Wednesday, July 31, 2013

A Return to Form

     I really suck at maintaining a blog.

     I keep blaming outside influences; convergences of celestial and terrestrial events that conspire to prevent me from writing. Like Cthulhu or The King in Yellow is actively attempting to stop me from putting words into the vastness of the internet. If only that were true. I'll be honest, I mostly just suffer from malcontentment. I'm never quite happy with how this ever turns out; in fact, I rarely post on Facebook anymore for much the same reason. It just comes across, to me, as idiotic rambling.

     Yet here I am again, letting loose the thoughts in my head in a public manner. Anything you read past this point is now your fault entirely, and you have been warned.

     Tabletop RPG's have fallen to the wayside for me currently. This isn't due to a lack of interest, but more of a growing interest in another game. For a long time, I've been eyeing Warmachine and Hordes; mainly to supplant my waning interest in Warhammer 40,000. I love the social aspects of tabletop wargaming. It is one the first activities I have found that I don't need to win to have fun. Learning Hordes has been a blast, and the group of people that I have found here in Gainesville have been wonderful so far.

     What started out as a Christmas present from a friend has blossomed into a full 35 point Legion of Everblight army. I was kinda tired of always playing the "good guys" in games, and taking a cue from both my girlfriends love of all things creepy, and my good friend's Travis' love of all things monstrous, I settled on Hordes. For once there are no giant robots in my army, no power armored super soldiers, no crazy missile launchers of machine guns. Just good old fashioned dragon muscle and elven magic.

    I'm loving it. Privateer Press has built an amazing world for their games. Between this game and my hopeful adoption of the tabletop RPG "Iron Kingdoms," I can't get enough of this stuff. Anyway, back to the good stuff.
Ravagore WIP
The whole collection

    These are my current projects, And I'm happy to say that I'm well on the way to completing them. This is the first time I've ever had a whole collection of something, and I'm particularly proud of it.