Carja

Sep 282015
 

Hello friendly readers of the blog. I don’t have a lot to talk about this week, so let’s just get into it.

As I wrote in last week’s blog, I started working on a map for my D&D world. Slowly I’m getting more and more ideas of events that have shaped my world. Shaping the map hasn’t been as smooth as I’d like.

Campaign Cartographer works with layers. This is something I’m familiar with since I draw with layers all the time. Switching between the layers in CC isn’t as intuitive as I’m used to. Several times I thought I’d switched to the appropriate layer and started adding things only to learn it was adding things to a different (wrong) layer and I’d progressed too far to undo everything (I can only undo a certain number of actions). I’ve had to start over several times. I’m trying to be extra careful.

I picked up the expansion for Dice Town over the weekend. I was surprised to find it since the store I was at didn’t have the base game. Oh well, advantage me! I’ll talk more on that when I get a chance to play.

The new Skylanders game came with a significant price increase. A basic figure went from $10.99 in Trap Team to $16.99 in Super Chargers. If my math is correct, that’s a 35% price increase which is just insane. Lego Dimensions is still pricier overall but has the added advantage of being Lego. It’s a shame because I’ve loved the Skylanders franchise so far. The price increase is coming at a time when I’m trying to restrict my spending. I’ll be waiting for some serious discounts to buy in if at all.

That’s it for this week. As always, I hope that you all have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

Sep 232015
 

It’s mash-up tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime! *ahem* So mash-ups.

Redbeard is the captain of a pirate ship. Whenever Asterix and Obelix travel by ship they inevitably come across Redbeard and much mayhem ensues (and their ship sinks). Even when the pirates try to go legit, things work against them.

Tomaw gets to close us out as Redbeard. Originally, Tomaw was going to play Unhygienix and Popkin was going to be Redbeard. I was concerned with how I was going to draw a peg leg on Popkin so I switched them. When it came time to draw Redbeard I realized that I had gotten mixed up. Redbeard doesn’t HAVE a peg leg. Popkin’s rounder shape would have been better suited for Redbeard than Tomaw but really Unhygienix is pretty round too so that was going to be a wash either way. Anyway, the beard was trickier on Tomaw because of his muzzle. It is what it is.

Redbeard

That’s the last of the Asterix mash-ups. Next week we begin a whole new theme that’s rich in nostalgia…if you were a kid of the eighties. If not, well, they still look cool. See you next Wednesday for the reveal.