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In my previous blog I wrote about how speedpaint helped me get a lot of mini's painted in not much time, and how that got me to decide I was going to practise my mini-painting skills so I would be able to make prettier mini's. Nothing chanced with my decision and I have gotten even more determined. I started practising and I discovered I really enjoy painting eyes. I still suck at it, but that is why it is called practise.
One other thing I did was sort my stash, my box of unpainted mini's, the Pile of Shame or Opportunity (depending on my mood). I discovered to my horror that I did not really have mini's I wanted to practise on.
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When I started DM-ing a while back (december 2014 was my maiden session) I also got interested in miniatures. They enhance the mood on the map, even if that map is just a big piece of paper with marker-scribbles where the trees are, and give both the players and myself a good sence of what is going on. I already had a few mini's and some paint, courtesy of a friend who decided he did not like to paint Warhammer armies after all. So I visited the Warhammer shop, got a nice dwarf mini (that I still have and love), some instructions and a new hobby was now part of my life. A hobby that I have had a love-hate relationship with until recently.
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When I get a chance to dive into something I am enthusiastic about, I will. There is no way I could choose not to because my inner toddler just runs at it like a labradoodle after a ball.
So when de RPG Props kickstarter by Props&Beyond came to live and had a facebook page and a discord channel I was in, and present. I got a chance to do some test-prints and together with some other excited enthusiasts I became an ambassador (which is a fancy title for 'get to do some test printing and bounce about it on the socials'). Of course I bragged about my RPG campaigns (as I always do), and some time ago I was asked if I would like to give an interview about being a GM. I did not mind at all, I love talking, writing and chatting about the hobby!
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Last time I gave a D&Demo (yes, D&D demo called D&Demo) I threw out all the characters I made for the demo the day after the festival. I had used those for a couple of years, and they had become a bit boring. They were a combination of level 1 and 2 D&D 5e, and rather simplified so explaining it all to people who did the demo to learn about the hobby would be easier for me.
As it turned out, about half of the demo-visitors were experienced players who loved playing a short, simple 1 hour adventure at a festival.
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Last weekend we had another session with our Saltmarsh-group. We started playing from the book Ghosts of Saltmarsh but have by now deviated so far from it that it is a homebrew campaign. I still have some of the original storylines in there, and the hometown is still Saltmarsh, so it remains my Saltmarsh group.
I had prepped everything in the session already for the previous session, but during that session they decided to go have a chat with the sea-elves. And not go into my awesomely prepped dungeon, for which I made pretty maps in Inkanate! This session I would not have it, so I kinda railroaded their behinds into my dungeon.
Because they had places to go, even of they were not aware of it.