Two Small Wiatry Magii Tools for The Old World: Toadie and Our Builder
Two Small Wiatry Magii Tools for The Old World: Toadie and Our Builder
Sometimes the hobby grows not only through painted armies and games on the table, but also through tiny tools that solve very specific problems we keep running into. This week was a bit like that for us.
Stas kicked things off by asking for a new subdomain for toadie.wiatrymagii.pl, and Michał quickly got it done — thanks again for that. As Stas put it, the whole thing is still pretty incomplete and mostly supports his own use cases for now, but that is perfectly fine. Baby steps.
Toadie: battle reporting experiments
The first project is Toadie, and the immediate idea is very practical: we want to try using it to record our games.
Stas invited us to check out the fourth episode of Drugie Czytanie, where he is digging into one of those rules questions that either ends with all of us being very surprised, or with the group helping find another rule that actually explains what is going on. That same spirit of trying to make sense of games and document them neatly is what led to Toadie in the first place.
For our next round of games, the plan is to use the battle report page below to record our clashes:
Right now it sounds like an early version, rough around the edges, and built mainly to support the needs we already have. Honestly, that is often the best kind of hobby tool: something made because we actually want to use it ourselves.
Our own Old World Builder deployment
The second bit of news came from Michał, who also put up our own build of Old World Builder on Wiatry Magii:
This is especially useful because it supports army lists that are not available on the official builder. Michał specifically mentioned things like:
- Skaven Renegade 2.0
- Chaos Warriors’ Legion of Khorne
There are still some implementation errors to iron out — Michał already spotted a few issues in Legion of Khorne — but the direction is very promising. Even better, the plan is to keep adding new renegade lists as they appear.
That alone makes this kind of project incredibly valuable for our local group and, hopefully, for other Old World players too.
Community content welcome
One more thing we really liked: Michał said that if we come across any cool community-built Arcane Journals, he would be happy to add them as well.
That feels very on-brand for how we like to approach the hobby — not just using tools, but building a little ecosystem around the games we actually play.
What happens next
So for now, this is where we are:
- Toadie is online and ready for us to test as a battle reporting tool.
- Our Old World Builder instance is up and already doing something the official one does not.
- Both projects are still growing, but they already look useful.
We are very much into this kind of incremental hobby infrastructure. Not flashy, maybe, but the sort of thing that makes game nights smoother, list building easier, and post-game discussion much more fun.
If you try either of these tools, or if you have community material worth adding, let us know. We are curious to see where both projects go next.