Critical Role fifth anniversary

The RPG scene has changed a great deal since that fateful night, five years ago, when Critical Role began. Not the first video streaming Actual Play but certainly the biggest.

Legendlore

Legendlore RPG rulebook is now on Kickstarter. Portal fantasy, using D&D 5E as a base, adapted from a comics series.

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
Sir Terry Pratchett

My priorities for an NPC in the group

Should I add an NPC to the band’s support system? Maybe rhythm guitar. Possibly to drive the van, help with sound checks, let me join in the snarky asides and sometimes be kidnapped by monsters.

Me preparing to run a Buffy PBP

Vampire: The Masquerade - Vendetta

A new card game for Vampire: The Masquerade - Vendetta sees up to five players fighting over influence and territory in an attempt to become the next Prince of Chicago. Now Kickstarting with a print and play demo available free.

Buffy at 23

Buffy The Vampire Slayer first aired on The WB twenty-three years ago. Not the most dramatic of anniversaries, but hey.

Relics: A Game Of Angels

Relics: A Game Of Angels by Steve Dee is now out in PDF. Print copies are on their way.

I playtested Relics as well as backing it, and an adventure by me was in the unmet stretch goals, so here I am plugging this. And if you want to review it or stream a game, ping Steve for a free PDF.

Max Von Sydow

Max Von Sydow has died, aged 90.

My introduction to his work was in Flash Gordon, where he took archetypal villain Ming The Merciless and made him stand out because he was having so much fun.

International Women’s Day

Have a good International Women’s Day!

So the news from Easter Island sucks.

What is Weiland-Yutani up to now?

Ideas for what a morally questionable space megacorp might do to a planetary base accidentally or on purpose.

Innnndyyyyy!

Raiders Of The Lost Ark in AV Club’s The Popcorn Champs, Tom Breihan having already written about it briefly in A History Of Violence.

Skating Polly

If you told me Skating Polly were actual second-generation grunge kids I would believe you.

Noughts + Crosses

Noughts + Crosses, based on the novel by Malorie Blackman, a big BBC One alternate history series.

World Book Day

Read a book!

And click The Literacy Site to give free books!

GM’s Appreciation Day

It’s the 19th apparently annual GM’s Appreciation Day. Appreciate us! Please?

World Wildlife Day

Do some good on World Wildlife Day.

Artemis Fowl

Have they messed up Artemis Fowl? Hmph.

A birthday suggestion

Happy birthday to Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan! As he points out, The Gutter Prayer is actually Kindle Monthly Deal for the month of March in the US, and Hugo nominations are open. And further down, a response links to 5E D&D versions of some monsters from his novels.

March

It is March now. My calendar has a Tasmanian Devil. This is fine.