Caelyn Ellis

5 days ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

miniatures — 6 min read Warhammer: The Horus Heresy was the first wargame I wrote about professionally. Having done some tabletop RPG pieces for Dicebreaker (RIP), I successfully persuaded editor Matt Jarvis to let me write about Games Workshop’s big new release of 2022. Horus Heresy is commonly referred to as 30K because it’s set ten millennia before 40K. Also because referring to it by the abbreviated subtitle is a bit dodgy.

1 week ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

miniatures — 7 min read After a detailed look at a terrain project last time, today we’re checking out two sets of minis I’ve painted recently. My featured projects have tended towards the grim and the dark, which is a painting style I do like employing but only in moderation. I like variety, and I’d go spare if I did things the same way every time, so these two undertakings are both on the brighter and more colourful side. First up is a couple of minis from Zeo Genesis.

1 week ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

Episode 15 of the Rascal Radio Hour brings some big opinions to the table regarding industry awards, conventions, and (checks notes) Belonging Outside Belonging games? Hoo, boy. And I thought it was spicy when Chase and Rowan were alone on the mic. Instead, Thomas sits opposite our regular host for

1 month ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

tabletop — 15 min read Last year, the hotly anticipated Stormlight RPG, based on the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson, hit Kickstarter with a twist. It had vastly expanded in scope, evolving in the Cosmere RPG, a single game covering the whole universe shared by many of Sanderson’s novels.

2 months ago | rascal.news | Caelyn Ellis

“Good, fast, cheap — pick two” applies to many things in life, but it could have been written specifically about wargaming terrain. Fast and cheap? Stack up some books for hills, cut some wobbly shapes out of paper to mark groves of trees or difficult terrain, throw some random objects on the table to represent buildings and such, and you’re done. Completely free, virtually no effort, looks absolutely terrible. Good and fast?