Painting Miniatures: Deathwatch and Infinity
Last post, I wrote about what I’d learned in a month or two of painting miniatures again. I’m enjoying the work and the end result, and I’d like to keep …
Keeping Going: Miniature Figure Painting Tips from My Friends
About a month ago, I posted about how I assembled and began painting a single Space Marine miniature. The result was good, but a bit dodgy, especially when I took a …
Three Tips to Help Your First Android Netrunner Game Stay Fun
Most card games are complex beasts, especially collectable and living card games, where each card has some way of altering the basic rules. It can make actually enjoying the game …
Starting Small: One Space Marine at a Time
Facebook, if you’re subscribed to the right pages or people, can become a hall of positive thinking. It’s even better than those framed motivational posters you see on folks’ office …
How Do Five Guys Across the World Make Four Hours of Deathwatch Fun?
I’ve been mentioning Deathwatch a lot in the last couple of months, talking it up. I think it’s high time I started walking the talk and get some friends to …
The Thing-A-Week Project Plan
You know, I’ve done an awful lot of talking about making fun since I re-branded my web log to Step One: Make Fun! Yet in that time I’ve not actually made all …
Can Deathwatch Make Fun In Grim Darkness?
The tag-line for Games Workshop’s fictional universe known as Warhammer 40,000 is, “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” It’s like an odd mash-up of The …
Fighting the Blues With Progress in Small Chunks
Sometimes, it’s easy to get distracted by troubles when they come up, especially when you’re already trying to sort yourself out after prior ones. The extra pressure makes you want …
A Return to Old Playing and Getting Paid to Podcast
It’s been a good seven days here at the Realm. It’s been an upswing in both progress toward getting paid to play and, well, just playing. On the play front, …
How To Quit Something Without Quitting It
Quit. It’s short, heavy word, isn’t it? A sharp word for a sharp thing. Sever your ties with a Big Thing in your life. A job. A mortgage. Give up. Walk away. Run. …