A WTF moment from the 80’s

The slew of B movies in the 80’s was overwhelming. I think it was worse than all those movies from the 50’s. It might have been due to the beginning of the age video rentals and the infamous direct to video market. But this little gems seems too bad for even my tastes.

There were a few technical difficulties last week so I’ll try this again and hopefully things will go better and be more interesting. This week Second Darkness. We’ve just started so the PC’s are only second level. Stop by and see what sort of weird and stupid things that I just feel like tweeting.
Once again, we’ll be starting roughly 6 PM Central.

Continuing the string of criminals and psychopaths to help you save the world, meet Anders. One of the new companions to be introduced in Dragon Age Origins: Awakenings.

How many games do I really need?

I got my dead tree version of Green Ronin’s Dragon Age RPG today and it looks pretty damned good. But on my chilly walk to the mail box, I got thinking. How many RPG’s do I really need?
I started doing a mental inventory of my primary gaming book case. Let’s see D20 including 3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder, d20 Modern and a few other licensed and original game. I have three versions of Star Wars. There’s a whole stack of old and new World of Darkness plus Trinity and Exalted. I’ve still got some Cyberpunk, Shadowrun and Mutant Chronicles books setting there too. I’ve got two editions worth of Gurps books plus plethora of miscellaneous books and supplements. The list pretty much kept on going and I hadn’t even started thinking about the gaming closet of doom and all of its ancient secrets and forgotten lore. I know I will never run or even play most of these games.
When it comes down to it, there’s very few games that I really plan on running any more. Pathfinder is great fun and I love playing it but there’s still just too many little nit-picky crunchy bits. Of course, there’s Savage Worlds. The little game that can do just about anything. To be honest, I doubt that another game system is going to match it’s ease of play and just the right amount of crunch. Cortex comes in very close but there just a few little bits that still don’t set that well with me but for some things I just might give it chance. World of Darkness has evolved into this unique love/hate relationship. There’s so much fluff and a few crunchy bits that are just cool but there’s always seems to be a little hiccup here and there. And today, I just picked up another game.
As gamers, we’re hoarders, collectors and kit bashing artists. It’s part of the hobby as a whole. Just because a game is never played, it still can be useful. The crunchy bits can be the inspiration for an endless array of house rules. Fluff can folded gently into whatever game system you want or just be an entertaining read. And a last resort, a bad old game is great bartering fodder to some who might just have a copy of that out print game that you’re suddenly needing. So, I guess you never can have too many games.

Dollhouse comes to an end tonight. I’ll admit that I haven’t watched any of this season, yet. It’s all safely tucked away on my DVR.
You’ve brought all sorts of wonderful worlds to us. Buffy/Angel, Firefly and Dr. Horrible will always have a special place in my little geek heart. But as such with the network TV biz, it’s time to move on. There’s been some rumors about the Terminator franchise. but you know maybe you should take your creative juices and give the Sword & Sorcery genre a try. It’s a genre that deserves a Wheadon touch. Robert Rodriguez is doing his thing with Red Sonja but there are other cool properties out there like Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar or C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry just waiting to boe had. Heck, maybe even an original premise but we know how Hollywood hates that.
This is just wild musings on my part and wishful thinking on my part.

Announcing the Friday Night Tweetfest!

A couple of days ago, I finally broke down and opened a Twitter account. So what the heck am I going to do with it? First,a little experiment. I plan tweeting through the Pathfinder session tomorrow. Just random thoughts and crap that happens during the game. It may be fun. It may totally suck. I’m confident that something interesting will happen. It always does. The only way to find it to follow along. It’s that little box over there at the right if you’re on the regular blog. If you are view this from my Live Journal then just head over to my Twitter page.
There may be some technical hiccups but I’ll deal with those as they come up.
Tomorrow night is Paizo’s Council of Theives.
The action should start around 6 PM Central.

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