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Dragon Masters - A Mixed Bag

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Hi there! A short post I had been meaning to share for a whle. With my son having just turned seven, I have been slowly introducing him to board games. One of the few 'gems' that I decided to take with us to Norway was my copy of Dragonmasters by Ian Livingstone (though there are many old Games Workshop/Citadel boxed sets I wish I had kept!).  For those of you who are unfamiliar, Dragonmasters is a simple beer and pretzels board game that was the sequel to the Mighty Empires set released by Games Workshop in 1991. There is very little of it to find on the internet which is a shame, because my son and I have quite a lot of fun playing! The release was allegedly met with lukewarm results by the customer base, and I think destined to ignomy because of its simplistic nature. Additionally it physically borrows much from Mighty Empires but dilutes the gameplay down so much that I feel that the 'crunchy' grognards of old were disgusted by it.  The game centers around various E...
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Vastarian Terrain Board Part 3

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Welp, here we go again.  Earlier last year I had almost finished the Part 3 blog post detailing how I made one of my favorite boards for Vastarian and accidentally deleted it by mistake on Blogger.  This was extremely disappointing and frustrating as I’d spent about two months working on it. It was almost 6,000 words and an awful piece of work. Yes, I’m an idiot. Rip on me in the comments below  So now here I am! Writing it on a MS Word document to prevent myself from fat-fingering the thing a second time. To pick back up from Post 2, the majority of the board had been textured and built. Now all I had to do was adhere the cathedral to the board, prime, paint and add vegetation and it’d be done! This post has quite a lot more pictures, as it was far less messy which allowed me to take more pictures than I normally recall to, so reader beware.  The Board in its pre-prime state Texture was generously applied throughout the board The 'Spoil' from the broken bulwarks My ...
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