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.
Cradlegrave
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Well, it can't all be Dungeon23 content! I got this book for Chrimble and
have been thinking about it ever since. I think I'm ready to put those
thoughts d...
Hex Crawl 23 #38: Summer Weather on the Dry Plain
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4 hexes north of Alakran.
Another dull empty stretch of west Dulsharna plain, another weather post.
The hot summer months call for special travel rul...
Goff Rockers - The Mörkley Krëw
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So GW's recent release of the most excellent Goff rocker has seriously
itched my ork and metalhead nerves, it's notthat easy you see a model
without a we...
Russian Amazons.
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These are the last of the Russian made figures I was able to buy off of
ebay before the war started and all the Russian sellers got kicked off. A
few Ru...
Hex Help
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Much as I adore the incomparable map of the Flanaess from the *World of
Greyhawk – *perhaps the best RPG map ever – over the last few years I've
really c...
13th Age
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I've had the *13th Age* core book for sometime, but after picking up most
of the rest of the publications for the game in a recent Bundle of Holding,
...
Ohnoitshimagain
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If you can stand another interview with me about gamebooks, roleplaying
games, comics, and so forth -- and if you haven't heard it all already --
then he...
+ Cult of the Viridic Cross +
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The Cult of the Viridic Cross is fairly new within the pieties of the Green
Man. Despite being present in only a small area of the divide, it has
become on...
Defenders of Padua
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I managed to get a couple of hours this morning to carry on with these
old Grenadier figures to use as Paduan defenders of the 1509 siege.Almost
finish...
January news and upcoming February news
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Hello all! Late again. Really sorry.
Here's what is going on so far...
*Releases*
*Betrayal in Neo Sybaris: A gamebook from Samuel Isaacson*
Neo Sybar...
Keeping Up With the Carpathians
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With two gothic horror vampire themed gaming opportunites due later this
year, I figured that I would would play dolls house with my stuff in
anticipation,...
Medball - a Kickstarter in peril!
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Well, I've got 14 wonderful backers but still not hitting the target... I
really thought this would be reasonably popular! When I think about the
rang...
Illustrators – beware the Donald Livingston SCAM
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(sorry this is cut and pasted from elsewhere but I wrote it and wanted to
make sure the rest of you saw it) Illustrators — please beware of someone
calling...
AI and wargaming articles
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Chat GPT uses an enhanced predictive text generator, along with a large
database of knowledge (until the year 2021, it knows nothing beyond that).
It...
Tomb Kings Chariots completed.
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The assembling and painting the chariots is completed. There are 22
Chariots in all, broken down into 3 squadrons of six, one of 3, and a Tomb
King on h...
Class Wargames leads the Slave Rebellion
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"Classical society had reached a very high cultural and administrative
level by the first century BC, probably as high a level, in general, as was
reached ...
In Fair Cuccagna: Cuccagnat Catch Up
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I've missed a couple of sessions in addition to having a report for this
week, so before our main event we have two truncated reports in the style
of the...
Staring into the Void - Navigator
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I wanted something relatively quick and easy to paint up as my first figure
of 2023, so I decided to pick something from my boxes that was long
overdue. ...
Full Metal Planete
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Hey !! I hope you well celebrate the end of 2022 and I wish you a great
gaming year for 2023. I start this new year with very old French game from
1988 :...
The Carol of Cthulhu!
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This is the latest from my son - Fimo and tinfoil as usual, and handily
based as any number of flying Titans in Kings of War. This is how he did it
...
A Merry Christmas Comic Report!
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The Masters of the Monolith met up at an undisclosed bunker for Violence
in the Valley 2. We enjoyed two amazing days of Warhammer 3rd Ed. Enjoy
the C...
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,
The Dice Men Cometh
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Sometimes it felt like it would never see the light of day, like it was
eternally trapped, wandering the gloomy corridors of Zagor’s maze, but
after five l...
The Sorcerers' Enclave
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The Sorcerers' Enclave Kickstarter is now live. It funded in the first
hour. It's a combination of art book and RPG source book featuring the
intricate p...
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...
Der Verlorene Haufen: All Aboard the Arquebus!
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*Kurt Todeswunch was awake before his adjutant burst in to the tent -
perhaps he had never actually slept. How was one to know where the border
between d...
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
***
Turn 4: Undead
As you no doubt know, the common skeleton can muster ...
Epic 40,000: Ork Mega Gargant
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An Ork Mega Gargant conversion for you this time. The stock model for this
one is a bit funny looking so I gave it a decent bit of conversion work
with the...
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 ...
WANDERING BUT NOT LOST
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“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift,
wait, and obey.” — Rudyard Kipling[1] Late last year, I was asked if I
would consi...
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
Drive...
Gen Con 2019 - Pictures and Brief Recap
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Last August me and my local gaming pals, Steve Ellis and Matt Ryan, made a
road trip to Gen Con. Steve is an artist who does the excellent Only Living
Boy ...
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
doin...
Blink Dogs
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AD&D Blink DogsThis month I have been entirely focused on sorting through
my storage and rebasing all my figures to Renedra 25mm bases. Boring
stuff. So...
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 "Tr...
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 RE...
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:* St...
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 Workshop...
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...