Skalds Online Journal
What the title says... I use acrylic caulking for a lot of different tasks in my wargaming hobby — from making battlemats to thickening basecoats on FDM-printed terrain pieces, and everything in between. One of the absolute best uses is as a first layer to add a bit of ground texture when basing miniatures, and even more so if I need to hide puddle bases. There are a multitude of other uses, but…
As someone who loves tinkering with homebrews for all kinds of gaming, as well as a (slow) writer of my own original rulesets, I find it rewarding to do playtests and read-throughs of up-and-coming systems from other developers. Lately, I have found myself doing this for five different games from four devs. I decided to write this blog post as a catch-all of the format I try to use when reading,…
Brain at 0300: Ainsleigh will drive by tomorrow on his way back home to Finland. You haven't touched the Tarrasque you printed 8 months ago just for this occasion. He needs that gift painted, so just stop being a lazy fuck. Me: Let's fucking go!! Brain: :Happy Deadline-fueled Dopaminenoises: 5 hours later I was crosseyed, the sun was shining brightly through the window and the cats were screaming…
Last rounds albums have been listened to extensively and it's time to give our thoughts in yet another installment on the "Skald learns Metal"-series for the blog. This is the first round the guys got to choose an album each and my hunch is that both picked something they either hadn't heard in a while or planily wanted me to check out. Myself, I went with something from the far end of that…
So Lincon came and went as it does every year. Myself, not a regular attendee by any stretch of the imagination. I went back hard into wargaming again during the pandemic, and between my health issues and other engagements in life, it was my second time going there since the late nineties. While the playing in the DBMM tournament and hosting a Great War naval scenario were the main things I…
Flicking thru the pages on my favourite RPG-forum earlier, I noticed a call for a review on a newly released game from one of the forum-users. As I am down to very few things on the list I can use to procrastinate actually preparing for the gaming-con this weekend, I took the golden opportunity presented to me and decided to read and review the game. Blue Sky-Beam - God-Like Power on Two Dice!…
I realised I forgot to add a pretty crucial part to the post yesterday; The albums we are going to dive into for now.. While I am solely responsible for last weeks list, I decided it would be more fun if each of us get to choose one album each off the master-list. The albums are from the genres of Power, Trash and Goth/Alternative Metal. It's a decent mix of style I think, and probably more chill…
It’s been a hectic week in the Skald household as spring hit us in full force, bringing with it tons of stuff to do on the homestead. Garden this, ponds that, repairs, birch pollen... You know the drill if you have a country house. I have to say I’m pretty stoked that I finally got around to removing the remote-controlled door-opener for the front door. The previous owner was wheelchair-assisted…
Here comes the list! Or well, it's in the bottom part of the post.. One big reason for doing this project, apart from getting learnt, is that I am so incredibly tired of the "playlist". It's been ages since I truly sat down and listened to a full album with real intent. The past decade or two everything has been about listening to the highligth-reel of any artist and not so much about getting into…
TLDR; A story about why I don't know anything about 90s+ metal and my plan to remedy that. Also, I am touching on how it was growing up with ADHD in a time when it "didn't exist", with a parent that clearly is neurodivergent aswell. Last Monday, during our weekly "schedule to play RPGs over voice but it falls through because someone's thingamabob exploded at work" , we got into a discussion about…