Tonight, Italian food and a German film. And more like this tomorrow.

World Of Darkness Twitch channel

The World Of Darkness Twitch launched tonight (PST) with the premiere of L.A. By Night season 4 and the start of another AP, Vein Pursuit.

In L.A. we have Thin-Bloods, Book of Nod talk, the Beckoning and more. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Gehenna.

Vein Pursuit, also on YT already, takes a new group from L.A. to Seattle, tying in to Bloodlines 2. The pages on the official Bloodlines 2 site includes character sheets and bios, should you need pregens...

A new SF universe from Wizards and KOTOR lead designer

A story-based CRPG in a new SF universe coming from WOTC, headed by the lead designer of Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic.

Only nine months to Hallowe’en!

Are you ready?

Picard signal boost

Star Trek: Picard episode one is free on Youtube in the USA.

Can’t rain all the time.

Time for another attempt to remake The Crow, apparently. I have thoughts on this. But what the hey.

The non-superhero adventure of your superhero game

This thread on non-superhero RPG adventures to use for superhero RPGs got me thinking, and contributing, and I could go further with my observation that some specific heroes map to various genres. Thor obviously connects to epic fantasy, Cap and Black Widow likewise to superspies, and I could see Iron Man tackling high-flying cyberpunk adventures about rogue AI and megacorps and stuff like that.

The most obvious example would be sending Blade to crash a Vampire adventure, because that’s exactly what happened in the movie. Doctor Strange could tackle most Mage antagonists as well...

Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045

Not sure jazz fits Ghost In The Shell. But I’m used to eerie choirs and percussion.

Never forget.

Looking ahead

I may finish APing up the session logs. Already done one episode pretty much right away. Not sure what to do of a Sunday evening itself.

Well.

I am home again. i.e. not GMing.

It’s time to raise the curtain...

Games on Sunday begin today. Yes, it does feel a week late.

Burns Night

Tonight is also Burns Night, the two apparently coinciding about as often as Halley’s Comet visits.

Happy Year of the Rat!

Happy Year of the Rat!

The lunar New Year started a few hours ago, but it is now midnight here. Most years it sees the largest annual human migration with people in China going home to be with their families, as well as the world’s most watched TV broadcast in the CCTV New Year’s Gala, and Hong Kong hosts one of the biggest fireworks displays on New Year night.

October Faction

October Faction, a new comic-based urban fantasy series on Netflix, about monster hunters... and their kids. The eponymous group are a monster conspiracy, with the heroes being members of a super-secret government agency called Presidio.

Vampire: The Masquerade - New Blood

New Blood is a starter pack for Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition, aimed at new players and Storytellers, but the pregenerated characters, city setup and cards for hunts and Second Inquisition are meant to be useful for any game.

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Picard begins today, on CBS streaming in the US, on actual TV in Canada, and then on Prime here tomorrow.

It’s not Captain Picard Day or 17/01 and it’s a week after the anniversary of Seven Of Nine’s home show, so it’s time to set a new stardate.

I’m hoping it will be an adventure with a thoughtful quality, where his ideals are challenged but some of the victories he fought for still stand.

Terry Jones

One of my proudest moments is making Terry Jones laugh.

I met him at a book signing for Medieval Lives, one of his history series.

“Craig, a good Scottish name.”
“Yes, as you can tell by my almost total lack of accent.”
“(laughs) But you do have some...”

Simmer

Simmer, the first video from Petals For Armor, the new album from Hayley Williams. (Sweary lyrics, near nudity in video)

The Last God sourcebook

The writer of new fantasy comic The Last God has produced an OGL D&D sourcebook for the setting, coming to comic shop shelves next to the series itself.