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There are certain games that really deserve a boost in visibility (and investment).

#Lancer and #EclipsePhase are two such games.

I know @mithryl.bsky.social straight up forgot, and then I forgot that Mithryl forgot so here is my ##LancerRPG pilot I had commissioned from em lmao

If you’re curious what my friends and I are cooking, I’ve got a draft up on the Pilot.Net discord’s third-party forum! You can also find it here (we’ll be doing the snazzy format later):

#Lancer #LancerRPG #ttrpg

Another very joyful Kidical Mass ride in Bath 🎉

What do we want: safer streets!
When do we want them: now!

A photo of Wyrd Science’s interview of Lee Gold

A double page spread of Wyrd Science’s lengthy article on the history of TTRPG zines, which has been put together to look like an old 80s zine complete with cut-and-pasted images and titles, and monospaced typed font.

A photo of Wyrd Science’s interview with the creators of the Doomsong TTRPG.

The cover of issue 8 of Wyrd Science, slowing a psychedelic skull sprouting with neon mushrooms.

Wyrd Science is *so* great. The new issue has a fantastic interview with Lee Gold, editor for the entirety of Alarums & Excursions‘ incredible 50-year run, and a *gorgeous* history of RPG zines… done in the style of a hand-cut, monospaced physical zine!

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And I think I'd like to go back to Warhammer World again, but this time. Probably pack more snacks.

The site itself was smaller than I thought, but I was competing with an imaginary version of Warhammer World I had created in my head everytime 13 year old me had read White Dwarf.

I think I'm fully invested in the game now and eager to play more and meet more people.

I picked up Rogue Trader (First Edition of Warhammer 40k) as it's still printed there. Having that as a touchstone whilst experiencing 10th edition at the table was a wonderful way of seeing how both it, and the culture has changed.

Then it was time to go home already!
The game itself was great, very tense the whole way though and we all had fun learning Tau armies abilities.
They were good sports as I had to ask some foundational questions many times and often looking up my unit stats to a point of nausea.

After a good burger we headed to the exhibition hall where we all coo'd and wow'd our way through the various and incredible dioramas.
Should you go, it's absolutely worth the price of admission, and yes I did get a guide book.

Me and Adam stood Infront of the Space Marine Statue. Me replicating the space marines pose.

Me and Mat posed Infront of the RH1NO tank arms over shoulders (nice)

Me and Matt at the games table setting up our armies in a 2v1

Me and my big bald head at the event space at Warhammer World

We got there in good time and set up.
I had massively under estimated how long a match would take with me asking lots of questions and learning my new army on the go.
We started playing at 10:30 and called it time at 15:30.
We were all hungry and had to hit the road by 16:00.

It was The Day of the trip and the DadHammer crew (original I know)
We're underway for an ambitious day of.
Arrive at opening time, play a game, eat a meal, go to the exhibition, and maybe a bit of shopping.
I made a Google doc itinerary and off we went at 6am.

This is not the same Sam who was making all these models.
I was admittedly having a good time doing so, but was finding my teething issues quickly and ferociously.
Bad or no tools. Using the wrong tools incorrectly.
Bad posture. Bad chair. No dedicated space.

After ironing these out one by one.

In a conversation with one of the Dads I had been playing with we off handedly said "Would love to go to Warhammer World," and I in my Carpe Diem phase of life said "Well, let's bloody go, I'll organise it".

As a parent I only had small amounts of time to construct and paint these. About an hour a day if I found the time.
Which did mean I was crunching hard on this project because...

A series of legs only of partially constructed Tau fire warriors.

A squad of Tau Breachers (unpainted)

A partially constructed Tau Devilfish tank held aloft

A middle finger raised to the Tau Ghostkeel as it was a paint to construct

Now it was time to construct and paint (partially).

A white metal tray filled with assembled grey Warhammer Tau models

And I procured another box (as my original intention) of the new combat patrol.
I now had a lot of minis, as well as some older tau models I had used for LANCER minis in a game of Sleeping Above a Stolen Crown

Two boxes of Warhammer sat on a table with a few preassembled models on display. 1 box of Farsight 1 box of Tau Combat Patrol

Fellow enabler @tuftyw23.bsky.social gave me a whole Tau (yes that is who I went with, the mech army quelle surprise) Combat Patrol and a Farsight mini, and I am eternally grateful.

I played some games but never understood it.
Now as an adult I was brought back into the actual Gaming side of Warhammer (I had always persisted in my love of the lore).
A fellow Dad suggested we play some time and I got hooked.

Warhammer world is certainly a place I've always wanted to go, and I had (due to other media) mythologised it slightly.

I've been reading about it since I started playing the game when I was 13.
I collected during 3rd edition. When I was slightly older I foolishly threw my collection in the bin!

Me a white bald man with a ginger beard wearing black dungarees, a brown jacket and a grey hat stood, smiling at the camera infront of the light blue RH1NO Tank at Warhammer world.

So, last week I went to Warhammer World.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

Digital illustration of Faiyen, a Lancer mech pilot wearing a dark hardsuit with blue armor plates, and holding a heavy anti-material rifle. They have a shaved head, and star stickers stuck to their face.

Digital illustration of Faiyen, a Lancer mech pilot wearing a dark hardsuit with blue armor plates, and holding a heavy anti-material rifle. They have a goggles and a veil covering their face.

I think I never posted the veil alt of this one

#Art #Comms #LancerRPG #TTRPG

Public Access now allows players to have tamagotchis instead of a cool dog as part of the “Say Hello To My Little Friend” move, which is the single fucking funniest substitution you could make in this nightmare generation game.

I remember going into this episode optimistically thinking that I’ve played Jason Cordova games before, and session 2 is always relatively tame in comparison to session 1 so this should be quite a calm introduction to some of the mechanics and characters

LADS I WAS SO WRONG.

Might touch up some details, but think this one is just about done

So I've quickly gone from.
Oh I like the lore of 40k to a 975pt Tau army and will be going to Warhammer World next weekend.

I've always wanted to go, I just plucked up the courage to ask to go with new friends.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman