Windmill Game Co.

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Game Co. patrons!

The moon is full... a bat courses across the midnight sky... somewhere, a wolf howls in the darkness. And what else is that thing you hear, unseen in the trees?... Yes, friends, it’s Halloween season!

And that means all Dread, all the time! I bet you were wondering where we were - no worries, we haven’t ghosted you! We’ve just been cooking stuff up in our cauldron of toil and trouble- namely, a selection of Dread skeletons for your use and personalization!

We’ll be giving you a new one per week for this month, full of thrills and chills and all the seasonal references we can muster. We do hope they will inspire your creativity- if one of our offerings does, please share how it went!

In the meantime, step off the path into the dark woods and follow the lonely trail to the first of our monthly offerings. Hopefully you won’t have a bone to pick with us!

Our first offering this Spooktober is Escape From Midnight Manor, a Dread skeleton where horror fans go to the newest haunted house attraction.

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, the thumbnail from our favorite Brian David Gilbert's AAAH!BBA parody, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" as performed by Victor Frankenstein (link to video in first comment)

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Game Co. patrons!

It is not only Labor Day Weekend, but we're going Back To School! (well, some of us are, including the students at Sanctimonious Amalgamated Magenta Urbanite Remedial Academic Institute iii!)

And this year, open auditions for the next stage production are here! The Musical Theater Club must track down and recruit fellow students at SAMURAIiii High to fill the open spots. It will go smoothly, right, what mishaps could possibly happen...

"The Show Must Go On" includes 6 playable characters (including 5 shiny new ones), game outline, and setting details, written by the fabulous and talented Kristi!

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, a screenshot from the early 2000's favorite Homestar Runner (link to video in first comment)

Hello Friends, Family, and Windmill Patrons! As most of you know, we opened this month with a most excellent run at Gen Con in Indianapolis. (Technically, the end of July into the beginning of August, but we are only now fully recovered from it!) The games there were a rousing success, with excellent turn-out all around, plenty of enthusiasm, and new and old friends alike. WE ARE NOT A CULT!

Thus we are presenting, here and now, a photograph record of all those antics and shenanigans. Were you present for one or more of our events? Take a look, maybe you’ll find a prize memory of yours on record! Did you face the perils of Monkey Attack Beach? Hang out in the Teacher's Lounge? Get drawn through the Crimson Gate into a world of magic and adventure? Reach for triumph only to see the tower tumble before your eyes? Explore ancient Rome? Fight to take over another show's time slot? Perhaps you attended the LARP and played "Last Kid On the Bus" at Secret Go-Racer's Birthday Party?

All this and more, presented just for you. Because we wouldn’t and couldn’t have all these wonderful memories and adventures without all of you, our players. Thank you, and we hope you enjoyed it all as much as we did!

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, a photo of the amazing birthday cake that the Windmill Game Co crew presented to Akira!

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Patrons! BEHOLD our schedule for GenCon!

All of our RPG games are running in JW Marriott (NOT the Marriott) room 301, from 8 AM until something resembling 1 AM!

Lots of our games are sold out, but even if they are, please show up and we'll do our best to get you in (many of our games allow for extra players, and we try to have spare GMs in case we get overflow), and worst case scenario you can hang out in our Teacher's Lounge!

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Patrons! And new contacts, and acquaintances, and random wandering sages, and another sort of myriad folk!

In the days of the not too distant past, our fine crew of adventurers went a-wandering. We a-wandered to the far-flung land of Columbus, where we traversed the halls of the annual festival that is Origins Games Convention, where we sought to bring merriment, joy, and other forms of entertainment for all who chose to join us and play!

These experiences would not be possible without all of you, and of course you and they were jointly memorable. Even as we wandered a bit more than usual, we sought to keep spirits high and the shenanigans flowing. Do shenanigans flow? Well, no matter! In the process of these adventures, we aspired to keep a visual- and at times audio, as well as moving!- record of the events in question.

In other words, this month our offering is presented here for your perusal and hopefully enjoyment is a pictorial and video record of our days at Origins with all of you who came to join us! Covering the entire breadth of the convention, from the first Dread game Wednesday night to the final LARPening on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! There are antics! Crafts! Falling and fallen towers! Absurd impressions! Copious levels of random chanting! WE ARE NOT A CULT!

So step up, take a gander, and we hope you enjoy. If you find yourself- or just see something you especially like, or a record of a moment you remember fondly whether it involved you or not- please speak up! We’d love to hear your own stories!

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, one of our awesome pics! Link to the folder it and its friends live in is in the first comment!

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Patrons!

Origins is just around the corner, next week!! (And I totally lost track of time, as per usual, sorry for the lateness!)

Our June offering is going to be running tons of games for you at Origins! We are running a ton of extra events, and have some new GMs on our staff - Andrew will be running Dread, and Zeshan and Rydia will be running 8 AM sessions of an awesome new game Daggerheart!

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday all of our games are in GCCC - 2nd Floor - Meeting Room D #280, ALLLLLLLLL the way down at the end of the Convention Center, past the dealer hall, near the Columbus Pride Gaymers (who are awesome and you should totally visit them and get ribbons). Saturday our daytime games are in Hyatt - 1st Floor - Ohio Center A, but the evening games are back in GCCC - 2nd Floor - Meeting Room D #280!

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, a screenshot of our events! Link to the spreadsheet (including number of tickets available) are in the first comment!

Hello friends, family, and Windmill Patrons!

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

We are so grateful for your patience and support! We had a really active March Madness, and now we have a bit of April Madness! This month's offering is a Dread Skeleton of The Scottish Play, a community theater production of the famous Shakespeare tragedy!

(Because this is a couple days late, we will leave this one available to all of our Patrons until the end of May!)

To satisfy Al Gore's Rhythm, the image is a thumbnail to Extra History's "Macbeth - William Shakespeare - So You Haven't Read", link in the comments!

It is April, my dude(s/ttes/xs), March Madness just ended yesterday so our April offering (a Dread skeleton!) will be out Real Soon Now (TM)!

And by one vote we have a winner in our Dread Madness 2026.

The winner is.....

Lost in the dreams of a sleeping town, you and your fellow mindwalkers must discover what happened to the residents to trap them in their slumber, while surviving the worst of their nightmares.

Congratulations to all of our competitors.

It has been a long March with our Dread Madness and we have seen tons of great ideas compete, but now it is time for our final round and we leave it to all of you to help us decide.

The link for voting will be in our first comment. Help us decide!