Golden Gobbos to view.

The premier 80’s citadel style miniature painting competition the Golden Gobbo has been closed to entries for a few weeks now. The entries are now available to view by all Oldhammerers on The Citadel Collector site. There are some wonderfully painted miniatures and some equally great background pieces for each entry. At some point the entrants will be deciding amongst themselves the winner but for now let us just enjoy the Oldhammeryness.

Pimping Oldhammer buildings.

I've got a bunch of Oldhammer 80's style card buildings up for grabs on the blog.

here

here

and here

Maybe I need to put together a IP free Oldhammer freebies list?

Orc's Drift, Thantants completes an Odyssey into Oldhammer.

Well worth a spot on Oldhammer news is Thantants' completed campaign come novella, Blood Bath at Orcs Drift. Done entirely in the spirit of Oldhammer, how could it not be with vintage rules and miniatures many of which are those sold at the time for use with this scenario.

Anyway well done and thank you  Thantants all Oldhammers salute you!

So whats the blog for now?

It would be easy to say that the blog has served its purpose now, we are all together on the forum a great step forward and for the purpose of of discussing ideas it is indeed redundant.

But the Blog does something else. Posts on the blog appear on the blogs of most followers so posting news here will regularly advertise the movement to the large amounts of passing viewers, we only need one or two to click the link to steadily grow the community. After all any people that come to this blog via our blogs are probably already interested in oldhammer.

To this end I think the following should happen:

Some permanent blog pages:

What is old hammer.

For the future an intro to BLOOD.

Other beginners resources.

Pretty this thing up, if it's one of the shop windows it ought to look good.

BLOOD Forum

I did setup quickly a forum for all discussion regarding Oldhammer, B.L.O.O.D., the golden Gobbo, the fanzine, etc.

It's hosted on one of my server and ou can access it there : http://bloodforum.treps.net (we can change the name at anytime, it was just easier to set it up this way).

We'll work on the design later ! If you have ideas feel free to submit them, but it's more intended to be a collaborative tool than a showroom ;-)

You can register and use it freely, if you need something (more than basic access rights, specific need, etc.) just send me a PM (treps on the forum) and I'll see that you can access it !

Bruno

BLOOD LINES

So how would a BLOOD stat line look then. We’ve been debating it, we’ve been side tracked. But I think I can give a run down of the stats as I see them, looking at Zhu’s original ideas, a generic stat line and my preferred but more fantasy orientated stat line. None are right but I guess we do need to hone in on a set soon or spend too long getting nowhere.

So here are the various stat line ideas:

And here is how a BLOOD line may look:

You will no doubt notice how I have increased the number of stats, didn’t classic British war-games rules have enough stats I here you cry?  Well yes but the stats included are ones that would be recorded in any case except for disorder. This is a value between 1 and 10 telling us all how Kaotic a being is. Useful because we can then give chances of mutation to individuals or units without expressly mentioning it in each races write up.  The other stats being BLOOD price or the cost of a single model and Lore an expression for those of a magic casting nature of how much magical energy they have to power spells.

There are other perhaps more obvious reasons to include other stats…

You will also notice that the points cost of a regular human is 8pts! And that they can only move 3.5”! Well in a fantasy world the basic soldier is going to be lightly armoured and carry a shield. If you feel like having troops more lightly armoured, say skirmishers or militia, then dispense with the shield or light armour and get points off. Perhaps 1 and 2 points respectively to pick some numbers out of the air. I think it would be reasonable if you gave up your shield or light armour to assume you could move better and so an extra 0.5” on your swiftness would seam appropriate. These numbers just come naturally to my head but they seam right.

Anyway pleas do let me know your thoughts on the BLOOD line, what’s wrong what’s right?

BLOOD world?

So orlygg has suggested working on the background for any retro clone we may come up with.

Personally I think his ideas sound great, I'd be well up for helping flesh them out, if he wants help that is. But, I think the core BLOOD rules should be background-less. There should be no official BLOOD world, rather it would be great to see a multitude of different BLOOD worlds. Every ones BLOOD after all is subtly different but we all need it..

The possibility could exist  to have a multitude of fan settings and or commercially available world settings, assuming of course there are a multitude of people asking for the stuff.

So rather than discuss this topic under thoughts on BLOOD rules or BLOOD law I thought it needed its own space.

What are your thoughts on having an official BLOOD world? Yes, no, sort of but?