Walleye's Big Game Hunt

I used the remarkable Comic Life free thirty day demo to put a few of our game photos into this format. This is something else I learned about over at the Lead Adventurers Forum. (If I've done this correctly, they should be clickable for a larger more legible version.)

Check it out! http://www.lead-adventure.de/ There's some great gaming going on and some really nice folks sharing their ideas and techniques. Amazing stuff. And Inspiring too!

Actually I've been so inspired, and had so much Fun Friday night, that I'm using a phto of Tomas for my profile portrait!

I spent the weekend fiddling around on more jungle/lost world treees. Michaels and A.C. Moore have wonderful silk and plastic plants that can be made into all kinds of fantastic trees!

Proof ?

Last Friday Thomas and John came over for a Wings of War game. I've been lurking on the Lead Adventurer's Forum for a little while now . . .

Inspired by some of the pulp posts there, I decided that maybe we'd try something a little different. The guys were okay with the idea, but just in case I rolled out my flying mat. Hastily covered that with my generic green Woodland Scenics mat (which I love by the way!) (Come to think of it, I really like roll up mats for gaming! Fast and easy.) A quick scramble into the attic and I had three large boxes of fern trees that I had made years ago for some 40K games.

Thomas and I set the terrain up and added the dinosaurs we had both bought that afternoon. We used the excellent one page Big Game Hunt rules, a free download from http://www.perilplanet.com/ .

I used my French Foreign Legionnaire, from Askari Miniatures, and Thomas brought along a selection of his Mage Knight figures.

Lets just say the we had a hoot. Beer and giggles and dinos everywhere! We literally laughed ourselves silly. Thomas' Walleye (the sort of steam punk dwarf), armed with an elephant gun took on a TRex. And lost!

My character Tomas ended up the big winner of our first hunt. John's Chuck Steak character survived our first hunt too.

Our second hunt was interesting and just as much fun as the first. Wally the dwarf was the big winner, killing just about everything in sight as we treked the length of the table. He even got to blow up the hideous giant spider that he was so frightened by!

Chuck Steak got pretty badly mauled, but did live. John had to leave before we finished, so we moved Chuck Steak randomly . . . The last we saw him he was running back and forth, fortunately there weren't any dinosaurs around. Though when we went back for him we coudln't find him . . .

I suspect that we'll be playing many more Bg Game Hunt games! I know I can't wait to spring it on the Tims!

Chapter 1, Walleye's Big Hunt

I have PROOF!

After a long and dangerous trek through the Lost Forest of Mirages we have finally returned to civilization. I deeply regret that neither Wally nor I have any idea of what became of Chuck Steak. The last time we saw Chuck he was running back and forth through the underbrush ~ muttering something about, "No! Really! I have it under control . . ."

Despite the unfortunate and hideous deaths of Walleye and his brother Beareye Wally and I continued our exploration of this strange and fertile land. Neither of us have the words to describe the many different BIG creatures that we discovered.

Fortunately we were well armed and had sufficient ammunition to defend ourselves with. In fact the Big Game Hunting was so 'enjoyable' that I believe neither of us will ever reveal the details of the location of this fabulous area. (We might however be able to be, um, persuaded to lead other Hunters to the area for suitable inducement.)

Despite our long search, once we returned to where we had last seen him, we were unable to find Chuck Steak. However we _did_ find an abandoned cache of photographic equipment. The first of these plates have just been processed.

Now we have proof of the tales we have been telling in The Mug Alehouse! I am enclosing one of the prints for your consideration.

Your Friend
~ Tomas