Saturday, December 14, 2019


 
Silmarillion board game.

Silmarillion tabletop wargame?

 
I think I like "The Dispossessed," though.
Cirith Ninniach.  It just isn't that important to the overall narrative (or strategic) situation. I thought about making a special hexside that only good guys can use and that is an impassable hexside for bad guys, but ultimately the area is so strategically unimportant that adding that little piece of detail would just be superfluous. Another block of text and cross-referencing for the already bloated and probably incomprehensible rulebook. (As of now the rules are 25 pages with a few sections yet to be written up, so I'm thinking it's going to be at least 30 pages in the end, really more depending on space requirement for illustrations.)


Cirith Ninniach as show on the Wars of Beleriand game map. Wars of Beleriand is a board game based on Tolkien's The Silmarillion. It's a wargame for two players designed by Nate Dray.


Amon Rûdh. Should there be a special rule for hex 1121? Turin can hide there and attack with impunity or something? There are already several exceptions and special abilities for the Turin unit.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Wars of Beleriand 

The Silmarillion Wargame. 

Or is it the Silmarillion board game?


Anyway, tweaking and testing continues, but it's done in all its essentials and then some. Been trying out some different chrome-ish bits lately to spice up combat, but it's really just cosmetics and theme at this point and could be wholly abandoned without any significant effects on the whole.


The pic above here...One planned map edit is to take that Northward kink out of the Narog near Nan-Tathren. Should dip South. There WAS a reason earlier for it to kink North that way, but I can't remember what it was...something in the text, I think.

And here below:
This is a HIGHLY unusual and rare occurrence: a Silmaril laying unclaimed out in the open just outside Eithel Sirion.
Many heroes and villains died terrible deaths to make this possible...



Saturday, March 16, 2019

"One of the Watcherwoman's Clock-Trees"

ink on paper

Illustration of a type of tree found in Lev Grossman's book series "The Magicians."

Clock Tree Lev Grossman illustration ink Nate Dray The Magicians


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

"Elkton Bridgehead"

14" x 12"
watercolor on paper


This title is a misnomer. The term "bridgehead" implies strategic significance and that's just simply untrue in this case. :)