31 Days Of Horror 2020

My questions for hashtag 31 Days Of Horror - revealed a whole day early.

Buffy Unmatched

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Unmatched is on sale online and due in stores for November. The miniatures look good generally, although Buffy holding the Scythe like a spear seems like an odd choice.

Hero Forge And Palette

Hero Forge now has colour options, previously available to Kickstarter backers, useful for designing characters and taking pictures as well as for its main purpose of ready-painted custom miniatures. Indeed, it now has a photo booth for taking pictures and making tokens.

It still has the big heads and huge hands and equipment, and no chairs in the Mount section (unlike the smaller ANVL) and as you can see it could do with an open leather jacket that isn’t shredded... 

But a lot can be done.

So inevitably I made Buffy, Angel, and Milli from The Watch House.

I am a monster

An important update to your Vampire: The Masquerade lexicon.

 

V5: Nobody's Home 1.00

Session zero achieved, characters mostly finished and some connections made.

Nobody's Home

Starting tonight, Discord willing. Vampire: The Masquerade - 

Brick wall from GIS, royalty free I think / hope.

Preserving the Masquerade

An RPGnet idea jam for a game about the vampires who paper over the cracks. 

Because the Masquerade doesn’t take nights off.

Broken Compass

Broken Compass English language Kickstarter is live.

I really don’t need another system to play the kind of game I put into Trinity Continuum, but of course I’m curious.

Hero Rat

Magawa the landmine detecting rat awarded the PDSA Gold Medal for bravery.

Thanks to Jen for the news.

Critical Role Foundation

Our mission is to leave the world better than we found it.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road

Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road by Kyle Marquis is out now, the first interactive novel computer game (too big and with too many choices to be released as a physical gamebook) from Choice Of Games, and the first hit’s free.

The Fisher-Price Of The Ring

Fisher-Price Little People of Lord Of The Rings.

How did it come to this...?

VR LARP

A plan to use a VR creation tool for a Vampire LARP has reached the example trailer phase.

Ron Cobb

Ron Cobb, one of the creators of the future. He designed the Nostromo for Alien, made swords for Conan, contributed to Star Wars and Firefly, was credited in Back To The Future as DeLorean Time Travel Consultant, produced some very angry political cartoons, and worked with NASA.

Come Dice With Me

Come Dice With Me, a free party game RPG based on the competitive dinner party game show of a very similar name, from DIE creator Kieron Gillen.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Nobody's Home

A pitch for Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition this autumn at GEAS. Not a very different pitch from Red Right Hand, as the original intent for an anarch game fell by the wayside.

Vampire: The Masquerade is a game of modern horror, set in a world that looks like our own but where monsters hide in the shadows. Knowledge of the setting and system is not required, the system is straightforward and the setting is full of secrets.

Your characters are new to the night in a city where a new vampire Prince has seized power, leaving the Damned fighting amongst themselves. 

The oldest cling to their power, the youngest fight for their survival. 

Can the Prince hold the throne? Or can you tear it down?

WandaVision

The first full trailer for MCU miniseries WandaVision looks... perplexing. Wanda and a possibly not entirely dead Vision living in a 50s sitcom? For one thing, as a 90s kid from eastern Europe, would she choose a 50s sitcom? Someone else’s idea maybe...?

Ampers and S

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Dungeons, Dragons, Tunnels, Trolls, Villains, Vigilantes, Sense, Sensibility, Chivalry and Sorcery. Dungeons and Dragons have been assigned.

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

In honour of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, regulate the distribution of plunder fairly. Mate.

Also, bask in the glory of Crap Pirate Flags.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

May her memory be a blessing.

Jimi Hendrix died fifty years ago today.

Hmm.

Given the whole “running RPGs by video chat” thing applying to games this semester, I could in theory offer to take in players from looking-for-group posts in relevant groups here. That way I’d definitely get players who know the game... but they’d also have expectations.

Alas, Poor Blogger

Legacy Blogger design is gone. Now, granted, I hardly ever if ever used most of its design features, so it doesn’t impact me much. It still sucks though. Never mind. Carrying on.

Combat Wheelchair interview

io9 talks to Sara Thompson, creator of the Combat Wheelchair, and Strata Miniatures designer Russ Charles.

Lego NINJAGO RPG

LEGO releases a short free Play Guide for a NINJAGO RPG complete with one-page adventures and even a very succinct “What is a roleplaying game?” paragraph.

The Mandalorian season two trailer

THIS IS THE WAY

I may have clapped at one moment, mentioned here.

Also, Quarren fishing village.

Horror film history in 100 scares

100 Scares at Vulture. Thanks to Alasdair Stuart for the link. I got to The Spiral Staircase before hitting one I haven’t seen.

Is there life over Venus?

Maybe?

Summer gaming

Red Right Hand came to a conclusion of sorts tonight, and this most recent season one of Sounds Like Hell last week, brought forward due to expected player absence so we did the finale instead of the odd MOTW episode.

The breakout NPCs are an emo kid and a spooky dog.

Bing, bing bing bong, bing bing bong...

When I was a young boy 

my father took me into the city 

to see a marching band
And then we had ice cream! 

That was a nice day.

Dame Diana Rigg

We’re needed.

Beyond The Wall dialogue

The revived court mage is informed that an ancient monster of darkness is rising. “That all sounds very concerning.”
The teenage thief nods “Yeah, that’s what we thought.”

And OOC: I’ll catch it somewhat nervously because frankly it’s been shooting laser beams.

Star Trek Day

Among other things for the Star Trek Day virtual con, a Discovery season three trailer, and a panel on Strange New Worlds, highlights at Tor.

The Mandalorian season two first look

The Mandalorian at EW with interviews, photos and covers. No reveals for live-action Ahsoka or Bo-Katan, but Baby Yoda in a satchel.

Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday.

E4 Buffy The Vampire Slayer rewatch hits Once More, With Feeling on the right day.

Red Right Hand observation

Vampire The Masquerade is the game of "don't notice me, senpai"
-Faye

That TWH spinoff

Following on from this, Matthew and Natalie’s players have been rereading The Watch House and discussing the imagined spinoff where Natalie goes to London to be a lawyer, with Matthew’s ghost haunting her to tragicomic effect...

Sounds Like Hell 1.12

Bumped forward in the production order due to travel next week and GEAS one-shots the week after, so we get the season finale and might miss one of the funny MOTW episodes.

“Why did you attack Red? He’s not such a bad guy. I mean, okay, he is the Devil’s cousin, but...”

TWH recall

So this happened...

Marvel’s Avengers video game

Marvel’s Avengers video game lets you control various avengers you might know from comics and films, though this is not the comic or film versions. The main character in the single player game is Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, which lessens the wonky recognition factor.

They also go all in with a wouldn’t-work-in-MCU-continuity story, like if they did the Inhuman contagion story in a movie instead of across a season of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and bumped off a major character at the start.

Reviews are... keen on the campaign, which is the part that would most interest me.

Scion: Demigod

Scion: Demigod, now on Kickstarter.

Angel

Angel will be arriving on E4 and All4 forthwith. I presume there were negotiation-y reasons for not starting alongside Buffy Season Four so the crossovers lined up.

The Mandalorian. October 30th.

Hopefully here as well.

This is the Way.

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton’s first short film, One Week, premiered 100 years ago today, establishing the tendency to have buildings almost fall on him right away.