Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
In his over 50 years of film making, Roger Corman has to be one of the best sources for an RPG game master for inspiration. Any good GM that is also a B-movie fan should know who he is and have seen at least one of his movies. Forbidden World is not one of his best but it has some entertainment value as well as inspiration in it.
Old school rises up again in a new release by 3Hombres Games. Dark Conspiracy is an old game once published in 1991 by the now defunct Game Designers’ Workshop, and has floated around in different hands since GDW’s demise in 1996. A second edition was published which updated the rules and a few adventures were published by it slowly died after that. A couple of fans worked hard to revive it and after some difficulties, the 3rd edition was put out in PDF form. The results of their labor is now available on DriveThruRPG.
When Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) took over the Talisman license back in 2008, I was more than excited. Being a fan of the game since the 1990s, I was really looking forward to seeing how FFG can improve the game. 2008 was the first year I got to go to GenCon and while there I talked to some of the writers of the game. I was really encouraged by their vision.
Since then, they have done what FFG does a lot – put out expansion after expansion. Not satisfied with just reprinting the classic expansions (of which they have done a few), they have put out a few small box expansions, some of which have some very original and innovative ideas. Talisman: The Blood Moon is one of those small box expansions that has some fairly innovative ideas; however they had already done something similar with Talisman: The Reaper. Blood Moon uses similar rules introduced in The Reaper expansion with a few new additional aspects mixed in.
SCARAB is something that is taking the gaming community by storm in the Carolinas. Del Collins and his team have put on a gaming con in Columbia, SC for the past 3 years. With a clear vision, solid staff and good leadership, SCARAB has developed a solid foundation that is going to do nothing but grow and flourish over the next several years. However, SCARAB is more than just the con. SCARAB is actually the organization behind the con as well as dozens of game days throughout the year, throughout South Carolina and northern Georgia. So the SCARAB Convention is just one facet of what they do for the gaming community but it’s the culmination of all their efforts the previous year.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETE. Working on a re-write of The Globules, from Challenge Magazine #74. I plan to run this at some cons this year. I am not sure what system. I am going to try True20 at mini-mace
B-Movies Inspirations Today’s Movie: It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) When first started this idea, I knew there were bad movies that I would get nothing out of or at least struggled with. Well, this movie is one of them, I suppose, but not because it is bad. It! is a story that has since…
Dark Conspiracy Lives! 3 Hombres put out an updated version of the rules. Still very old school. This has re-awakened my passion again for DC. I plan to run at least one game at a couple of cons. I have a few of the old Challenge Magazine adventures and plan to tweak them to fit…
I am currently writing up a complete region of space to use in this campaign. Relatively original, I am probably going to use some incluences from various sources like Shatterzone, Traveller and the like. I am leaning towards bringing in the 2300 AD nemesis Kaifer at some point but right now, I am just trying…
The Last Warhulk The Start of The Last WArhulk. After retrieving the Peace program from hidden places on Lighthouse and rescuing the Starmech agent, the party embarks on a mission to stop a AI sentient war relic from reeking havoc on the Verge.
I finally got to see the much maligned so-called “prequel” to my favorite movie franchise (Alien/Aliens) – Prometheus. Although not without its flaws, I do feel that the amount of criticism it is taking is unfair. It is by far not the best in the franchise but it’s not the worst. To start with, my…