Calendar Update and Announcing 2nd Painting Contest

The judging of the first P&P Painting Contest will be postponed for one more weekend due to there being no entries to judge. If no entries are submitted next Sunday, March 29th, the prizes will instead be used in our second competition, which I will also be posting about here.

We will not be at Hobbytown this coming Sunday, March 22, because we will be in Indiana for the annual 7-Years-War historical gaming convention.

April 12th is Easter Sunday, and Hobbytown will be closed for the holiday, so no P&P event that day.

And the following Sunday, the game room will be reserved for a modellers' convention, so it is likely that there will be no tables available in the game room for P&P. IF this changes, I will post here. Otherwise, no event on April 19th.

BUT we WILL be there on April 26th to judge the entries in our second contest.

ANNOUNCING THE PAINT-AN-ELF CONTEST!!!

This contest will be similar to our first Paint-a-Kobold contest, except for this time we are asking the participants to purchase their own unpainted model. The rules are as follows.

1. Contest entry must be a model representing an elf.
2. The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
3. Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
4. Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
5. Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
6. 1st and 2nd prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
7. This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

Although you are encouraged to buy your own model, and hopefully have begun your own collection of model paints, you are always welcomed to join us at any P&P Sunday events between now and judging to work on your model and share in the group's collective enthusiasm for improving individual painting skills.

Above all, this competition is about fun! Whether you win a prize or not, if you do your best or maybe a little better and have a good time doing it, then you have achieved something worthwhile.

Lastly, we hope to see you all in two weeks. The dungeon has been too quiet lately. Methinks the monsters are lonely and miss the company. We've missed you all too.

Swords & Wizardry Core Rules-2nd Printing now available!

Below is the official press release concerning the newest available publication of the Swords & Wizardry Core Rules RPG. It is still available as a free PDF download, but now with a few necessary corrections and clarifications..and LOADS of new artwork by various and talented artists. I've downloaded mine, and it looks fantastic!

Press Release
Swords & Wizardry Project
http://www.swordsandwizardry.com
mythmere at yahoo dot com

I’m very proud to announce that the second printing of the Swords & Wizardry Core Rules is now available for free download here: Free PDF of Core Rules and that print versions are for sale (and super-cheap) at Lulu.com at our storefront


Swords & Wizardry is an OGL “retro-clone” of the original fantasy roleplaying game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The Core Rules also contain some selected material from the supplements (1974-1978). With a thriving internet community and tons of support products, Swords & Wizardry is bringing back a lost style of fantasy roleplaying. Forget huge rulebooks - just play. If you can imagine it, you can do it in Swords & Wizardry. The rules are simple and quick to learn, and they are infinitely flexible and expandable. Take the basic framework and “Imagine the heck out of it!”

Swords & Wizardry is supported by Knockspell Magazine, the quarterly magazine of fantasy retro-clone gaming, and by the active forums at http://www.swordsandwizardry.com/forum.

Paint Contest Update

Due to the fact that no contest entries were handed in for judging yesterday, we will put off judging and awards until this coming Sunday.

And remember..the Sunday after that we'll be away to South Bend.

We hope to see you all next week.

Prize update!

With an extra week to get the prizes together, we decided to try something a bit different. Rather than offering a little ruined temple as second prize, we thought it might be fun to give the first place winner a choice between two prizes and let the other prize go to second place.

One of the choices will be a section of our HirstArts water cavern dungeon as earlier promised.

The second choice will be the HirstArts tower pictured below.

The rooftop of the lower section can be lifted off and is an excellent little tower for your minis to fight over...especially if you have a few good archers to defend it with.

We'll see you all Sunday!!

Paint Contest Deadline Postponed

Due to the rather unexpected ice storm and a few slippery bridges between home and Hobbytown, we were not able to make it down today to wrap up the paint contest, so the deadline and judging will take place a week from today (March 8th) instead.

Also be watching for pics of the prizes to be awarded. I would have had them up sooner, but along with unexpected ice storms, my computer decided to stop working. Fortunately a VERY good friend had the necessary part to fix it. Check back soon for further updates.