The Realm of Zhu: March 2010

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Manifesto

This blog will become a space for my fantasy and gaming related art, design, opinion and campaign development projects. Expect "old school" Dungeons and Dragons, Retro Warhammer, 80's Citadel Miniatures, Lord of the Rings, Fighting Fantasy, Meta-Gaming, my campaign setting - tentatively entitled The Realm of Zhu, Post-postmodern fantasy and related musings and accompanying drawings...

... and beer.

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From the Sorcerer's Skull

[Parsulan] The Prismatic Lake - In the Berlaith region of the content of Parsulan, there is a magical body of water known as the Prismatic Lake. The reason for the name is obvious: cle...
Hobgoblinry

Veteran space orcs - Here's a unit of "orc veterans" for Grimdark Future (and doubtless other games). They're a mix of orks and fantasy orcs and black orcs. The two black ...
Tales From Farpoint

Imperial Guard Platoon - Hi! I've been working away on making some tiny troops for a 40k 1st/2nd edition project that I've been humming and hahing over for years and making my o...
Fantasy Game Book

We Really Need To Talk About Wands (Part Seven) - *Wand of Spells **(#23/31, #51/365) [EA:V2] (Enchanted Item)* This wand is typically made from rare and expensive wood, bound with gold or silver and st...
Fantasy Toy Soldiers

MAGI: Druids - Some of these Were not actually made to be druids but still look the part enough that I include them. Biplant, Starlux & Cafe Storm Warhansa & Nav...
Fabled Lands

The early bird... - Alkonost have some very fine gamebook editions for French readers, as these gorgeous covers and interior maps show. And you can now pre-order books that ...
Dear Tony Blair

Citadel Fantasy Tribe Evil Leaders - *(Updated 29th May 2026)* The Fantasy Tribe Evil Leaders range was released back in late 1982. It was changed to C22 before being amalgamated into range...
Magpie and Old Lead

Come to Papa - a Scavvy Champion - Building on the three scavvies from my last post, I wanted to add in some cool characters to the gang. Obviously the Scavvy King will make an appearance do...
LEADPLAGUE

Pestigors and Shaman Foulhoof - Wharhammer Quest Darkwater - Hey all, Following the first 4 heroes, and the mire kelpies, I've got onto the next villains and boss I needed to start plating the game, namely the pe...
Fighting Fantasist

Inspiration for a large gender-neutral carpeted and beige floor walk-in closet remodel with… - Inspiration for a large gender-neutral carpeted and beige floor walk-in closet remodel with flat-panel cabinets and medium tone wood cabinets Lil Ridge C...
History of Wargaming Project

Something strange happened at Charing Cross Underground Station - In May 2026, the main stream media and social media reported that the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) set up a HQ on the platform to a NATO wargame a...
Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!

'Ello, Dar - It's only taken since 2014, when dipping was the trendy painting technique, but I have finished my Eldar army for Warhammer 40,000. Behold the forces of Cr...
Goblin Lee's Miniatures Blog.

Mithril Miniatures Balrog. - Carrying on with the Mithril Miniatures May theme, I have painted their Balrog miniature. As per the rest of my Mithril collection I have based the Balro...
Awesome Lies

THE FORGING OF WORLDS - My forthcoming book on the history of Warhammer, from the MIT Press.
Give'em Lead

First Crusade - Perry First Crusade project: Hospitalers, Crusading noble, and Peter the Hermit, and using the Italian Clergy as an Inquisititor.
Lloyd of Gamebooks

Submissions are now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition - Hello all! Submissions have now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition. We have had slightly more than 10 entries this year, so entries will be av...
GROGNARDIA

My Own Cover Band - First, a couple of brief updates: I’m still hard at work on the first draft of the second edition of *Thousand Suns* and, while it’s going well, it’s not...
Realms of Chaos

Star Wars : West end Games models part 3/3 - Hey! Last part regarding WEG models range. The collection is almost complete, only missing models are : the Snow Speeder and Taun Taun... Not easy to find....
Ansible

Ansible 466, May 2026 -
Save Vs. Dragon

House Rule: Sharing Potions - Something my players have tried (off and on again) is splitting potions—particularly if many in the party are in need of healing. In furtherance of my...
Class Wargames

Class Wargames Joins the Eastern Association - Playing with Power ‘The proletarian revolution is that critique of human geography through which individuals and communities will begin constructing places...
TheOttoVonBismark

Epic Space Marine: Ork Bad Moon Weirdboy Battle Tower - Recently the hobby butterfly has settled on Epic minis. I painted this one the other day which had sat base coated black for a number of years on my shelf....
Halfling House

MORDHEIM HALFLING WITCH HUNTERS! - I am planning to enter the world of Mordheim with some of my favourite Halfling minis and first up I am considering fielding them as. Halfling Witch Hun...
stefan poag

Bad Unicorns and 2026 - Hello all – it is the second month of 2026 and I haven’t yet posted anything here – so here is at least something. We have been struggling with S.A.D. and ...
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...
Heroes of the Age

Is it 2026 Already? Oh My! - Gaaah?! Is that the year? That can't be right? My last post was in 2022! Surely there is something wrong here, Well there is...all the links seem t...
Broadswords and Beasts

Dungeon Floor Planners - I treated myself to a Christmas present which arrived on the 24th December luckily. I had these as a youth, but fancied another look at them. That wond...
Hack & Slash

On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
Nagora's Corner

A Journey to The City State of the Invincible Overlord - Woking, Surrey 24/12/1953 Dear Mr Lacy, It is a strange sensation indeed to be writing a letter which one has read before. Even stranger is the idea ...
Erny's place.

Happy Orctober - It has become a tradition that I post once a year in Orctober. Rubbish I know but I do hope to remedy that this coming year. I have been painting plenty...
Known World, Old World

Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
Kings Miniatures

John Dennett Grenadier Stone Golem - I adore the work of John Dennett, and have been slowly working my way through collecting his Grenadier minis. John emails me every birthday. Sweet guy. Fi...
sho3box

Star Wars & 02 Hundred Hours - I’ve been playing the wonderful 02 Hundred Hours from Grey for Now games recently. As thoroughly expected from one of the creators of the equally fantastic...
Dungeon Synth

Aura - Rain (2013) - You proceed into the interior of the tower, looking upward to see that it stretches straight up into the clouds, which have somehow made their way into t...
The Daily Dwarf

Great Expectations - Not long after I’d started reading White Dwarf, like – I suspect – many other readers, I fancied I could contribute to the magazine too. Given my love of m...
Playing at the World

Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
Oldenhammer in Toronto

Painted Miniatures for Heart of the Empire - [image: Painted miniatures for Heart of the Empire Star Wars Imperial Assault] *Heart of the Empire* was the fifth expansion for *Star War Imperial Assa...
Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

Dead Wood... - Happy Halloween - or at least it would have been if I'd gotten this post out on time! Read more »
Say; Hello Spaceman

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) - Some very cool suits from the third *Guardians of the Galaxy* movie. The many colours are a bit of a homage to Kubricks 1968 movie *2001**: A Space ...
Ninjabread

Röknauts Revolution - [image: Röknauts Revolution]"Behind each bike blasted knotwork treadtrack, and ahead blasted scarlet tracer rounds. Forging together iron wills and iron wh...
Cyclopeatron

When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...
Iron Sleet

Cult of the Hollow Thorne - +++ The Cult of the Hollow Thorne is one of the oldest Cults of the Green Man. It has risen to great numbers recently, as the search for illumination, cure...
Inked Adventures

Clearance Sale on Dice Trays - 50% off remaining foldable dice trays on our Etsy store (valid until March 1st) Clearance Sale on Dice Trays ________ Other news: Although we haven’t had a...
Play up, play up and play the game

Why did I need the boost - this is why - It only seems fair as I show-off the results of my recent efforts, that I show you why I needed the boost to my morale - this little lot, the last knocking...
MONSTER BRAINS

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...
Tekumel Collecting

The Battle of Thráya - I recently succeeded in luring Michael Lung over to the house for a miniatures battle and discussion of Tékumel. If you haven’t heard of Michael, he is on...
chirine's workbench

It's been a decade, now... - This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't take. S...
Zoya Street

Interesting predictions about the future of Video Game Design - Video game design is undergoing a dramatic shift. These go from a creative pursuit that has a lot of work involved to a creative pursuit where the work i...
Swords Against the Outer Dark

The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
The Satyr Art Blog

Oldhammer Fun: My "Citadel Colour" Paints - *My private little collection of Citadel Colour paints is all I need. Well, that and a few good brushes.* Warning: This is another frothy Oldhammer Blog p...
Gardens of Hecate

CCLII. AoS28: Sunhold Deadwalkers and Netopyr - *A*t last found a bit of time for my personal projects, so I made a few figures real quick. Sunhold Deadwalkers I'm trying to settle for a definitive ...
Superhero Necromancer

Using the Rainy City with Risus: The Anything RPG - S. John Ross's *Risus: The Anything RPG* can do anything. It says so right on the tin. And, if it is anything, the Rainy City is certainly something! But ...
Stro'Knor Macekiller

The Heroes of Fruglehofen - Yes, I know I said I was starting with Gimbrin's Mine... again. Due to vagaries of the warp or machinations of some evil power I am still waiting for some ...
Vintage Wargaming

Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead. Warplan 5/5 came o...
Heroes & Other Worlds

Not Necromancy... - I am indeed alive! AN incredibly busy year of travel just got more crazy as the year ended. In between I continued to work and play-test a different mag...
Darlene the Artist

Sacred Art for the New Year - Happy New Year’s Week! The start of a New Year always holds such great promise … being a completely blank slate — there are 366 days (leap year) to bring...
Oubliette Magazine

Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...
The Tékumel Project

Dricheans for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago? - *Some Yan Koryani* *Painted by Akarsh* I was disappointed when North Star cancelled (or put on hold?) the plastic box of Dricheans, the Bronze Age c...
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
GLITCHKRIEG 48k

\/\/○RLD \/\/△R ]|[ - ++PRNT AND PLY WRGM++ https://store.cave-evil.com/collections/board-games/products/world-war3-ww3-print-and-play
The Lead Dragon

Clear Acrylic Base Saves The Day (And The Mini) - My fantasy miniatures have always been game pieces, to be handled and used from one campaign to the next. Some of my favorite minis are 30 to 40 years old,...
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
Chaotic Henchmen Productions

The Withered Crag available now - I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be available startin...
John Howe

THE SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON, THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN - ‘Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of it...
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...
PLANET ALGOL

Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
Middenmurk

A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria - This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the fantas...
Chaotica Cloaquis

Dernier article - Hé oui, c'est le fin de Chaotica Cloaquis, sur Canalblog. En effet, après dix ans de bons et loyaux services, je vais quitter cette plateforme pour Blogger...
Tiny Basement Wars

2019 Goals - It's been forever since I've posted, and the only gaming I've gotten in is a Warmaster matchup between Undead and Dwarves. I'm playing against my son, but...
Mythmere's Blog

Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...
The Dungeon Dozen

How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
Fighting for your Fantasy

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Rab's Geekly Digest

Meet Emrim - Meet Emrim. For a dwarf (and a thief*) he's a good sort, and a fine shot to have alongside you in a fight. Not *behind* you, mind, he's not a perfect shot ...
Ral Partha

Mystery of the Fairy Slinger -
Corehammer

Denizens of the Garden of Nurgle: a Dark Age of Sigmar project - About two years back (probably at a similar time to when I actually bothered to write something for Corehammer, funnily enough), some friends and I were ta...
Fighting Dantasy

The Gates of Death - Remember how I started the last entry, for *The Port of Peril*? Of course you do, you read this blog every day. The _____ of _____. It's back for this la...
Duke of the Blood Keep

Workbench April 2018 - So this month I didn't work on multiple projects, it was just full steam ahead with Super Dungeon Explore... First up we have the last of the heroes, The ...
Ski-Ffy

A WHIFF OF MADNESS IN THE BARNUM SYSTEM - A Whiff of Madness by Ron Goulart, DAW 1978. Artwork by Josh Kirby.
The Book of Worlds

Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...
Lead Menagerie

Ral Partha Personalities 01-003 Balrog v3 (rescued) - Bit of a gap between postings, but that's what a new job and Christmas does for you :) I've hardly had time to paint in the last month, but I thought I wo...
Forgotten Dungeons

Ral Partha Necromancer - Realms of Magickal Sorrow by Old Sorcery MY first post in December also showcases the first 'evil' miniature I have thus far painted for this project. Witho...
Forgotten Dungeons

Ral Partha Necromancer - Realms of Magickal Sorrow by Old Sorcery MY first post in December also showcases the first 'evil' miniature I have thus far painted for this project. Witho...
The Tékumel Foundation

Empire of the Petal Throne! - The new hardcover and softcover editions of Empire of the Petal Throne arrived and are available now at DriveThruRPG.com! Here’s a link: http://www.driveth...
Adventures and Shopping

Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
Tales from the Tower

More Kesmai Corporation Isle of Kesmai images - Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged here guys. Here's some more fun Isle of Kesmai images showing the various stages of creating the Isle of Kesmai...
Turn to 400

That Is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie... - ...and in strange aeons, even this blog may be updated. Believe or not I have a half-written post for* Temple of Terror *that I intend to complete and publ...
The Bearded Quail

Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition: 200th Blog Post Battle Report - I am rather behind schedule on my battle reports. This year alone I have played three games of Warhammer 40,000 7th edition with 40k Dave; a four play...
Freedom in an Owned World

More Rogue Trooper Orks - I recently had the chance to make a flying visit to the Warhammer World shop, where I picked up a shiny new hardback of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. It...
Lead Men Tell No Tales

Dungeon Accessories: Part I (of many) - I have spent a lot of time in the last couple years painting dungeon accessories. At first I didn't want to, as there really isn't much time in-game for th...
Greblords Little Men

Nurgle army #13 - Citadel 28mm Converted Great unclean one - A totally unintentional paintjob, I'm pretty happy with the results. He came to me from my friend Hugh Fottrell, who had converted him to a bud swilling ba...
Phreedh's Miniature Stuff

A solitary Heroquest fimir - The handsome fellows over on the Scale Creep blog invited me to join their Heroquest Hero Quest and I could hardly turn them down. After all, I had already...
The World of Fighting Fantasy

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (by Tin Man Games) now on Steam! - As if you didn't already have a reason to visit Steam, Tin Man Games, who have done a sterling job converting some of our favourite *Fighting Fantasy* adv...
BLARGH!

Montreal Comic Con is in 2 weeks! JULY 8 - 10 -
The Privates Eternal

STAR TREK is 50 years old!/Playing with "boy dolls" - "Spock to Enterprise..." "The Captain has done something to his leg. We require immediate medical assistance." "Enterprise to Mr. Spock, the Doctor is ...
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...
Warhammer For Adults

2016 - The Year of Mediocrity - Hi. Happy New Year, I guess. Better late than never. I mean, if you wait long enough, it will be a new year somewhere, right? Now that I think about it...
Realm of Froud

Our bags are packed for the Pacific Northwest - The summer seems to be rushing by. I think it feels like that because we haven’t really had any summer yet. I know, I know, some of you have been having R...
Pitfiend

The Black Sun #3 -
Wanted for Wargaming

A couple more Landspeeders - It has been a while since I posted any of my Star Wars stuff - my lanspeeder race project has been on hold for the last couple years. However, I have 2 com...
Steam and Aether

Steampunk Militia now on Kickstarter! - STEAMPUNK MILITIA KICKSTARTER LIVE!!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/steampunk-militia-miniatures I am pleased to announce the long awaite...
Neon Pink Apokalypse

Ok... they forgot about us again... re: chaos dwarves/dwarfs? - Sooooo... A new age... An Age Of Sigmar! Yet again us poor people with a love for evil stunty types have been left without an army list/warscroll selecti...
World of Wonder

Paper Experiments - I tried playing with a limited color palatte and a reduced number of images today. Everything else was open to whatever I wanted to do; I just couldn't use...
Fiends and Adventurers

Every Dungeon had a Dragon.... - Back in 1980, every dungeon had a dragon in it! There were a few dragon miniatures on the market at that time, including some nice 'imports' from Heritage...
Life in Miniature

Still clearing up '83 - Ok, this blog update is dedicated to Kevin Davies (no not that one), Shaun Watson, Steve Clark and the two or three Frothers that commented, without whom I...
Halls of Tizun Thane

- Prohibition has ended and so has the shortage of AFS back issues! While supplies last all 6 issues are available as I recently did a re-print run, had thes...
The Kev Adams Challenge

The blog is looking for an "editor!" - Hi folks I need to face it: after more than 4 years of running this little blog, it has become obvious that I can't keep up - other interferences, you know...
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
They Stalk the Underworld

ECHOLALIACS - *Number Appearing:* 2-8 *Size:* 10' to peak of cone *Armor:* Rolls of thick, dense hide as plate armor *Resilience:* As 8 human warriors *Intelligence:* S...
Lost Video Archive

What Happened to VHS Archive?! - Some of you may have been wondering, and some of you may not have even noticed, but VHS Archive has pretty much ceased to operate. I live in Seattle where ...
ilikepaintinglead

I'M BACK!!! - Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've completel...
La Biblioteca de Albion

¡Otro dragón en Birmingham! - El 5 de Septiembre de 1981 Ian será el encargado de oficiar como maestro de ceremonias en la apertura de la tercera tienda oficial de Games Worksho...
Sickly Purple Death Ray

Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...
Objects of Chance

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Manifesto

Zhu Industries Products

The Tome of Zhu

The Arcane Archive

Indexia

Followers

Missives from the Dimension of Blog!

Miniatures Wot We Doth Liketh Muchly

Popular Posts

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