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properpauper.bsky.social
@properpauper.bsky.social
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Occasional Professional Dungeon Master and all-around cool guy
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properpauper.bsky.social
Played in the SNAFU #BoltAction event this weekend! 2 major losses, 2 draws that couldn’t have been closer.

Couple of different dice rolls and the draws could have been wins for sure. Good times and great tables!
#nerdlings #wargaming #miniatures #ww2
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
my cat nailed his Stealth skill roll during this weekend’s D&D session #nerdlings #d&d #cat
A photo of miniatures set up for a D&D encounter. The party approaches an underground fortress’ exterior walls and gate. …There’s also a cat in between the terrain and the DM screen. But he blends in a bit because the screen is a similar shade of orange as him.
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
“The party faces a gauntlet to enter Zhentil Keep: a white dragon, two frost giants and gnolls (not pictured)”

Ruins of Zhentil Keep, 1995

just getting into town was hard back in back in the day

#d&d #nerdlings #2e
Picture of a black and white book illustration. The depiction is a fantasy setting, looking along the road towards a walled city On the red are two dead horses and a shattered wagon. On either side of the road are the cause of the caravan’s demise: two frost giants dressed in furs and Viking style horned helmets and a white dragon clinging to a cliff near the road. As the caption points out - there’s no gnolls here.
August 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
DMed the Cauldron Cave from #d&d #rimeofthefrostmaiden this past weekend.

So - I painted up minis for all the monster encounters and was pretty happy how they turned out! The Frost Giant Skeleton is a great add to the mini cabinet

#dungeonsanddragons #miniatures #5e
Painted miniatures of monstrous creatures from Dungeons & Dragons. There is: a blue skinned, black robed witch with a black wooden staff. A larger water creature painted in shades of blue with two tentacles on its face. And finally, a much larger “giant” sized skeleton wearing a Viking horned helmet, tattered clothes, and dragging a large axe behind it. There’s also a smaller black painted cauldron as well.
July 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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mn50501.bsky.social
If you are able, please donate to this GoFundMe for Speaker Emerita Hortman and her husband’s surviving family. Please also share it with others who may wish to contribute. What they must be going through right now is unimaginable.

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Donate to Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss, organized by Patrick Haluptzok
Mark and Melissa Hortman along with their golden retriever Gilbert … Patrick Haluptzok needs your support for Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss
www.gofundme.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Some scatter #terrain for #BoltAction. That scene in Band of Brothers where the paratroopers run past the piano in the Carentan street always has stuck with me, so I wanted one for the table - both the truck and the piano are #3Dprints

#wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures
Photo of miniature painted 1930s Ford era pick up truck and a piano. Both are simulated to be stuck in the mud by adding them on a brown painted base. The piano is brown and the truck is green. Same miniatures but from a different angle and with two 28mm miniature WW2 era German soldiers standing next to the base for scale.
June 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Been having a lot of fun with #BoltAction lately but haven’t had a reason to use this (probably too big) trench piece - so I threw my Grenadiers in there for a couple pics!

#wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures #terrain
Photo of painted 28mm scale miniatures depicting WW2 era German soldiers. The soldiers are wearing grey uniforms and some wear camouflage ponchos over those. They are holding various WW2 era weapons and are standing inside a miniature trench. A zoomed in photo of two of the German soldiers in the same trench, both wearing ponchos and holding rifles.
June 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
This is absolute next level stuff - I’d be blown away seeing this on a table
saucermenstudios.com.au Saucermen Studios @saucermenstudios.com.au · Apr 23
Holographic Display for Minis!

Used Pepper’s Ghost illusion w/ a TFT screen + ESP32 which looks epic IRL! No soldering needed & you can even try it w/ your phone!

STL coming soon on www.SaucermenStudios.com.au

#3DPrinting #Wargaming #ESP32 #SciFiTerrain #MakerCommunity
April 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Happy retirement @chrisperkinsdnd.bsky.social ! Your DMing for Acquisitions Incorporated back in 4e got me back into #dnd . Now, some 17 years later I still am inspired by your DM style and lessons learned from those old podcasts from 2008.

#dungeonsanddragons #d&d
April 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Did you know the #Libby app has a subscription to @wssmagazine.bsky.social ?

Support your local #library!

#nerdlings #wargaming #miniatures #tabletopgaming
Screenshot from the Libby app showing covers of four magazines - tabletop gaming, Wargames Soldiers & Strategy Magazine, CookingLight and The New Yorker
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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greaseuppropper.bsky.social
I played Warhammer last week , dude recorded the match and made this. #warhammer40k #wargaming
March 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Got to step inside an actual B-25 flown in #WW2 today. It was in a hanger with other 80 year old planes all being maintained and kept flying by a dozen Commemorative Air Force volunteers. Seriously cool to have folks doing that sort of thing in the local community #history
Interior photo from the bombardier position inside a B-25J bomber looking out its front windows.. Most of the photo is is taken up by a mounted machine gun protruding through the glass out of the plane. Interior photo of the cockpit of a B-25 bomber. There are controls and two yellow leather seats in the photo. Interior photo of where the radio operator worked inside the same B-52.
March 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Spent 16 hours over the weekend running #D&D for great folks in a truly awesome space at Escape Room Wisconsin - the decor, the old school artwork on the walls, the mindflayer trophy. Such a cool place to game!

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #miniatures #nerdlings
A photo of a fantasy/D&D themed gaming room. Most of the room is taken up by a wooden table, and the walls and wooden rafters are absolutely covered with D&D decor. Statues of multiple beholders, mindflayer, and a blue dragon can be seen on the far wall and a life sized suit of armor stands on the right side of the photo. Multiple swords, framed artwork, and glowing “magical orbs” can also be seen on all the walls. Another view of the same room showing more D&D related decor including a statue of a red dragon hatchling, a bust of a red dragon, more glowing orbs (which serve as lights for the room), and a TV sitting on a desk holding shelves of boxes of gaming miniatures. Another shelf full of more minis can be seen to the left of the room. On the right is a door to the outside showing a sunny parking lot. A close up photo of D&D painted miniatures. Most of the photo is a large lava demon posed like a massive gorilla. It has volcanic rocks as skin with red flames erupting from its shoulders. Its face is concealed by a bone colored skull mask- with two huge horns. There are four miniatures at the feet of the demon depicting the D&D adventurers. The minis are two birdfolk, a halfling, and a tabaxi. Behind them all is a glowing puff of black smoke made of stuffed animal stuffing painted and glowing from a small light. They are all standing on a gridded map depicting a rocky ground with channels of lava bisecting the area.
March 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Expanding my #BoltAction motorpool with my 3D Printer. Turns out the file’s scale was noticeably bigger than the #Warlords model kit - so played around with the scaling and much happier with the second attempt

#miniatures #wargaming #nerdlings
3 miniature German WW2 armored half track troop carriers. The middle one is a plastic miniature kit painted in green, tan and brown camouflage. The two half tracks on the left and right are unpainted and 3D printed as one piece. The one of the left is larger than the other two. the painted and same sized unpainted miniature German half-tracks next to each other on a table The two unpainted half-tracks showing the size difference between them
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Few weeks ago saw a random Reddit post in the middle of the night saying their #FLGS had 50% off prices for all #BoltAction stuff and they shipped

Now I get to work through a perfect kit of #terrain for French towns tables

#wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures
Photo of miniature terrain made of mdf material. The terrain depicts WW2 era French village. There are two houses, one is one story and the other is two, both built out of the mdf material. There is also an assembled mdf bridge on a stacked pile of unbuilt mdf buildings, still stacked flat, in their packaging. Behind that is the propped up lid of a box,with a photo on the box depicting the entire mdf terrain kit of multiple buildings, including a super thematic Normandy style church and big-ass hotel. There’s miniature sandbags also on the table - made of white resin.
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Big eel news! Recently uncovered frescoes at Pompeii contain eels. Because of course they do. Eels are everywhere in European history. You just have to look.

This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.
A colored picture of part of a fresco, showing a woman and man on the bottom, and a pair of yellow and black morays on the top. The background is red of different shades. The woman -- we'll call her Gloriatica -- is wearing a green robe, gold earrings, and a gold band in her hair. She's looking at you with a *very* long-suffering expression. This is probably because of the man next. You can't see all of him because of damage to the fresco, but what you can see looks sleazy. He has receding hairline, wispy white hair, and no shirt. He looks like he's only wearing a towel, and he's looking up at Gloriatica in a way that will look familiar to anyone who's spent time in bars. We'll call him Slorigen, and avoid him. The two eels -- probably named Estebox and Vestebox -- are facing different directions. The one on the right -- Esterbox -- is curling up over some sort of skate. They are pointedly ignoring the drama that's playing out below them. Can't people just behave themselves in public frescoes?
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Testing out some #d&d #miniature terrain set ups alongside ogre raiders and their hill giant hill boss. The local adventurers (and their pet owlbear) confront the band on a country road

Might have to try this farm-lane, heavy tree set up a try for #boltaction game too!

#nerdlings #wargaming
Photo of miniature terrain featuring a number of painted miniatures including a wizard, an owl bear, an elven ranger, 3 ogres and a hill giant. The minis are set up on a table alongside miniature trees, hedges and crop fields to represent a rural country road.
February 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Introduced two of my regular #D&D group members to #Frostgrave yesterday - we use minis in D&D but it was both of their first time with “actual” tabletop #wargaming

It’s cold here and we’re already doing #Frostmaiden campaign, so I busted out jungle terrain

#nerdlings
Photo of a Table full of miniature terrain. The terrain is mostly jungle themed with lots of palm trees. The center piece is a large yellow-ish sandstone bridge A second photo from the opposite angle of the same bridge. A bit closer up shot of the bridge - including a closer up shot of the painted palm trees “growing” out of the bridge stones
February 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
thread with @aoc.bsky.social’s advice for this moment, and it involves calling your reps.

not sure how? use 5calls.org (they have an app too).
post from @h_lee_justine on threads: AOC was just on live giving us advice of what to do and she had very specific instructions depending on if your reps were Dem or repub. I'll share them but first things first you know l've been begging you to call your reps. AOC highlighted that is the BEST THING to do right now and that they really do listen when they get non stop calls. So please pledge to me that you're gonna make some calls tomorrow to both LOCAL AND DC OFFICES of your reps. Tell me below. Now if your... ...rep is Democrat, she wants you to ask them to obstruct ALL CABINET PICKS until Elon is no longer committing illegal acts in the fed gov. It's the one power Dems have right now. Zero appointments, full obstruction until Elon is OUT! Ask for that Tom. Use the 5 calls app or website to make it easy. Again, LOCAL AND DC Now if your rep is Republican, you're going to tell them that you will start looking for and campaigning for a challenger in their district this week if they don't act to... ...protect our data, the value of the US dollar, and integrity in our fed gov. She said she knows this seems like it won't do anything but to trust her, these people care. And they're hoping you get so complacent you're silent and they don't have to worry about re election. If you have any kind of platform with a following, tell them you'll use that to campaign against them. If you're a part of a large community group, even just a community garden, tell them you'll tell everyone locally... ..what they are or aren't doing to protect us from the coup by Elon Musk. You know people in your community. You have a voice. Tell them specifically how you'll use it. It matters guys. Everyone is scared right now. Apply pressure and tell everyone you know to
February 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Coincidentally assembling English Civil War Calvary on the 376th anniversary of #CharlesI ‘s execution - morbid coincidence! #wargaming #nerdlings #history #miniatures
Photo of plastic miniature horse Calvary being assembled on a table. There’s a pamphlet propped up in the back and 3 boxes of miniature English Civil War soldiers on the right. A screenshot of a Google search of Charles I. There’s a portrait of him and noting he was born Nov 19, 1600 and died Jan 30, 1649
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
realized it’d been about 20 years since I painted an actual #SpaceMarine and that I’d never painted an #Ultramarine

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out and might try some other Chapters with the dozens of other unbuilt mono-pose Intercessors I own

#warhammer40k #nerdlings #40k #miniatures
A zoomed in photo of a blue Space Marine, an Ultramarine specifically. He’s got a white helmet with a Roman style plume on the top. The photo is taken in natural light. The same painted Space Marine - this time in a bit brighter (and harsher) artificial light. Unbuilt sprues of Space Marines on a table, in multiple zip locked bags.
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
I feel seen
January 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
properpauper.bsky.social
Moments before disaster…American paratroopers cross the road in front of a lurking Pak40 already issued the “Ambush” order.

#boltaction #historicalwargaming #wargaming #nerdlings
Photo of painted miniature German WW2 soldiers manning an anti-tank gun. They are aiming down a long dirt road. Other pieces of miniature terrain and buildings are out of focus in the distance. Above the miniatures - the American player’s arms can be seen moving a unit of paratroopers. Photo of painted miniature houses, a road, and a miniature tree. A miniature battleground set up on a table. There are many trees, several painted buildings and several roads visible.
January 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
3D printed Pak40 and crew ready for the table in a few hours.

It’ll be my first #tabletopgaming of the year and only 3rd #BoltAction game ever

#Nerdlings #historicalwargames
Painted miniature display of 4 WW2-era German artillery crew manning a Pak40 anti-tank gun. The gun is painted yellow, the soldiers are wear gray-green fatigues. The display is on a small base featuring a paved road in the middle with shrubs and grass on either side
January 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
properpauper.bsky.social
Artillery crews ready for an Earthshade wash - we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for this project. #BoltAction game in 2 days!

#Nerdlings #Wargaming #miniatures
Photo of several WW2 artillery crew miniatures in various poses. They are sticky tacked to paint bottles and are in the process of being painted.
January 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM