V5: From The Dust

(provisional title)

The Lamppost diner already has a swear jar. And possibly a Masquerade Breach jar.

Doors Open

Doors Open Days, where buildings let the public look behind the scenes, can provide a lot of insight into the establishments that take part.

Possibly coming soon to a VTM game near you...

An evening of shared brainstorming is a delightful thing. (Hello Rick!)

Spoiler tag as I may use some of the results...

How epic is your scale?

Mice: A Small Story takes a look at The Lord Of The Rings, specifically the films imitating their dramatic slow-mo and closeups, as a story of a group of CG cartoon mice trying to get away with a ringpull.

Mediaeval doodle war rabbit miniatures

From the makers of the Triumph Of Death skeleton army comes a stranger art-based miniatures line still - the war rabbits of mediaeval manuscript side doodles!

The rabbit riding a giant snail is a stretch goal. Fingers crossed.

Judge Dredd And The Worlds Of 2000 A.D.

The new RPG for Dredd, with more settings to follow, is now up on Kickstarter and funded in nine minutes. It uses the WOIN system (What’s Old Is New) based on D6 dice pools. The launch includes an adventure book, The Robot Wars, by contributing writer Andrew Peregrine.

Having not actually run a Dredd game since the Games Workshop original that was a precursor to WFRP, I am cautiously interested.

Elsewhere University

That university troubled by Fair Folk comic has become a recurring thing in a text-centric way with at least one more comic.

Theme tune update

Frontrunner is Veka by Zola Jesus, because this here VTM game has a vampire charged with watching over Kindred sleeping away the centuries in torpor, another newly arisen from that, and one who was Embraced to preserve her in her prime.

“Who will find you when all you are, all you are is dust? Who will find you in centuries?”

Character sheets copied, dice bagged...

And now to try to get some sleep before game pitch day.

And maybe decide on a theme song.

Sunless Skies: Skyfarer

Skyfarer is a twenty-page tabletop RPG for Sunless Skies, a spin-off from the mordant comedy steampunk online game Fallen London.

Telltale

Telltale, makers of story-choice-centric video games, are on hiatus, cancelling titles and probably closing down. My thoughts are with those suddenly out of work.

Chronicles Of Darkness sale

75% off PDFs for Vampire: The Requiem, Werewolf: The Forsaken and Mage: The Awakening.

The Predator

I very much appreciate The Predator addressing the fact that the Predators are really sport hunters above all.

(Although since it wasn’t an Alien Vs. Predator film it didn’t address that they’re both aliens and that the Aliens show more predation than the Predators.)

Buffy at BOOM!

A day after The Reckoning, BOOM! Studios drops a first teaser for their new Buffy comics line, expected to start in 2019.

And it’s pretty old school. As in Sunnydale High.

After more than ten years of post-TV seasons at Dark Horse (following about as much stuff during and around the TV seasons, and DH doing a run of The High School Years one-shots in recent years) it makes sense to do something different, and going back to the classic era at launch is a sound choice. That might be the central monthly title, or one of a line, with separate graphic novels and miniseries planned as well.

That teaser image also gives Buffy a decidedly modern-looking phone. This could be artistic licence, a hint that we shouldn’t expect a late 90s period piece, or just a goof...

Ascension Night: a V5 intro adventure

Ascension Night, a free unofficial Vampire: The Masquerade Fifth Edition quickstart from Darker Days Radio.

So, what to do on Sunday...

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Reckoning

The fourth and final issue of The Reckoning, the final miniseries season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer at Dark Horse Comics, came out today.

I’m fine.

It’s been quite a ride since the first issue twenty years ago, and especially the post-TV canon seasons and related books like Tales Of The Slayers and particularly Fray which The Reckoning also serves as a sequel to. Season Eight went too comic-book-y for a lot of tastes, with the unlimited special effects budget overshadowing the human side of the story. Nine and Ten went somewhat smaller, Eleven a bit bigger again, and Twelve / The Reckoning went all-out but it’s a finale so it deserves to.

What’s next? Who knows? I’ll be there.

Phew

Okay, managed to get away with not GMing on Wednesdays so far.

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Has Talk Like A Pirate Day gotten too commercialised?

Captain Marvel teaser trailer

“I’m not what you think I am.”

Fury with two eyes and hair. Weird.