#orcslayer

[homunculus-argument]

I love these stupid fucking books.

[vintagerpg]

Orclsayer (1985) is where the pre-release of the GURPS combat system of Man-to-Man suddenly feels perilous to me. It is branded as a GURPS product, but also as “a combat supplement for Man to Man,” as if M2M was it’s own thing. Glad they got the branding sorted out before it became a real confusing issue.

Anywho, I am not sure what to call Orcslayer. I would not call it a combat supplement, actually — that implies to me that there are new combat rules. It introduces Yrth, a campaign setting that would later be expanded on in GURPS Fantasy, but it really isn’t a setting book — you just get some bare bones sketching of a locality and its politics and factions. Most of the book is dedicated to nine combat scenarios linked by roleplaying vignettes. These aren’t nearly robust enough to constitute a “campaign” and they don’t really feel like what I’d call an adventure, though I suppose that is the closest to what it is in form. I like the formatting, actually, with the roleplaying interludes clearly framed out before and after the equally clearly presented tactical battles. There is a lot of advice on how to run the battles effectively and most of them have interesting criteria and special rules that make them all feel different and exciting. I enjoy how linear the whole thing is, and how the writing acknowledges it but advising the GM to pretend to roll for things like NPC reactions that are preordained.

Excellent David Martin cover, too. I feel like he was really practicing his Frazetta-style butts for this one.

[gutrot]

Orc slayer @jordorp is thirsty for blood! This here was the first drawing of 2023 and it was a fun one. I remember the background giving me guff, but then I remembered some of my favorite advice- "When in doubt, black it out." I think Wally Wood said it? I dunno. But it works. #Gutrot #ink #inkdrawing #orc #orcslayer #fantasyart #metalupyourass https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5SblMpz02/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[avarchillionpaints]

After I posted Gotrek the Trollslayer last week (surprisingly he got just one like - can´t imagine why though) I had to give you my version of his best “friend” and companion the poet Felix Jaeger (Jäger). 

This mini was created by “Dark Sword Miniatures” (https://www.darkswordminiatures.com) and is part of the Game of Thrones series. This one is normally “Jon Snow” but it seemed perfect for Felix Jaeger. He wears a red cloak and an often repaired mail shirt and wields a magical dragon hating sword that sometimes takes over his mind (whenever a dragonlike creature is in sight).

Hope you like him because I do. :-)

[avarchillionpaints]

Well take a guess who that could be and who´s stories I have been reading lately. 

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Enough time? Well than here comes the big reveal. This my friends is of course the legendary Trollslayer Gotrek Gurnisson. 

I have read a lot of Warhammer novels in my time but never have I met with a cooler character than Gotrek who, in my eyes at least, is wielding one of the twin axes of the dwarven god Grimnir and thus is nearly undefeatable. 

Anyway I wanted to have a mini for this great character for a long time and than, Scibor Miniatures (http://sciborminiatures.com) created a “wild dwarf chieftain” that looked exactly like I imagined Gotrek to look.  So I bought that wild dwarf, sculpted a nosechain and an eyepatch for him and there he was Gotrek Gurnisson the mad slayer.

I still have to make up my own Age of Sigmar rules for him, but I am open to suggestions. On the battlefield he should handle and feel like a slow but nearly invincible killing machine. I will give him a 3 + invulnerable save or something like that. Maybe even a 2+ against all wounds. Hm, let me think about that....

[dragonsorcsandgeeks]