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Post by David Okum on Jun 19, 2011 13:08:29 GMT -5
Say hello here. Let us know how you got into the crazy world of RPGs/Wargames and Cardstock terrain and minis.
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Post by sithcundman on Jun 19, 2011 18:25:14 GMT -5
Hello,
To be honest, my interest is more in modeling (making models, not being a model...if you saw my picture you'd understand why) than gaming. So I'm here mostly for the minis, though I'll be lurking in the gaming thread too, just to see what's happening. ;D
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Post by adamsouza on Jun 19, 2011 18:56:04 GMT -5
Hi,
My name is Adam and I'm a miniatures gaming addict. I have more miniatures than I'll ever paint and assemble and more games than I'll ever get to play, but I keep aquiring them.
I'm a big fan of Dave's art, especially his miniatures, and I'm also looking forward to see his game.
I've playtested for Enigma Miniatures(unreleased game), Superfigs(SuperSystem 1st Edition), Eden Studios (Buffy RPG, Angel RPG, City Of Heroes RPG), Demonblade Games (Shockforce), C3G (Heroscape Comics Customs Creators Guild), as well as Beta Tested a few MMORPGs over the years.
I'm currently playing the Classic Marvel RPG, Mutants and Death Ray Guns, and working on paper miniatures, over on the Cardboard Warrior's forums.
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Post by stevelortz on Jun 27, 2011 14:54:49 GMT -5
Greetings!
I've been into playing games with toy soldiers since the fall of 1974. My first game of D&D was in February 1975. In '77 I learned how to sculpt epoxy originals that could go through a vulcanizer, and I sculpted figures professionally for several decades. In 1978, Chaosium published Perilous Encounters, a set of fantasy miniatures rules I designed and have tinkered with ever since. In the mid-'90s I came up with a set of black powder skirmish rules I call Scurvey Dawrgs!, because I usually use it in pirate games.
I'm a fan of the original Buck Rogers newspaper comic strips, and think TSR did a horrible job of converting them to the RPG medium.
David's Retro Space figures have worked in me an urge to adapt my Scurvey Dawrgs! system for running some retro-sci-fi skirmishes. Thanks, Dave!
Have fun! Steve
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Post by reivaj on Jul 28, 2012 13:42:36 GMT -5
Hi my name is Javier, i live in Tucumán, a north province of Argentina, so if i don´t write in english very well is because my native languaje is spanish. I discover paper minis some years ago and started to build them, sadly i never play any game with them because i don´t find people to play. I have played D&D minis but was a expensive hobby. Paper minis are a awesome alternative to plastic or lead. I build minis and colect them. A year ago i started to do my own minis and two mounth ago i started selling minis in rpgnow. David Okum is my favourite mini artist, yesterday i bought beast and barbarians product ( a master piece) ,found this forum and here i am.
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Post by David Okum on Jul 29, 2012 16:31:43 GMT -5
Reivaj has some awesome sets up on RPG Now! Nice to see you here!
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kiladecus
New Member
Mad Scientist at GREY MATTER GAMES
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Post by kiladecus on Aug 3, 2012 19:34:45 GMT -5
Hey, it's me... You know me. Some of you can't stand me. Some of you are my close friends. I have been into gaming for as long as I can remember. I created my first board game at the age of seven. I watched the Wizard of Oz, and the next day I stayed home "sick." I was bored and didn't want to watch the soap operas or games shows (back BEFORE cable), so I took a piece of cereal boxes and such, and crafted a "Wizard of Oz" game. I did things like this for years. In High School, one of my teachers started a D&D club after school. I had NO idea what it was, but it looked fun. My parents saw it as worshipping Satan. I wasn't allowed to stay with it. So, I purchased the Marvel RPG game in the late 80's/early 90's. I didn't have miniatures for the super heroes, so I drew them and made paper cut-outs (DON'T get ahead of me). I then bought the DC RPG... Wanting to have ALL of the super heroes together, I took all of the information I could find, and made my OWN version of it, incorporating ALL super heroes. I made it more of a table top game. (Yes, I made a version of "Hero Clix" 20 years before Jordan Weisman created WizKids!) I would look at my lame figures printed off of my COmmodore 64 computer and had the details colored in in marker. Well, I paid out tens of thousands of dollars (NO exaggeration) over the next couple decades. It was only when I played WARHAMMER that I realized that having exclusive figures for a game was genius! I developed a plan... Only after I picked up "MICROTACTIX Twilight Street" from the local gaming store (covered under a layer of dust) did I start my transition into papercraft. I wanted more stuff and started looking for Microtactix stuff on-line. I found EBBLES. I "lived" there until he pulled the plug (he's back now). Through the EBBLES forum, I found OneMonk and TOPO. I submitted something to the Forum Hoard (my Skeletrons and Psi-Borgs). It was funny how I had paper figures that I WISHED I had plastic figures for, NOW, I am selling off my plastic figures and converting 100% to paper (again). Now, I am working on my own figures and such... and I have realized my TRUE mission again: HAVE A GAME THAT WILL LET YOU USE ANY FIGURE/MODEL/TOY IN IT. My humble little game is simple and fun (a lot like me). Nothing fancy, but straight-forward. That is my story, more or less. Also, I am known for posting long-winded posts. Thanks for your attention. Did I mention I am a HUGE fan of Dave's? It may sound a little presumptious, but I consider him one of my closest friends, and owe a GREAT deal to him for one small act of kindness that will NEVER be forgotton...
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Post by emergencyoverride on Dec 18, 2012 20:56:02 GMT -5
I've been gaming since the early 80's with the red book Runequest and early D&D editions. In the late 80's I discovered Battletech and 40k and took off from there. I love tabletop gaming in all forms and have played a ton of stuff over the years. This equates to many thousands of dollars also, but hey, I used to make alot more than I do now and I enjoyed playing. When I went back to college, things got a little tighter so I started looking for other fun stuff to do that wouldn't cost me a kidney. I found a cool zeppelin model on the Paperworlds website. That place was great and had a bunch of fun people also. That was it, I was fully hooked after that and began assembling all of the paper minis and models I could. Soon Paperworlds shut down and many people moved to Claudio's site which is now Papermakeit ;D. Its a great site and he is a cool guy. This allowed me to continue my mania and I entered the MMIP contest. My first paper mini was a giant squid and it was horrible. I made it in Gimp and it took 40 hours and I knew nothing about how to manipulate the program. Now something like that would be no problem and would look tons better, but that comes with time and experience. I love using the program today. I've made lots of friends through the onemonk site (I wish Jim was more active, I miss him), and am glad to have met David Okum and have the opportunity to visit this site and partake of his superb offerings! I speak to many of you guys more than local friends. Currently I am playing a ton of Snowball Wars and some Survival Horror games. I always play some form of Ganesha's Song of games and have them all. I have been working with Ben Boersma on Rise of the Occulites and can't wait for that Kickstarter in January. I also love just putting the models and figures together and love the variety that has come about in the last two or three years. I'm glad to be a part of the community and if anyone needs any help, just ask! ;D
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Post by cthulu on Jan 8, 2013 4:02:30 GMT -5
ummmm David... How do you feel about fan bashes? I'll post something were pictures go...
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Post by David Okum on Jan 9, 2013 16:44:38 GMT -5
Fan bashes are fun! I love making my own personally. That's why I kept the pdfs unlocked.
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Post by alloydog on Jan 21, 2013 14:56:02 GMT -5
I'm more of lurker than anything. I've been role playing on and off since I was a teenager at school, though the past ten years it's been more off than on. I had a dabble in wargaming way back when, but never got deeply into it. Nowadays, I get very little free time, so it's usually 15 minutes here and there and occasionally a whole hour, so projects tend to go slowly, like my "Orcs in Space". I also have more ideas in my head than it can hold, so I have to really restrain myself, or things wander, get over complicated and never finished. But the first five of my Killer Spacebots are nearly done, so then I should start playing Beer and pretzel Space Marines (rules here: www.glewwe-castle.com/brawl-factory/spacemarines.html). Hopefully...
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Post by 91bravo on Mar 15, 2013 18:54:58 GMT -5
Just a quick note to say, 'hi.' I've been gaming since the 70's and have become a regular user of paper minis and terrain due to some medical conditions. As I am mostly a solo gamer now, I recently picked up all of your fantasy sets to re-create my own version of Warhammer Quest.
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Post by alloydog on Apr 2, 2013 14:20:38 GMT -5
In High School, one of my teachers started a D&D club after school. I had NO idea what it was, but it looked fun. My parents saw it as worshipping Satan. Sorry, just got to throw this one in... Many, many years ago, my mum hosted a French student: a 13 year old boy called Olivier. When I was home from college, I noticed he had a book which in the title was mentioned "black magic", but it was in French, so I could get the whole gist of it. My mum had seen it as well. We both assumed it was something to do with role-playing/D&D and so on. No worries there then. A week later, my mum was woken up at about 1 o'Clock in the morning by a knock the front door. It turned out to be another host-family parent, with Olivier in tow. Apparently he had climbed out of the bedroom window, by jumping onto the porch above the front door and onto the our VW camper van, then led some others to the old graveyard at a disused church (St Michael's in Colchester) and was attempting to dig up dig up a skull in order to summon the devil... I thought it was pretty funny, but the other parents were all fire an' brimstone and burn him at the stake sort of thing. My mum, who is a practising Christian, wasn't too amused, but her attitude was that it was the sort of stupid thing teenage boys got up to, and just grounded the kid for the rest of the stay.
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Post by sphinxmagoo on May 27, 2014 21:11:14 GMT -5
Hi all. I've been interested in RPGs for decades, but have mostly used the sourcebooks as reference books for my art projects.
When I was a young lad, I used to cut up my comic books to make my own minis. I would find a great pose of, say, Batman, snip it out, and use it like a mini action figure. (Years later, I was surprised to find out that writer Dwayne McDuffie used to do this too as a young boy before he went on to write for Ben10 and Justice League Unlimited.) Long story short, that's kind of what brings me here. I get Heroclix when I can spare the money, but paper minis seem more customizable and cheaper. The sets David makes are a lot of fun and very inspirational for creating my own.
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craig
New Member
Daishō is done, Blood Eagle is the next Ministry Game. Also I have just released Dead Simple 5th Ed.
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Post by craig on Jun 28, 2014 2:18:19 GMT -5
Good morning! I am Craig Cartmell, probably best known as the creator of the FUBAR wargames rules and Dead Simple series of roleplaying rules. I also wrote the In Her Majesty's Name steampunk rules for Osprey with my good friend Charles Murton. I have been following Okumarts' work since the good old days on a certain paper miniatures forum. I always thought the young lad would turn out well I have been dungeoneering since the mid-seventies so yes I am truly ancient. Like many I abandoned TSR/WIzards/Hasbro(/Disney?) when it became obvious they no longer understood gamers who wanted to just play a fun game without having to buy a minimum of a thousand pages of rules.
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