Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

I just finished making up a fun little paper based role playing adventure game.  It is called “Storm The Castle”. And it is a free download in a packet of ten pages.

The King has turned evil and is ruining the kingdom, raising taxes, and throwing peasants in prison. It is up to you to be a hero and de-throne him. The only way to do it is by storming the castle!

It comes with a gameboard, player, some tokens and a playbook. You make your way through various parts of the castle like the kitchen, dungeon, etc. And you discover secrets along the way. Just a fun little game and I had a lot of fun creating up the story. Totally free download, print and make.  The game is located here: Storm The Castle adventure game. I do have a youtube video that explains more about the game here: Youtube Video of the Game 

One thing I wanted to point out about this game is that it is a good spring board for learning how to make your own paper based adventure games. By looking over and using my game you can get a good idea on how something like this works. So you will be able to make a similarly structured game of your own. Just create your own story and events.

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If you ever thought about having your very own castle, built from the ground up you don’t need to hire some European architect who is a direct descendant of Ludwig himself. Here is a link to a company in the states (Idaho) that custom builds real castles. The cost varies between 400 and 600 per square foot! And we are talking about real stone castles here!!

Anyhoo, if you are curious about the current state of castle building in america you might want to check the site out. I think I might send them an email and ask them if they would build me a one square foot castle - I might be able to swing that

Castle magic

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It has been a while since I wrote anything about my 300 diorama (The Scene is the Battle of Thermopylae). So here is an update.

 The Diorama is coming along great and is almost finished. I have done 95% of the landscaping, have painted the first series of Spartan Warrior Miniatures and have poured the water. I even built a paper long boat for the water. 

Coming up next is the wiring for sound and lighting. I have also been toying with the idea of using a parallel board coupled with a computer so I could make a show out of it. But I will give this some thought.

Also, I have no clue as to what I am going to do with this thing when I am done so I am thinking about putting it on display somewhere. Let me know if you have any ideas about where I might be able to display it. Can’t stay in my house! It’s two feet by three feet and well, I need the room for more projects.

I am thinking about doing a hobbit home or maybe even a complete shire.

 If you want to learn more about the diorama or are considering making your own fantasy diorama I have a complete tutorial that shows the steps I used to make this diorama here: How to Make a big Diorama

I have also created a tutorial on Painting Miniatures where I show you the steps I took with Painting the Spartan Warriors A Guide to Painting Miniatures

Ditto, My cat, seems to have taken a liking to the diorama. If you have an idea for a place where I can display this diorama sorry but Ditto doesn’t go with it

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