V5: Not A Drop To Drink

Jacob Burgess STing a short Vampire: The Masquerade series for LoadingReadyRun, starting with an excellent Session Zero, now on Youtube.

Happy St. Andrew's Day!

Happy St. Andrew’s Day!

Last week the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously for the bill to provide free period products to all. I am at times proud of my nation.

V5: Nobody's Home 1.09

And tonight, depending on how it went it could have been Drain The Blood, but as it went, Heads Will Roll.

David Prowse

Most known for embodying Darth Vader, David Prowse was produest of his work for road safety with the Green Cross Code. Stop, look, listen, think.

TTRPG Wishlist

Inspired by Steve Kenson on Twitter, “my personal wish-list of tabletop roleplaying games to play in or run, if I had unlimited time, energy, and resources...”

1: Running another Buffy RPG series that gets past season one.

2: Or indeed playing a Buffy RPG series.

3: Having created some groups for Trinity Continuum, it would be nice to run a game featuring some or all of them.

4: Playing Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition and/or playing Vampire: The Requiem for more than one session.

5: A blockbuster LARP. Partially for the “being around people” part of it.

6: Star Wars. With D6s. This is the Way.

7: Playing an MCU-ish superhero game, where protecting people is as much of an action beat as fighting villains.

8: Running a very social game, courtly intrigue, fancy parties, that kind of thing. Possibly historical, maybe with vampires.

9: Adventure! Playing, running, trying the forthcoming Continuum edition. It's been too long.

10: Pirates!

11: Running or playing something GUMSHOE for longer than I’ve had the chance so far.

12: Last pick, tricky. So many games I could list, beyond those I have already. So, a format feature instead. A game featuring a band.

Bonus: I'd like to do one of them there RPG stream things.

That’s mine, what’s yours?

The Mandalorian: The Jedi

Several things happened.

Tales From Black Friday 2020

My own modest (and early) contribution, in hopes that the holiday goes as it should... like a nightmare.

Are we? Can we? Do we dare?

TalesFromBlackFriday

The automatic doors open with a pained hiss, pausing as if reluctant to allow us entry. Or escape.

Savage Pathfinder

Pathfinder for Savage Worlds, Kickstarting early 2021.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a good one, to all who celebrate.

A gift

V5: Nobody’s Home Actual Pay 1.01 written, for Faye’s birthday. I hope the players like it, and if so expect to see it here soon.

Mapping The Multiverse

Mapping The Multiverse with PBS Space Time, mentioned by Ian Watson, not least for the comments shoutouts at the end.

On being a Prince

Advice on being a good Prince in a Vampire LARP specifically from Minds Eye Theatre.

A Witcher Holiday Slay Ride

Some well-done effects additions to scenes and emphasising the snow, feasting, and Geralt’s general grumpiness - and some classic gore - makes a very funny trailer to The Witcher series getting to suggest a Christmas special, a reminder that not every series fits a Christmas special.

2001: A Utah Odyssey

Metal monolith found in Utah desert. This is fine.

V5: Nobody's Home 1.08

At the end of every session of Nobody’s Home since we’re online I’ve put a relevant ‘end credits’ song in the chat. Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, CHVRCHES, and then this week... At The Ballet from A Chorus Line.

You don't have the cards

I’m not good at poker, but I like the terminology and slang. I’ve considered doing something like a Leverage Crew or Les Fantômes group that uses a lot of poker terms and anaologies.

I was reminded of this recently by Edward Norton (who is good at poker) describing a current political issue in poker terms.

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7.03

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7.03: Alien Commies From The Future!

It’s okay folx, I was gonna watch the episode anyway!

“She couldn’t stay with Rick, she had to go with Victor!”

The Mandalorian: The Siege

“There’s no guardrail on this.”

Tales From The Music Video

A music video directed by Simon Stålenhag may be of interest. Duvchi, Geronimo. 

It is very Stålenhag, an abstract oddity with a robot in a coat.

Wolfenoot sale at DTRPG

Animal-themed games from Werewolf to Pugmire, Mouse Guard to Ponyfinder, on sale for good causes like 50% of Pugmire sales profits going to Guide Dogs.

Top Secret / New World Order

The new edition of Top Secret, the superspy game I played quite a bit in the Cold War era, now free in PDF. I didn’t back for a physical copy, but free is worth a look.

Everway

Everway is coming back, the experimental RPG that got a huge original print run and then nothing due to the fate of Wizards Of The Coast at the time.

Solo play for dogs

The street finds its own uses for things. In this case trampolines for playng fetch.

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

And a very happy Life Day to all of you at home!

A lot of nice gags, right from the start, including some great runners. Snark. A moral. And even a little emotional bit.

Favourite little note: characters like Yoda who in LEGO have moulded heads rather than the usual decal on a round face of humanoids are animated so that their lips move.

Need an ominous name?

Thanks to a charity promotion by Freekibble, I have just discovered the existence of an animal sanctuary in England called...

Bleakholt.

It seems great, but it sounds like somewhere lovable animals should be trying to escape from.

Or a party of adventurers should get a map before entering.

“Where are we going?”

“Bleakholt.”

“... Can we do some sidequests first? I don’t think I have enough levels.”

V5: Nobody's Home 1.07

 Oh, your city lies in dust, my friend.

DIE at Thought Bubble

Kieron Gillen runs a game of DIE, the RPG of the comic about RPGs, at the online Thought Bubble comic convention, as an RPG about comics and RPGs.

Perfume Advert Weird Level

The festive season must be close. I just saw a new baffling perfume advert. Marion Cotillard jazz dancing in spaaaaace!

Cyberpunk RED

Well, reading this made me feel fifteen again. I would want to change most of the slang, for starters.

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7.01 and 7.02

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. S7 is airing here. Starting Friday the 13th, lucky for some who have Disney+!

It’s about time!

The Mandalorian: The Heiress

That was a fun half-hour. If you avoided the last episode due to spiders, skip the recap! (You can skip the recap anyway, it’s mostly establishing where they were going right away.)

Vampire: The Masquerade Companion

Coming in December for free download, the Vampire: The Masquerade Companion, with full rules or mortals and ghouls, coterie powers, errata, and the Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce. Video presser

Part of moving development in-house, along with Renegade Game Studios (makers of Chapters), with OP negotiating what comes next.

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart

Trinity Continuum: A Quantum Leap, a jumpstart and adventure by Jacob Burgess, now available, along with print copies of Terra Firma for Aeon.

Star Wars: The High Republic with Cavan Scott

io9 takes a deep dive with High Republic comics and novels writer Cavan Scott, looking at how the new era setting kicks off.

R.I.P. Ken Spears, co-creator of Scooby-Doo and more.

A vaccine at trial 90% effective. A start, maybe.

The Goodies

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Goodies, one of my moral and logical guides growing up. You would call and they would help.

Sort of.

V5: Nobody's Home 1.06

A visit to the hospital. Not for the usual reasons.

Thank you.

The Mandalorian: The Passenger

Spiders. Why did it have to be spiders?

Further thoughts beyond line. Not many, though.

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special trailer

Headcanon accepted.

Making a flat character sing

Advice from Nordic Larp on adjusting pregen characters, obviously of most use in games such as weekend LARPs which use them extensively but also of possible interest for convention games in general and for looking at your own characters in an ongoing game.

Trinity Allegiance Merchandising

New designs at the Onyx Path Redbubble store include Trinity Continuum Allegiances that I wrote and created.

I could get a shirt with the Global Cartography Initiative or Neptune Foundation logo on it.

That feels weird.

(Maybe not as weird as the L.A. By Night cast shirts at the World Of Darkness store may feel to them, but...)

Hero Forge has arms!

Excuse the old Aberrant joke.

Hero Forge already had arms, obviously... but now you can have zero to three on each side, partial limbs and replacements. This is really good for varied representation as well as more fantastic options, though in the ongoing superhero gap you can now make the guy from Cyber Force with three cyborg right arms better than you can make Superman or Batman.

They also introduced four new alien heads, include a huge Grey head.

November

Feels strange not to be drawing vampires.

V5: Nobody's Home 1.05

A Hallowe’en ball, and a protest against it.