hit me up if you want one, it’s such a small batch I’m not sure I’m even going to put them in my online store, I’m mostly saving them for in person events.

I probably shouldn’t be sorting these on the couch, but, upside: I get to sort them while sitting on the couch!

Lovely day for a drive around town.

Some cool stuff in the pipeline.

Mine just arrived! Upon a quick skim, it looks great!

… can anyone honestly say they’re surprised that someone is finally burning these places down? And if someone starts tarring and feathering those supervisors, I can’t imagine anyone being surprised about that, either.

“Magical Spot” by Bunker’s Boys. I heard It on College radio waaaay back in the day, and I had to physically go up to the studio and dig through the playlist paperwork to find it.

Yet one more reason to follow Fenris Games! Support human art!

As a youth it never occurred to me that it was ego – I only noticed Gygax naming stuff after himself after his ouster from TSR. I assumed it was a way to ensure that his name stayed on his creations. As an adult, I can see the ego - but I’m not sure that teen me was completely wrong, either.

This better describes my experience as a pre-teen in the 1980’s learning D&D on my own than anything I’ve read in any OSR manifesto. I also think the influence of “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style books is vastly underestimated. For a lot of kids, it was the only clue we had on how to run D&D!

As usual, it takes a bunch of people working together to make cool stuff happen. This gate’s motif is from the Twin Heads of Avarice book that @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social & I wrote together, an illustration by @leafclaw.bsky.social , with sculpting, casting, & moldmaking by @fenrisgames.com!

It’s the middle of the night, I’ve had a couple of glasses of wine (rare for me), I’m feeling a bit peckish, tomorrow (today?) is Easter dinner… might as well make a strawberry cheesecake.

And it went for $400 again! The bidder came up to me afterwards and said that their kid had always wanted to learn how to play, so they took the opportunity!

With my recent acquisition of the Superior Models Frost Giant deity Thrym, I’m in the weird spot of having nearly completed my whole vintage minis bucket list! All that’s left are the original Tryanid Dominators, and Tom Loback’s (Dragontooth minis) Saurian Behemoth & Warlord of Saur.

Someone in the comments suggested replacing Lorem Ipsum with this, and, I wholeheartedly agree.