The Forgotten Legions: 2023

Monday, December 11, 2023

Shadowdark RPG

Really enjoyed a recent run of a relatively new RPG called Shadowdark. Call it OSR rewrite or Dungeon Crawl Classics lite. Shadowdark occupies a space between them. The game is well supported by the designer and fans so I wanted to list some of the resources.

The official website:

https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark

"Shadowdarklings" a character creator where you can create, store and print characters.

https://shadowdarklings.net/

"Shadowdorks" is another character creator

https://www.shadowdork.com/welcome-component

"Shadowdark Tools" is really good for character, encounters, monsters, and campaign management

https://shadowdarktools.com/

"Shadowdark" on io.itch is a great resource for third-party publications, some free, some pay, some pay what you want

https://itch.io/c/2978547/shadowdark

A free Shadowdark quickstart guide is available free on Drivethru RPG

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/413713/Shadowdark-RPG-Quickstart-Set

"Dark Emporium" is a blog and resource for third-party products

https://dark-emporium.com/

There is a Shadowdark Reddit group

https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowdark/

and Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/shadowdarkrpg

and Discord Server

https://discord.gg/thearcanelibrary

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Kiev Dragoons

Kiev Dragoons are ready for the line! These are more AB Miniatures (15/18mm).

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Heavy Support for WWII Minis

Just finished some German 15cm heavy artillery along with 15cm Infantry Gun and 5cm PAK. And some Soviet 160mm mortars. The infantry on snow bases in the pic are Germans in greatcoats armed with Russian SMGs (courtesy Peter Pig minis). these are all 15mm sized minis. Thanks to Jim for printing the 15cm heavy artillery.

The little shiny objects in the corners of the bases are magnets I use to hold any status markers. For Rapid Fire rules, they aren't really needed but I also use the stands in operational level games where a stand can be a battalion or regiment. I usually dull down the shiny magnets with a black or brown Sharpie marker.