We, Dave, Tim, and Lathan, the crew at Anonymous Tabletop, are glad you had a blast at our Meat Grinder event. We will be back next year for even more carnage.
I have never had so much fun losing my voice than when I did it running the Meat Grinder for you maniacs. I loved each and every kitbashed monstrosity that entered that arena only to end up in bits. The amount of creativity and embracing of chaos was amazing. I so very much look forward to seeing you all again next year.
We don't have a set location. It is treated a bit like the back alley dice game of Adepticon. Normally we are on the second floor at the far end since it gets a little loud and we run long. It all comes down to the people playing at the time.
The Grinder was the most hype part of adepticon imo. I stumbled on it when I was taking a late night (totally sober 😉) stroll around the GD case. Heard a bunch of people screaming and getting super hyped so I HAD to see what was going on.
We were playing Space Hulk just next door with the IC crew and the BoD guys. We could hear your cheers and they fueled our excitement too. I definitely want to convert something for that event for next year!
The fact that you did a Genestealer Ork is very funny since I've been wanting to do Genestealer Orks since watching your Chaos Ork series. So much kitbash potential with those armies
I had a friend during my school days with whom I would make up and play RPGS during our 1 hour bus rides to & from school and it might be one of the things that inspired me to be a game concept artist. We never complained about lack of tools/ rule sheets / miniatures and all the tabletop paraphernalia. We even had a racing game where the car positions were mimed by our hands on a large sketchpad. We didn't write down our rules anywhere so it was fun fighting over the game mechanics. Soooooooooooooo much fun. Trent, this video made me remember that feeling. Thank you so much!
That's a great point. It's not the game itself but the people creating the atmosphere. The question is whether it is possible to create that on purpose or whether it just finds you.
I really resonate with the pure creativity and art form you put in making these videos. The sensitivity, the story telling, the atmosphere just goes to home ! You're doing something great
Gotta love (those moments). Cherish & Celebrate & Reminisce & Relate them. Generally "they" are few and far between. All the more reason to remember them. Awesome. Just bloody awesome!
What a stellar moment. Pure exaltation. Thank you for documenting this for us, it is almost overwhelming to even be able to take the faintest whiff of that energy in that room through the hazy memory machine.
Honestly I'm a very casual mini painter and terrain builder but your videos just inspire me. I'm a composer and watching you put your all into your craft inspires me to tinker and play with my own stuff. Thank you. I'd love to work with some form of audiovisual project with you some day
Hey Ethan, thank you mate. A lot of the music in these videos come from the people watching, if you'd like to contribute audio to a vid, throw some songs in an email to me. Could be the start of something cool!
The stories and experiences you have can elevate a game to something more than a game. It becomes a feeling, a memory. That’s something everyone deserves to enjoy at least once. Great video once again Trent!
The meat grinder sounds rad. I would take the bits and pieces from the remains and try to sculpt a new mini out of them, mostly because I'm sentimental like that, but also because it would be a good challenge. Also, day 5 of hailing the garbo toad. What, did you think I was going to forget? :P (Please let me know if this gets annoying. If it's annoying you I will stop.)
I wanted to add, thank you for supporting LGBT initiatives. Knowing you're this cool AND that you support one of the communities I'm a part of really means a lot.
This is how I feel about BOYL. It just feels great to hang out and play games with people who feel the way I do about making weird stuff to play games with.
@@Simpsominiatures Saw this first on IG and it still leaves me awestruck. There's brilliance in it's simplicity. It's wargaming in 6 (arguably 5?) steps and a small investment for an unforgettable experience.
@@bfenix the 1$ was pooled and put into a pot awarded to the model voted best paintjob. In reality, I think it's more of a popularity contest. I actually won the prize $ the second night we played! I even got a Canadian dollar signed by ericshobbyworkshop :)
You said once you had a 3d printed bits box.. can you share it.. btw.. because of your bits box... I totally mixed up my bits box, and your right the creative free it cause way out weights the anxiety I had thinking about mixing it. Now I just keeps throwing more bits to it!
Gotta be honest: Meatgrinder wouldn't be for me. I'd rather put my hand in that thing than let even my crappiest minis fall prey to it. Robot Wars sounds actually pretty fun. I'm fairly certain I've seen similiar rulesets with physics like that somewhere.
Miscast, why not make taking bits (ie limbs, heads etc) part of a game/campaign. Battles of te Necromincers? Greedy covetous frankensteiners sending out monstrosities and literally taking parts in game. Pit stops, like formula one, arms dropping off from speedily converted Limboys? That way its collaboratie creative/destructive interactive permutation of the nation!
Where are the rules to Meatgrinder (On someone's hard drive???). You better get a copy now (so you can recreate the event [not just the game, but the EVENT] in case of hard drive failure).
if you use a cathode ray tube, remember to eliminate very high frequencies, because it produces a whistling noise that is very annoying to some people's ears (these are rare cases, I am one of those), just like a dog whistle
I remember making up a similar game as kids but building giant lego robots, up to about a foot tall and blasting bits off of them when they got damaged, or stealing parts (Cyborg Justice style if you ever played that on Megadrive) BRUTAL!
