OO7 First Light

The new James Bond game version gets a full on title sequence with song by Lana Del Rey and David Arnold.

Having it start with a massive explosion on an island is... a choice.

Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues

A newly discovered recording lets you hear Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson in stunning clarity

Cross Road Blues, take 2 test pressing

Uncanny.

Buffy comics news

Buffy comics news!

Arriving July (22nd according to writer Kelly Thompson, not 27th) and this update includes a hint of where it is on the timeline and variant covers, not just the one shown at launch (that I always thought looks more like Anya Taylor-Joy) so progress of a sort, as well as a cast lineup by artist Stephen Byrne.

Season five adjacent I guess?

And of course Byrne previously made a pretty impressive bit of fanart in another style: A Buffy animated title sequence.

Dungeon Masters D&D AP

Wizards Of The Coast get into Actual Play streaming a tad late, but with Jasmine Bhullar as DM and Mayanna Berrin among the players so good call there.

Nationals 2027 - ?

Still not sure where the Nationals is going to be next year. I hear Glasgow won and said no...

Unfriended Cinematic Universe

Dylan and Dalton imagining an Unfriended Cinematic Universe with Pete Volk

Expanding on screenlife films, especially horror, on various screens.

Haunted social media could be a lot of fun but hard to do in an RPG around a table, though we have Discord games and tech-centric games at the table like Alice Is Missing run by text.

And a shoutout to Host, waiing on their interactive spinoff Ghosts.

Conpulsion 2026 quiz answers

Answers. Can you beat the winning team, that got 47 out of 66, 8 on audio so 39 out of 54?

Conpulsion 2026 quiz

Conpulsion quiz went alright, I think. Of the six teams actually trying, the lowest still got 31 of 66. (The team anti-trying got 1, to their chagrin.)

Questions below, apart from the audio round. (So 54 points available!) Answers soonish.

Conpulsion 2026 day two

Saw people, was nice.

Conpulsion 2026 day one

Met someone I’ve known for a couple of years, which was nice.

Josie And The Pussycats at 25

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER join the army

Artemis II returns

Artemis II crew down safe.

Tearing up.

Modern pirates part two

Thinking about freeports as TTRPG settings now has me thinking of a modern Trinity Continuum series fully leaning into the charming pirate tone.

Modern pirates and vampirates

Talk about hub ports as settings for Vampire games now has me thinking about a game set in a freeport.

Probably influenced by the charming rogue Ravnos smuggler featured in my current V5 game Stolen.

He was a background character in a previous game but became more prominent in this one as the plan was to focus on crime, more than actually happened, hence the title.

And Ravnos should be the pirates clan, not Lasombra.

Hmm.

Feels a bit weird not to be having to think up questions for the quiz...

Conpulsion 2026 Quiz Update, again

I now hopefully have all the questions I need for the Conpulsion quiz apart from a possible backup round.

Update 9.55: Off to take advantage of endless university printing!

DIE: The Metadungeon

The Metadungeon for DIE, now on Backetkit, from Gar Hanrahan.

The internet: (sometimes) fun while it lasted

Internet has conked out for the second time in about six weeks, fun. (Phone internet still on.)

Onyx Path Convention, June 5-7 2026

Game listings are now live for the Onyx Path virtual gaming convention.

Maul: Shadow Lord

The artist formerly known as Darth Maul returns for an animated bridge between where he was in The Clone Wars and in Rebels.

He really likes slicing up lots of goons in corridors.

He’s so much more English voiced by an American.

New characters introduced so that we aren’t just dealing with Evil Vs. Evil.

There’s a good cop. Weird these days. Also amusing that he’s the only human in the main cast.

I keep referring to the old Jedi as Reverse Splinter because he’s a wise old mentor living in the sewers who looks like a turtle.