I love you, Jolly Blackburn. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213770574053174&set=a.1013867241549&type=3
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Happy New Year, you crazy elf game people you.
Traveller has to feel pulpy, in the "men's adventure" sense of the word. Star Wars, Firefly, Borderlands and even The Expanse all drink form the same sources; Westerns, Republic serials, early-to-mid C20 SF (which in turn drank from Spengler, Toynbee and other historians who believed in cycles of civilization of barbarism).
The ceaseless march of uncaring Time drags on as another year nears its end and once more the agonizing question weighs upon my soul:
Will this be the year I break down and order a Palladium Christmas grab bag?
UPDATE: no, it won’t. Already blew too much money on Black Friday stuff. Gaah
Ten of us will strike at you like thunder
A hundred of us will strike at your hearts
A thousand of us will strike and obliterate you
Ten thousand of us will strike you like the wrath of Heaven!
The days grow warmer and longer; the sun rises earlier and sets later. The cicadas sing from the tree-tops and the mosquitos attack with renewed vigor. We break out the sunscreen and the repellent. We call it spring, after a colonial affetation, but there can be no mistake -- summer is here.
I should really run ACKS. I love D&D5 but my DMing heart still belongs to the OSR. (Please do not introduce Mythras or Savage Worlds into this conundrum.)
TIL the Dragonlance fans in my old gaming group still get mad when I suggest the Dragonlance novels are less than stellar. (To wit: we're all late 30s, early 40s)
“Summoned by a Wizard” is a damn fine thread.
London, I am in you.
The thing about not gaming is that it’s sort of a self-reinforcing state, isn’t it? The longer it’s been the more difficult it becomes to pierce the non-gaming bubble. At least as a GM.
Savage Rifts still too crunchy. Wish I could like Fate or something similarly abstract because that seems like the best strategy to decrunchify without losing the fun bits.
Reading The Anubis Gates for the first time (fuck, it's good) and watching Dark (first seasons, also really good, if confusing at times) so yeah, on a sinister time travel mood. How to gamify this?
Watching Firefly. Fuck, that's aged badly.
People complaining about the GoT finale: WTF were you expecting? That a series infamous for narrative turnabouts would deliver a nice and tidy finale that would make everyone happy? It was rushed, indeed (and I still can’t fathom why) but it was an interesting conclusion and true to many of the themes explored throughout the series. Spoilers fair game in comments.
A AsenRG is writing a love letter to Traveller. I sat down to write a love letter to Rifts but it really came out more of a Dear John letter.
Feeling cute. Might promise my friends a game I cannot possibly run later idk
Fans ruin everything.
First Avengers, now GoT... still excited
Fucking impossible to order a gin & tonic in town these days. They come in huge goblets with a bunch of nonsensical garnishes. I hope these people never “discover” the Tom Collins.
Tiamat’s Wrath... FUUUUUUUUUCK
Worlds United should be statted up for Savage Worlds. And Totems of the Dead, for Mythras. Change my mind!
Roast beef: beer (porter) or wine (bold red)?
Will the end of Google+ spark a resurgence in gaming blogs?
Feeling in a space opera mood.
These women deserve our attention, help and respect. It's also important to ensure that it doesn't happen again by limiting the reach of abusers.
So... are we talking about the Zak thing, or... ?
The demise of Google+ is making me sadder than I expected.
When I feel like running nWoD/CoD, my heart says Forsaken or Awakening, but my brain says Requiem or Vigil.
Happy New Year, Pub.
I am a space pirate, you know my name
Asteroid mining’s a dangerous game
Imperial Navy can’t keep up my pace
Chasing a rock into Zhodani Space!
The John Wick movies’ “secret network of elite assassins” with their natty suits and deluxe hotels and blood pacts and shadowy overlords and judgements is a fantastic template for a World of Darkness sandbox (Vampire, Masquerade or Requiem, in particular). And of course, the aesthetics are just right.
Merry Christmas, you crazy elfgame people.
You know you’re really into D&D5 when it’s midnight and the WhatsApp group for your D&D5 game spends two hours exchanging cool builds for the next character of the player whose PC died last session, which segues into how to do comic and literary characters within the constraints of D&D5... fun stuff
Dreams of the Red Wizards is one damn fine supplement.
Sometimes I just wish I could kick back with a core rulebook, a blank notebook, some graph or hex paper, and draw up a campaign setting like I was 13 again. Alas...
Castle Oldskull stuff any good?
RPG ADD still bad. ACKS or D&D5? Deadlands or Delta Green? Mythras or Mage: The Awakening? Gaah
Beach vacation. So good.
CT, MgT1, Cepheus or Cepheus Light? What an embarrassment of riches. Someone should draw up a comparative chart. -
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