If you've been pondering what I've been pondering, (I think so Brain), you'll see that some of them build nicely on games I'm enjoying at the moment, or have recently; some are more for systems that I rarely play.
It makes sense to go for the former, but then, I'm not always sensible.
So here's a look at what I'd actually need for a couple of the projects.
The Tower, Rangers of Shadow Deep
Miniatures
This mission mostly involves gnolls. Looking at all three scenarios, and allowing for the event cards, I'd need 1 Shadow Knight, 1 Flesh Golem, 1 Gnoll Shaman, 2 Gnoll Sergeants, 4 Gnoll Archers, 6 Gnoll Fighters, 1 Giant Vulture and a Soldier (Man-at-Arms). If I factor in the Challenge Level additions I'll need another Shadow Knight, another Sergeant and an Ogre.
Now I already have a painted Shadow Knight, a FleshGolem and an Ogre, and a few Men-at Arms too. after picking up the gnoll herbalist at RECON I've got the rest of the required minis, they just need assembling and painting.
Terrain
The first scenario is outside, so it might be time to finally make a proper gaming mat with reasonable colours and textures. I'm looking at it as practice for something larger.
I'd also need a river, a bridge and various rocks and shrubs. All useful terrain items for future gaming.
The remaining scenarios are set indoors, for which I'll simply print off some dungeon style flooring. I've got plenty of PDFs to choose from.
Furnishings will probably come from the Mantic Terrain Crate, which I might finally get around to painting, well some of it anyway.
Fellowship of the Ring Journey Book
This is a project that I've long wanted to do, and now seems a good opportunity, especially as 2026 is the 25th anniversary of the Fellowship of the Ring film release. Don't you feel old now knowing that*.
To keep things manageable I think I'll stick to the first book of The Fellowship of the Ring, up to Rivendell.
For this I'd need 9 Nazgul (foot and mounted), 9 Dunedain, the 4 Hobbits, Gildor, 4 Barrow Wights, Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, Aragorn, Gandalf and Glorfindal. I could add Farmer Cotton and his dogs if I include one of the additional scenarios from an old White Dwarf.
And there's terrain of course. I'm not sure if I should stick to the builds in the book, which do a great job of making thing as multipurpose as possible, or do some more specific pieces. I'll probably end up doing a bit of both.
A Cunning Plan
So that's the plan. I do have some Undead that I'm part way through painting, so I'll try and finish those as well, but it'll be nice to do some living creatures for a change.
I've started on building five of the gnolls using the Frostgrave gnolls kit.
And finally, the Christmas Haul
I was gifted four hobby related presents; a GM's mug, a deck of 7TV profile cards, a light pad (great for copying maps etc) and a lovely 3D printed Beholder. So many thanks to my amazing family, and T'Other One as well.
I'll be squeezing the Beholder into the challenge, after all, I got it before the 26th.
* Don't worry, I still remember the excitement over the imminent release of The Silmarillion.
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