The monsters are stirring… and so is the next chapter of Hexingtide. I’m excited to release Hexingtide’s Playtest 4 Extended Preview: a meaty snapshot of what’s coming in the full Playtest 4 release later this summer. It includes major system…
Hexingtide is my unfinished TTRPG of Minimalist Monstrous Roleplaying – a love letter to the monsters of folklore, comics, and classic pop culture. Inspired by (in no order): Mike Mignola’s Hellboy & the wider Mignolaverse, Dan Brereton’s Nocturnals, Eric Powell’s…
Lots of work has been going in behind the scenes drafting rules, editing, and playtesting towards a full alpha release for my game of rules-lite, miniatures-agnostic, 10mm scale fantasy skirmishes: Rattle and Rend. And now I’m excited – and no…
New 10mm warband created for my in-progress skirmish project Rattle and Rend. Mostly 40x40mm bases. Going for a quick-and-dirty ghostly effect for these guys like Age of Sigmar Nighthaunt and MESBG Army of the Dead. + 𝔊𝔯𝔢𝔶-𝔊𝔯𝔞𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔊𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱 + 2pts…
In summary: is a rules-light 10mm skirmish game of interest? Sign up to playtest! I’ll share Alpha rules and create a Facebook group or Discord server for the game soon. I’ve been taken with a certain thought about my…
While work and playtesting (and the brain slog of layouts, art, and writing) for the next playtest of Hexingtide, continues, I was recently struck by a very dumb idea. The first session in July for my twice-a-month home group falls…
Work continued on the late 1500s big battles project this weekend. Slowly, but surely, but… slowly. Two bases of stradioti light horse and a single, small base of shot. Frustratingly still having a – for lack of a better work…
Emulating the battles of the pike and shot era has been something of a white whale. I’ve quickly gotten intimidated by – or otherwise disinterested in – the sheer scale of such an undertaking each time I’ve embarked on the…
Hexingtide’s Playtest 4 is still a month or two away, but here’s a holiday gift from me to you. A rules sneak peak: updated character creation rules and core dice mechanics of Power and Portent Checks! Available on Itch: WillPhillips.Itch.io/Hexingtide As I…
A short, but welcome, update! Work continues on the Playtest 4 release of Hexingtide, my game of Minimalist Monstrous Roleplaying. After this January’s burnout and letting the project sit on the back burner for most of 2023, I’m excited about…