September ‘25 In Review

Labor Day, and then the start of school. The kid is in kindergarten now, and the autumn schedule is in full swing. My blog reached its sweet 16, which is utterly bonkers. The weather has been doing that swing between too hot for autumn and feels like late October thing. Not my favorite, and given how dry it’s been I don’t think we’re gonna get a good foliage season this year. All in all a good but busy month. When was the last time I didn’t have a busy month??

Gaming
I try very hard to avoid online gaming, especially mobile gaming, as it’s such a time sink, but… but I’ve found myself drawn into Fallen London. I’ve been vaguely aware of it for a long time, and played the Sunless Sea game, and that was enough to get me to back the Fallen London RPG kickstarter. The setting is just that cool, and I finally decided to play the actual game.

Stonehell has the B team dealing with the winter court fae that have taken over the Kobold Korners, and a good chunk of level 2. In talking to my kid the other night, telling him about the game, he had a deviously brilliant idea about what’s going on, and now I’m rethinking some things…

Work game has been canceled more often than not unfortunately. Hopefully things will settle down a bit and we can get some more consistent gaming in soon.

Miniatures
I started a 1:1 scale giant spider monster for my Halloween decorations. I definitely didn’t comprehend just how big it was going to end up being!! I’m not disappointed, but it does rather dominate the yard. I am using a lot more spray foam than I was expecting, and all told the material costs are up there with some of the smaller large yard decorations you’d get at Lowe’s. At this point I think I need at least 3 more cans of spray insulation… I’m probably gonna get 6 just to be on the safe side.

Keeping in the Halloween theme, I also painted up Baba Yaga (to go with the hut I already painted) and the Overgourd (pumpkin beholder) which is a delightful silly monster. I wish I could claim the candy corn teeth were my idea, but someone came up with it almost immediately after the mini was released. Still, I'm not above stealing a good idea.

The King of Ashes (lich on throne) was another one of those minis that I was hanging onto until I was “good enough” to do it justice. Honestly I’m kinda glad I did, because trying to get the lich assembled so that it would properly sit on the throne was a pain in the ass. I again took a fair bit of inspiration from the official art, but overall I’m pleased with it, in spite of its flaws, including the terrible mold line along the throne’s bottom edge.

 

Honestly, I’m kinda shocked by how productive this month was. Hoping to keep that momentum going into the final quarter of the year.


Media
Game Changer season 7
Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Farscape
The Studio
Fisk

Loot

Yoon-Suin 

Goals for October

Finish the giant spider for the yard

Knock out a bunch of minis

Finish writing up the game sessions from the big gaming trip