Turns out I’m living in a horror film where I’m both the killer and the final girl
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Friday, 10 February 2023
Paramore, This Is Why
Paramore, This Is Why, ten tracks in order. Some rocking, some popping, some ballading.
Thursday, 9 February 2023
1408
Stephen King’s 1408 is probably not gameable... except perhaps as an escape room. But a one-room haunting could work for a horror adventure.
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Paramore: This Is Why interview
Paramore sit down with Zane Lowe for an hour to talk the whys and wherefores of This Is Why.
Running Out Of Time audio
Big Man, Little Dignity audio
The Bad Batch 2.08
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2.08: Truth & Consequences
“Brought into a risky mission, the Batch must use stealth to survive.”
27 1/2 minutes plus credits, the longest this season so far.
These two bring us to the halfway point of the season.
And this follows straight from The Clone Conspiracy.
The Bad Batch 2.07
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2.07: The Clone Conspiracy
“A conspiracy begins to unravel.”
26 minutes plus credits. Part one of a mid-season double bill this week, and this one doesn’t feature the Batch.
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Highlander and The Crow RPGs, sort of.
Due to a licencing agreement with a studio, d20 Modern modernisation Everyday Heroes is starting to produce sourcebooks for a variety of settings, including Highlander and launch books Escape From New York and The Crow. So we finally get an official Eric Draven miniature. Even I could probably do a decent job painting that. (Highlander already has miniatures from a card-based duelling game.)
Monday, 6 February 2023
Ashley addenda
A place to put additional character pictures and such.
Starting with Ashleys dad, Joe Cameron. Played by Tom Welling. Slight stunt casting but The Winchesters did it first.
As our hero tries to convince him she can go out.
And fails.
Ashley The Vampire Slayer
Ashley Cameron, Vampire Slayer. Basically as was, but without the Slayer Contacts as that might force a plot point (so she’s the only one in town, at least for now, and doesn’t necessarily know if there are more) so give her more Hard To Kill. And still not taking Teenager, as she can generally sneak out when necessary.
Decisions, decisions...
Having inspired a Buffy PBP, I now have to decide who to play. I was offered dibs on a slayer or other central hero, and it’s a classic style game, so I’ll go for it.
Sunday, 5 February 2023
V5 Last Dance 1.05
A new player, an investigation, and making sure to feature people as well as vampires.
V5 Players Guide
The Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition Players Guide is now available for preorder. The RenegadeCon World Of Darkness talk confirmed a lot, including updated writeups for all clans in the one book.
Saturday, 4 February 2023
Balloons
I must admit I have a hard time taking a diplomatic incident about a balloon seriously. I am not alone in this.
Friday, 3 February 2023
A little bit better
In my Trinity Continuum headcanon some miscarriages od justice never happened. The outcry about Oscar Wilde’s sentence led to a change in the law around homosexuality, and one knock-on effect of that was that Alan Turing lived a longer and happier life.
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
The Bad Batch 2.06
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2.06: Tribe
“The Bad Batch helps bring a new friend home.”
25 minutes plus credits.
Warning: spidery things, not very spidery visually but spidery in action.
Countdown (2019)
Countdown, a 2019 horror comedy about an app that tells you when you’re going to die.
Trailer, apparently before they changed the alert tone
It looks like it might go Final Destination but then goes a lot more Buffy. The attempted prevented deaths are played as monster attacks, and a couple of the supporting characters are played totally for laughs - I particularly like the demonology expert priest who is SO STOKED to get to deal with an actual demon.
How to reboot a universe
James Gunn and Peter Safran have revealed their opening moves for a new DC cinema and TV universe. And, well, not all what I would have done. For one I would have quietly dropped The Flash movie.
(I also remember the last time a cinematic universe was launched with a reference to gods and monsters...)
So what would I do?
I would have kept the essentials, the big three. And hey, we can have a separate The Batman continuity. And a separate Superman one too, and Wonder Woman, and...
Going with some surprise choices is good, even if the ones they’re going with aren’t ones I would have gone with. (And I would happily make Creature Commandos a thing but I’m surprised to see that animated series on the list.)
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