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.
Mince Pie Fest 2024: The Bastard Kipling
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I won't mince words (ha ha), these are bland, as the kids say, AF. The
pastry has a decent texture, maybe a touch too soft, but is dry and claggy,
like a m...
Over the Garden Wall returns
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In case you missed it, last week was the 10th anniversary of *Over the
Garden Wall*. They released this stop-motion short that was pretty cool:
How hard should a gamebook be?
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*Achievement unlocked.*
It's a great thing to see, but only when it's earned. If the world can be
saved just by stumbling through an adventure picking o...
A Tin Soldier orc in a retro style
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Here's an orc from Tin Soldier painted in a somewhat retro style with
heavy blacklining in ink.
Although I had originally based many of them on pennie...
Trench Crusade - Communicant anti-tank hunters
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Following the Trench Crusade vibe I'm in at the moment, I've finally
allowed myself to paint the Communicant anti-tank hunter from the very
first Kicks...
Bob Olley Iron Claw/Essex Miniatures Undead.
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Something ghostly for Halloween: Undead.
These undead were sculpted in the 1980s by Bob Olley, and are from his time
at both Essex Miniatures (this ran...
A Tide of Mucus
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Ugh - over a whole month without posting! The daft thing is I've no end of
things to post about and I think this will be my excuse this time!!
I had been...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
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Some very cool suits from the third *Guardians of the Galaxy* movie.
The many colours are a bit of a homage to Kubricks 1968 movie *2001**: A
Space ...
Happy Orctober
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The Blood Snortas
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The Blood Snortas were born for trouble. Ridin' their ill-tempered boars
through mud, dust, and worse, they’d roared their way ou...
A Tale of Four(ish) Gamers
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On the internet, there is a chap called Dave.
Dave likes beer, bacon and battle. Especially the 4th edition of Warhammer
Fantasy Battle. He likes it so ...
Class Wargames overthrows the Emperor of Mankind
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Sci-Fi Battles in the Grim Dark Future “As I continue to ponder what,
precisely, my politics are – and how I can understand The Political in
connection to ...
Deadzone 3.0 Terrain
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I prepped and painted some hi-tech/lowlife Deadzone 3rd edition terrain. To
keep things simple, I built the set to pretty closely match the layout on
the b...
Bosch Bosch Bosch loadsaminis
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*NOTE: the BLogger app has shat itself and no longer posts images,
apparently. Yeah this site is dying slowly. aaaanyway.... I shall fill in
the picture...
MAGA House of Horrors
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This is a recent thing I did… the final image has a lot of text added and
this is obviously for a political campaign… since the campaign has not
launched y...
Imagi-Nation Wargaming
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Hi!
As per usual, I find myself run off my feet with work with precious little
time for anything else but something I've been pondering for a bit is to
...
The Fellowship by Hinchliffe
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Blogger behaving oddly ATM, and only allowing me to post pictures over a
week old...so apologies if you've seen this already on my Instagram page
@broad...
Röknauts Revolution
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[image: Röknauts Revolution]"Behind each bike blasted knotwork treadtrack,
and ahead blasted scarlet tracer rounds. Forging together iron wills and
iron wh...
Realm of Chaos Campaign : Battle reports
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Hi, two weeks ago with Slaanesh_Child and I, we played the four last
battles of the campaign started in February this year. A great campaign
finish with ...
Katsina Miniatures Crystal Spider Swarms
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Working on my TOW Lizardmen army recently I went all in for some Spider
Swarms using our very own spider models. They were sculpted by Doti and
they are av...
D&DG Worshippers 9: The Greeks
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Greek Worshippers
No paladins in the Greek pantheon. Seems reasonable, I guess.
Zeus Swanning About
Art: Linda SuttonIncluding Titans This first table is...
When did the OSR begin? 2008.
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I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff, and I ran
across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I
thought, ...
Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland
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Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim
Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very
helpful to m...
Cult of the Hollow Thorne
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+++ The Cult of the Hollow Thorne is one of the oldest Cults of the Green
Man. It has risen to great numbers recently, as the search for
illumination, cure...
White Dwarf Interior Artists: Top 5
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Everyone loves the covers from the classic RPG era of White Dwarf. The
‘Covers Compendium’ page is one of the most popular on my blog – literally…
handfuls...
Clearance Sale on Dice Trays
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50% off remaining foldable dice trays on our Etsy store (valid until March
1st) Clearance Sale on Dice Trays ________ Other news: Although we haven’t
had a...
Black Pudding 8 Print Edition Out Now!
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The print edition of *Black Pudding Issue 8* is now available to order from
the Squarehex site using the following link:
https://www.squarehex.co.uk/coll...
#16 - "Seas of Blood" by Andrew Chapman (1985)
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*Seas of Blood *is Andrew Chapman's third and final contribution to the
mainline Fighting Fantasy series. And that's a shame, because he really
hits h...
My Druid Adventure On Sale
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Oakfell Vale, my adventure about mysterious druids in a secluded valley, is
on sale now for 20% off - only $7.99. It is 64 pages, and is intended for
use w...
ON RAVEN WINGS: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MARVELOUS
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ON RAVEN WINGS: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MARVELOUS
Jul 24, 2023 | Chronicles
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...