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Cake day: May 16th, 2026

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  • Without a doubt! I’ve supported a select few Patreon creators for a while now, and his email updates, etc., have been the most honest, humble, and inspiring among them —to the point that I lowkey look forward to them!

    That said, I’d be doing y’all a disservice by failing to mention my other faves that stand alongside him:

    • Bite The Bullet Studios — a married pair of amazing creators w/ a years-long line of some of the most unique, quirky, evocative, clever minis available these days;

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    • SolGood Creations — Ukraine-based team of designers that not only send a massive amount of their Patron support directly to their local communities, but they share pics, vids, and more of our support helping their neighbors get through their days (they also put out an “unofficial” Ukraine-themed grimdark-future chapter, FWIW.) ;

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    • Manuel Boria — an incredibly talented creator whose design work spans decades and it shows in the subtly emotive expressions in his sculpts, his detail invites the eye to wander deeper;

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    • Warp Miniatures — truly signature work inspired by oldschool RPG & “euro” fantasy styles, he designs with a mind toward their folktale origins —and slays every time;

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    • and not at all least, just Nate! 🙌🏼 — join the journey as Nate takes suggestions and discovers how best to model each target subject for 3D printing, but he’s no newb (it’s informative and without ego every time), and each release is a legend.

    edit: sorry, the formatting’s wonky AF. 🙇🏽‍♂️



  • Oh, hell yeah! That’s a mz4250 classic, and I’m a longtime supporter of their work!

    FYI, this model is flat-out terrifying when upscaled ~250% to a gargantuan 200mm base, (according to my players, at least) —but, in their defense, I admit I’d felt it also called for alligator gar pike mouths and staged in a suitably trampled & bestrewn hunting-ground to seal the deal and dub her Garhonkdra, the Choir of Tantrumax.

    Give her a little fluorescent paint accenting and underlight her w/ UV, and they really start to wonder not if, but how the goose statblock’d been changed. 🤣


  • To be honest, if your DM isn’t riffing on the sheet notes, they should be, IMHO.

    One OG sign it’s well past due: players gettin’ lazy w/ “low-level” challenges, letting IRL statblock fluency drive in-game assumptions, etc. Resistances, key abilities, tendencies, phobias, et al, should all be up for grabs if the party, or any members thereof, haven’t personally encountered said creature before in that biome, region, local area, season, and/or time of day. Who knows what effects to only those parameters brings about in that species? Besides, playing “by the book” doesn’t require playing “from the book”. 🖖🏼

    Time to finesse those goblins, kobolds, infernal geese, (normal geese, better name) slimes/jellies, mud crabs, the lot!