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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Motley Crews
Grid-based tactical fantasy skirmish for two players, played on a regular 8×8 chessboard with any miniatures you like.
Monster Friends: Battle for New Florida
An indie skirmish game where every monster is mechanically novel and intentionally broken. The design pitch is flavor over balance.
Trench Crusade
A grimdark alternate-history skirmish game of holy trench warfare, born from kitbash culture with free rules and a heavy proxy-friendly streak.
TSPN
Indie skirmish game by Tanner Simpson, published through 28 Magazine. Current version is the Third Helping rulebook.
Relicblade
Indie tactics-RPG skirmish for two. 4 to 6 characters per side on a 2'×2' board, around 30 minutes a game, with party building by good/evil alignment rather than fixed factions.
Kal Arath
Sword-and-sandal OSR fantasy adventure RPG by Castle Grief. 2d6 mechanics, exploding damage, classless characters. Plays solo, co-op, or with a GM.
News from the indie wargame world
_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.
Bellwoken's whimsical army set is live on Kickstarter
Bellwoken — A New Whimsical Army Set for Your Wargames is now live on Kickstarter. Back the campaign to bring the collection to the tabletop.
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.