As a consolation, here is this image.
May you have better luck on other sites.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Dear Google Visitors...
I am sorry. But despite your efforts over the last week you can not find "Supergirl Porn" here.
As a consolation, here is this image.
May you have better luck on other sites.
As a consolation, here is this image.
May you have better luck on other sites.
Victorian games. Almost there...
My Victorian games collection.
I am still missing a good copy of Castle Falkenstein; I sold mine at an auction years ago, long before I worked on Ghosts.
I am missing some others too, but have a lot on PDF.
But these are the big ones. If I ever need to run a Victorian era game, I think I have things covered.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Eldritch Witchery update
Jason has an update on Eldritch Witchery (and more!) over at the Elf Lair Games blog.
http://elflairgames.blogspot.com/2012/06/updates-eldritch-witchery-and.html
In addition to what Jason mentions, I am going over the edits and tweaking a few of the spells.
Not sure when the publication date is, but hopefully soon!
http://elflairgames.blogspot.com/2012/06/updates-eldritch-witchery-and.html
In addition to what Jason mentions, I am going over the edits and tweaking a few of the spells.
Not sure when the publication date is, but hopefully soon!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Edits
I just got back the edits for both Eldritch Witchery and The Witch within hours of each other.
I have not looked at either yet, but I am expecting there to be some pretty extensive changes and edits to be made.
This will certainly cut into my blogging time here. Just wanted you to know.
I have not looked at either yet, but I am expecting there to be some pretty extensive changes and edits to be made.
This will certainly cut into my blogging time here. Just wanted you to know.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Zatannurday: More Cosplay
A photo by Brian Carter
by Duderama (I believe this is Cosplayer "Gillian", but not for sure).
One by Yumstein featuring both Zee and WW
A recent one posted to Toyriffic, Zee and Harley!
Comicpalooza Zatanna by Nadya Anton
(from Justice League Detroit)
And a couple from a favorite here at the Other Side, Jettie Monday
and few from Deviant Art.
Poker Face by *Leonie-Heartilly on deviantART
Zatanna Zatara, Revisted by ~velvetillusions on deviantART
Party time, tnellecxe! by ~strikes-twice on deviantART
Young Justice Zatanna by ~BlackRein on deviantART
FCD: ZATANNA AND PLASTIC MAN, THE HORROR by ~strikes-twice on deviantART
EVITAERC ELTIT! by ~strikes-twice on deviantART
I think I'll need to run some features on a few of these terrific cosplayers! I admire their dedication to their hobby/obsessions. Cause I can totally relate.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Mary Pickford Blogathon
Today I am participating in the Mary Pickford blogathon hosted over at Classic Movies.
http://www.aclassicmovieblog.com/2012/04/mary-pickford-blogathon-announcement.html
Please stop by all the bloggers participating and see what they have to say about this Hollywood Legend.
Today I want to talk about the ONLY Mary Pickford movie I have ever seen. This movie though has had such a profound impact on my gaming and later writing that I would be remiss if I didn't talk about it at least once here.
Sparrows (1926)
I saw this movie back when I was in Junior High School. One of the great things about growing in my family is we are all movie buffs and we (dad, mom and my brothers and sisters) all have different tastes. Sparrows is one from my Dad's collection (though I am sure my brother Daniel has seen it too). Now I don't recall if I saw it on tape or on one of those Classic Movie channels back in the early days of cable TV. But I have very distinct memories of this movie.
First, and this might run me afoul of my blogging cohorts today, I don't like Mary Pickford. OR rather, I should say I didn't like her in this. What I think was supposed to be a quiet reserve of faith and strength to me became a weak and ineffectual character. But I am getting ahead of myself.
Sparrows was to me a horror movie. That is how I was introduced to it, and those were the eyes I viewed it. It was not though horror as I was expecting. You can read up on the plot on Wikipedia, I want to talk about what I saw and the effect it had on me.
I guess I like and hate this movie for all the wrong reasons. Molly (Pickford) was to me weak and spent too much time looking to God to solve her problems when I felt she should have been trying to solve them on her own. In fact the only time she and the children in the movie are safe is when she gets up and moves them on her own. I have (maybe because I am an atheist) always been fascinated by the "strong, silent faithful" type. I like it when they succeed, but most often I expect them to fail. I wanted the kids to escape, but Molly seemed like a poor candidate to help them.
Then there is Mr. Grimes. Not since the Baron and Baroness Bomburst of Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had I seen a character more evil in his disregard of children (my mom ran a Day Care, in my mind the most evil thing was to hate or harm a child). He left a lasting impression to be sure. So lasting that to this day I have an evil necromancer character who lives in a swap (like Grimes) who hates children.
In my mind the dichotomous battle was set. Old, evil, Grimes versus the young, pure Molly. And so help me if I didn't like Grimes better. I really wanted the kids to rise up and just beat the living shit out that guy and his wife. But they never did, worse, Molly keeps looking up to the sky like she is getting some private communique. Like that is going to help.
I think about this movie fairly often to be honest. Many things I wrote after I watched it will bubble back up in things I write today. I still used swamps as my ultimate hideout of evil (but that could also be in part to the Legion of Doom).
Reflecting back now I would like to see this again, if for no other reason than to give this film it's due with more mature eyes and sensibilities.
Though the metaphorical descendants of Grimes (his own children if you will) will live on in my games for some more years.
Of course in the movie good triumphs over evil, but not because good was smarter/better but because evil was dumb. I can't help but think how this movie would have been handled by Jonathan Demme and if Grimes had been more like Hannibal Lector. Grimes was "Jr. High evil" not "world evil" to paraphrase Kim Possible (who also makes Molly look bad). There is a movie for you. "Sparrows 2000", the bad guy is a Lecter/Buffalo Bill like evil and the hero is a fiery red-head Kim Possible type. Nah. It looses a lot in the translation. As much as Sparrows fails to measure up by my jaded standards today, it was quite effective when it came out and when I first saw it.
So to the movie I remember I do owe a creative debt.
http://www.aclassicmovieblog.com/2012/04/mary-pickford-blogathon-announcement.html
Please stop by all the bloggers participating and see what they have to say about this Hollywood Legend.
Today I want to talk about the ONLY Mary Pickford movie I have ever seen. This movie though has had such a profound impact on my gaming and later writing that I would be remiss if I didn't talk about it at least once here.
Sparrows (1926)
I saw this movie back when I was in Junior High School. One of the great things about growing in my family is we are all movie buffs and we (dad, mom and my brothers and sisters) all have different tastes. Sparrows is one from my Dad's collection (though I am sure my brother Daniel has seen it too). Now I don't recall if I saw it on tape or on one of those Classic Movie channels back in the early days of cable TV. But I have very distinct memories of this movie.
First, and this might run me afoul of my blogging cohorts today, I don't like Mary Pickford. OR rather, I should say I didn't like her in this. What I think was supposed to be a quiet reserve of faith and strength to me became a weak and ineffectual character. But I am getting ahead of myself.
Sparrows was to me a horror movie. That is how I was introduced to it, and those were the eyes I viewed it. It was not though horror as I was expecting. You can read up on the plot on Wikipedia, I want to talk about what I saw and the effect it had on me.
I guess I like and hate this movie for all the wrong reasons. Molly (Pickford) was to me weak and spent too much time looking to God to solve her problems when I felt she should have been trying to solve them on her own. In fact the only time she and the children in the movie are safe is when she gets up and moves them on her own. I have (maybe because I am an atheist) always been fascinated by the "strong, silent faithful" type. I like it when they succeed, but most often I expect them to fail. I wanted the kids to escape, but Molly seemed like a poor candidate to help them.
Then there is Mr. Grimes. Not since the Baron and Baroness Bomburst of Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had I seen a character more evil in his disregard of children (my mom ran a Day Care, in my mind the most evil thing was to hate or harm a child). He left a lasting impression to be sure. So lasting that to this day I have an evil necromancer character who lives in a swap (like Grimes) who hates children.
In my mind the dichotomous battle was set. Old, evil, Grimes versus the young, pure Molly. And so help me if I didn't like Grimes better. I really wanted the kids to rise up and just beat the living shit out that guy and his wife. But they never did, worse, Molly keeps looking up to the sky like she is getting some private communique. Like that is going to help.
I think about this movie fairly often to be honest. Many things I wrote after I watched it will bubble back up in things I write today. I still used swamps as my ultimate hideout of evil (but that could also be in part to the Legion of Doom).
Reflecting back now I would like to see this again, if for no other reason than to give this film it's due with more mature eyes and sensibilities.
Though the metaphorical descendants of Grimes (his own children if you will) will live on in my games for some more years.
Of course in the movie good triumphs over evil, but not because good was smarter/better but because evil was dumb. I can't help but think how this movie would have been handled by Jonathan Demme and if Grimes had been more like Hannibal Lector. Grimes was "Jr. High evil" not "world evil" to paraphrase Kim Possible (who also makes Molly look bad). There is a movie for you. "Sparrows 2000", the bad guy is a Lecter/Buffalo Bill like evil and the hero is a fiery red-head Kim Possible type. Nah. It looses a lot in the translation. As much as Sparrows fails to measure up by my jaded standards today, it was quite effective when it came out and when I first saw it.
So to the movie I remember I do owe a creative debt.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
White Dwarf Wednesday #18
This is issue is full of big news. First off, though in the form of an ad, we see that TSR Hobbies has arrived and is open for business in the UK. They open their doors on March 31, 1980. Don Turnbull will be in charge.
The next full page ad is one for Tunnels & Trolls. Like so much else in this OSR world this ad could run right now and still work.
Ian Livingstone asks "Why do people like playing role-playing games?" It is interesting because now we are getting more "RPGs" and less "SF/F Games". American influence I am thinking.
Next up we get a fairly detailed minatures game for Star Trek the Motion Picture. No idea if they got the permission to do this or not, but it is a pretty detailed game (4 pages). You do need the minis to play, but those were new from Citadel Miniatures, so easy to get. The game assumes you are using these, but they also state others can be used.
We have some reviews in Open Box. A psychic battle game based on the Darkover novels (9/10). Swordquest from the new Task Force Games gets a 6/10. Dra'k'ne Station from Judges Guild for Traveller gets 8/10.
Albie Foire gives us a very detailed (6 pages, 3 new monsters) mini-adventure for D&D, The Halls of Tizun Thane. Oddly enough this lists 3-6 players with 6-12 characters. This is the only adventure I have seen where the assumption is people will be playing more than one character.
Treasure chest gives us some very useful tables on weather conditions by season. As well as some random NPC generators.
Fiend Factory gives us four also-ran monsters; Mandrake People, Hounds of Kerenos, Phung, and the Couerl. All have Monstermark ratings and all come from various Sf/F novels.
We also get the top 10 and bottom 5 FF monsters as chosen by the readers.
Top 10
1. Necrophidius
2. Russian Doll Monster
3. Svart
4. Needleman
5. Hook Horror
6. Githyanki
7. Imps
8. Volt
9. Urchin
10. Dahdi
Bottom 5
1. Nas Nas (the worst)
2. Dahdi (both lists)
3. Withra
4. Stinwicodech
5. Pebble Gnome
The Magic Brush is back with mini painting tips.
Finally 6 pages of classifieds and ads. Ending with a new ad for TSR's Top Secret game.
The type seems denser and the quality of the work seems better than the last couple of issues and I think we are entering another growth period for WD. Looking forward to the rest of 1980.
BTW here is that T&T ad. Still works today.
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