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Preview

Little preview of what I just finished for next week’s video. My first mdf kit build. It went awesome!

Attn: New Fellowship Supporters

This is for anyone joining up between Aug 4th and Aug 11th.First of all, thanks for your support! And welcome to the Fellowship! It means a lot.Second, if you request to join the private Facebook group in that time I will not be able to manually approve the request during that period. I will be out of town in a very remote location with limited mobile internet connections. I will be manually checking and approving all pending requests when I retu...

End of an era....

I typically don't put Tuesday videos up early for you guys to view in advance (mostly cause it usually takes every last minute to get them up), but this is an important one so I thought you guys should see it first. Curious to know your thoughts.

Discord!

I have finally set up an official BMC Discord server which will only be accessible to Patreon supporters (of all levels). I have linked the accounts so you may have noticed yourself added to the server. If you have not, then you likely need to link your patreon account to your discord. Instructions here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266I have created a "Fellowship" role for those at that level of pledge and higher, ...

I'd like to take a moment to talk about mental health.

On Tuesday, Todd Harris, a member of RealmSmithtv took his own life. He leaves behind him a family, including two sons. I very recently lost my childhood best friend to suicide and I have not yet fully reconciled that. My heart goes out to Tim's friends and family. Suicide is a very difficult thing to heal from. It's a tidal force that wreaks havoc on the people surrounding it. It can be difficult or impossible to comprehend and understan...

YouTube upload issues

Hey guys,You may have noticed there hasn't been an "early viewing" post for Friday's video yet. YouTube has been having some problems with their ingest/encoding and causing problems in videos. I've uploaded the video multiple times and each time get weird glitches. I'm not the only creator experiencing this.I am currently trying one last time to upload Friday's video and hopefully this one works without issue, but by t...

Early Viewing: What's the BEST Glue for XPS Foam?

When I was doing my Frostgrave boards one of you asked if the PL Premium adhesive I used on the foam could be cut with the Proxxon after it dried. I wasn't sure and rather than test just that I set out to find out what the BEST adhesive for gluing large areas of XPS to XPS is. This is very important for those of you limited in the thickness of XPS at your disposal that want to layer to create thicker material.

Behind the scenes

Living’ that unboxing life

Patreon glitches

Hey folks, Patreon seems to be very glitchy over the past few days. Pledges are taking longer than usual to process payment and it seems a lot of features are missing. If you have signed up in the last two days or so and have not yet received a thank you message and link the the fellowship facebook group (for those at that level), do not be alarmed. Currently the the message feature on patron profiles is.....missing.....so I can't send them. ...

Build video....you decide

So this Friday’s video will be a bit of a retrospective where I compare my firtst build to a recent one and discuss the importance of knowing that it’s ok to......suck at something when you start out. But next week I’m going to let you guys decide what I build from the two things I want to do. Likely I’ll end up doing both at some point, but want to let you decide what’s first.I’ll go with whatever is voted highest come Thursday when ...

Rewards Update

Hey everyone,I'm not sure if Patreon automatically notifies you when I change the info on rewards tiers so I wanted to make a post incase it didn't. I have found over time that some of the "rewards" I place on certain tiers were not actually happening. These were things that I found impractical to implement and follow through on.The real goal of this Patreon, and your support, is to help me dedicate time to the VIDEOS and some of ...

Beacon of Plenty DM Journal Notes

As promised, here are the 3 pages of entries I had in my journal for running the Beacon of Plenty encounter. You will notice at the time I created it for my session I had just called it The Arcane Study.You can see here just how simplified I make my notes. Just a few bullet points as reminders about the room on the first page. The other two pages are my d4 roll table for the effects that take place. The faces? This is so I could quickly tell at a...

Advanced Screening: Beacon of Plenty - An Original Puzzle Encounter

Hey guys,Trying something a little different this week. This is a room I designed for my last session that I thought was really interesting so I wanted to share it. Let me know what you think of the room, but more importantly let me know what you think of this type of episode.As promised at the end of the video I will be sharing my DM journal pages from this encounter with Patreon ONLY. You will find it in the post following this one.Cheers

Flesh Skinner Stats & Bexim's Bazaar

Hey guys,When I made these crazy creature minis I never released any formal stats for it....but now they exist! I'm sharing with you guys my contribution to issue #1 of Bexim's Bazaar, an upcoming monthly online magazine created by my friend Jim, The Tabletop Engineer, which will focus on tabletop gaming and crafting. Consider subscribing via his Patreon, it's only $2 a month to get access to the monthly release.I'd really love to...

Attn: EU suporters

Hey guys,I just received the following message from Patreon regarding VAT. I will copy what they have sent me below. You are likely to also receive a message from Patreon about this.I just want you to know that myself (and other creators) have no control over how Patreon collects taxes, or how your country of residence enforces that collection. I'm hoping this does not cause any inconvenience, confusion, and that the extra tax is not too much...

Gallows preview...

Yup, that's me. About to get strung up by a mob of angry village people. I bet you're wondering how I got into this mess...

Patreon Vlog - Session Recap July

Hey guys, another behind the scenes Patreon exclusive for you. Played a game last night, check out the encounters I ran and how I made use of my terrain.

Gallows Preview

Anyone wanna play a game of hangman?

Gallows build preview

Today’s project, one that’s been requested countless times. I chose this mostly because I wanted to do an episode focusing on using foam for wood/timber but didn’t want to just show technique with no finished product.About 3 hours of work to get it to this point.

Advanced Screening: Corpse Flower Mini Build!

Hey guys, episode 100 creeped up on me. I decided to get myself some flowers :)I'm really happy with this build, but more importantly I'm really happy about this video. 100 episodes later, and with your help, I feel like I'm finally getting the episodes to the quality and entertainment level I want. I've been pushing to improve on that end and I think it's working, so I'm going to keep trying to up my game in that departme...

Game Prep Pt.4

When running a bad guy that’s a spell caster this is how I manage spells. I make custom spell cards with very simple text so I know the spell at a glance. Red sleeves for spells that do damage.

Game Prep Pt.3

Behind the screen. Switching back to a DM screen for a bit.

Game Prep Pt. 2

This is going to be a serious encounter. The party will meet the Cadaver Collector (they didn’t make it quite that far last session).

Game prep Pt.1

I’m goin for a big encounters night. One of two major battle set ups for tomorrow’s game.

Build Sneak Peek

All that stuff I said about wanting ruins to not be static? Well sometimes you just want a ruined tower.

Advanced Screening: 5 Ways to Set the Mood for D&D

Hey folks,I'm really proud of this video. It likely doesn't seem like it because there was no build, but this video was a LOT of work. I had to reshoot the thing 3 times because of failed lighting issues. It's really hard to shoot a dark video that shows candles, but isn't incredibly grainy when you don't have proper lighting or a very high quality camera. But I'm super grateful that I had the time to be able to redo it un...

Takin' a risk

Working on a *very* different type of video for next week. It's something I've wanted to do for quite a while as I think it's pretty important, but have been reluctant because I know some will hate it.5 WAYS TO SET THE MOOD FOR D&DSo often these simple things are missed, and they can make a huge difference in getting everyone focused and in the mood to play. I've always been pretty aware of these needs in my games and am constantl...

Session 1

New group. New campaign. Fresh start. Where will the long road lead?

Pine tree experiment....

Mini modding

Sometimes you can’t find the right mini for a player character and you gotta mod something.