Absolute DC

Always interested in the whys and wherefores of a new take on a setting.

Absolute DC seems a bit looser from the start than Ultimate Marvel, hence why Batman and Wonder Woman have giant melee weapons. But not everybody?

(Compare the New 52 thirteen years ago.)

Apparently it’s Darkseid’s fault that it’s more fighty overall.

I appreciate their use of “AU” to refer to it.

Now waiting for Malibu to do Complete And Utter Ultraverse.

Happy Buffyversary

We were first welcomed to the Hellmouth on March 10th 1997.

V5 Empire 2.04

Tonight in Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire, one of the PCs having a Touchstone who might be working with a vampire hunter could prove to be a divisive issue.

V5 Private Nightmares

Vampire: The Masquerade - Private Nightmares from Project Ghostlight (episode one) - NY By Night troupe members as Thin-bloods in LA with Alexander Ward as a prowling Storyteller.

IWD

Have a good International Women’s Day.

New pictures from the Moon

Well done Blue Ghost lunar lander team.

World Book Day

Read a book!

Daredevil: Born Again

Daredevil: Born Again starts here on Ash Wednesday, with an hour-long episode called Heaven’s Half Hour.

So far it leaves me feeling bummed out.

Tradition!

Thanks to Mum, Pancake Day tradition of only day for pancakes upheld!

Pancake mix and lemon

Pancake one of about nine

Cold City Hot War

Cold City Hot War Second Edition Kickstarter Campaign.

And funded in six minutes.

Oh where are you coming from, soldier, fine soldier?

GM's Day

GM Appreciation Day is upon us once more. Time to put a rules lawyer in the wicker d20.

60s Fantasy Film Club

Tyler Dean introduces 80s Fantasy Fi;m Club at Reactor, with Dragonslayer.

I got to make the first comment, and shared my anecdote about missing the first five minutes and not knowing someone was meant to be in disguise.

Or other niche superhero team

Just read, watched and listened to a podcast about niche superhero teams sufficiently close together to start getting niche superhero team TTRPG thoughts.

After being reminded of the time Thunderbolts was about a whole new team and it wasn’t the characters on the covers for some reason.

X-Books

The X-Men are doing a back to basics story returning them to the relatively normal Marvel Universe after a long run of isolated transhumanist SF, and just gearing up to a crossover with their teams working together or not.

And two largely new teams as well.

(We also have the demon-possessed son of Wolverine with a Ghost Rider style flaming head, but never mind.)

This lets them look more like the other media X-Men like the revived cartoon and presumably movies bringing them into the MCU.

But anyway, what’s your X-team like?

V5 Empire 2.03

Tonight in Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire, the players narrowed down which lead to follow.

Sessions can’t all produce amusing pithy descriptions.

Skype

Microsoft is shutting down Skype and boosting Teams. Skype was the free video call thing we used for gaming before lockdown but which gave way to Discord and the like, and one feels sort of sorry for it as a result.

March

A perfectly cromulent month as months go.

Buttons and dials

EU vehicle safety to require buttons and dials over touchscreens for best safety ratings. Controls you don’t have to look at, a good move, and also a vital part of making Star Trek technology make sense.

Once More With Feeling

Watching Once More With Feeling again, and one of its appeals is that it’s a rare episode where Dawn is in a good mood most of the time.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg has died, age 39. Obituary at Empire. 39 is no kind of age.