I am available to direct BLADE

As Reactor puts it:

“IT’S A DUDE KILLING VAMPIRES WITH A SWORD WHAT IS SO DIFFICULT HERE???”

RPGnet's future

RPGnet’s new owner might be an issue. He claims he won’t but we’ll see. If somewhere new has to start, I’ll be there.

The War Of The Rohirrim

First look

In ancient days, only the King of Rohan was allowed to have a nose.

Helm Hammerhand and his noseless family

Welp.

Branch Riders

Branch Riders, from the Bodhana Group and friends at Onyx Path, a game of connected universes trying to work together, for players age 8 and up with guides for parents, teachers and others using roleplaying.

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle bigger trailer

Official Showcase Reveal which seems to show in-engine footage but the big narrative chunk is not gameplay.

(I hope Tony Todd turns out to be a good guy in the end.)

Setlist adventure hooks

Not gonna try an adventures from song titles for all forty-five tracks from the Eras tour, but could probably do eleven tracks from the albums represented.

I could do the nine song Paramore support set, but have done quite a few of those already.

Eras

Great show, apart from the stadium venue. Not sure how people who do live sport cope.

The Support Act

How would your PCs cope with opening for a bigger star?

GEAS summer games 2024

I can. Should I?

The generational culture thing of your setting

Listening to the bass line from Taylor Swift performing the Eras Tour four miles away. What is the biggest culture thing present in your setting?

Elections and all. How do you play that? It is a game for some...

D-Day

On this day eighty years ago, D-Day, the beginning of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

A Paris club called Haven in an old church

Haven, launched by Paris techno label RAW and located in a former church. In case you want to set a Vampire game there.

Relevant music piece: Heartbreak by Insolate. Used to demonstrate the OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ in a club scene.

Star Wars: The Acolyte

Star Wars: The Acolyte

As soon as I saw her reaction I thought...

V5: City Of Angels 1.18

How did tonight’s Vampire: The Masquerade session go for my character?

“If you wanna cut my head off, now’s good.”

TTRPGs for Palestine

TTRPGs for Palestine bundle at itch, 643 PDFs for $10 to Medical Aid For Palestinians. Top billed game Wanderhome is normally $25 by itself.

Godzilla: King Of The Contractors

Some days you wake up with a stupid idea and you have to get it on paper.

Godzilla punching the top off a building,
but a sign shows it's scheduled for demolition today
and he's wearing a hard hat and hi-vis.

Godzilla in hard hat and hi-vis sitting and having a sandwich.

My next Marvel multiverse

Taking part in a Marvel comics alternative universe draft for the first time in years -

(Currently juggling three ideas, one which already gets a mild tweak. (And tempted to do WWII Resistance Supers Kicking Nazis In The Face as a side project.))

I went with the Spidey spin... Spider-Woman and the Web.

And now I'd be tempted to do it as a game.

"Alright, let's do this one last time."

"The squad were going to blow off the science field trip, but since Flash had dumped Kelly last week she didn't want to go anywhere with him, and my lab partner Peter was really keen on the whole thing so we went. And then Flash shows up to try to make a point to her. She's not having any of it, Peter steps in so he shoves him out of the way, I step up to tell him to back off - and then I feel this sting on my hand. This spider just dropped off the supercollider thing and bit me."

"I wake up in hospital the next day, and I feel - actually, I feel great. Like I could jump up to the cheer pyramid from a standing start. Then a car backfires outside and I jump up and stick to the ceiling."

"Peter figures out that I now have spider-powers, and says 'hey, you could go fight crime like the Invaders', and sure, that sounds kind of fun. Until he gets shot by a bank robber while I'm chasing after his accomplices."

"It stopped being fun. It became a serious thing. I went into criminology in college, did gymnastics instead of cheer... still ended up with an archenemy in one of the sororities... I think half the campus kind of knows but nobody asks me about it."

"And now I've been doing this long enough that I have a team. Which feels like this great responsibility."

"My name is Liz Allan, but the Bugle insists on calling me the spectacular Spider-Woman."

(OOC: Liz Allan was an early member of the Spider-Man supporting cast, starting as an unnamed extra in Spider-Man's origin story, so she just missed out on going to that fateful science exhibit and ending up as Spider-Woman. Partially because Gwen and (in the first What If...? story I ever read) Betty have all gotten the bite...)

Spider-Girl (Peter's daughter) as the baseline for a close costume.
Marketing will want something more distinctive but we'll workshop it later.

Track Dogs

Cymera Sunday and I got a chance to playtest Track Dogs, a PBTA game of tramp steamer style crews on a train over a future Earth dominated by great forests with weird technomagical stuff in the depths. (This example: finding a particularly large flying/burrowing shark.) The main variation from most PBTA games is a sheet for the train, and simple resource tracking (one fuel per zone of a trip, one supply per crew member per trip) for journeys.

Cymera Quiz tabletop games round

My tabletop games round at the Cymera quiz got a collective “ahh” of trivia-learning interest for one answer and not the biggest “boo!” of the night. One out of two ain’t bad.

1. Name the Discworld boardgame that gave its title to the 34th novel in the series?

2. Which of these book series was based on a roleplaying game before having a roleplaying game published afterwards? The Expanse, The Laundry, Rivers Of London, The Wheel Of Time?

3. A version of Genevieve Dieudonne, hero of Kim Newman’s Anna Dracula, first appeared in the pseudonymously published novel Drachenfels, based on which wargame setting?

4. Betrayal, Imperium and Spice Harvest are the subtitles of board games and expansions based on which novel series and its adaptations?

5. The Fifth Season roleplaying game is based on which trilogy of novels?

6. Name the alternative history board game based on the art of Jakub Różalski?

7. Ghouls Of The Miskatonic is the first novel based on which board game, itself based on an existing fictional setting?

8. Dragonlance was the first book series based on which roleplaying game?

9. Which science fiction author developed his historical wargame rules Little Wars after joining Jerome K. Jerome in shooting toy cannons at toy soldiers?