#177 Reposted 6feb18
176 was a very dated joke about Spamalot being in town.
Height is not actually a requirement of being a Dwarf. It’s about culture and attitude. It’s about speaking the language, participating at the Bura’zak-ka and playing a good game of b’tduz. Vindalf’s culture is rather more based on Pratchett than Tolkien, with a smattering of D&D.
#175 reposted 1Feb18
At Pennsic, the teams are shown by wearing either blue or red strips of tape on your helmet. Sometimes we get creative and make stickers in the right colour. See the second photo (credit to http://www.tworavens.org/) I’m the one in the hideous blue thing.
Can you tell what movie came out about the time I made this issue? Man, I am such a lazy writer.
#174 reposted 30jan18
I used to participate in the Pennsic War with the Society for Creative Anachronism. It was the best time of the year, even better than Christmas. 10,000 of my best friends all gathered together in Pennsylvania for learning, shopping, dancing, songs, and armoured combat. The first year I went, I was so busy going to classes and dances, that I didn’t actually see the “war” which was on the far side of the food court.
When I did remember to armour up and get in the line the next year, it was just like being in Braveheart or 300. Nothing quite compares to the feeling of taking a charge on your shield and pushing back the enemy horde. Then we invite the enemy around for drinks after and everyone has a good time.
Some day I’ll get back there; When the kids stop spending my viking budget on food and shelter.
#173 reposted 25jan18
I would have made it out to a lot more armoured fighting practices if we could spend more time in the temperature range where it’s cold enough to survive the helmet, but warm enough not to snow.
Begin Spam:
I have an Etsy show now! You can buy the jewellery and things that I make on my own anvil. Right now, I have a few brooches and torcs available, but more items on the way. I would have a few more torcs by now, but the women folk in my family keep calling dibs on them.
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Vindalfsanvil
End Spam.
#172 reposted 23jan18
Spiders are terrible and I hate them. The fast little ones in Toronto were bad enough, but out here in Oromocto we get barn spiders. They are massive! They can be mistaken for small crabs! They have HP bars!
I discovered that the monsters lurking outside my windows here are the same species as Charlotte. Charlotte’s web is now a horror movie for me, now I know what she looks like! I have to hunt them with spears and axes, like in Skyrim.
Also: Good News Everyone! You can now buy things from Vindalf again! This time it’s via Etsy. I have a couple of items from my anvil now listed, and more coming once I figure out what is in demand.
#171 resposted 18jan18
It’s nice to have supportive friends in the creative process.
#169 Reposted 16jan18
What happened to #168? It was garbage and not at all funny. 169 is about garbage, and can be slightly funny to the right sort of mentally damaged person. Things start to pick up again in a few issues.
#167 reposted 12jan18
I guess I was watching Naruto about this time? This is just more filler before I had another idea. At this time 167 issues in, Fencer and Elf had still not published their comics, so I had to keep going.
165 and 166 reposted 9jan18
And after the evil robot and Shakespeare’s brain-in-a-jar were defeated, I totally ran out of ideas. I get more inspiration around issue 173 or so. In the mean time, we’ll skip the real junk and post the less terrible filler.
#163 reposted 4dec18
In places like Skyrim, common folk live in fear of some hero who needs just a little more xp to level up. I’m not sure how exactly experience points work. We know you earn them to level up, and some wizards can spend them to enchant items. Can you, like, trade them? That might be an interesting aspect of a D&D game if you can trade your XP, or buy more. I think Fable did that.
The Adventures of Vindalf 