Dungeon Crawlers

Michael Piller (co-creator of Star Trek DS9) dead at 57

Michael Piller Succumbs to Cancer, Age 57

Michael Piller, best known to television viewers around the world as the executive producer/co-creator of more than 500 hours of Star Trek, lost his long battle with an aggressive form of head & neck cancer o­n Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 4:51 a.m. at his home in Los Angeles. He was 57. He is survived by his wife Sandra, daughter Brent and son Shawn.
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Carving Sprue Plants

I was asked to write a "how-to" on making plants out of sprues.

"What are sprues?", you ask.

Sprues are the plastic frames that multipart models or minis come on. Most people cut the pieces off and throw out the frame. Not me. I never throw anything out (much to my wifes displeasure).

I wasn't going to write this up because it's insanely easy and fast.
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Styrene Jail Cell – With working door

I have a confession to make. I LOVE Styrene. There, I said it. Please don’t think less of me.

I’m just a hack when it comes to working with this stuff. I don’t have the best tools and I certainly don’t worry about scale. I build for look and functionality.

List of materials and tools is simple: Different shapes of styrene (described in the article), plastic glue, side cutters, ruler, pin vice (hand drill), razor saw & miter box.
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Bone of Hobbit-like species uncovered

Bone of Hobbit-like species uncovered

(AP) — Scientists say they have found more bones in an Indonesian cave that offer additional evidence of a second human species — short and hobbit-like — that roamed the Earth the same time as modern man.

But the vocal scientific minority that has challenged that conclusion since the discovery of Homo floresiensis was announced last year remains unconvinced.

The discovery of a jaw bone, to be reported in Thursdays issue of the journal Nature, represents the ninth individual belonging to a group believed to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in a wet cave o­n the island of Flores in the eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia.

In 2004, scientists announced their original, sensational discovery of a delicate skull and partial skeleton of a female, nicknamed “Hobbit” and believed to be 18,000 years old. In addition, they found separate bones and fragments of other individuals ranging in age from 12,000 to 95,000 years old.
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Idiots Guide to Making Terrain #4: Ruined Urban Buildings

"Avoidance of built-up areas is no longer possible." – US Army Field Manual 100-5

From now until the end of modern civilization, fighting in cities of every stripe will become the norm. Cities provide a ready-made defense, and are painful in terms of time and manpower to conquer and then hold.

It is impractical at best to regularly play a miniature wargame in a "standing, civilian occupied" city (for modeling and play purposes) unless you are restricting your movement to outside of buildings. A city that is near ruin, however, is both realistic, much simpler to fabricate and is easier to play in.
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UCW (User Created World)

That’s right, user created world!

Go here to vote o­n what you would like for a Generic RPG/Wargaming world. After enough submissions we will take the most selected and create the world you voted o­n and make the maps!We will start with the over all world then move to nations cities, dungeons. All generic to be used for any setting. Fantasy, Sci-fi, super hero, you name it and its yours.
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Axis and Allies Miniatures

Avalon Hill
— published by Seattle-based hobby-game leader Wizards of the Coast (NYSE: HAS) —

has announced the launch of Axis & Allies Miniatures, a revolutionary, new World War II themed wargame system set to hit store shelves in late summer of 2005.

The announcement will coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day, commemorating the end of the war in Europe. Axis & Allies Miniatures gives both novice wargamers and veteran grognards the ability to engage in historically authentic, squad-level tactical combat with detailed, 15mm scale, pre-painted plastic miniatures featuring varying degrees of rarity to enhance collectability.
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Ogre Cave audio report for gamers!

Discussed: Games Expo 2007, the roleplaying market, the future of Games Workshop, and the changing tasks of local game stores. Also, Gen Con releases, recent new products, and our current faves.

good stuff from a few amateur journalists.

http://www.ogrecave.com/audio/

hamster

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Dungeon Siege the MOVIE!

Statham & Sobieski Put in the DUNGEON
Monday July 4 8:00 PM ET

Uwe Boll will direct the film adaptation of the video game franchise Dungeon Siege.
By Lisa Johnson, FilmStew.com

Jason Statham and Leelee Sobieski have just signed o­n to star in Uwe Bolls $60 million adaptation of the sword-and-sorcery video game Dungeon Siege. They came aboard just in time, as filming began Sunday in Vancouver.

The film is based o­n developer Gas Powered Games best-selling fantasy PC game franchise, which was published by Microsoft Game Studios. “This is a very dark, epic picture in the tradition of the Sergio Leone Westerns that blends the imaginative action of Hero and House of Flying Daggers,” Boll said.

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Quest for Dragons on the History Channel

Thursday August 4, 2005 o­n the History Channel

A spirited exploration of the history, science, and legend of the worlds most notorious beast–the dragon, the best-known creature that never was. Throughout history, dragons influenced wars, science, art, and religion. They appear in almost every culture and many still believe in dragons.
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