Introduction
Greetings everyone. I did not have anything worthy in my opinion of writing about for my weekly Friday Night Fights (FNF posts), so I asked my eldest for a word. She gave me the word "Worms."
With my RANDOM WORDS posts for now and in the future, I will take a random word given to me by someone around me (family, friends, co-workers, etc) and then write about it as it pertains to the three main points of AKDragonFish3D: tabletop gaming (board games, card games, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, etc), the over expansive topic of fishing, and 3D printing.
Tabletop Wargaming
First, I will cover tabletop wargaming as it comes to mind when I think about the word "worms." There are three things off the cuff that come to mind.
The first thing that comes to mind is a play on words: "Worms" becomes "Wyrms" or "Wurms." A type of dragon species, a Wyrm is a dragon with no arms and no legs. The most prevalent example that should come to most people's minds is a Couatl, the flying serpent dragon. For those Final Fantasy fans, the summon Quetzocoatl, and for those that play Magic: The Gathering, you have the creature type and all the fun shenanigans that can be done with them. In Dungeons and Dragons, there is the ever-prevalent Purple Worm, a vicious underground purple scaled monster that eats everything.
More about Quetzocoatl
More about Wurms in Magic the Gathering
(D&D Beyond) 5e Couatl Statblock
(D&D Beyond) 5e Purple Worm Statblock
(random net searched art of Quetzocoatl)
(my wife's favorite MTG green monster, the Boneyard Wurm)
The second thing that comes to mind is how I've always wished for a Worms style game but as a tabletop boardgame. You remember Worms right? For those that have no idea what I'm talking about, Worms is a game where you pick a squad of 4 cartoon worms and a selection of weapons. More weapons spawn on the map as turns go by. Through turn-based actions, you shoot at the opposing team. Worms drown if they fall in the water. Worms die when their hit points reach zero. Below area couple of pics from net searches. I recommend it.
My third and final thought with regards to tabletop gaming involving the word "worms" is a recent boardgame that I played with a couple of good friends of mine. This game is called DUNE made by Gale Force 9 and it plays exactly as it sounds.
You take control of one of the many factions as outlined in the book series and control five of their leaders. The point of the game is to control the 4 strongholds on the planet. Watch out though, as every turn the sandstorm moves around the board and send your people to the tank. You war for spice, ambush your opponents, and ...... if you are the sand people, ride on the giant Sand Worm and are the only force that the Sand Worm doesn't eat at all. Below is more information about the game and a link to purchase it if you wish.
(a pic from a net search about the game in question)
Worms with Fishing
As original as it sounds, the word "worms" goes with fishing like clouds go in the sky. However, like clouds in the sky, sometimes it's good to have worms when you fish, sometimes it's not. Allow me to explain.
Worms are a bug, and slowly drown when submerged in water, only after they start bleeding out from the hook you just ran through them. But why do fish like worms so much?
Worms have a strange habit of finding their way into the water first and foremost. Also, worms - whether it be nightcrawlers, red worms, blood worms, mealworms, etc - share commonality to other bugs in the water as far as taste, texture, and motion as they slowly drown.
Fishing with a worm has a tried-and-true technique for as long as angling has been angling. Take a worm, skewer it onto a hook, and throw it into the water - either suspended from a bobber or sunk to the bottom with a weight. My preferred method for Interior Alaska depends on the lake, as some lakes are stocked (so i bobber fish) and some lakes are "wild," meaning they have fish that naturally spawn (and so i bottom fish)
One technique i hear about is a "floating worm." This is a rigging technique where you utilize a drop shot or a bottom rig, however you use an empty syringe with a tiny needle, and you pump the worm with air pocket(s). Now that the worm has air in it, it has more buoyancy and will float upward either off the bottom or up above the drop shot.
There are also soft plastic worms that companies make where the plastic is very buoyant and will achieve the same functionality. I imagine this exists because some people are scared of needles.
Worms associated with 3D Printing
I can't really come up with anything regarding the word "worms" and 3D printing other than 3D printing what i've talked about in the other two subjects.
There are plenty of "wurms" "wyrms" and similar shapes like Quetzocoatl that you can find and print. I know one model that is pretty popular right now is the articulated dragon. Although not a wurm and more like a Celestial Dragon similar to Shenlong from DBZ. Below is a pic.
(A picture acquired from yeggi.com)
When it comes to fishing, you can also print molds for soft plastics. I'm told from other bloggers and YouTubers that these molds hold up relatively well. I just don't have any of the setup to do any kind of injection molding regarding the soft plastics. Outside of printing the molds and the pressure injector, I can't buy any other materials for making soft plastics locally. I'm stuck with Amazon like everyone else in my situation. I plan on trying the below products sometime this summer.
(A model pictured acquired from Thingiverse.com)
Conclusion
Well, that was an interesting adventure on the internet applying the word "Worms" to the three main subjects of AKDragonFish3D: tabletop gaming, fishing, and 3D printing. I hope it was as entertaining and enlightening to read as it was to create.
I look forward to the next time I get writer's block and ask for a RANDOM WORD
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