A 1980s pre-apocalypse board/wargame/rpg. Overpopulation, mind control, black propaganda, 4 minute warning, mass unemployment, psychic alien invasion, indigo children, urban planning failure, state controlled media and crisps.
Oldhammer, meet Pokéhammer. It's a game where you travel the chaos wastes, collecting monstas and training them up into the best fighting force eva, to battle them against other Pokéhammer masters in the challenge to become the most powerful Pokéhammer master in the universe.
The awesome powers of each monsta is described in great detail in a series of Hammadex for each breed of monsta.
AKA a quick look around the current Games Workshop range to find some plastic tat for a ROC Chaos Warband.
OK I like all those miniatures. I like the modelling, and I like the character designs (although the Chaos Warriors are a tad boring, the trolls weapons are naff and not sure about his belly-plate?- but he could be reposed to stand on one leg and look really levitating/landing, with only a little work) But over all, thumbs up from me.
It's hard to find a GW character that represents weakness, and frailty, which is what I want for my champion. This Vampire Counts necromancer is quite good, but would need converting - the collar would have to go and the staff replaced with a sword. So instead - Grima Wormtongue - I choose you! Even the difference in proportion between Warhammer and Lord of the Rings helps here, as it makes the champion even smaller, and perhaps more pathetic.
Oh yeah. Themetune time:
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To kill them is my real test
To slay them is my cause
I will travel across the wastes
Searching far and wide
Each mutant to understand
The power that's inside
Warhammer, it's you and me
I know it's my destiny
Warhammer, oh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Warhammer, a heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Warhammer, gotta kill 'em all
Every challenge along the way
With courage I will face
I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place
Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team
Arm in arm we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream
I don't really like that they're all plastic kits (or Finecast? which I assume is some kind of new fangled psychostyrene), and would cost me
£85.00 if bought new. On the plus-side, I could get it delivered to my local Games Workshop and turn up wearing an Oldhammer t-shirt and a copy of Realms Of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness to "double-check the models are tournament legal Pokéhammer materials".
T-Shirt design I drew for Red Box Games Kickstarter V.III
Odin, the ravens Hugin & Munin, the wolves Geri and Freki, Nidhogg chewing on a Yggdrasil Beard, woven together into a traditional Thors Hammer. Njorn! $25USD as an additional pledge. Oh, you might have to back some miniatures as well!
Red Box Games Kickstarter the Third, ends in 10 days, modular Orcs, Norse and Dwarf miniatures.
Here's some backer icons wot i did drew for the KS promotions and whatnot...
And some erm, grffix for tha announcment of strich gaahls:
Ands a bannadvert wiv runes in the background and strange usa date formatted date.
The runes read:
Implacable, remorseless, fearless, and without mercy Orcs are feared far
and wide. Rare in the North lands these vicious brutes are far cousins
of Goblin kind from the dry arid highland Deserts of the southron lands
west of the Aelf lands. Not much taller than a man but weighing easily
as much as three large men Orcs are incredibly strong and tough. It is
said that an Orc can survive a spear through it's gut long enough to
kill ten men, or barely flinch as an arm is cleaved away. It is said
they are unnatural, that they are more akin to trolls than to goblins
bred in ancient times by mad wizards seeking to build an unstoppable
army but that they threw down their lords and destroyed their
kingdom.......... but whatever..... thank the Gods these monsters are as
quick to war upon each other as they are men or dwarves or elves else
the north lands would have been over run long ago.
Which is Tres description of:
Tre's drawing of an Orc Hero
Better get my finger out, supposed to have a new, exclusive, rare, T-shirt design done...
Oh yeah, and RoZ just reached 200+ followers, 200,000+ page views. Thank you all! Oh and apologoes to the people gracious enough to have RoZ on their bloglists, apologies for the animated post icon - unfortunately I cant fix that. normal service will resume shortly.
A hopeful monster
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Want to see something genuinely original? There's a small catch: it's not a
spectator sport, you have to join in to make it work.
Still interested? Then ...
Hex Crawl 23 #249: Slaves of Uketta
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Three hexes southwest, nine northwest of Alakran.
Uketta is a settlement, but not one that formed organically. It is a
project of the previous civili...
A Taxonomy of Fantastic Lands
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Thinking about the phylogenetic connection between the Lost Worlds of
Victorian adventure fiction and the planetary romances of last century led
me to a...
A dark shadow in the valley below...
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*Valley of the Spike Demons (#21/30, #264/365)*
*"The valley opens out into a bowl-shaped depression, dominated by an
enormous black rectangular rock, ri...
Retrospective: World of Greyhawk
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Longtime readers may object that I've *already* done a Retrospective post
on *The World of Greyhawk. *Pedantic as ever, I must reply that, while it's
true...
My Weekly Game
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My weekly game with the neighborhood kids. They just completed the good old
Sunless Citadel. They limped out into the sunlight with their pockets full
of...
More Minfigs gnolls
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Here are a couple more Minifigs gnolls to go with the one I painted up
last week. The new ones are from the 80s (?) Greyhawk range rather than the
70s ...
WHAT'S GOING ON?
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Just a roundup of things that have been happening.
It was Colours at Newbury Racecourse yesterday, and I took Broadsword
Miniatures to add to the Oakbo...
Stargrave family party
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Hey all ! So with summer over, painting can start again and I've finally
managed to finish the first part of a challenge started at the beginning of
...
Où est la Bibliography?
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This is as much for me as anyone else, as I've sort of lost track of what
I've done over the years. If you think of anything I've forgotten, or got
wrong, ...
The Spiral of Horror - A Campaign Frame
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*I don't think this has anything to do with mermaids*
I've been playing World of Horror, which officially releases next month
(and which you should grab b...
Seventh son
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Seventh son of a seventh son. Thirteenth of his name… It has been a while
here since last introductory post. As recently inaugurated seventh member
of Iron...
Citadel Dragons - December 1992 and other bits...
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Just picked up an old Citadel flyer for Dragons... as the title suggests!
Most of these were released well before this however advertising is
advertisin...
The Doomed
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I got home from a fun few days of playing Warcry last weekend, and found a
copy of The Doomed waiting for me. The Doomed is a miniatures agnostic,
post-apo...
Rise of The Risers.
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After eight years my old riser is looking a bit worse for wear. Me too,
riser, me too.
It got me thinking about making some new risers to improve my sh...
World Eaters : Possessed Marines
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Hey everyone! A quick post before leaving home for two weeks of vacations.
I hesitated during a long time before working on a Possessed Marines unit.
The...
Planet 28 Papertech Gaming
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Hi!
Just a quick post today as we're heading out for the day.
I've managed to play a couple of games of Planet 28 using my standees and
following a bi...
Going Viral...
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*Onwards they marched, tracking the Chaos deviant through the dead lands. A
litany of woe and a trail of ruin marked the passage of the Cult they still
h...
ON RAVEN WINGS: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MARVELOUS
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As soon as their ending was determined, the Middle Ages have caused no end
of trouble. It is the first age named since Hesiod postulated the Greek’s
fall ...
On the OSR Christmas in July
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Isn't it disappointing that only digital files are on sale at DTRPG?
So I've dropped the prices of print copies of my books!
Bestial Encounters Caused By...
Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 5... Stargrave
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I've always loved Rogue Trader, but the impetus for my recent push to paint
all of Citadel's RT601 Adventurers was the publication of Joseph
McCullogh's...
Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea (2023)
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* Beyond the Sea* is the third episode of the sixth series of the
anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator Charlie
Brooker.
...
Monster Stat Concept: Disposition
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Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help
understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they
mi...
Black Pudding Issue 7 Kickstarter is Live!
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The Kickstarter for Black Pudding Issue 7 and The Black Pudding Adventure
Journal is now live. I launched it with minimal fanfare on Sunday afternoon
and...
What is the Moon Good For?
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So, I recently discovered that the world upon which The City State of the
Invincible Overlord (CSIO) is situated has two moons, according to the
Necroma...
Attilan Rough Rider
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Traditional rough rider units ride the Terran horse. That is fine and
everything but what about sticking them on some traditional space lizards
instead. To...
The Talented Mr. Carroll
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Issue #39 of White Dwarf saw the introduction of Dave Langford’s Critical
Mass book review column. While other columns came and went over the years,
Critic...
Autoborg Robot Warrior
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[image: Autoborg Robot Warrior]Back when I was a kid, you could broadly
divide robots into two types – the Transformers toys you wanted,
Shadow of the Giants
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*taps microphone*
This thing on? Hello? Is there anybody out there?
It's been a while since the last post on Ye Olde Fighting Dantasy.
How olde? Olde...
Player’s Camp Scenery Tokens
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7 scenery tokens for player or encounter camp sites. This is a print and
cut-out product with PNG graphics files included for importing into virtual
tablet...
The Battle of Thráya
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I recently succeeded in luring Michael Lung over to the house for a
miniatures battle and discussion of Tékumel. If you haven’t heard of
Michael, he is on...
History of the List
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I've been meaning to make this post for a while now. I did a couple
interviews over the past few years where I discussed the history of the
blog, how I c...
It's been a decade, now...
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This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this
link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't
take. S...
The Power of “No!”
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I finally reviewed the contract Justin LaNasa (JL) wants me to sign. That’s
when I took a stand and gave my answer: “I prefer not to be directly
involved i...
Battle Report: The Vampyr of the Riding: Turn 4
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*GAME NAVIGATOR*
Narrative & Army Lists
Deployment
Turn 1
Turn 2
Turn 3
Turn 4
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Turn 4: Undead
As you no doubt know, the common skeleton can muster ...
Happy Orctober once more.
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Evening all. Just a quick one as it's BOYL tomorrow and I have to get to
bed but wanted to make this a proper Orctober this year so here is a couple
of ...
Oakfell Vale Out Now
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My long-awaited adventure for old-school D&D and NGR is available now at
DriveThru RPG. Here is the link!
Available Here Oakfell Vale is a secluded, heavily...
O.G.R.E. RPG
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A rough collection of notes, lists and scribbles of ideas is slowly taking
some sort of shape. O.G.R.E. stands for Occultists, Grunts, Rogues and
Eccl...
eBay: THE Citadel Giant, 2021 edition
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Holy Deep Pockets, Batman! Someone shelled out $1,600 GBP ($2,270.64 USD)
for this complete in box copy of THE Citadel Giant. I mean, just look at
it. A...
The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight!
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*The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely
excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has
been ...
The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections
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Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game,
Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue
and The Tom...
While the Toys Were Out
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Straying from the orc theme, but in the spirit of Halloween, here's my
Undead army...
Currently they weigh in around 1750 points. I've got enough zombie...
Oldhammer Fun: My "Citadel Colour" Paints
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*My private little collection of Citadel Colour paints is all I need. Well,
that and a few good brushes.*
Warning: This is another frothy Oldhammer Blog p...
Gardens of Hecate Studio
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*D*ear readers,
You are looking at the final post of this blog. It's been going for more
than eight years, and time has come for it to shut down... Because...
Citadel Ad&d Gnolls Part I
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Here’s my taken on the Citadel Ad&d Gnolls, c.1985 I did the Halberders
first in honour of Gary Gygax. Next up, the battle-axers.
Blood Sundown Review
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I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that
I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review
on Driv...
Trial by Dice – Crush the Demoniac
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Has your life felt empty and worthless since last years Trial By Dice
tournament? Have things not been quite the same since you last heard the
ring of batt...
We've Moved
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Hey all, just to update you guys The Duke has officially moved to be part
of my other site Unboxed the Board Game Blog. You can continue to follow me
over ...
[chapter 2]
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The children’s names were Abdan and Mershi. Preteens, traumatized. Everyone
helped, but Mazi turned out to be surprisingly good with them. Jase started
tea...
Bestiary of the Fabled Occident
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A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various
other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material
I'd lik...
Dernier article
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Hé oui, c'est le fin de Chaotica Cloaquis, sur Canalblog.
En effet, après dix ans de bons et loyaux services, je vais quitter cette
plateforme pour Blogg...
Game Testing a Simple 40k Ruleset for Epic
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I've got a nice little set of Epic sized space marines. They're basically
painted up as Space Wolves and Emperor's Children. Since my last post on
the to...
Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor
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Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation
with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not
doi...
Averaigne royal family
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Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of
Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh
king in...
TV remote Landspeeder
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It has been a long while since I updated, as I've had my hands full with
work. However, I took a few hours off last weekend to participate in
July's "T...
Long Time No Blog: Purchases At Carronade
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It's been a long time since I posted, I know, but the following video about
my purchases at the Carronade show in Falkirk will hopefully assure you all
tha...
The Orchid Club
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Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most
types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its
own v...
Citadel Spectres and Skeletons
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I - III [remastered] by Spectral Kingdom
FEAR not loyal reader, the prolonged absence since my last post is not
indicative of a weakening resolve regarding ...
Citadel Spectres and Skeletons
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I - III [remastered] by Spectral Kingdom
FEAR not loyal reader, the prolonged absence since my last post is not
indicative of a weakening resolve regarding ...
Can I have too much stuff, I don't need?
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Well, today has turned into a day of not doing particularly anything due to
snow which fell over night and continues to fall. So, I find myself with
time t...
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This is the entry for Harry Scott (age 10) for the Monster Man monster
design contest...
*WERETIGER-SHARK*
Frequency: Very Rare
No. Appearing: 1
Armour ...
Empire of the Petal Throne!
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The new hardcover and softcover editions of Empire of the Petal Throne
arrived and are available now at DriveThruRPG.com! Here’s a link:
http://www.driveth...
Portfolio Images from an old CD from a while ago
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This one contains some game art, a few 3d images I created from 3d CAD
models, some 2d line art drawings etc. Again, fun work!
Air Warrior pilot wing...
Interesting, Extended Review of WFRP1e
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So, I'm not on this blog much. Or blogging much at all, neither here or on
my main blog. I've been running some Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e - The
Warlock...
A solitary Heroquest fimir
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The handsome fellows over on the Scale Creep blog invited me to join their
Heroquest Hero Quest and I could hardly turn them down. After all, I
had already...
long awaited Aequatherium scenario.
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I must admit that I've had this one sitting around for a while but have had
other distractions to contend with. The rules for the figures can be found
on t...
Our bags are packed for the Pacific Northwest
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The summer seems to be rushing by. I think it feels like that because we
haven’t really had any summer yet. I know, I know, some of you have been
having R...
Paper Experiments
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I tried playing with a limited color palatte and a reduced number of images
today. Everything else was open to whatever I wanted to do; I just couldn't
use...
Challenger and IT Terrain.
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Odd how things coalesced, and one day can define years to come...
Occasionally in this Life in Miniature, I 'be been around successful
protects, at GW lat...
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Prohibition has ended and so has the shortage of AFS back issues! While
supplies last all 6 issues are available as I recently did a re-print run,
had thes...
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Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because
of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge.
http://www.theguardian.co...
ECHOLALIACS
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*Number Appearing:* 2-8
*Size:* 10' to peak of cone
*Armor:* Rolls of thick, dense hide as plate armor
*Resilience:* As 8 human warriors
*Intelligence:* S...
What Happened to VHS Archive?!
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Some of you may have been wondering, and some of you may not have even
noticed, but VHS Archive has pretty much ceased to operate. I live in
Seattle where ...
I'M BACK!!!
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Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry
for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've
completel...
¡Otro dragón en Birmingham!
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El 5 de Septiembre de 1981 Ian será el encargado de oficiar como maestro de
ceremonias en la apertura de la tercera tienda oficial de Games Worksho...
DIY Paint Station/Hobby Board.
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Yay! Finally got something done to post about. My old board that I use to
paint and construct my miniatures on started life as a sort of temporary
coffee t...
A Ruined Castle of Aventurien
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Another map courtesy of *Das Schwarze Auge*, in this case, a ruined keep on
the water. I imagine the keep above plagued by skeletons and the ghosts,
rat...
Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil
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Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps.
This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many
levels w...