The lost and The Damned forum has opened a whole can of worms for me!

[st0rmboy]

After finding this forum while searching for gaming stuff, it appears that I have become knee deep in gaming projects... and have been enjoying it greatly. It's been good to get away from the usual pc/xbox/ps3 games and using my painting/modelling skills again. I've just got hold of a copy of Warhammer quest off E-bay. It is in great condition un-painted, not glued and was only missing some dice and shields, which I already had in a box from my original set. I've also got hold of the large PDF file that has been on the web for a while and spent a while cleaning the images up and sorting them out to print properly. I now have both expansions sorted, plus all the treasure card sets and the WD articles. I had always wanted these years back but could not afford them. I'm also replacing all the miniatures with new ones so I can store the originals. This caused another project to start again.. WFB, While in Trowbridge toyshop I picked up Battle for Skull pass... There is also a post in the Dark Future section that caught my eye, Road Wolf. I've printed this out and made some revised tokens and vehicle cards, hopefully try the game out this weekend. I think I need to grow some extra arms to get all this stuff done.

I'll post some pics on here soon in the correct sections, but for now thanks all for the inspiration, It's also good to see that a few of you live in the same area as me.. I thought wargamers and dungeoneers were a dying breed.

[The Skald]

More "thread necromancy" I'm afraid,



but I'd just like to echo the sentiments above - I've been a long time away from the hobby and can only thank THIS forum for getting me back into it (up to my neck at the moment, but enjoying every minute!)

Now, as much as I'm happy catching up and reading all the old posts, it seems to me that things are a little "quiet" around here at the moment........... or is that just the impression I'm getting from these prolific old posts?
Is the forum a 'seasonal' hang out (where folk gather on those long winter nights), or has the traffic generally declined a little? If so, is Facebook to blame?
I'm not a fan of Facebook, but have an account and will happily join in on there if that's where the action has migrated to - I just don't think the temporary nature of posts on Fb can match the forum format and I reckon it'd be a great shame and a sad loss if there's been a mass migration

Your thoughts and comments would be appreciated

[Quests-of-legend]

I was posting quite a lot of my war hammer quest stuff on here.....in fact here was where I posted my first new WHQ dungeon tile....form the feedback of the first few.....I then created my own site. I still post now and again, but now mainly read what's going on.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

The forum is here to share our ideas and inspire others. Personally I miss the old days of White Dwarf, Adventurer and Dragon, so when I write posts I try to make them similar to the articles I love reading in those old magazines - people writing about what they do in their hobby and how they do it and it's great to hear from other people doing like wise.  

Back when me and Bobbie created The Lost and The Damned Forum in august of 2008 we did it because we wanted a place for us and our friends to discuss our hobby and show off our miniatures - in hindsight maybe a blog would have been more suited to that purpose, but the forum has (slowly) grown and prospered since those early days. Many people have joined and we've converted and painted lots of cool miniatures, written new rules for classic games and seen the birth many interesting projects - so I think making it a forum was the best decision in the long run. I like to think of it as 1 big mass-blog which everyone can contribute to and interact with each other via.

Yea the forum goes through it's quiet patches and it can be quiet saddening. During a recent period when I seemed to be the only one posting I came close to considering abandoning the forum in favour of a personal blog - but fortunately there was resurgence of activity and things have started to pick up again.

I'm not quite sure it's seasonal but there does seem to be pattern to activity levels around here.
My theory is as follows: People only want to post on a forum that appears to be active - so when they see there's only a few new posts, they don't feel so inspired to post, so we end up with fewer posts, which in turn causes a spiral effect of less people wanting to post and thus even less posts
However the opposite is also true - When people see a lot of new posts, they will inspired to post themselves which leads to more posts and more people wanting to post - the spiral is reversed!

Basically you'll get out what you put in

So my advice to anyone and everyone reading this is as follows: if you like what you see here and want to see more of it - do more of it yourself, make posts and others will too!
If you want to read about a subject on here, start a new thread and write about it yourself!
If you like what some else is doing, comment on their post and tell them - and don't worry if the post is old, most members will be happy to hear from you.

Lets all do our bit to keep the forum going for ourselves and for others, don't just use it to promote your own website or blog - contribute directly here and the whole can be much more than the sum of it's parts which might otherwise be scattered across the web isolated from each other

[The Skald]

Ahh, those early White Dwarf mag's - my throat is full of lump as I wipe away a tear of nostalgia from my (red-rimmed from driving back from tonight's gig) eyes!
Funnily enough, I had a similar pang a couple of evenings ago when I looked at the back page of my old AD&D DM's guide. "distributed by Games Workshop" and a list of "other games" stocked ........... now those were the days!  

Anyhow, thanks for the replies Q-O-L and M-T-L, as mentioned above I've just got back from a weekend away and dropped on here while I have a "wind down brew" - one of the great advantages of the forum over the old mag's - you don't have to wait a month for the next issue!
Good and valid points Mortis, and hopefully I can contribute something tomorrow. Even being away "working" hasn't stop progress