One of the great things about getting together with friends for a game is the food and drink shared around the table. Anthropologists tell us that eating and drinking together is one of the very basic activities which have united groups of people for millennia, and is one of the most fundamental ways of expressing social inclusion we have. Well, one of the very earliest alcoholic beverages known to us is Mead and it is very easy to make yourself.

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We all love to use Dungeon Tiles in our D&D games. It adds to the realism of combat, provides for more strategic play and helps everyone see what is going on. With the release of D&D4E the use of Dungeon Tiles became an integrated part of the game to the point where it is hard to play without them. This has created problems for GM’s who like to create their own campaigns and who need maps. While you can easily print off a tiled A4 or A3 sheet and draw in your maps, it would be even better to be able to create your own dungeon tiles from scratch to match your creations exactly.

In the first part on creating your own dungeon tiles, we show you how to create basic rooms of any size.

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If you, like us, work in an office that seems to actively encourage the use of USB powered missile launchers, nerded up Nerf Guns and rubber band machine guns, this homemade coil gun may be perfect for you. While it is appropriately unable to really hurt anyone, it will certainly still let you know that you have been hit as it fires a 42g projectile at about 110kmh. It has a magazine of 14 rounds (enough to get to the coffee maker and back) and it cost about 100 Euro to put together over the course of a weekend.

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