Little Wars Melbourne 2015

Little Wars Melbourne 2015 is just around the corner! On may 31st, Moorabin Town Hall will be stuffed to the rafters with mighty gaming geeks, gaming gloriously!
And Toppy is running stuff!

Over the course of the day, a complete four-game A Song of Blades and Heroes campaign will take place! Will you help Prince Imraldiir of the Blessed Peacock and his sneaky Wood Elves defend their native oak trees against Goblin lumberjacks? Or will you take sides with Bzak Butt-Scratcher, chief of the Flatulent Mountain Goblins and try to fell the trees for your own fell purposes?

• Play over all new terrain built especially for the occasion!
• Play using almost all new figures painted especially for the occasion!
• Roll dice!
• Lead your armies to glory!

Have you ever wanted to cram two (yes! two!) Rampage sets together to play eight-way Kaiju carnage? Or do you yearn to experience Tsuro, or the sweet sweet taste of noshing down on skyscrapers in King of Tokyo? Mad Juzzy the Flutist will be running a table featuring a veritable bonanza of boardgames! Rousing cheers!

Young Brad provides an introduction to role playing, in the form of a stand-along Dice Chucker session set in Harran! Take on the role (and partial costume!) of one of six mighty heroes, and set out on a perilous quest involving skyships, lighthouses, goats and pirates!

• Play over new maps!
• Play using new paper figures made especially for this event!
• Roll dice!
• Learn rules!
• Achieve VICTORY!
• TRY TO KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON!!

In which Young Brad learns to be a DM.

Young Brad has requested time to practice his DMing skills leading up to Little Wars at the end of the month. So I have hatched a cunning plan. Cunningly.
We are going to run some randomly generated dungeon crawling over the next few weeks. I have developed some encounter and loot tables, and we will use the magic item cards as always. I have also developed some new Dice Chucker V3 character sheets. These have:

• Places to clearly record your weapon's stats.
• Places to clearly record your Armour Level.
• Space to write in any spells or special rules your character has access to.
• More space to write character background and description if you want.
  
  
  
  

International Tabletop Day: April 11th

Next saturday is International Tabletop Day! You should celebrate by playing lots and lots of games and worshipping at the feet of Wil Wheaton!

Easter Wars II: The Jealousy of Ratmen

There's been a slight problem with the plan for Easter Wars II in that I have gone and left all the terrible toad at school (I forgot completely that the case was under my desk...). As a result of this grievous error, the plot has changed a little...

Jealous of the fine reputation, cute status and egg-based affection which children lavish upon their rodent brothers, the bunnies, the loathsome ratmen and their vile kin have launched a terrible plan to destroy easter! Scurrying from their dank burrows which riddle the land, they have launched a daring raid on the Easter Bunny egg stash, and stolen all the eggs! Now it is up to elite teams of ninja commando easter bunnies, each lead by a powerful Easter Assassin to reclaim the eggs from the vile clutches of the Ratmen!

Changes from last year include:

• A change of rules system from Fanticide to A Song of Blades and Heroes
• New units - the Ninja Commando Easter Bunnies now come in two flavours; deadly assassin leaders and the slightly less deadly commandos.
• New enemies - The Loathsome Ratmen and their Vile Kin, including their potent giant-rat riding chief, deadly warlocks, sneaking assassins, and foul rat ogres.
• New scenario - no longer are you attempting to rescue the kidnapped bears, now you are fighting to liberate stolen eggs!

Easter Holiday Program 2015: ANNOUNCE

Ninja Commando Easter Bunnie... ATTACK!!

This year's Easter Holiday program has been confirmed.
There will be a learn to paint session, Pirates' Treasure, Easter Wars II (with a new rules system!) and chocolate.
Mostly chocolate.
You can check out full details on the Special Events page.

Events of significant importance.

Harken oh gamers to this news of upcoming events!

Little Wars Melbourne 2015:

Borek! New figure!

May 31st, Moorabin Town Hall, Nepean Hwy. Melb.

Ah, Little Wars, venerable god king of melbournian games conventions. There will be a great deal of gaming and geekery, also many stalls and vendors selling the finest in geekery. Also, our own Brad the younger will be running a participation Dice Chucker session! Details of this session will be unleashed upon the world as they appear, but it involves:

• Skyships.
• Pirates.
• New figures.
• Cosplay.

GeekFest 2016:

Venetians recreate our masked ball. But not as awesomely.

January 16th, Coal Creek, Korrumburra.

GeekFest's return has been confirmed on January 16th, 2016. There are wild rumours circulating about:

• A masked ball after party.
• Magic: The Gathering organised play.
• Jousting.
• More traders.

More details are sure to come to light in the fullness of time...

But wait, there's kickstarter update

Kickstarter just emailed me to say that copies of But Wait, There's More have shipped. This means I should get mine in the next two-four weeks, depending on the vagaries of international postage from the US.
Rousing cheers!