October 5th, 2025, the Strange Artifacts crew hosted our first Forbidden Psalm event, the Strange Artifacts Invitational. Held at Total Escape Games in Broomfield, Colorado. As a relatively new club, we've hosted game days and we've made our appearances at local cons, this was our first attempt at an organized …
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CAD Exercises - Battletech Bases
Tacticon 2025, Denver, Colorado
Occurring at opposite ends of the year, Denver has two fairly major gaming events: GenghisCon in the late winter, and Tacticon in the late summer. Where GenghisCon is dominated by role-playing games, Tacticon predominantly features tabletop miniature war games. Someone among the Strange Artifacts crew suggested we get a table …
read moreStrange Artifacts Meetup
For the first time since its inception, the Strange Artifacts crew all got together at the excellent Gamer's Haven in Colorado Springs. While many of us have played together or hung out in the past, this was our first chance to be all in one place and vibe. There was …
read moreLaying Down Cobbles
A couple of months ago, my wife gave me a Proxxon hot wire table as an anniversary gift. Right away I spent a couple of lunch breaks cutting scrap XPS foam into bricks - enough to fill a large yoghurt tub. These I distressed by tossing them with gravel from the …
read moreLore Without Models, Models Without Lore
Ever since watching Monk's video about the An Argent Host event earlier this year, I've wanted to try my hand at Necropolis28. While I tend to find anyting but the most elementary list building inscrutible, I've been reading the rules, and I have a couple of gatherings in mind.
The …
read moreUnder the Dice Fest, Flames of Orion
I play a solid amount of Battletech today, but only because last summer I wanted to play Flames of Orion. I wandered into to my FLGS and after picking up and putting down the box four or five times, I bought the Inner Sphere Fire Lance because I thought it …
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