Bloodbeard's Garage: August 2021

10 August 2021

Guilders v. 1.33 beta and town watch

Slowly getting back into painting som miniatures. For the last couple of weeks, I've painted around 30 minutes per day. Sometimes I get up a bit early to get some painting down. The main goal is to get the needed guards and minimum civilians all done for Guilders - A Life in Shadows.

Just finished the first 9 town watch (I have 3 more base coated). Gonna make some terrain for at better backdrop and photos of them. They also need some basing. There'll be a longer post later on kitbashing and painting the town watch. But here's the first photos:

Guilder 1.33

I hadn't planned on releasing another version of Guilders before the 1.4 with the first campaign system in it. But I've had a lot of playtest games and excellent feedback. I'm order to not get buggede down by cosntant fixes, I've cracked on with the campaign writing. It's going good.

So I went back and wrote in the core rule changes while still relatively fresh in mind.

Som key things is:

Point of interest for the AI, which makes the Guards behave better in games.

Skill rework. Lots of skills have been reworked, the different skill levels are much more interesting. Pickpocket and lockpick are better balanced for campaign.

The thief game have been enhanced a lot. Violence will have more negative effects on the crew, there's higher risk for alarm. Going Hidden, pickpocket and lockpicking your way through the Heist is a much better option.

Shooting is a lot less deadly, it's easier to hide from shooters.

Items: Many items have been tweaked and a lot more items have been added to the game.

So! Lots of changes (all marked in blue) in the 1.33. Please check it out, read through it and give feedback. Or get a few games in. The core game works pretty well.

You can find all Guilders stuff in the Google Drive folder.

The current rules, tokens: https://bit.ly/3jG2brn

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/542579693413292

Discord: https://discord.gg/6ayQu32

Hashtags: #Guilders #ALifeInShadows

6 August 2021

Dice bag from Cupias Craft and a bunch of tokens

I've bought myself a cool dicebag from Cupias Craft. Cupias Craft is by Anna Olivia and she makes awesome dice bags. They'll be made in whatever colors and fabric the customer wants. I went for some mat fabric. It's green on the outside and red on the inside, made in the same colors as my Rangers for RoSD.

The build in dice tray is matt black, to remove any shine when being used in streaming og youtube videos.

The coolest thing about the bag is the eight small pockets inside. I've got my Nightwatch diceset, Guilders set and the Frostgrave d20 in it. The remaining rooms have my Guilders tokens and Frostgrave tokens.

I'm very happy with this dicebag, it's a treat to myself. And buying an item crafted by someone is cool.

I did a video when I got the bag, check it out here.

Direct link: https://youtu.be/J5DasNkhO_c

Tokens

Everybody should know about Game-Icons. This is an interactive page with thausands of different icons. Easy to search for different themes. Each symbol can be changed around, colors, backgrounds, text etc. It's great! So as I've been going through Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadow Deep, I've always made tokens for my spells and effects.

Guilders a Life in Shadows

Is my own game. It's a skirmish campaign game about thief guilds. As I've been coming up with skills and scenarios, I've made all the tokens needed on the go. So anyone wanting to try out Guilders can print and get going straight away.

If you have any interest in miniature skirmish gaming or tabletop RPGs, you should check out Guilders. Any feedback is much appreciated.

For all Guilders material go to the Google Drive folder.