Nationals 2027 - 9th-11th April

So for the first time since 2024, not clashing with the planned dates for Conpulsion!

The Cars That Ate Your RPG

Where Are All The Car Monsters? asks Lewd Beholder on RPGnet. Some interesting mechanical reasons - vehicle rules are different than monster rules in many games.

I’ve considered a haunted car but don’t think I’ve ever done it.

Vampire: The Masquerade for D&D

Bound By Blood, a licensed third party adaptation of the above.

Note:

“Bound by Blood is not the primary project we’re announcing at Gen Con. They’re two different projects.”

I hope people who would like that will be happy with it.

But I can say “ew” about Blood Points.

Hexed

Hexed, a new animaetd feature from Disney, about a girl (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) discovering she’s a witch and getting access to totally not the Witches’ Road and, based on the teaser trailer, I’m not sure what else.

The description mentions a bigger role for her mother than it shows.

I did like her freaking out about the talking book (Stephen Fry) and quill (Tracey Ullman) at the portal.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer

The MCU is old enough to vote, and has finally delivered the thing my Spider-Man and Hulk comic childhood self always wanted: Spider-Man versus the Hulk.

Tabletop Scotland 2026 RPG listings

RPG listings for Tabletop Scotland 2026 are now, booking opening on the 27th. Starting here on Friday afternoon.

Some fire the imagination with the games offered, titles and blurbs. (Gar Hanrahan is GMing Merryshire! I count at least three 1980s White Dwarf adventures for different systems from different GMs! There’s an ALIEN game with twenty spaces?! Somebody is running TOON!)

Others...

Am I running anything? No. But at least I can confirm that.

The fuzzy lines of genre

Rowan Lee asks what is folk horror and pokes at half a dozen definitions.

Thanks to Greg Stolze for the link.

Also her Bluesky handle is an all-timer. Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival

Sarah Michelle Gellar is the Grim Reaper - in a romance with the Devil

Thud (not a Discworld adaptation) from director Mali Elfman pairs SMG with Rudy Pankow when the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet on the job at a destination wedding.

Pizza Hut being sold off

Has private equity ever not gutted a company?

Judging by the last three sessions...

Joke challenge to finish a current game before a new edition comes out may have cursed it.

Elf to play elf

Anya Taylor-Joy is playing an elf in The Hunt For Gollum. Obviously.

Bat Story Points

On seeing someone respond to this on Bluesky:

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg.

What thing are you adapting?

Gar Hanrahan imagined GMless Knightmare.

I needed a moment to consider beloved childhood things we don’t already have RPGs for.

And I considered fairytales overall but I’ve looked at them here often enough around Christmas,

But the one I jumped to was:

Batman 1966, which needs a Story Point mechanic with a way to get them by getting caught in traps and making puns and use them to have just the right Bat-gadget.

And SpringtingOwl approved!

Really good gameflow! Needing to do the comedy to get through the action setpieces deeply understands the soul of Batman '66.

2026-7

Home for the evening and giving slightly mroe thought to games for the next academic year. (No summer game plan this year it seems.)

See how I feel about Vampire after the Gen Con playtests.

Buffy because who else is?

Doctor Who because currently who else is?

Other.

Yeah, New York is one of the places I would move to.

Hairy Soul Man, Dinosaur Opinions

“So won’t you please shut the fuck up so we can move on?”

John Wagner MBE

John Wagner has been awarded an MBE for his services to writing in comics.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark at 45

45 years ago my life changed, though I didn’t know it yet as I wouldn’t see Raiders Of The Lost Ark for another year or so. A rip-roaring adventure, a character study, a question of belief, a how-is-this-a-PG horror at times.

The Furious

The Furious (trailer) (not to be confused with serial killer hunting FBI show Furious which I also heard about this week) is one of those martial arts heavy action movies Like Kill Zone and Furie where human traffickers are shorthand for Bad People You Can Cheer Seeing Them Messed Up At Great Length.

And it has Yayan Ruhian, Mad Dog from The Raid, with a bow.

And a bit where one of the heroed climbs out of an MMA cage on top of the people he’s fighting..

Playing very normal people...

Going about your regular business and then, boom, aliens.

Good thing I have games for these

Adding Doctor Who to Buffy in the things I have to do myself for the foreseeable future.

I could add Star Trek but I’ve never seriously tried to run that as an RPG.