Wednesday, August 17, 2011

DriveThru RPG August PDF sales

It is about that time again. DriveThruRPG's blog support program where I reward you the loyal reader with savings found no where else! That is till the other bloggers also post this list!

Anyway some cool things for you all this month and the code to get 20% off of any or all the products here.

Vampire Hunter$ Modern OGL [Team Frog]
SAWS+ Character Sheet for Pathfinder [Dire Giraffe]
Field Guide to Superheroes Vol. 3 (ICONS) [Vigilance Press] *Read me review of this one on the product page*
Plastic Ships and Fuzzy Men [Inner City Games Designs]
The Genius Guide to Another 110 Spell Variants (Pathfinder) [Super Genius Games]
Iron Dynasty: Way of the Ronin [Reality Blurs] *for Savage Worlds*

Your discount code is: AfterGenConGlow2011

And for one lucky reader a FREE copy of Iron Dynasty: Way of the Ronin if they can answer this Other Side trivia question:
In "The Dragon and the Phoenix", Tara learns to speak fluent Japanese.  How did this happen?

The first correct answer posted below (and some means of me emailing you the free code) will win a PDF copy!

Good luck!

Back and a new Blog-a-thon-a-fest thing

Back from campus.  I'll have a post quasi-related to that and some much needed attention to my "off the radar but not forgotten" project "Eldritch Witchery".

Many of you may well know I am a big fan of bad movies.  Sometime I get more enjoyment out of a 1-star stinker than an Oscar filled tour-de-force.  So I have joined another blog-fest. Alex J. Cavanaugh, who sponsored the Fun and Games blogfest and co-sponsored the A to Z posting challenge is giving us the "Worst Movies Ever" Blogfest.

I like doing these things.  It gives me something to look forward to and hopefully stretch out my creative endeavors.
Plus it gives me an excuse to watch some really bad movies!  How am I ever going to limit this to just 10 though!

Monday, August 15, 2011

On campus...

Going to be on campus for the next few days.  Posting will be sparse.
Those courses don't write themselves...


Saturday, August 13, 2011

Zatannurday: Gen Con Zatanna

For the post Gen Con weekend here are some cosplay pics of Zatanna at Gen Con over the years.









Friday, August 12, 2011

Quintessential D&D (Half-baked ideas)

So building off of my "Half-Baked Adventure" a couple of days of ago I have decided that I want to choose good dungeon crawl 1-shots from each system.

So here is what I have at the moment.

Basic:
AD&D 1st Ed:
AD&D 2nd Ed:
AD&D 3rd Ed:
D&D 4th Ed:

Not much.
Basic might be the easiest.  B1 In Search of the Unknown is my go to adventure of choice and totally sandbox.  I can fit it to anything really. Plus it is simple enough to get through in a session or two.
AD&D 1 I am aiming at 4-7 level ranges, so that is not so bad either.  Ghost Tower of Inverness might be good.
AD&D 2 would be above "name level", so above 10th level to 14th or so.  Something from the Forgotten Realms might be good.
D&D3 would need to be above that but not yet 20th.  The 3.5 update to Tomb of Horrors fits here.
D&D4 would be above 20th level. The 4e update to Tomb would also work here.

Using the updates might sound cheesy, but I want it to be an epic adventure and I want it to tour the history of the game.

Still planning!

What is the Secret Fire?

I have seen a lot of posts on the Secret Fire (formerly Legends and Labyrinths) RPG.

I saw the ads, and my first thought was "oh another Fantasy Heartbreaker".
But I have seen a lot more recently and I'll admit I am curious.  The character sheet looks cool, but a part of me still thinks "fantasy heartbreaker", but I am willing to have a look.

BUT....since I blew past my RPG budget for August. And September...and October at Gen Con, I am not going to pick it up just yet.

Anyone pick it up yet? Play it?

I don't need another game, or even another game to distract me.  But there it is. Out there. Taunting me.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tome of Horrors Complete

I know I said I was done getting RPG products for a while. But I had to pick up the new Tome of Horrors Complete, Pathfinder version.

I have all the Tome of Horrors. 1, 1 revised, 2 and 3.

But this one is just freaking awesome.  All the monsters, updated for Pathfinder, in order.
Very, very awesome.

So awesome in fact I want to get the S&W version too and I don't even play that game.