PHOTO & THERMAL PRINTS BY CODY

5.14.25
3D ROLEPLAY CON V

DRAMATIS PERSONAE (in order of appearance):

cody
dellon
bryan
tim
duffy
jonathan
lars
roger
miles
chase
tyler

3d roleplay con v! 3d roleplay con v! i just got back from 3d roleplay con v, an oldhammer convention in portland, organized by hank richardson, devoted to tabletop miniature games from 1975 - 1992ish. it was incredible, so many beautiful saturday morning cartoon color miniatures and goblin green bases and felt mats and perfect little trees! i played two games of proper oldhammer and i ran three demo games of rumpus.


MAC AND ME	JONATHAN (MID-LEAP)

DELLON	AND LARS

BRYAN, DUFFY	CODYBRYANROGERMILES

DELLON; TYLER
NOT PICTURED: TIM (MYSTERIOUS)

DAWN OF THE GOLDEN SPAWN

dawn of the golden spawn was a 3rd edition warhammer fantasy battle game with 1st edition warhammer fantasy roleplay segments and it was alllll slannnnnn babyyyyyy. six slann factions were all converging on a sacred cenote to witness a momentous hatching gone horribly awry. my daughter mac and i took on the role of chief ninjatl and the cenote guardians and our job was to keep tepitepetl and his disgusting pinky circus from defiling this most wondrous and mysterious place. at least, that is how we interpreted "protect the sanctity of the spawning pool". tepitepetl (played by jonathan) was accommodating and fed one of his pinkies to his troglodyte (BIGLIPS THE TROGLODYTE) in a show of good faith but alas nothing would slake our righteous thirst for blood, and we started fighting after two rounds. this was my very first game of warhammer ever (roleplaying or fantasy battle) so i do not know if that is normal, but i do believe our inflexibility was in the spirit of ninjatl and his zealous frogs. this game had it all - the hope of proliferation and the dismay of cuckoldry, tonedeaf imperial bleating, irrelevant parochial mysticism, exciting new business ventures, spiders, odd couple sitcoms - i am a little bit ruined for playing the stand-em-up knock-em-down slugfest that warhammer often purports to be. shout out to dellon, bryan, tim, duffy, the aforementioned jonathan, and lars (our intrepid dm) for making this such a joyous and strange time.


CHIEF NINJATL AND THE CENOTE GUARDIANS	AN UNDEAD CHAMPION??

WE SANG TO A STATUE AND IT GAVE US SPIDERS	THE PINKY THAT WOULD NOT DIE

SING A SONG OF LIZARDMEN	COLD ONE CAVALCADE

THE COPS GO TO THE CIRCUS	KOZMO THE SPAWNFATHER

IT'S PINKY! (APPLAUSE)

TAKE THE BABE

ohohoho what is this! neither old nor hammer! well, well. i had the great privilege of running rumpus for bryan, roger, miles, and cody and it was a REAL HOOT. we played TAKE THE BABE and i finally made good on my threat to make a little cottage to put onto the board, and the roof lifted off and EVERYTHING. i originally wanted to have the cottage ready for con of the north but i didn't quite get to it, in classic kyle fashion i vastly underestimated the time i would need to get a miniatures release ready (which, oops, i still haven't properly done at time of writing, at least in a buyable-from-the-bwamp-shop sort of way, which, i am guessing, is the way that matters to you, fellow denizen of CYBERSPACE) and had to make do with what i had at the time: three toadstools and eight logs. but THIS TIME it was different, i made a BIG list of things to do and i DID many of them, and unlike other times where i have said "well now this is a blog post in its own right" i will actually type it up so you can properly wonder at the works of my hands and my horrible time management. i have to say that the game really takes on a satisfying HEFT with such a monumental object taking up so much space, and there were a number of very toothsome tussles in and out of doors. the babe changed hands many times over before an enterprising fairy, realizing they could eat their pipe and sausage and do magic MOST POTENT, did just that, and lo but everyone's items became red hot and they had to drop them. roger took advantage of this moment to scoop up the child and scoot off the board, winning the game to his chagrin.


FAIRIES ADVANCE UPON THE MORTAL DWELLING	THE BABE IS TRADED FOR A CHANGELING

ROGER, UNAWARE THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO WIN	EVERYONE DROPS THEIR RED HOT ITEMS WHILE THE FAIRY KING ROARS WITH DELIGHT

TRAPPER'S DELIGHT

now TAKE THE BABE is a BRISK scenario so i was thrilled that we had plenty of time to run through SHENANIGANS (the between-game events that can befall your fairy troupe) and play another game. the players decided to roll for it, and were appropriately punished with TRAPPER'S DELIGHT. roger had MADE (!) his own BOARD (!!) with his own TRAP TOKENS (!!!) and it was so FITTING and FUN to use them! it was quite a deadly game and many fairies were pinballed, tripped, and smushed. BRYAN was the winner of this one, well done well done.


WINNER WINNER	I LOVE ALL THE LITTLE BOTTLES ON THE PILLARS

THE ZIGGURAT OF DOOM!

i had seen chase building this ziggurat and painting lots and lots of trees in the last few months leading up to 3d roleplay con (on the inter-net), but i was not prepared for how majestic it would be in person. dellon and bryan joined me for this game, where six mighty dwarfs made their last stand on the ziggurat, fleeing from a rabble of goblins and hobgoblins. bryan courteously offered to play the dwarfs, and dellon and i shared the goblins. this was a 1st edition warhammer fantasy battle game and everyone was very patient with me as i figured out moving, charging, shooting, etc. at first it felt like dellon and i were sure to triumph - we put a few arrows into bryan's dwarf archers, managed to corner a dwarf with our hobgoblins, and were amassing a large crowd of goblins at the base of the ziggurat - but alas, the power of bryan's mighty poison hammer could not be held back, and he ran down the stairs and routed our guys. other minor regrets: we could only get 1/4 hobgoblins to get naked, i twanged some arrows uselessly at the dwarf hero in the last turn instead of trying for one of the other wounded dwarfs, and we did not laugh heartily enough at the dwarf that threw himself off the ziggurat by mistake. an incredible game.


HOBGOBLINS HACK A DWARF INTO CHUNKS	TWANG TWANG TWANG

WEE WARS

the other rumpus games unfolded without a single fight and i really wanted someone to admire the fighting mechanics so i strongarmed dellon and tyler into playing WEE WARS. they were very sporting about it and played very well. dellon had brought a beautiful troupe of red fairies (the rag men from ana polanscak's FOLK HORRORS set) and he almost lost one in the first turn to a bow and arrow mishap. not to be outdone, tyler forgot every single fairy's name and was unable to use his BANEFUL TOADSTOOL. soon they were eating songbirds and ears and trading blows properly. my favorite moment: one of tyler's fairies used their magic to bring a sausage to life, and in leading their new sausage comrade into battle against dellon's healthiest fairy, initiated a COSMIC CLINCH (both sides rolled the same total for the fight), which killed both of his fairies and brought dellon's fairy to death's door. the game ended in FORLORN FISTICUFFS, which is to say, sudden death, each troupe sending a champion to punch each other to death in the center of the board, and tyler's fairy was the victor. so ended my time at 3d roleplay con v.


VIOLENCE!	MUPPETHAMMER

A COSMIC CLINCH!

TABLETOP DREAMS, DUNGEON DETRITUS

i originally wasn't going to bring my army with me but as i painted more and more fairies it occurred to me that i was pretty close to having two complete movement trays of little people, which meant that i was just a handful of models away from having 500 pts in wfb 3. this proved to be ruinous knowledge and i launched into a week of crunch painting, which was fine when i was painting andrew may's excellent medieval marginalia figures, and slightly miserable when i started on my remaining barn door stickers (kev adams goblins have amazing details which makes them stressful to paint at anything but a luxurious pace, at least for me. highly recommended, and you can still get them from old school miniatures). i ended up bringing 41 based and mostly painted miniatures, with one black-primed archer hidden in the back, on two movement trays, with magnets that i greenstuffed into place the night before the convention. it was fully my intention to wake up early the day of and paint my banners and join with jonathan in a glorious 1000 pt goblin host Sometime On Saturday, but the moment did not present itself and the most i could manage was marching them across the rumpus table on sunday. i did have the joy of meeting byron (of BYRON'S BEARDY MUSING!! and also old school miniatures!) and discovered he does not live very far away! so jonathan and i will bring our host of rainbow goblins and meet him in battle, sometime.

looking back on the year so far, there has been a lot of it, and i have been less than successful marking its passage. con of the north was magnificent! i only talked about it obliquely in the captions of the photos of my last post. max and i recorded a whole album of songs for rumpus! and! you won't be able to hear them for a long time. i have new fairies for sale! they are real! i promise! dellon and i are making a mecha game about giant hot dogs! festival rumpus 2 is coming! wow! wow! wow! wow! wow! wow! wow!!

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
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SO MANY MAGNETS

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