Natural-20 Crit Deals Double-Damage To Your Wallet

Yesterday after our planning meeting for MEK-OP, we got a tour of "the house". For clarification, a tour of a house populated with game nerds involves spending about 30 seconds looking at a pantry full of tea, and about 2 hours looking at a seven-box shipment of plastic crack Warhammer Grey Knights figures. Apparently they were in the budget this year, although from looking at the receipt, I imagine that they're probably pretty much the only thing fitting in that budget this year.

Here's celebrated children's author (and secretive wargame enthusiast) Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting on his compulsion to expend the greater part of his royalties on fighting the Napoleonic wars in miniature, thereby proving that the addiction can be dated back to at least the 19th century.

A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS

By Robert Louis Stevenson

For certain soldiers lately dead
Our reverent dirge shall here be said.
Them, when their martial leader called,
No dread preparative appalled;
But leaden-hearted, leaden-heeled,
I marked them steadfast in the field.
Death grimly sided with the foe,
And smote each leaden hero low.
Proudly they perished, one by one;
The dread Pea-cannon's work was done!
O not for them the tears we shed,
Consigned to their congenial lead;
But while unmoved their sleep they take,
We mourn for their dear Captain's sake,
For their dear Captain, who shall smart
Both in his pocket and his heart,
Who saw his heroes shed their gore
And lacked a shilling to buy more!