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Lost Minis Wiki

Gordon Cooper — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:20:49 +0000

The Lost Minis Wiki is an “open resource for identifying and cataloguing fantasy miniatures.” This is an excellent resource for collectors and admirers of miniature sculpture, but it could also be used as a practical resource for fantasy role-playing. Consider, if you will, a situation in which a GM is attempting to describe a monster or even a non-player character. A verbal description may or may not be enough, but if an illustration is unavailable, it will have to suffice unless there is or was a miniature created of the being in question. You needn’t own the miniature itself. All you need to do is print the image or, if you use a laptop computer at your gaming table, save the image or bookmark the page and display it during the encounter. It can also be used by players who like to inform others that “my character looks like this” when the actual miniature is lacking.

I learned of this site upon reading this entry of Jeff’s Gameblog.

The Lost Minis Wiki has been added to the Game Reference links page at Fudgery.net.

Creeks and Crawdads Reimagined

Gordon Cooper — Wed, 04 May 2011 03:59:34 +0000

In 1986, I had the misfortune of being completely unaware that the most realistic post-apocalyptic role-playing game parody ever created had been published. Otherwise, I would have purchased it instead of having to resort to waiting years for my eBay saved search to bear results, only to have it snatched from my grasp by bidders with more money than sense when it finally came up for auction. The game of which I write is, of course, Creeks and Crawdads by Martin Costa.

Fortunately, there is a substitute thanks to post-apocalyptic reconstructionist Alexander Cherry. His version of Creeks and Crawdads utilizes something called the Impact System, and the whole project is described by him here. Not only that, this reanimated mockery of life as we will not get a chance to know it is available as a free PDF, which is a very considerate thing for someone to do for total strangers. So if, like me, you have an odd urge to get a glimpse of a future in which inept crustaceans rule the world or, more accurately, struggle for survival in the ashes of our civilization, then this is the game for you!

Wushu for Free

Gordon Cooper — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:17:29 +0000

If you like free-form, freewheeling, combat-oriented role-playing, then you might like Daniel Bayn’s Wushu. On his Wushu Freebies page, the author has generously made the core rules available under a Creative Commons license. Other items of interest include a free character sheet PDF, wallpapers, previews, and links to Wushu-related sites (such as Wushu Wiki). If you like what you see, other Wushu material may be purchased on his Wushu Books page.

Wushu and Wushu Wiki have been added to the Game Support links page at Fudgery.net.

New Tékumel Web Log

Gordon Cooper — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:55:19 +0000

If you are a fan of Prof. M.A.R. Barker’s Tékumel setting, you may be interested to know that Brett Slocum has started a new Web log, The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends. My Fudgery.net site has long included links to Brett Slocum’s Tékumel Page and Brett Slocum’s The Fantasy Trip Page, which are both very useful resources. I shall certainly be following this one.

(This site came to my attention via this article in Grognardia.)

Free Ticket to Talislanta

Gordon Cooper — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:29:19 +0000

One of the games I have always found visually intriguing is Talislanta, the unconventional fantasy role-playing game written by Stephan Michael Sechi and illustrated by P.D. Breeding-Black (and others after the first edition). It is a game steeped in the alien and the exotic, and as such it has a richly detailed background, lending itself to comparisons to Empire of the Petal Throne or Skyrealms of Jorune. Talislanta has appeared in five different editions not including the d20 edition, and although there are no new editions on the horizon, the good news is that all of the official books are available as free PDFs that may be downloaded at Talislanta.com. This site is an excellent resource not only for official material, but for links to fan-created material as well. Adding to all of this utility, it is also a Web log.

Talislanta.com has been added to the Game Support links page at Fudgery.net

Munchkin Icons Keep Chaos at Bay

Gordon Cooper — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:33:21 +0000

Munchkin Icons is a handy resource for Munchkin players who have combined one or more decks and need to know which cards belong to which expansions. Each expansion card bears a symbol that identifies the expansion set to which it belongs, and this page helps you match the symbol to the expansion set.

Looking at the array of Munchkin core games and expansion sets, I can see I have a long way to go in my collection.

Autoduelling and Site-Updating

Gordon Cooper — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:23:13 +0000

In a comment on my article Road-Warring, Michael P. Owen, the Webmaster of the Seattle Washington Autoduel Team Headquarters (or SWAT HQ) was kind enough to share this link of gaming resources: Automotive Combat Tabletop Game Systems. There is much to explore on that page, and I am grateful for the work it must have involved.

In related news, I have updated the Game Support links page at Fudgery.net. Several sites have been added (including the aforementioned SWAT HQ site), several deceased sites have been removed, and I reorganized the links by category, such as Automotive Combat.

Friends of Starship Warden Accepting Donations

Gordon Cooper — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:44:14 +0000

James Ward, the father of Metamorphosis Alpha and Gamma World, has been diagnosed with a serious neurological disorder. To help alleviate the rapidly rising medical costs imposed on him and his family, Friends of Starship Warden has been established to accept donations.

[Source: Grognardia]

Miniature Review

Gordon Cooper — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:05:47 +0000

Miniature Review is a Web log with news and interviews pertaining to miniatures and miniature war games. Photographs are plentiful. Enjoy.

Darlene, Artist

Gordon Cooper — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:52:42 +0000

Darlene (formerly known as Darlene Pekul) is and always has been one of my favorite role-playing game artists and cartographers. Her work is truly iconic, having graced not only the pages of The Dragon and the original Dungeon Master’s Guide, but also the very emblem of TSR itself, the wizard’s face logo. Darlene also created the most famous (and I’d not be alone to say greatest) campaign maps in the history of the hobby, those of The World of Greyhawk.

I am a proud owner of a copy of her landmark fantasy card game, Jasmine: The Battle for the Mid-Realm, which I purchased from her at the first Gen Con I ever attended. (When I say, “purchased from her,” I really mean to say that I gave the money to my mother and watched as she purchased it for me, because I was an awkward lad of about 12 or 13 who was much too shy to approach the beautiful artist I so deeply admired. Aye, silly, but true. Such are the tales of adolescence.)

James Maliszewski had the enviable pleasure of interviewing Darlene in Grognardia, and Darlene herself has her own Web site, the aptly named Darlene the Artist.

Darlene, I wish you the best.

Russ Nicholson, Artist

Gordon Cooper — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:28:49 +0000

By way of a post in Grognardia, I have learned that Russ Nicholson, perhaps best known to gamers for his artistic contributions to the Fiend Folio, now has his own Web log.

Russ Nicholson has always been one of my favorite role-playing game illustrators, and I wish him success.

Fudgerpg Twibe Started

Gordon Cooper — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:35:56 +0000

There is a new Twitter twibe devoted to Fudge: the Fudgerpg Twibe.

[Edit: I suppose this would be a good place to mention that I may be found on Twitter under the name Cuparius.]