Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Parks And Recreation at ten
Noted for, among other things, Leslie Knope becoming a downright hero after the first season, a starring role for HPLHS member Nick Offerman, The Cones Of Dunshire, and that final season set in the then near future.
BOOM! introduces Angel
After lots of old fans wondering where Angel is in the new BOOM! Studios Buffy reboot... he will be appearing in his own series, announced a week before the first issue comes out.
Monday, 8 April 2019
Santa Monica By Night
Santa Monica By Night, a short point and click homage to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines from Outstar and MemoriesIn8Bit, as part of a developer Vampire Jam celebrating the announcement of Bloodlines 2.
Sunday, 7 April 2019
Saturday, 6 April 2019
Friday, 5 April 2019
Thursday, 4 April 2019
The Watch House finale
We played the final episode of The Watch House ten years ago. It’s been quite a time since.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters
Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters is a new roleplaying legacy board game, with miniatures for the defined characters, coming to KS in early 2020. From Flyos Games, who I admit I’ve never heard of but I’m not a board game expert.
Even if I never get to play the game... as is usually the case with board games... the mats and miniatures very look nice and possibly useful in a regular session.
(Noted on the game Facebook, set in Montreal after the Sabbat broke up, and the eight characters include the seven Camarilla clans and a Caitiff.)
It’s on a much smaller scale than Heritage in both subject matter and game style, a real contrast in styles and closer to the kind of Vampire game I run.
The miniatures will apparently be around 40mm scale, and hand sculpted by former Rackham sculptor Stéphane Simon, with the render just as a test.
The first miniature prototype is a great match for Brother Solomon, Michael’s sire in From The Dust. Now to get everybody else’s sire...
Even if I never get to play the game... as is usually the case with board games... the mats and miniatures very look nice and possibly useful in a regular session.
(Noted on the game Facebook, set in Montreal after the Sabbat broke up, and the eight characters include the seven Camarilla clans and a Caitiff.)
It’s on a much smaller scale than Heritage in both subject matter and game style, a real contrast in styles and closer to the kind of Vampire game I run.
The miniatures will apparently be around 40mm scale, and hand sculpted by former Rackham sculptor Stéphane Simon, with the render just as a test.
The first miniature prototype is a great match for Brother Solomon, Michael’s sire in From The Dust. Now to get everybody else’s sire...
Paranoia: Happiness Is Mandatory
Lead a team of Troubleshooters in the new Paranoia CRPG, Happiness Is Mandatory. The trailer indicates that the voice for the Computer works well, although I always imagined it a little milder and a lot glitchier.
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Venice Unmasked
Venice Unmasked for Changeling: The Lost, from Chris Handley of Darker Days Radio, out now on Storytellers Vault. It’s got plenty to get a Venetian chronicle going for Lost or other urban fantasy settings, or a Lost game elsewhere.
Joker
The first trailer for the standalone Joker film is out, a bit late for Batman’s 80th anniversary last week, with the film being out a few months early for the Joker’s 80th anniversary next April. Looks like... actually, it looks like The Dark Knight low-key take merged with The King Of Comedy, complete with Robert De Niro as a chat show host.
Not set in the 70s, I don’t think - sales sign street jugglers weren’t a thing back then - but with as much of a 70s vibe as Luke Cage, just for a different pop culture take on the era.
Not set in the 70s, I don’t think - sales sign street jugglers weren’t a thing back then - but with as much of a 70s vibe as Luke Cage, just for a different pop culture take on the era.
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Weird Level
True of everything if you wait long enough
“Doesn’t look very comfortable,” Jannet Tarner said as she peered through the glass case at the remains of the Iron Throne, still in pride of place at the Museum of Kings Landing more than two hundred years after the founding of the Republic of Westeros. It had been treated for rust a few decades ago, and the crack in its foundation where it was toppled had been repaired as well as could be. The cushions added by the last Empress’s father were sadly irreparable.
The security guards in gold-stripe jackets watched the tourists parade past, on their way to the exhibition of a recently unearthed “dragon” skeleton.
Strange the things people believed in and fought for back in the day.
The security guards in gold-stripe jackets watched the tourists parade past, on their way to the exhibition of a recently unearthed “dragon” skeleton.
Strange the things people believed in and fought for back in the day.
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Hugo Nominations 2019
The Hugo Award nominations are out for Worldcon in Dublin 2019 (featuring Brian half an hour into the announcement video - hello Brian!)
I suspect all the Marvel could split the vote for Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and the two Doctor Who and two The Good Place episodes will surely do that for DP Short Form, potentially leading to a win for The Expanse, or maybe the new Janelle Monae album.
I suspect all the Marvel could split the vote for Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and the two Doctor Who and two The Good Place episodes will surely do that for DP Short Form, potentially leading to a win for The Expanse, or maybe the new Janelle Monae album.
Monday, 1 April 2019
The Vampyre
Today is the 200th anniversary of the publication of The Vampyre by Edinburgh medical graduate Dr. John Polidori, which introduced the Byronic vampire as a lengthy diss on Byron himself. It came about during the Byron gang’s stay at Lake Geneva in The Year Without A Summer, which was also the genesis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
April
This year you’ll be able to spot April Fool’s stories because they sound plausible.
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