I've always wanted to do something similar to the Citadel box sets like Runequest Box 3 -Attack of the Broo and LW1 Lone Wolf - Giak Attack. Aside from the nostalgia (the set cover, photo above, is loosely inspired by John Blanches Citadel D&D box covers / poster from White Dwarf 67), it is a nice way to do a small number of characters with different design themes, suitable for a mini skirmish game, or a small diorama all together in a neat little package.
The theme itself is perhaps a little more up-to-date, with the soulless, semi-sentient fungal automata threatening the lives of creative, crafts people - a fantasy drawn from a current cultural conflict - Vlatkrig as technique, an approach to the world. As ever the figures have been drawn with the authentic Old School materials - Staedtler Noris HB Pencil, vintage Helix Shatterproof ruler, Black Berol Handwriting pen and trusty, soon to be extinct WH Smith A4 5mm gridded paper - the same materials I used when I first got into fantasy gaming in the mid 1980s in Junior School, more than a spectacle of image, truth to materials and embodying a physical connection and continuity with the past.
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| Myngskerö original artwork. |
The Myngskerö
The remnants of a long dead, idiot wizards failed experiments with fungoid automata run wild. A self replicating, constructed fungal infection set loose to kill, break down and decompose all organic matter into a great grey mulch - The Slôp. Rudimentary recursive magical algorithms feed from the creatures absorbed, crudely imitating the making and use weapons of war to advance the Myngskerö's omnicidal program.
The remnants of a long dead, idiot wizards failed experiments with fungoid automata run wild. A self replicating, constructed fungal infection set loose to kill, break down and decompose all organic matter into a great grey mulch - The Slôp. Rudimentary recursive magical algorithms feed from the creatures absorbed, crudely imitating the making and use weapons of war to advance the Myngskerö's omnicidal program.
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| Mygnskerö Saeþ - a lesser Myngskerö archer. |
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| Mygnskerö Boras - the giant dual axe welding berserker. |
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| Mygnskerö Karch - a fearsome clawed spear weilder. |
Defending their homes and lives are three craft workers, low-level adventurers just starting out on their first adventuring career, bravely turning their tools of trade into weapons against the soul-less fungoid automatons.
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| Dyne Gwiadôr - a Khoyþella of the Gáldaethra, armed with sword and bolas. |
Dyne a weaver, skilled in the use of a loom, using a weaving sword and a loom weight as a bolas.
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| Gravt Brotshyre - a Gnörven Kaaþen, armed with mallet and chisel. |
Gravt using his wooden mallet & chisel. A practitioner of the art of Kaaþ - carving figures into living trees and the subsequent care and renewal of them, an ancient craft somewhere between carpentry, graffiti, tree-surgery and architecture.
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| Yrk Birkstayne - a Köbling Dröeyþ, a feral hedge-alchemist. |
Yrk, gatherer of rare mosses, sacred herbs, waeps-speaker. Maker of strange potions that may heal or induce madness, dye cloth unusual colours, and produce ink for writing arcane lore. Holding an Isenwaep Gall, and silver pruning sickle.
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| An Isenwaeps |
Friends to Hedge-Alchemists who have learned to treat them with kindness and respect, the Isenwaep life cycle produces Galls, a rare and valuable constituent, that once hatched out of, can be gathered and used.
The Kræftvölk Terrain
Also included in this set are 7 pieces of themed scatter terrain - including mushroom outcrops and craft equipment from the world of Vlätkrig.
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| Kynelrook - Gnörven carved treestump. |
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| Kalrat - a Dröeyþ workbench for mixing potions. |
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| Wyrkandlomá - a weighted loom for weaving Gáldaethraja cloth. |
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| 4x Schrûmgroves - outcroppings of various fungi. |
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