Dungeon Crawlers

Combat Storm Rulebook Released

COMBAT STORM RULEBOOK NOW AVAILABLE

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September 25, 2006 – Strategy Wave Studios is proud to release the eagerly-anticipated table-top strategy game, Combat Storm. Combat Storm is a 2-4 player miniature strategy game that uses green and tan plastic army men as game pieces and a large playing area as the battlefield.
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WorldWorks Games Release: Mayhem Goes Downtown

NEW RELEASE FROM WORLDWORKS GAMES
Bits of Mayhem: Downtown

Matt Lyons Bits of Mayhem: Downtown is an expansion to the incredibly popular Bits of Mayhem model set. Featuring new "Hollywood Flat" style buildings, signs, doors and roofing set in a downtown theme. A fantastic addition to your current Mayhem builds and sure to add more depth to your city.

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Huge ‘Rings’ Show to Close

Huge ‘Rings’ stage show to close Revised version of much-panned production still o­n for London TORONTO, Ontario (AP) —

The mammoth stage production of “The Lord of the Rings,” which was mostly panned by critics, is closing in Toronto.

Producer Kevin Wallace said Wednesday that the $24 million, 3 1/2 hour show will close September 3.”We’re doing respectable but were not sold out. The scale of this show needs that,” producer David Mirvish said at a news conference. “The costs are 50 percent more than ‘The Lion King’ to run so it (the theater) must be full.”
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GW July price shifts

Games Workshop has posted the latest changes to their prices.

No they won't be lowering the plastic box sets but all Battalion Boxes are now all $90.00US.

All details can be found here:  July Price Review
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Fantascene Hobbit Holes

Recently, I received an email from a company in England asking for a link exchange. Ever the curious soul, I checked it out. I was greeted with a very good looking "hobbit hole". I'm a HUGE LoTR fan and have way more models than my wife thinks any normal (or abnormal) person should have. I checked out the site: Fantascene and emailed the owner (Geoff) back.

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3D Printing in Color

From Z Corp web site

Z Corporation has introduced more innovations than any other provider of rapid prototyping solutions, including development of the fastest 3D printers, the world’s o­nly color 3D printers, and high-definition 3D printing capabilities. Our 3D printers create physical models from computer-aided design (CAD) data by using an inkjet print-head to deposit a liquid binder that solidifies layers of powder. This cutting-edge technology supports a full line of 3D printers that deliver the speed, low operating costs, and high-quality models that product developers need to compete in today’s global market.
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History of Arranged Marriages

Note – i thought this article would be a great resource for those roleplaying in a standard fantasy/medieval setting. Is has a little of everything, law, religion, money, and can help flesh out the private lives of your NPC villagers. I think we should come up with some adventure hooks in the comments. – Hamster

A History of Single Life Consenting Adults
by Ken Mondschein February 3, 2006

A series about hooking up through the ages. The fundamental assumption of single life is that were free to date, sleep with, and marry whomever we choose. This idea is so ingrained in our culture that no one seriously questions it, no matter how much of an asshole we think our sisters boyfriend is. Besides, without the fundamental right of choosing with whom we get romantically involved, wed never have developed great social customs like Internet personals or rebelling against your parents by coming home at three a.m. on the back of a Harley-Davidson.
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Quest for Glory

by John Walker, as published in The Escapist

There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, o­n the beach or dangling o­n a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they’ll come back to life. Never mind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives – we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they’ll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.

All romantic comedies will end in life-lasting true love, and all soap operas will have a 100% relationship failure rate. All cops will announce, “there’s no time for back up!” when they arrive at the scene of a crime, before being asked to hand in their gun and badge to the furious captain (what with the governor being in town) o­n a weekly basis. All aliens are bipedal, and of all the languages spoken o­n Earth, choose English. Shopping bags always contain a long stick of French bread. And if you bump into someone of the opposite sex carrying a large stack of files, you will fall in love while picking them up. These are truths.
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Repairing Plastic Miniatures

I'm going to show you how to fix your plastic miniatures using an old method most people use on their metal miniatures. The technique is called "Pinning". To pin something is to use a rod of metal of various thickness, depending on the size of the figure, to secure or fasten another part two it. Kind of like graphing. Most large figures will have a post and a hole (male and female part) when you glue them together. Well if a figure breaks you basically do the exact same thing.

***Those under the age of 18 get parent supervision when using lighters and knives***
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Wargames Journal: now a downloadable pdf

The well known internet wargames e-magazine "Wargames Journal" looks to be taking a new direction. Instead of being a website where you go to different web pages to see different articles, they now seem set to produce the e-magazine as a downloadable e-mag in the same vein as "Fictional Reality".

The first issue, weighing in at almost 10Mb is absolutely superb, 109 pages of great scenarios, articles and reports. Well worth downloading since it covers all facets of the gaming hobby.
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