A brief intermission, if you will permit me, from all things Gaslands. If you’re a longtime role-playing gamer like me, then you probably have a character or two somewhere that you would have liked to play more often than you were able to. This is one of mine. When my friend Chris decided he wanted to […]
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Poison Ivy
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 27th, 2018
Poison Ivy has become one of my favorite Batman villains, although it wasn’t always so. (Take the movie Batman and Robin, for example; like Arnold Shwarzenegger’s Mister Freeze, the less said about Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Ivy, the better.) I didn’t really start to like her until the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Harley and Ivy”, […]
Posted in Miniatures, Repaints, Sci-Fi, Super Heroes 
Tags: Bones, HeroClix, Hydra Miniatures, Reaper, Super Mission Force 
4 Comments »Juggernaut and Black Tom
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 26th, 2018
Juggernaut is a classic X-Men villain, a physical titan who is counterpoint to his brother Charles Xavier’s mental mastery. Unfortunately, he often hangs out with Black Tom Cassidy. Black Tom is the cousin of Sean Cassidy (not to be confused with Shaun Cassidy, the Hardy Boy), better known as the X-Men’s Banshee. Black Tom was […]
Posted in Miniatures, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: HeroClix, Super Mission Force, Supersystem 3 5 Comments »Khelden Josek, Dwarf Brewer
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 11th, 2018
Today, I present to my readers my favorite role-playing character of all time: Khelden. Khelden is an Ultangen Dwarf, a race from my good friend Owen’s fantasy setting, Gandaria. (Owen used to have a whole website dedicated to this setting and some of his other gaming and writing endeavors, but he took it down a couple […]
The Dwarves Are Upon You (again)!
Posted by The Angry Piper on February 28th, 2018
Just in time for 3 years after the Age of Sigmar destroyed the Warhammer Fantasy universe, I have finally finished my dwarf army. Well, mostly finished. I firmly believe that you can never have enough dwarfs. But for now, I am content. This was definitely a labor of love. It has been over a decade […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: Black Tree Design, Games Workshop, Mantic, Reaper, Warhammer 2 Comments »Cowabunga, Dude!
Posted by The Angry Piper on February 14th, 2018
I first discovered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was a freshman in high school. It was 1986, a pretty amazing year for comics as a whole. That year would see the publication of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, two pivotal and iconic stories that would rock the foundations of the comics industry and […]
“Yesterday’s Lead”
Posted by The Angry Piper on February 12th, 2018
It seems I took the month of January off from blogging, quite accidentally. For Christmas I was gifted with Mass Effect: Andromeda for PS4. It was released back in March of last year, but I’m not the kind of (video) gamer that needs to get a game as soon as it’s released. Thus I tend […]
Posted in Hobby Musings, Insanity Pile, Miniatures, Repaints Tags: AD&D, Grenadier, Old School Miniatures, Ral Partha, TSR 4 Comments »Terror of the Toyman! Conclusion
Posted by The Angry Piper on December 22nd, 2017
Quick synopsis: The Toyman is attempting to detonate a bomb during the Christmas celebration in the town square. Superman is attempting to thwart his nefarious scheme and protect the civilians that have been drawn to the square by the big stacks of presents Toyman dropped to lure them there. For more detailed scenario information and […]
Posted in After Action Reports, Miniatures, Scenarios, Super Heroes Tags: HeroClix, Hydra Miniatures, Super Mission Force 4 Comments »Terror of the Toyman! Part 2
Posted by The Angry Piper on December 20th, 2017
The Scenario: Just in time for Christmas, The Toyman has planted a bomb somewhere in the town square! He scattered piles of Christmas presents around, which naturally attracted the attention of the locals. The bomb will go off soon, making this a Christmas to remember…unless Superman can stop it! Superman’s goal is to find and […]
Posted in After Action Reports, Miniatures, Scenarios, Super Heroes Tags: HeroClix, Super Mission Force 2 Comments »Terror of the Toyman! Part 1
Posted by The Angry Piper on December 19th, 2017
When it comes to superheroes, Superman isn’t one of my personal favorites. Of course, if I could be any superhero, I’d definitely pick Superman for x-ray vision alone (but having super-strength, invulnerability and flight wouldn’t suck either). Despite this I never really found him all that interesting on his own. That’s because it seems there […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Repaints, Super Heroes, Terrain and Scenics Tags: HeroClix, Hydra Miniatures, Super Mission Force Comments Off on Terror of the Toyman! Part 1