Got a special delivery the other day!
Our NIGHT SHIFT Twilight's Queen mead from Apis mead and wine is in.
I have three bottles and I am saving them for Halloween night. Certainly a great night for it!
You can order yours from Vino Shipper.
Got a special delivery the other day!
Our NIGHT SHIFT Twilight's Queen mead from Apis mead and wine is in.
I have three bottles and I am saving them for Halloween night. Certainly a great night for it!
You can order yours from Vino Shipper.
Now for something a little different.
Reposted from The Official Night Shift: VSW MEAD!
From Jason Vey creator and co-author of NIGHT SHIFT:
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Twilight Queen, the official mead of Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars |
This mead, a collaboration with Apis Mead & Winery in Carnegie, PA, is a buckwheat mead with black cherries, vanilla, allspice, and cinnamon. The release party will be at Apis on Saturday, October 8, from 2:00 PM until whenever. We will have gaming events and giveaways, and both the mead and the game will be on sale! Our friends from Drawbridge Games will be on site as well!
I should also mention here that this is not just me slapping my company name on something. I'm a mead maker and have been for about 15 years. I collaborated closely with Dave from Apis on every aspect of this, from the initial flavor profile to the level of spice and flavoring in it, adjusting, tweaking, and the entire process of brewing the beverage. This is very much an Elf Lair creation as much as it is an Apis Mead, and after several rounds of tasting and tweaking, I am absolutely confident in saying IT IS A WINNER.Please save the date and stop down! And if you can't make it, Apis can ship to any state that is allowed, through Vinoshipper!
You can find more information about Apis at their website here:
Tim here now.
I don't do a lot of drinking anymore, save for coffee (I did enough in college for myself, my kids, you, your kids...) but this is fun.
Will it help the sales of NIGHT SHIFT? No, and I would be surprised if it did, but that is not the point is it. This is a fun thing to have and I'll happily pick up a few bottles.
Can you say your RPG has its own mead? No.
NOW, what would be totally on-brand for me? A "From the Editor's Cup" Weirdly World News coffee roast. Dark, imposing, and each cup is the LD50 of caffeine for a grown adult!
This is fairly damning, to be honest. The book is pretty much Nazi "fan fiction" by those familiar with it. While this might not be enough for others there is more. It does seem that the Tekumel Foundation has known about this, and kept it quiet, for years. Now you might ask how is a "Nazi fan fiction" any different than say Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle?" I guess the back cover of the book tells the whole story. It was written as fulfillment fantasy of a group of S.S. officers' descendants "correcting the the wrongs" of the end of W.W. II.
Ok that is pretty bad. Then to make matters worse, Prof. Barker sat on the board of editors for anti-Sementic, Holocaust-denial journal, "The Journal of Historical Review," as psuedo-scientific and psuedo-academic journal. It has been described as anti-Sementic by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Journal is much like others of it's ilk; not peer-reviewed, pushing an agenda. There was some uncertainty online about who this particular "Philip Barker, Ph.D." was, but honestly combined with the publication of the other book I don't feel that he gets any benefit of the doubt.
What does that mean for me?
Well. Everyone has to draw their own lines somewhere. Like Lovecraft, Orson Scott Card, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and J.K. Rolwing, Barker has left a pretty dark mark on his legacy.
For me, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism are steps way too far.
There is no evidence of this, as far as I can tell, within the pages of Tékumel. But the shine on the books is gone for me. I know he is dead and won't benefit from anything I do or don't do. I am not looking to boycott or raise a campaign about it, plenty of others will do that. It is just sad of course that such an obviously brilliant man also has such vile and repugnant beliefs.
Anyway, here are the relevant links. No I am not linking to the books. You can find them on your own.
Seriously. It is.
Like Old-School D&D was a pioneer of gaming, Run-DMC was a pioneer of old-school rap and hip hop. Many hip-hop groups cite Run-DMC as their primary influence and for many of us Run-DMC was out first exposure to the wider world of rap and hip-hop. Could there have been a Public Enemy without Run-DMC? Wu-Tang Clan? NWA? Snoop-Dogg? Outkast? Salt-n-Peppa, De La Soul? Cypress Hill? US3? Digable Planets? TLC? (damn, I still love TLC).
We owe it all to Run-DMC.
Silly? Yeah, a little. But my love of Run-DMC is pure and true. And yeah I know all the words to these songs.
But making a claim, any claim, about the OSR is pointless. While there are trends, there are no main drivers here. No one setting policy or dictating terms save for collective memory of a time when you could turn on your radio and hear "It's Tricky."
Consequently, the claim that OSR is conservative only track because the OSR is as has been often pointed out, full of old fucks.
I am pretty far left and get more liberal and more left and more blue with each passing year.
I shouldn't need to say this, but here it is.
Like THAC0 BLOG and The Elf Game, I don't just reject Nazis and White Supremacists, I utterly reject them and condemn them, and they are not welcome in any part of the games I play, write or enjoy. They can take their orange shitgibbon Trump with them.
Oh.
And Black Lives Matter.
And fuck Trump.
Don't like it? Get the fuck out of the OSR.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: New Party Who Dis? |
The good news about the midterm elections is that there is a great opportunity for evil to be exposed in the days and weeks to come,” he said. “It’s been widely publicized that there is a coven of witches that cast spells on President Trump 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This particular coven is found in the southern portion of New York City.”So how about it. Let's make a Social Justice Witch!
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“So, right in the middle of all of this, the southern district, in the middle of where these witches are doing the 24/7 spell-casting, we find the territory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” Kubal added. “Her district is in the center of all of this going on. Is this a coincidence? Maybe … Is there an evil thread running through this area, trying to dispel diabolical power?”
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Willow & Tara join the Justice League Dark by Jacob Blackmon |