Tuesday 19 March 2024

Jim Ward

Jim Ward, one of the early D&D team, creator of Metamorphosis Alpha and Gamma World among other effects on the gaming world.

Saturday 16 March 2024

Alert

This year Easter Monday is April Fools’ Day, so be sure to check your miracles carefully!

Nationals update: inspiration attempts

Now have at least some of a plot, and seven of the eight requested characters are probably fairly interesting.

Have attempted to jumpstart my brain for a Vampire: The Masquerade one-shot since getting the category allocated by rewatching:

World Of Darkness: the documentary
Near Dark
Dracula (1931)
Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1992)
Cat People (1942)
End Of Days at New Year
Heartless
L.A. Confidential
Se7en
8mm
The Game
The Crow
The Crow: City Of Angels
Black Swan
The Batman (2022)
Daredevil season 1
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
John Wick
Constantine
Blade
Blade II
X-Men
Dracula’s Daughter (for the 1930s Hollywood idea)
Strange Days
21 Bridges

... and watching for the first time:

What We Do In The Shadows season 4 (which I was going to watch anyway)
Morbius

In the latter case... the things I do for gaming.

Conpulsion Quiz update

Conpulsion quiz now submitted for approval, apart from the almost empty Books And Comics round and a vague idea for the write-in round.

The Books And Comics round was inherited and kept so I could do the Film And TV round without it being the only media round. And with the Hugos this year, not really wanting the traditional Hugo winning novel question...

Friday 15 March 2024

Time Of Judgment

It was twenty years ago... the World of Darkness ended.

Thanks to Ian A. A. Watson for the reminder.

Yes, Bloodlines came out eight months after the end of the world. Insert delay joke here.

Comic Relief

Not a fan of Amazon exclusive red noses, but I understand the logistics.

Conpulsion Quiz draft away

Conpulsion Quiz draft away. Apart from the Books and Comics round. And a possible write-in round.

Thursday 14 March 2024

The Crow (2024) trailer

The first trailer for The Crow (2024) is here and I’d say it looks like another possibly interesting The Crow movie, it doesn’t especially feel like Eric and Shelly in particular but hey, Danny Huston as the villain is usually good value.

(And bonus World Of Darkness connection, the big concert venue is the Rudolfinum in Prague, which Bloodhunt players will also have massacred their way through.)

Wednesday 13 March 2024

The Bad Batch 3.06 and 3.07

The Bad Batch continues to show off with atmospheric lighting.


“How should we light this little establishing shot of Omega and Wrecker having dinner?”
“Like Caravaggio.”

Deadpool Role-plays The Marvel Universe

Deadpool Role-plays The Marvel Universe, coming this summer, a comic and also an adventure for the new Marvel Multiverse RPG. That is some nice support for a new licence.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

OOC solutions for game-shifting choices

“When a player’s actions turn the game on its head, it’s not just about controlling a character - it’s about the whole group’s fun.”


This goes for possibilities beyond sudden violent actin, but that’s certainly a common example.

Daggerheart open beta

Daggerheart open beta. Darrington Press sets out to make the kind of game Critical Role has always used D&D to do.

It’s clearly a child of D&D with classes and levels and whatnot, albeit with a nice 2d12 curve, but with theatre of the mind action including zone-ranged combat.

Special abilities and action tracks using cards and chits and other things a VTT would help with, I wonder how much could be skipped to minimise stuff at the table.

Collaborative worldbuilding, though I wouldn’t rule out sourcebooks.

Monday 11 March 2024

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Book Of Hungry Names demo

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book Of Hungry Names gigantic computer gamebook from Kyle Marquis (Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road) out April 25th, and intro chapters demo now.

It's been fun threading the needle between the old and new interpretations of the tribes. The Black Fury song that opens this list is pretty classic, same with the Hart Wardens, but the Galestalker and Silver Fang songs break from the older editions.
Kyle Marquis on Bluesky

Godzilla won an Oscar

For special effects, after seventy years in the business well earned.

That character name update

Dallas
Diaz
Jordan
Mason
Rain
Sage
Sam
Story

Yes I know that’s three S names out of eight. Shut up.

Saturday 9 March 2024

The naming of characters

Making starting Vampire: The Masquerade characters for a one-shot: under ten minutes.

Choosing one Conviction each: um.

Naming them: why hast thou forsaken me