The Perfect Christmas Gift

Hint: It’s not 3D printed puzzle boxes. But that’s what they’re getting, anyway.

December 22, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Tipa

Frosthaven #7: The Edge of the World

Taking a break from the Algox situation to have a seafood snack.

June 24, 2025 · 4 min · 783 words · Tipa

Frosthaven Scenario #1: Town in Flames

Having completed the tutorial scenario and let a month pass before schedules matched up again, we finally started Frosthaven for reals.

April 29, 2025 · 3 min · 626 words · Tipa

Game Night: Frosthaven! And So It Begins...

After a few years on the shelf, we’re finally playing Frosthaven. It’s pretty different from Gloomhaven; could be a real challenge.

April 1, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Tipa

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, by Hokusai

Reproducing this woodblock print with 3D printing gives me even more appreciation for the original work.

February 22, 2025 · 4 min · 671 words · Tipa

Hueforge: High Rez Color Pictures on your 3D Printer

Hueforge prints using very thin layers so that colors bleed through to create blends, shades and gradients on any printer.

February 21, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Tipa

Painting the White Dragon

I printed the White Dragon in white filament. Then I told the D&D group that I still needed to paint it. “Why? It’s already white?” Ha!

August 14, 2024 · 3 min · 478 words · Tipa

D&D: I -- no, WE -- have a white dragon problem

The problem is, we’re about to battle the final boss battle of the Icespire campaign, but Cryovain refuses to come out of his dressing room.

August 12, 2024 · 4 min · 703 words · Tipa

Scraping BattleTech

What was that old saying? “Information wants to be free”?

August 22, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Tipa

Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion: Finished.

It took us a little over two years to play through the twenty-five scenarios of Jaws of the Lion. But we enjoyed every single one of those twenty five. Covid, real life, and the occasional other game (mostly Terraforming Mars) got in the way of finishing this prequel to Gloomhaven in any reasonable amount of time. Sometimes, months would go by between plays. But we always came back. Our time with Gloomhaven and Jaws of the Lion gave us a reason to come together and just lose ourselves in a world where certain doom seemed to lurk around every new scenario. ...

July 19, 2022 · 3 min · 585 words · Tipa