…we ran a Who’s The Boss tournament today, and I provided part of the bonus prize.

Sorry for the crappy pics, this was taken in store lighting. Head by me, everything else by local painter Nick “Mr. Slippery” Tannous. I’ll try to get some properly-lit photos in the next week or so.

Also sorry for the very quiet couple of months– I’ve been working on a very, very large project, and it’s taking much longer than I’d anticipated. I’m hoping to have it done within a month or two, but I’m going to make a point of popping out a few smaller projects in the meanwhile so that the blog gets a bit of loving too.

-Spud

Do you know this man?

If you do, then you can take solace in the knowledge that I approve, at least in part, of the way in which you are conducting your life.

Yesterday I showed you my new D&D character, Pirisca the Gasping, a former fish goddess who currently inhabits the body of Margie, a woman whose husband and sons ate her.

The fish goddess, I mean.

They didn’t eat Margie.

That would be awkward.

The IKRPG group I was running collapsed a few months ago, but most of the participants soon regrouped and started a new campaign: a fairly standard Pathfinder adventure path. This is pretty much bog-standard D&D, which means the options for character creation are much more open than in the fairly focused and rule-bound IK world.

Because of this, and because I’m an idiot, I decided to play a fish summoner.

Naturally, Rask can’t operate very well without a faithful companion to feed him Fury, so to go along with my Koi Rask, I naturally had to field a mighty Fishbeast by his side. And since PP has yet to grace us with one, I had to take matters into my own hands.

I’d like to point out that I resisted the urge to say “my own fins” there. I think I deserve an enormous amount of credit for that.

The recently Gargantuans book release event featured an interesting two-caster format that I was really excited to try, but I’m currently on a bit of a break from my only army with multiple casters– Cygnar– and I only own one Legion warlock. Between the two options, making a new model to play with my Legion seemed like an easier task than somehow getting excited about my Cygnar again, so I investigated my options.

The thing is, though, that my lack of Legion warlocks isn’t an accident– I made an intentional effort to collect a single-caster force, and though I do eventually plan to add a second caster, this will require a completely from-scratch sculpt that I didn’t have time for before this event, so I needed to find another option.

This is how I found myself sitting in our store with a few associates, chatting about Minions. The Farrow and Gatorman warlocks are mostly played within the Minion Pacts, but they do still work for the main Factions when the format allows it, so I started looking at what these models would contribute to my army. Many of them immediately seemed to be way too Pact-oriented (Carver, Barnabas, Midas, Arkadius), while others just didn’t contribute much to my army (Calaban, Maelok). The only two who seemed like they might help were Sturm & Drang (a decent lockdown feat, and Telekinesis is always a massive boon) and Rask. Between the two, Rask had the less ugly model, so I shrugged and picked him up.

However, despite him being less ugly than the Pigtaur, I still really dislike the “RRRRAAARR ANGRY PIRANHA” face, so I decided to see what I could do to make him a bit more in line with my tastes.