1st Day of School 8-13-14

                                                   
                                                             Miles the 6th grader

                                                          Helen the 1st grader

Deadlands meets Songs of Blades and Heros

So, since Deadlands (reloaded) is our favorite RPG, and SoBH our favorite miniatures fight, I decided to combine them as a surprise.  I can't claim the board as my own idea, I saw it somewhere else first.  

Our old friends Aces and Milo have teamed back up to rid a town of an evil shaman.  The necromancer has set up shop on some mesa tops in the Maze.  The only way up are the cranes around the edge, and only 4 figures can come up per turn. 2 normal-size or 1 large creature can fit on a bridge at a time.  Oh, it's a lot farther down than it looks:  anybody that falls off an edge is automatically killed.  (Unless they can cling, like say giant spiders...)

I statted up Aces and Milo as personality characters, and then let them pick 250 points each of cowboy helpers.  My evil undead force ran around 450 points, but I had a necromancer.  And a giant undead skeleton T-Rex.  The spiders were reluctant allies, they would only attack 1 mesa away from their home (the bottom mesa).  The scenery budget ran out before the tipi could be completed...

At this point the adventurers have met the dinosaur, (some ran away), killed it, and then somehow it came back to life.  But Milo, Q2+ is up.  He can shoot the dino (using marksman) and kill it once and for all.  So he rolls for activation (yes, 2 or better):

Yep, sometime that's the breaks.  He does handle it much better than when he was younger.  Instead of pouting he just laughed and went on with the game.

In the end Milo and Aces left their minions to deal with the skeleton Indian brave archers and took on the necromancer in his tipi.  That's when they found out he could teleport (I used every rule supplement I have...)  But a few more rounds of 'chase him all over the place' and the crazed necromancer was vanquished.

Surprisingly, nobody fell off any of the cliffs.  But after the first dead cowboy was re-animated, Milo and company went around tossing their dead buddies off the cliffs!

Pacific Primitive Rendezvous Orville CA June 2014

This year for our vacation we went to the Pacific Primitive Rendezvous in Orville CA.  We all had a really good time, and the kids got to do some new cool things.  Miles went on a Snipe Hunt with his Dad, and participated in the sling shot range.  Helen made a corn husk doll, participated in a Homestead run(Miles did this event too), crushed acorns to make acorn flour, had her face painted, sewed a leather pouch, played in the branch fort with Miles and our friend Jacob, in general just had a grand time.

                                                        Nature walk about camp