Super Bowl LVIII

Good Super Bowl. Overtime is a lot more fun than a penalty shootout. Now to catch up on the trailers and other adverts (exception for Selling Jesus) because we don’t get those here.

Nationals looming

Nine weeks to Nationals and... pretty much done with the Conpulsion quiz. Which is earlier, sure, but...

D&D at 50, for real, maybe?

Sounds like D&D at fifty might be about now.

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate

A happy Year of the Dragon!

John Rogers on cons and heists

John Rogers, creator of Leverage and also writer of the Crimeworld supplement for FATE Worlds, on con and heist story structure. He covered some of this in Crimeworld as it also needs the act structure.

Sometimes context can add a lot

I missed this week’s What We Do In the Shadows (episode 4.08) on BBC Two and am catching up on Disney+.

(Yes, I could be a year ahead. I’m not. I like watching TV on the TV, it’s bigger.)

Episode 4.08 is presented as an episode of Laszlo’s favourite home makeover show Go Flip Yourself.

Complete with fake intro.

AND DISNEY+ PUT THE ‘SKIP INTRO’ BUTTON ON THE FAKE INTRO.

That’s beautiful.

Happy 50th birthday to Seth Green.

Dialogue for somewhere like Buffy or something

He looks like the Sad Trombone noise.

Vampire: The Crowded Streets chapter two

We have a Victorian Ravnos witch (alternate bane so she can have a house and shop) and a Lasombra computer security expert (also alternate bane so he can function).

So not my subtlest ploy, but an emailed video file of a ritual murder got them both called in...

Bluesky

Bluesky is now open. See how that goes.

National Werewolf Day

Yes, apparently.

Our Flag Continues To Mean Death

Our Flag Means Death season two reaches here much faster than S1 did. The tonal swing of Stede’s shenanigans and Blackbeard’s reign of terror is pretty sharp.

King Charles has begun treatment for cancer. Noting this here to remember it.

They made a Curseborne movie already?

Not really. Probably. Longlegs trailer at Empire.

Bonus: You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you.

Dialogue for... probably nothing really.

My mother was courted by one of the Crench boys when I was a kid. I knew the family had gotten rich by dubious means, so when she asked I said I wasn’t a fan. But honestly I was more concerned that if she married him and we took his name I wouldn’t be able to pursue a career with ranks because I could never be a captain.

Nationals T Minus 70 Days

Ten weeks to go! (If I can read a calendar...)

I’m currently undecided between two or three possible ideas. They all lean into the Gothic theme to some extent as I’m running Vampire, one of the categories that exists because of the theme.

(No presh.)

One using it as backdrop and tone for a relatively “normal” adventure which is fine but a bit... “normal”, one about a band a la Last Dance which is good for a vibe but trickier for rising action and the like, and one Victorian melodrama which loses the clash of the mundane and horrific and also steps on the Victorian category’s shiny booted toes so is very much the “or three” option.

It’s okay that I’ve already been thinking about this for six weeks, right?

It's Groundhog Day

... again.

Feels strange not trying to create a player character.

Curseborne has questions

Curseborne from Onyx Path has a site now, which gives a hint of what it is through an online questionnaire.

Modern supernatural with various monster types, which is not really a surprise but nice to know. The quiz reveals thirty answers, some of which sound like creature types and some sound social or political, so guessing a mix of type and faction and possibly a third axis.

For those wondering I got Archivist, to the surprise of no-one. Possibly less.

Though with a minor change I got Lykan, presumably for mentioning friends and a willingness to fight. And possibly wearing jeans.

Also an email, bottom left.

Bonus amusement: the free-to-use pictures in some of the questions include the one I used for a Vampire PBP title image. There are only so many atmospheric lonely-city free pictures out there.

February

Welcome to the still shortest month even with an added day.