Friday, 2 August 2024
7500 posts
Posting daily for about a decade will do that. Or about half of that anyway.
Unshockingly the RPGs tag is at the top, with Films close behind, and a few others over a thousand posts each.
#RPGaDay2024 2 - Most recently played
#RPGaDay2024
2 - Most recently played
Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition, getting to play this one thanks in part to nudging one of my 2021 players to run it, it’s been interesting seeing some familiar elements in new ways.
A week earlier and my answer would have been Star Trek Adventures first edition. Yes, I am playing two games!
Most recently GMed, also Vampire.
2a - Recent
I am back to GMing online for the summer, and I miss the ability to look around and read by gesture, but it is ever so convenient.
2b - Forest
The forest is the archetypal adventure place for me because I can get to in a few minutes’ walk and not know what I might see or who I might meet. Most often dog walkers, but still...
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| And sometimes you meet Laura Ford's Weeping Girls at Jupiter Artland. |
Thursday, 1 August 2024
Olympic Shooting Vibes
Give two players the same character sheet and see how different the PCs can be.
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| Olympic 10m Air Pistol silver medalists Yusuf Dikec (Trukey, mixed) and Kim Yeji (S. Korea, women's) |
United Paizo Workers Win The Diana Jones Award
United Paizo Workers win the Diana Jones Award. News at Rascal.
RPGaDAY 2024 1 - First RPG bought this year
#RPGaDay2024
1 - First RPG bought this year
Solstice at Conpulsion. It would need a pretty specific group to run but it appealed to my ghoulish nature.
1a - First RPG
I was far from the only one who started with Fighting Fantasy. If I’d missed it other gamebooks like the Lone Wolf adverts in 2000 A.D. and their own Sláine story and Dice Man specials might have caught my eye, but the spinoff book Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-playing Game was my first time properly playing and quickly GMing for others aside from school lunchtime improv adventures.
1b - Runes
Runes suggest Vikings and history and Middle-earth, but could also be used to curse people in this day and age.
#RPGaDAY2024
#RPGaDay2024
RPG a Day 2024 begins now! (With my first answer around noon.)
The tenth anniversary and eleventh iteration of RPG a Day.
#RPGaDay hopes to get people talking in a positive way about tabletop roleplaying games. For each day in August, use the prompt or highlighted word to inspire a blog, vlog or social media post to celebrate everything great about our hobby with the tag #RPGaDay2024
15 - Great character gear
16 - Quick to learn
19 - Sensational session
20 - Amazing adventure
21 - Classic campaign
23 - Peerless player
24 - Acclaimed advice
25 - Desirable dice
26 - Superb screen
27 - Marvellous miniature
28 - Great gamer gadget
29 - Awesome app
Alternative - Amazing anecdote
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Alternative prompts by Skala Wyzwania!
1 - Runes
2 - Forest
3 - Demonology
4 - Cosmos
5 - Fairies
6 - Portal
7 - Forgotten City
8 - Experiment
9 - Heroes
10 - Steampunk
11 - Invasion
12 - Parallel Worlds
13 - Zombie
14 - Awakening
15 - Genetics
16 - Dungeon
17 - AI
18 - Curse
19 - Hologram
20 - Battle
21 - Disaster
22 - Interdimensional Space
23 - Ritual
24 - Antique
25 - Mutant
26 - Tattoo
27 - Shapeshifting
28 - Mimic
29 - Knight
30 - Trap
31 - Dragons
With optional d10 for how to use them!
1 - Describe a Monster
2 - Create an NPC
3 - Write a Bulletin Board Quest
4 - Invent an Item
5 - Write a legend or rumour
6 - Create a random table
7 - Create a simple mechanic
8 - Present an idea for a Random Encounter
9 - Write an Eavesdroppable Dialogue
10 - Draw!
(For simplicity and lack of scanner I will just write something!)
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Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Kong is King
Reactor’s Science Fiction Film Club ends giant monster month with King Kong, featuring a new to me point about the racial depictions, Black studio founder Noble Johnson playing the island chief.
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
V5: City Of Angels 1.21
Tonight in Vampire: The Masquerade - City Of Angels we outsourced investigating one of the things an elder tried to make us do a repulsive favour so she’d just tell us.
This may mean that the investigator we hired will get our Experience Points as well as the money, but never mind.
Monday, 29 July 2024
Interview With The Vampire season three: The Vampire Lestat
A video setup for Molloy interviewing Lestat. And the full version of the first song, Long Face. They haven’t gone Queen Of The Damned metal (best thing about the film) and they havent gone 80s rock either - they’ve gone T-Rex.
Sunday, 28 July 2024
Avengers: Doomsday
Avengers: Doomsday, May 2026, bringing back the Russo brothers.
And they finally picked an actor to play Doctor Doom.
Wait, what?
Saturday, 27 July 2024
I Saw The TV Glow
I saw I Saw The TV Glow and it made me kinda sad but didn’t utterly wreck me. Can’t have everything, I suppose.
I feel like it’s the next step past melancholic horror, where the horror gives way entirely to melancholic could-be urban fantasy.
Friday, 26 July 2024
The 2024 Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony
Someone (probably from French comedy) takes the torch to the empty stadium, then taken by chest-headbutting footballer Zinadine Zidane and then handed to a group of skating kids.
This leads to a surprise Catacomb appearance with CG alligator, introducing the Moon Knight style masked parkour torchbearer piloting a boat to a hint of the theme from Phantom of the Opera.
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| Anyone can wear the mask. |
GAGA
Mea Culpa:
Gojira playing with guest vocals by opera star Marina Viotti and multiple beheaded Marie Antoinettes in the Conciergerie where she was actually imprisoned. FUCK YEAH.
France with a sequence in their Olympic opening ceremony dedicated to horniness
No threesomes in the library!!!!
Danse Macabre and animated paintings as the Masked Torchbearer runs through the Louvre. (The Mona Lisa has been stolen by Minions.)
Ten newly commissioned statues of remarkable women.
Beautiful version of La Marseillaise by Axelle Saint-Cirel.
Fashion section that would probably be illegal in some US states ending with an almost naked blue guy. (Unhappy update: NBC cut this whole section from the US broadcast. I am disgusted but not surprised.)
Another nice version of Imagine. And I wonder if it’s the same burning piano from Eurovision.
The flag carried by techno Ghost Rider. So that’s two characters from this event I want action figures of.
The flame going back does make that last part run on long, with the Eiffel Tower lightshow going a bit V’ger Flyover.
Robert brothers (not Montgolfier brothers apparently due to launch site) hot air balloon torch.
The Star Trek films
I’ve rewatched the original Star Trek films, plus Generations for the first time in quite a while which involved getting the DVD, due to Valiant starting.
(Update May 2026, I have since learned a new uniform was designed adn screen tested and vetoed. Still would have been worth picking one.)
The Motion Picture is this strange road not taken due to its general stately tone, Phase II and all that which influenced a lot of The Next Generation but at least not in the colour scheme. (Side note: as an example of not a lot of people knowing how to do Star Trek this seriously, Marvel got the comics rights and the first issue after the adaptation has the Enterprise finding a haunted house in space and the two-parter runs like a remake of Catspaw with a guest appearance by writer Marv Wolfman’s version of Dracula.) At least the theme tune got a good run.
The Wrath Of Khan is great and so set the template for almost everything else, and watching them all in a couple weeks show that this went too far with a lot of Khan wannabes to follow. And I haven’t rewatched the ultimate example yet. Composer Jerry Goldsmith went on to recycle a fair bit for Aliens. Though not as much as he recycled Aram Khachaturian’s Gayane for the theme.
The Search For Spock is fine. Killing David is harsh but that’s Klingons for you. I do love the unfortunate nervy science ship captain.
The Voyage Home is a lot of fun. The present setting is the kind of gimmick you can’t do often, but it’s particularly nice having a problem rather than a villain, and it’s a shame we never got such an outlier again.
Sybok works in The Final Frontier even if not much else (including the vagueness of his emotional mind meld) does.
I feel like Chang in The Undiscovered Country would have been more interesting as a sincere antagonist. Obviously then you would have needed someone else to be the Klingon representative of the ironic conspiracy, but having him hunting Kirk down for entirely legitimate reasons and ending with an uneasy détente and taking a reluctantly offered open hand would have been a good end for a film about Kirk hating Klingons.
The biggest problem I have with Generations is that (and this is after seeing the deleted original) we give Kirk a great heroic death at the start and a meh one at the end. It also hugely overeggs Picard’s grief and Data’s messy emotions. (Their best scene is in the lovely Stellar Cartography set, which I’m sure gave Sir Patrick Stewart some déjà vu when he saw Cerebro in X-Men.) And pick a uniform!
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Infinity: Paradise Lost
Infinity gets an animated series, platform TBC, showing off the space cyberpunky wargame look. No sign of the William Wallace clone leading the Scottish faction yet.
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
A Smurfs RPG
Weird - weirder than the My Little Pony ones as they have active shows - but never mind.
Monday, 22 July 2024
Star Trek Beyond at 8
Star Trek Beyond came out eight years ago today. Rewatching due to STA, going for its look for Melnyk in Valiant in the paper miniature, to not have the TOS minidress and then because the SNW dress looks more like a coat there.
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