Tabletop Gaming News and Others Protest SOPA

Tabletop Gaming News and Cool Mini or Not, both well-known in the tabletop gaming industry (both ran by the same group), have decided to protest the PIPA/SOPA that until recently had been gaining momentum before the Internet began widespread protests.  Their protests join several websites including Google, Wikipedia, and more.  At least one more game company, Steve Jackson Games, has decided to protest by blocking out their site as well.

Edit: On the Lamb Games blacked out their site today as well.

SOPA stands for Stop Online Privacy Act and PIPA stands for Protect IP Act, essentially give undue power to our government, to stop foreign websites with possible copyright infringement without undo process.  However, the specifics of how this power works are making people mad.  Websites can be sued to remove links, be forced to stop doing business like advertising on said sites, and more, without a formal chance of defense.  The article SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts, from PC World author Justin Newman, explains things much better than I.

I do think piracy is bad, but having a totalitarian view on how to deal with it, and giving powers to the government few are not what I support.  Especially when it comes from the backing of Hollywood and the RIAA who should NOT be making the laws by giving large donations to their pocket congressmen and woman and representatives.

If you know of other gaming sites that have blacked out today, please let me know by posting below and capture a screenshot for me. I’d like to collect as many as I can>

More Reaverlords Previews from Pulp Monsters

The Reaver Lords Facebook page has released a couple more previews.  This time, a preview of Marika:

Marika was born in the Eternal City but when the Slumber caused thousand of beings from less fortunate places to flee, she found herself sick of the crowds. Aboard the Gold Company's vessel, she left the Five Star Cluster to search for the answers.

 

Another preview, are the twin weapons called the Fangs of  Ouroboros: One of the first reaved artifacts ever, twin burning blades are what Shadow Prince brought back from the first venture into the slumber of the Snake God.

Sarissa Precision Releases System Infinity

Sarissa Precision has released a new range of modular MDF buildings for the sci-fi fan running 20-32 mm games like AE: Bounty, Infinity, and Tomorrow’s War.

Verified Appearances of Jade Clan Assassins Seen in Pulp City

Citizens of Pulp City, be warned that there have been verified reports and sighting of the Jade Clan assassins in and around Pulp City.  The authorities have been notified and members of Heavy Metal are on the look out.  A concept artist has taken reports and descriptions from the sightings and provided us this image:

Jade Class Assassin

Word on the street is that reporter June Summers, well known T.V. anchor, has captured some true images of these stalkers.  For your benefit, I provide those images here to danger to myself:

 

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June Summers also reports, from an interview with the Mayor of Pulp City, Morf,and quotes that Pulp Monsters has…

… the batch of sculpts from James and I took them immediately to MaxMini for casting.
I got to say this is just one of my favorite batches: hyper dynamic (hey, it’s ninjas!) super sexy minis!

There are two ninja Supremes (male and female), multipart ninjas (2 body types, 8 weapons and arms, 4 heads – all very user friendly as they hold almost with no glue) and the Green Emperor who is just really menacing as he draws his sword.

But it’s not just villains – Heroes will be able to use ninjas as well, and all Hero players will be happy to see a whole new team building option that gives special bonuses if you build your team with the martial arts theme (yes, that means Chronin side by side with Chimp Chi).

If you were at Gen Con 2011 and caught up to Morf,  he had some resin masters to show off.

If you have any information to share about these enigmatic Jade Clan members, please contact your local authorities.

Reaver Lords Update

There is a small discussion going on over on Frothers Unite about the new Reaver Lords line from Pulp Monsters.  Morf posted a response there, and this is what he said:

That is Remy Tremblay’s sculpt, more to come from him, Frothers’ darling Andrew Rae  and James van Schaik.
That is my private side-project, the models from the initial batch (6-7) should be available from the Pulp Store (currently through www.pulp-city.com but since we are expanding ranges,www.pulpmonsters.com will go live).

I finally did something about the sizing of the miniatures I’ve always wanted, it is all over the place 
Even within the same races models are different heights – but fit very well because of same proportions.

Generally, they are on the bigger side, humans from 32 mm to the conanesque types around 40 mm.

Reaver Lords Concept Art

For more information, visit my previous post or visit the Reaver Lords page on Facebook.

I’ll try to keep things updated when I can.

Pulp City Forum Member Mini Exchange

The group on the Pulp City forums is discussing a mini exchange to encourage community and comradeship.  I’m organizing the event, and hope to have everything planned soon.  If you want to paint up a great model, share it with another hobbyist, then pop on over to the Pulp City forums and check the information out as I post more.  I’ll likely have a sign up sheet ready this weekend and give everyone a few days to jump in.

If you don’t know what a mini exchange is, people sign up to paint a miniature, then get placed with another person.  Sometimes at random, sometimes not.  Each person paints a mini, then sends it along to their partner.  You wont always paint for the person you are receiving a mini from, and you may not always get the mini you hope for.  The idea though, is spread community and brotherhood, all in the name of fun, with a great group of like-minded individuals.

Reaver Lords Officially Arrive from Pulp Monsters

Pulp Monsters has officially released information about their new line of models called Reaver Lords.  Reaver Lords is a dark fantasy world with a gritty, adult theme to it.

Welcome to Reaver Lords. So it’s on. I won’t be lying to you…

Reaver Lords

Maciej (Morf) states on the new Reaver Lords face book page that the project “..is a very personal project, the kind of fantasy that I always wanted to see and play with. More dark than light, more adult than not. The world of Reaver Lords is the playground. With the vital contribution of the multi-talented artist Liam C. we are not reinventing the wheel – we are just making it very shiny in a grizzly way.”

Some greens and artwork were posted on the facebook page, which I’ve copied here.  First, we see the elven Dark Prince:

Reaver Lords

The models are described as “…far from the usual We-are-all-32mm approach, elves, being the tallest are around 40 mm, humans are 30-33 but some, like Njall the barbarian king just dwarf them.”

Plans for the line include a board game of some sort, but we’ll wait and see.  A new website with the same name should be opening in the future as well.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

For Sale/Trade Page Update

I’ve updated my for sale/trade page to include more items I’m wanting to sell or trade off.  Please visit the linked page to find out what I’m looking for. (Strange Aeons game, hint, hint!).

For sale/Trade:

Fields of Glory

• Fields of Glory main rulebook
• Wargames Factory: Ceasar’s Legions new in box
• Wargames Factory: Roman Cavalry, new on sprue

Firestorm Armaday by Spartan Games

• Sorylians Starter

Warmachine by Privateer Press

• Protectorate of Menoth starter (metal)

More Pulp City Models- Loup Garou II & Moonchild; Arquero & Riposte

I’ve had these two box expansions for Pulp City since their release and decided it’s about time to put them together.

At this time, I’ve got every release for Pulp City except the Pulp Monster and when it came out, I didn’t have the funds to buy it.

Pulp City is a super-hero skirmish game by Pulp Monster’s, headquartered in Poland.

Here are the completed models:

Completed Models

Piece count-

• Loup Garou: two arms and the body
• Moonchild: one piece
• Moon Coyotoe: one piece
• Riposte: two pieces- body and left forarm with sword
• Arquero- three pieces with the quiver on his back and the bow with arm, and his body

Pulp Monsters makes models that are easy to assemble and are fun, quick, to get on the table.