When I saw this I had a good laugh and really reminded of Red Vs Blue. I mean really do we ever really see or even notice if a stormtrooper is wounded or what. We just assume that they die when you shoot them.
Sep 012010
I know I usually post a humorous clip for Wednesday but not this time. While Firefly was a mish mash of SciFi and Western, Slingers is SciFi meets Oceans 11. We’re talking smoked filled casinos and ingenious heists. It sounds like a really cool idea for a series. But you know what, it might make a damned good RPG campaign too. Just a thought, folks. Run with it.
Let’s hope that this one gets the green light.
Aug 292010
Last year, I missed my favorite local convention but this year I went despite the pounding my my bank account has taken over the last few months.
The great thing about this convention is that gives me a jolt to the creative centers of my brain. Being around so many creative people and hearing their horror stories, their success stories and just plain amusing anecdotes is my equivalent to a spa weekend. I come out of it feeling refreshed, re-energized and ready to get back on track with my own projects.
It was a great weekend and hope to see many more great people next year. Now, I need to shut up and write.
Aug 262010
Off to Armadillocon 32. Unfortunately, I missed it last year but this year I’ll going and recharge my geek mojo
While it’s primarily a literary science fiction convention, there will be open gaming and a Munchkin Tournament. There’s plenty of great guests and the panels are pretty good. A great time shall be had by all. So if you happen to in the area stop by the con. Or if you’re there maybe give me a shout out.
Aug 122010
Yep, I’m reviewing another movie from a few years back. This another in the long line of movies produced by Quentin Tarantino and it’s definitely got his fingerprints all over it. This is a good thing.
Hell Ride is a story of honor, revenge, sex, violence, secrets and buried treasure all centered around two rival motorcycle gangs. The feel, the music, the dialog and the story are all grind house Tarantino style. If you don’t mind boobs, beer, blood and a few F-Bombs and liked other Tarantino projects then watch this one.
There’s a pretty good cast here too: Micheal Madsen, Eric Balfour, Dennis Hopper, David Carrdine and Vinnie Jones. What can I really say about this movie other than it’s Tarantino, dude!
Recommendation: Pick it up if you can.
Will electronic games take the place of table games? I dunno. But there plenty of things that are just silly about electronic games that would never fly in a table top game.
1. Run the same adventure over and over until everyone gets the loot they want
2. Have the party wait around because some other party killed the what you needed to kill
3. Go out of the dungeon to grind a few levels so they beat the monsters
4. Do a patch that requires all of the players to rewrite their characters
5. Have strangers show up to your game and offer to sell you gold. Just give them your credit card number.
6. NPC’s with very sense and know how to say only one or two things.
7.Quests that consist of “Talk to the guy standing next to me.”
8. Quests that consist of killing animals for their internal organs. Mysteriously half of the animals don’t have these organs.
9. Sometimes normal animals are carrying magic items for loot that would be impossible for the creature to carry/eat/have on its body in any way.
10. A TPK is just another way of saying “Do Over”.
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