Hobbying from the deep end of the dungeon
Find your next indie wargame. Learn how to play and paint it.
A directory of small and indie tabletop wargames, and the guides to get them on your table. Skirmish, army-scale, solo, and the weird stuff in between.
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Forbidden Psalm
A grim, solo-friendly skirmish game by Will RD, set in the dying world of MÖRK BORG. Five models, a d20, a doomed campaign, and a Mad Wizard hunting for the Psalm.
Frostgrave
Joseph A. McCullough's wizard warband game from Osprey. Rival wizards, their apprentices, and a handful of hired soldiers loot the frozen ruins of Felstad for treasure and lost magic.
Greathelm
A micro-skirmish game of chivalric fantasy by Malev. Six knights a side on a sheet of paper, a clever dice-as-actions system, and games that take twenty minutes.
Rangers of Shadow Deep
Joseph A. McCullough's solo and co-op miniatures adventure game. You play rangers on missions into the Shadow Deep, a creeping darkness swallowing the kingdom of Alladore.
Turnip28
Max FitzGerald's free regiment wargame of mud, root vegetables, and doomed Napoleonic-ish armies. The rules are free forever, and v19 just came out.
Brawl Arcane 28
A wizard-duel skirmish game by Brett Evans. Two wizards, a few summoned minions, a baying crowd, and random spells every turn, all on a chessboard. Pay what you want.
News from the indie wargame world
The official Maleghast STLs are out on MyMiniFactory
Taiga Miniatures' official 30mm warbands for Magnagothica: Maleghast are live on MyMiniFactory. Every house plus the mercenaries, $66 a warband, and half off if you join their Discord.
_nubmark Dropped Denizens of Dreadwood for Motley Crews
Eight new printable miniatures for $5, a new Advanced ruleset, pay-what-you-want cows and terrain, and a one-week pre-order for physical resin versions.
BONEZONE 2026 Is Open and I'm Painting a Royal Herald
Richard Gray's annual skeleton painting competition is back, this time under the sands of Nehekhara. Entries close at 23:59 UK time on Halloween.
DWARF Is a Free Solo Hex Crawl About Walking Home
Tavern Lore just put out DWARF, a complete solo hex crawl RPG on a name-your-own-price basis. You play one dwarf making the long trip back to the Mountains.
Orc the Brand Dropped Wave 2 for Monster Friends
Seven new monsters just hit the Monster Friends: Battle for New Florida roster, from a punch-happy Walrus Champion to a limited summer Mr. Devil. They're all live now.
The Gloam One-Page Adventure Jam Is Stacked
The Lone Legend's folk-fantasy tarot RPG Gloam just wrapped a one-page adventure jam, and the community turned out a dozen free scenarios.
Guides
A new way to paint skeletons
A bone recipe I found by accident on an Infinity commission: blue and orange ink under an airbrushed skin tone, then stippled white. Skelly Joe, about four hours.
How to make terrain glue
Sealing scratch-built terrain with watered-down PVA: the 50/50 mix, the two drops of dish soap that make it soak instead of bead, and how to stop it gluing itself to your table.
Making stats for our teaspoon pet
Rolling up a pet in Teaspoon: a d8 down the line, the modifiers your creature type brings, and when to just pick a nature instead of rolling it.
Old school sand bases
Making basing texture out of sand, PVA and cheap paint. Why all-purpose sand and not playground sand, and why this still beats a pot of texture paste at scale.
Spicing up some relic blade tokens.
Finishing the Relic Blade cardboard tokens with a black paint marker around the edges and a dome of Mod Podge Dimensional Magic on each face.
Super fast OSL
Quick airbrush OSL pass on yesterday's model: Warlord Purple, Squid Pink, and a watered-down white blend wet-on-wet. Two minutes, first finished model of 2026.