One Hundred Posts!

Well, I wasn't sure the blog would last this long, but here I am. One hundred posts! It feels like a tidy achievement. Allow me the indulgence of going all retrospective for a moment: here are my five favourite posts and then yours.

Most of this blog has been filled with Pulp Alley of one kind or another. The mad scientist's crew was the first Pulp Alley league I painted. I love that they're a hodge-podge of minatures, and I've had some great games with them. I reckon the robot is the most consistently intimidating miniature across all the games I've played.

Because I'm cheap, I love building my own stuff where I can. Because I'm slow, I love to build stuff that can be reused in all sorts of ways. Oh, and I love cork! My biggest success so far has been my sci fi walls. They took a few goes to get right, but they've been fantastically versatile in the Pulp Alley campaign I've been running.

I love the Inquisimunda movement: small scale skirmishes in the 40k universe. Part of what I love is people's creativity in converting all sorts of weird and wonderful miniatures. I'm a rank novice in the conversions stakes, but this would be my favourite guy that I've done: Johann Tzel, reliquarist.

Really though, the painting and modelling is just a means to an end: games! I've loved running my first extended campaign this year. My favourite game so far: dungeon crawling, invulnerable cultists, and a shuttle that leaves at just the right time.

 And my all-time favourite game of Pulp Alley. It centred on the agent of mayhem who graces most of our Pulp Alley games: the black cat. It featured all of the teeth-grinding of the best games of Pulp Alley as my boys delighted in stymieing me. And it ended with the perfectly poised cliffhanger that seems to be a regular feature of our Pulp Alley games.

That's my top five. Yours (based on hits to date)...

Number five. Well, you love the cat too!

Number four. The desperate last stand, first game in the Sinastras IV campaign.

Number three. Another one in common - the escape from the cultists.

Number two. Using Frostgrave cultists for 40k.

Number one. By a long margin. Making sci fi terrain tiles from cork. Whenever I set up a sci fi game, these always generate lots of interest. No one can believe they're just 2d. This is the how-to.

Well, if you're still reading, we'll see how the next one hundred goes! It feels like the blogging has been in a bit of a dull patch for the past couple of months. Life has been busy with work and family, and I've worked harder at maintaining a decent bedtime, which cuts into the time for blogging. At the same time, I find myself torn between formats at times. The blog is great as a central record for all the stuff I do. But it really can't compete with a forum for the rich interaction you get between people. I don't really have time to do both. So, we'll see what wins out in the end.

Anyway, thanks for looking and reading and weighing in with your comments!