Couple extra ratmen...

A couple of Reaper ratmen...not a big fan of the result, but they're just for use in a couple of pictures.  Will sell them off shortly.

These three do put me at 34 miniatures for 2020 thus far, so I'm on target for 10/month.

Zombies wander into the dungeon...

So over the past week I painted up these 18 zombies which are from Fireforge "Undead Peasants" box or some such.  Really nice minis, simple, but well designed.  A couple of issues with some of the arms (just really finicky to assemble!).  Love that they're not over-detailed...as someone who would be painting up dozens and dozens of these could do them quickly.

$27 shipped from the UK for the box of 18 - a solid deal.  I'll be adding some of the armored zombies eventually too - just to have more on hand, and to mix it up a little bit.

Replacement ghouls...

Maybe a year ago I painted up some "ur ghuls" or whatever from Blackstone Fortress.  I found them pretty cool as generic ghoulish creatures and...more importantly, stupidly easy to paint.  I decided to pick some up since they're cheap on eBay.

I repainted the bases on the original four minis...and added another 12.  So these will stand in as ghouls for my dungeon game, even if they don't particularly match the classic aesthetic. 

The Ballad of Bob the Bushwacker

Got in a game of Shoot N' Skedaddle...with appropriately poor pictures.  It was a lengthy and crazy game in the newly invented town of Bent River, New Mexico.  A buddy of mine and I did up a gang/posse of six characters; I ended up with Lawmen, and he, Outlaws.

 A bloodbath erupts early in the game...the Judge is dead...the 'Bad Man' is dead..the Drifter and Hired Gun are wounded...

 A Town Person, a Bodyguard and a Prostitute walk outside of a burning bar...

 The Drifter grits his teeth and ignores his gunshot wound...

 An exuberant Town Person joins the Lawmen only to be gunned down a few minutes later while he's rummaging through the 'Bad Man's coat...

 Bob the Bushwacker.  An innocent enough looking fellow.  Bob showed up as a Lawmen reinforcement...but was drawn as a Bushwacker (Outlaw Character).  He galloped into town shooting around..

 Lawmen reinforcements arrive, and blaze away at Bob the Bushwacker, firing 20-30 shots as he speeds through town.  Eventually his horse is shot out from under him and he falls, becoming Shocked.  He survives this and flees two Brothers chasing him on horseback...another 6-10 gunshots missing or failing to wound him...

 Bob the Bushwacker (lower left) flees into a bar...chased by the Brothers.  He survives more gunshots and jumps up onto the roof.  Now he's chased by the Older Brother who engages him in fisticuffs....he flees, surviving two rounds of close combat.  The Younger Brother and a Town Person are likewise chasing him...when he falls off the roof onto the outhouse and then grabs a surprised occupant as a hostage...Bob the Bushwacker manages to escape the whole game having survived 35-40 gunshots, several rounds of combat, falling off a horse and a roof...

 The Outlaw Hired Gun with a sawed off shotgun evens the score by gunning down Lawmen mercilessly, surviving a hail of bullets.

 Just five of the many bodies strewn about...

 Late game madness.

Two Outlaws who survived the whole game in these two buildings.

A quick runabout in the dungeon...

Hosted a small game of CCC playtesting again, and will probably step away from playtesting it for a bit until asked or until a third version of my cards arrive.  Still doing working behind the scenes, but will cool off the playtest schedule until some more changes are made.

Also need to start working on the campaign and between-game play, the quest book, etc.

 Blazing through some Skeletons with our all-conquering Elemental Ally (who turned out to be way overpowered!)

 First room of this Quest was a simple Skeleton bashing session.

 In the Quest Room we ran into a Legendary Encounter, and Skeletons and Verminkind (ratmen!)

 The Quest Room fight elevates...but is handled with "ease".

 A room which should have been a tough fight...but we paid off the Troll, the Elemental slew the Cockatrice quickly and then we just peppered the Dragon to death - will be fixing some of the stuff involved here...rather underwhelming fight!

Just poking around the ole dungeon...