Hobby Dungeon

I wanted to take a break from my massive dwarf army project. I was watching Trent from Miscast working through a Mordheim warband, and he planned to paint each mini after kitbashing it, before going on to work on another model. I thought that sounded nice after batch painting 36 dwarf slayers. So, I set out to kitbash a single model and paint it - no commitment, just enjoying working on a single model. So I did that, and it was great. But then my manic hobby brain kicked in, and I wrote the following fluff for this mini, which prompted me to start working on more models... It's never enough for me to just enjoy painting a model. I have to spin that out into a lore, and a new game system, and several factions, before inevitably getting burnt out and going back to paint dwarfs. We'll see if that happens again, but for now, enjoy the background for this nifty model. Miller's World   Miller's World, more commonly known as Darkside, is a t...

I have returned with another few sessions of solo Mork Borg. Things are starting to get a little weird, and I have a feeling they are about to get a whole lot weirder. I should note that my tenses are fucked up in these journals, and I'm too lazy to fix them right now - the goal is to eventually have all the writing be in the present tense. It makes things feel off-putting, and makes the narrator seem unreliable and a little crazy, which is what I'm going for. He seems a bit too lucid in these posts, but I'll fix that eventually. So far I've been using Mork Borg, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and some tarot cards, but I've recently got my hands on a PDF copy of Mythic Bastionland, and I could not be more excited. The tables and characters in that book are going to be excellent for what I'm doing. I've been digging around and looking at a lot of weird fantasy source books, and we'll see where this whole thing takes me. You may or may not have heard that ...

Hello friends, I am experimenting with a Mork Borg solo play campaign. I am using an unholy combination of the core rules, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and a deck of Tarot cards to guide my play. I'm also only leaning on the rules very loosely, and striving for a more narrative and journal-oriented game. Below you will find the first three days of my adventure, captured in two sittings. I hope you enjoy!   The Saga of Belum Grittr Day 1 My name is Belum Grittr. That’s all I remember. My broken body judders nervously and rhythmically as the pain shoots through my body like lightning bolts toward a steel rod. I bear the scars of a great violence, though I know not what harmed me – if I did, I would surely destroy it. I would bring heaven and earth and the whole firmament down on any fool who would wrong me so. I know nothing of the world now, only this meagre and pallid forest where I awoke scant few days ago. The trees here speak to me and I to them. Sometimes they whisper s...

 I think dungeon synth is the best catch-all term for what I’m doing – though I think dungeon synth is becoming a broader umbrella genre for everything from ambient black metal, to medieval folk revival, to synth soundscapes with a vaguely creepy feeling. And that’s what I think I like about it the most. I’ve been a performing musician since I was about 14, playing in folk, punk, and metal bands, and later becoming an electronic music producer for a number of years. Throughout those years I had lots of little solo recordings or projects that didn’t fall neatly into a genre, and I always hesitated about releasing those under whatever band name I was using at the time. I think this project gives me more freedom to experiment with genre and form – I’m also just older, and I care less about what people think about my creative work – and now I have a place to consolidate that work together.  I am calling this project, Glass Candle. That’s a reference to the world of occult magic ...