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I believe the tickets may already be available at the website. The Man is blocking my access to the website from work so I would have to check later. You need to buy a day pass or weekend pass to get in the front door. This gives you access to the dealer floor where a lot of people spend most of their time. This is where each company has their booth and peddles all the new games and new toys. Trolling the showroom floor isn't the only thing to do there, however. There are tons of seminars, tournaments, and demo games going on all the time. Almost all of these require the purchase of additional tickets and this is where you might run into an issue with events selling out. I usually purchase a fist full of general use tickets that let you squeeze into events at the last minute if they have room to accommodate you. Last year I used my general use tickets to play games of Infinity, attend several seminars (including a seminar for beginning professional writers) and participated in the Pulp City/AE WWII cross over events, among others. You can bring whatever you can carry, push, or can generally be bothered to deal with. I always bring a backpack with me and I have a plastic case I put my Malifaux crews in, as well as any other games I might want to play. The pull style luggage is very popular though I wouldn't recommend it. The showroom floor can get crowded and I'm always tripping on someone's luggage all the time! Hotel space is the real limiting factor. Space near the convention center fills up fast and if you want a room, I'd make reservations soon.

I'll be going. It's only a three hour drive for me.

Lovecraft has been a huge influence on me and my terribly amateur writing. I remember reading "Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" in junior high school and thinking it was the greatest thing ever. I think I've owned about a dozen copies of that book. I always give it away to friends, hoping they'll read it so we can talk about the bleak insignificance of mankind and its fleeting moment in the universe.

So, I wrote this story about how Seamus falls in love with Rasputina and they discover the last unicorn and govern Malifaux with a peace that lasts for centuries. Nathan said that wasn't the direction he was wanting to go with things and so a large portion of the WC3 had to be rewritten. I kept the last unicorn, however. In place of the horn, though, he has a chainsaw. Now you know who to blame the delays on. Nathan.

She's a little top heavy with all those grenades, don't you think? You know, grenades.

Hehe

Wow, those are nice. I particularly like the second (more modest) female corsair. Very cool.

If it does work just like plastic for injection molding, the transition from plastic to lignin production could be very inexpensive. If no new equipment needs to be purchased, it could be inexpensive enough to invite some experimentation, at least, for those with established injection molding production. It'd be interesting to see someone like GW, who has established plastic production, to experiment with this. There'd need to be some kind of cost incentive for it, of course.

I found this article, today, and thought about the possible applications for our hobby. Liquid Wood

Victorian Science Fiction is still Science Fiction. And are you telling me that you can't see Lady Justice as a Street Samurai on a Shadowrun?

The TGN Awards are over. Here are the results: Fantasy Miniature: Winner: Captain Jeremiah Kraye by Privateer Press Runner-up: Gilles de Rais by Asmodee Sci-fi Miniature: Winner: Aragoto Senkenbutai by Corvus Belli Runner-up: Lady Justice by Wyrd Miniatures Historical Miniature: Winner: Plastic French Napoleonic Line Infantry 1812-1815 by Perry Miniatures Runner-up: Pirate Girls 2 by Black Scorpion Miniatures Pulp/Horror Miniature: Winner: Death Marshalls by Wyrd Miniatures Runner-up: Iron Train by Pulp Monster Terrain or Accessory product: Winner: Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard by Games Workshop Runner-up: Custom 20 Tokens by Litko Aerosystems Game or Expansion: Winner: Alkemy by Kraken Editions Runner-up: Warmachine Legends by Privateer Press ----------------------- As you can see, Wyrd won the Pulp/Horror category with the Death Marshals and Lady Justice, perhaps surprisingly, earned honorable mention in the Sci-fi category. The Aragoto Senkenbutai is a really bitchin' model. Maybe he's swerving on his bike like that because he just saw Lady J on the side of the street. I wasn't aware that our very own Caffeinated had sculpted Kraye and I think he deserves a big hand for winning such a tough category. Kraye has easily been one of my favorite Warmachine figures in a long time. I was also very pleased to see Iron Train on the list. Pulp City is a great game and they have some great miniatures.

I want to play a death marshall: Deputy Redigar Stripingo.

I just wanted to let everyone know that it has come to the last few days of voting in the TGN Readers' Choice Awards. The Death Marshals seem to be doing very well in their category, Pulp/Horror. Perhaps as a harbinger from the future to warn Malifaux of its dire fate, Lady Justice is representing well in the Sci-fi category.

I need to get to work. After the beating I took last year, I need to make this one count!

Is Femme Fatale coming up?

Yes, I believe you'll be able to replace Samael with Alyce or Misaki.

No rules have been released for this game, yet.

Give in to the temptation.

TGN has decided to resume its annual award, the Readers' Choice Awards. Last year, there was some ballot stuffing (some are still pointing fingers at the Bush Administration) but its back in effect for this year. There is a Fantasy and Pulp categories and I think a lot of great Wyrd miniatures would represent well, there. Here's the link so that you can nominate your favorite minis for the awards: http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/12/03/20532

What the heck, completely blindsided by this! Happy Birthday Nathan!

Gosh, those are cool. I can't wait for them to get the 30mm size, rounded edge style bases done.

I prefer metal miniatures over plastic miniatures. While multi-part plastic miniatures do win an advantage in creating lots of posing opportunities, I feel that this is at a loss of character and presentation. The first image shows what is possible with multipart plastics. Although each model is posed differently, they are all almost completely identical with only miscellaneous decorations stapled to them to differentiate them. The second image shows a squad of sci-fi miniatures, each of which is completely unique and distinct from one another, though several of them share the same uniform. Capitalizing on the "Modularity" benefit of plastics, I think, actually leads to a more bland and homogeneous line. There are qualities inherent in metal aside from weight. If this weren't the case, a plastic ring with a rhinestone would be equally acceptable to a prospective fiancee as a gold ring and genuine diamond. In Privateer Press's case, they make a proposition for future Warjacks, that 'jacks based on a similar chassis can be boxed together. The Revenger Series of 'jacks is a good place to look. Though these 'jacks appear similar, there are differences (aside from the weapons) in regards to the torso portion. This is clear from the differences between the Revenger and the Redeemer where the Redeemer lacks the central menofix of the Revenger but has a different "lighter" shoulder configuration, including spikes. My concern is that these subtle differences that provide individuality to each warjack chassis will disappear. I remain cautious but optimistic. I don't feel that everything PP produces is awesome. I retain my own capability to determine for myself what I think is a good value or what I feel is aesthetically pleasing. I think they do produce a quality product despite any criticisms I might have of individual pieces. Because of that, I am optimistic that PP will do the best they can. I'm certain Jean Bey did the best he could, as well.

I really like the mercenary sorcerers. This guy and Alazais are two of my favorites in the line so far.

Well, technically, isn't the [CLASSIFIED] mounted on [CLASSIFIED]? I mean, that's a pretty large [CLASSIFIED] that he's going about on.

Because the City has been abandoned for -at least- one hundred years and due to the fact that the weather in Malifaux borders on caustic, any comfortable living space would have required some restoration. The largest portion of the City is not populated, in part due to this fact, and actually exists as a quarantined zone. The Resurrectionist write-up in WC2 explains about necromancers claiming portions of this quarantined area and populating them with their brain-hungry minions.