Here is the completed sheets for you to download and print. They can be used for my RPG or as the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules. I worked briefly with OPR on these, but they wandered away from 2D minis. They were fun, though.
Phineus the RPG can be purchased HERE.
And with Inquisitor Quinn, my radical Xenos warband is complete.
I have a bunch of monsters to paint up, next.
Alot of these bew minis are from Reaper. I’ll use them as PCs and NPCs for RPGs and some as Radical Ordo Xenos agents. These guys are nice and cheap and very cool to paint up.
Hail, hail the gangs all here. Phineus, Sara, Rugnar, Maynard and Cole! And also, their pal, Hellboy!
Most are Reper miniatures, Phins head and most of Rugnar are from Frostgrave Wizards sprue. And bits from Stargrave and Games Workshop, too!
While I try and figure out what I am doing with my comics, I am continuing to paint through my pile of shame. I got some of the newer D&D minis and painted up a Beholder and a Grell (both seen here accosting my Imperial Navy).
I’ve also dug out some 30+ year old Ral Partha minis that I never got around to painting. I painted up a dragon and an Otyugh.
I also painted up a Gryph Hound for my Breachers’ Cyber Mastiff and my Hrud Rangers for my Ordo Chronos force, along with a proxy Jokaero Weapons Smith for my older Inquisition lists.
I have a bunch old old Ral Partha Star Frontiers and Gamma World minis that are on my hobby table, should be fun to paint them up!
Still finding no inspiration to draw, so I’m converting and painting Warhammer and RPG figs to keep me creative.
Here, I ran my game, Backwaters of Mysticism, to close out the weekend. It had been quite a few years since I’ve played, let alone ran BOM, so I made a few mistakes. They were easily corrected and we had a good time of Cthulhu and carnage.
Playing with Brian Babyok, we’ve decided to work on tightening up the game and making a Third edition, specifically for Phineus, so there’s that.
Here’s pics of some of the other games.
We RPG’d “Everyday Heroes” with Justin. Great fun, 1980’s stuck in an alternate dimension. Chris ran us through Dresden Files as a Supernatural Strikeforce for the allies. Also fun.
We also played a bevvy of board games, miniature games and card games. My favs were “Unmatched” and “Unfathomable”.
Can’t wait to do it again, next year!
Here’s the baddies for the Module I’m working on. Sorry about the lack of pages this week, I’ve been in game mode. I run the game the first time this weekend. I’m a little nervous!
Here’s a couple of pieces of awesome and grizzly art, inspired by some gribblies I drew, that the lovely and talented Paul Schmitt of Gargantuan Media drew up! He made game pieces out of my game pieces!
Go check out his stuff, it’s awesome!!
Here’s the first two board setups for the session of Backwaters of Mysticism I’m running later this month. Knowing our group, we won’t get this far. Due to PCRPD (Player Character Role Play Distraction).
I’m getting pretty excited!!!
I was going through all my gaming stuff (mostly Backwaters of Mysticism) and I found all my old character sheets. I’ve played a LOT of RPGs. Backwaters became my different groups’ go to system. . We mixed up the worlds with we played in. Some straight up fantasy (Rugnar was my Dwarven Priest if Thor), modern, modern fantasy, some space sci fi, Super heroes, Kung Fu, westerns, etc.
I really dig a lot of the character sketches I’d done for the characters, and no one has seen them. I thought I’d share them with you guys. You may see some of these guys show up in future comics, now that I’ve rediscovered them.
So the tokens match the character sheets. I’ve also made “generic” versions of the characters, so that when they are played, the player can do what they want, despite the comic canon.
I’m going to do some play testing, soon, before I run this against my gaming group. It’s been a very long time since I’ve GMed a game! YEARS. Should be fun, though.
As longs as I’ve played Warhammer 40k, I’ve wanted a city of terrain. And now I have one!! I downloaded files from https://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/tableros.html and built a bunch very quickly and it looks great!
The tokens are tokens for my game Backwaters of Mysticism, tokens I made of the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules (they were official for a bit, until OPR got 3d printing and lost interest in supporting 2d printed armies). The tanks and cheap but awesome Robogear tanks.
I’ll be using all this for the game I’m running next month of Backwaters. Should be fun!!
The first 3 encounters and general plot of the gaming module are worked out. Gonna playtest against myself, fore unleashing it on my group. Similar to “New Girl in Town”, but extra.
So, here’s a bunch of the token figures for my game. I have a bunch more to cut out, zombies, more monsters and gribblies, but it’s coming along. The player characters, have a bunch of designs to choose from, but the party will be 7.
Thi is fun stuff to work on.
Sorry about the lack of pages, recently. I went on vacation to see my family for 2 weeks and , while I have 2 pages pencilled, I’ve been working on stuff for the Role Playing Game. I am doing character sheets of all our heroes for a Game Module called “Terror of the Cthulhu Cult”. It will be play tested this August at our gaming group’s “Hutzcon”.
The Module, when done, will have lots of background, characters, scenarios, and printable tokens for the heroes and monsters. I’ve been wanting to do this project for YEARS. I’ll post stuff as I get it done.
Pages should be back posting, next week!
Here’s the game piece for Sara. I have ones for Rugnar and Maynard done already. Need to do up Ben and maybe Duncan. These will be usable in the RPG/ Tabletop game I’m developing.
I have been working on my One Page Rules Infected Colonies. I’ve based the army on the Cthulhu Cult I use in my comics. I’ll also be doing double duty with the figs, by using them as the baddies vs Phin, Sara and the gang’s figs for a special edition of my RPG set. So, finally back to doing some work. Comics are coming, as well.
My sisters are the first army I have ever finished painting, completely. I took some better lit photos with a better camera and here are the new pics!
Well, specifically, Role-playing shaped me.
It has grown me as an artist, an actor, a writer, a world builder and a storyteller.
I spent many years playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends. We even played IN social Studies behind my teachers back. D&D flourished my imagination and ability to create characters.
I played D&D through Middle and High school. I played with a great group of friends in college, one of whom, John Burris, I collaborated with to flesh out his system, written on 6 note cards and created out own game that replaced D&D at Edinboro University.
When out of school, I played more D&D, more of our own game, named Backwaters of Mysticism, Call of Cthulhu, Feng Shui, Deadlands, Star Wars, Warhammer 40k (ok, not a RPG, but I use a lot of it in my comics). All these worlds they created for their games showed me what I needed to do to create the world in which all my comics exist.
And, yes, ALL my comics exist in the same world. Phineus, Kris Kringle, Creephunter, even Bastard Who. I’m kind of obsessed with doing that, for some reason.
Ironically John and my own RPG doesn’t have a world. We created it so that it would fit into any world you wanted it to.
Many of my Phineus stories came from those games. Rugnar and Maynard are both characters I played in Backwaters. The Kali Saga was based on a campaign run by John, in which I played Brother Maynard. And yes, he did get squished in that one, too.
Many comic creators are also avid gamers. Adam Black, creator of Locus is working on his own game. Brian Babyok, creator of Weirdlings also plays D&D, religiously.
I am toying with the idea of running some Skype based Backwaters games for my fans. As I gather interest and ideas I’ll let you know.
Games are good for comics.
Barry
This is a banner drawing I did for my Sisters of Battle army, the Order of Saint Maynard. That is Brother Maynard from the story Maynard and Grimm, fighting a naughty, naughty Daemonette. I always had such fun with the artsy side of the Warhammer 40k hobby!
Phineus + Magician for Hire 
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