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System/Setting: Realms of Cthulhu/Achtung Cthulhu An excellent adventure that I worked hard to make a 4 hour session game. I ran it first at RonCon Spring 2014, then MACE West 2014, and then all year in other cons in 2014 until MACE 2014. I submitted my ideas to the publisher and I hope they will…
Through browsing various databases of cheesy sci-fi and fantasy films, I ran across one I did not recognize at all. I consider myself well versed in all things cheesy where movies are concerned, but this one caught me by surprise. However, after watching it, I was even more surprised.
Having the name Ivan Reitman associated to a film usually does not put it in the “B movie” category, but even the great producers have bad movies every once in a while. Spacehunter was one of several 3D movies that came out, trying to capitalize on the success of movies like Star Wars as well as Road Warrior. Combining elements of both movies, Spacehunter is a fairly simplistic story with pretty decent set design and production value but poor scripting as well as story writing.
1Coming soon to Protodimension Magazine by me: (1) The Breshingridge Center – a minion hunting organization for DC. It’s a fairly large article – 10 pages double spaced. I expanded on the Center considerably. (2) The Mysteries of Vaal-Al Part 1- the first three mysteries (chronologically) from “These 10 Unsolved Mysteries Will Give You Chills….
Once again, we delve into the dark and weird world of Roger Corman (although he was uncredited as the executive producer). His work during the 80s was priceless in many ways, while at the same time mind-numbing. This time, he took a page from Lucas’s book. He takes a classic Akira Kurosawa film, called Yojimbo, and re-imagines it in a science fantasy setting, in it’s own “galaxy far far away,” on a planet called Ura. It is an interesting cheesy mixture of fantasy and sci-fi with bad acting, a woman that is topless just about the whole movie (actress Maria Socas), a telepathic (and very poorly conceived) monitor lizard, a dance by a woman with four breasts (beat that Total Recall) and kung fu from the venerable David Carridine.
System/Setting: CoC 6e/World War II Eastern Europe This was my follow up adventure to Good Night Vienna from the same supplement. I was not as pleased with this adventure in terms of action and horror. I think it relied too much on historical events. Ran it at Comic Monstore Spooktacular event up in Salisbury and…
Dates: 10/9/2013 Where: On board the Karl’s Range The party enlists the Karl’s Range as a transport and seeks to find the key, while avoid the Killroy agent on board.
Dates: 9/11/2013 to 9/25/2013 Where: Leaguehiem The party follows leads that take them into the fabled Wastepits of Leaguehiem. They face Second Republic robotic urban reclamation technolgy called CLAWs while they search last known crewman of the Dancing Light. The Killroys were in hot pursuit. They found out that the key was aboard the refitted…
System/Setting: Savage Worlds/Dark Conspiracy Revised Globules adventure, from Challenge Magazine 74. From the Adventure: This adventure is for a medium-sized group of PCs. They need not be very experienced, but this scenario is not very suitable for a group of beginning PCs. The adventure is set in a small town in Maine which is the site of a strange invasion by aquatic globular…
For the past year, I have been running “Uncle Timothy’s Will” from the Blood Brothers supplement at conventions. I have always been skepticle about non-Lovecraftian horror in CoC but I decided to give it a shot. I ran this at MACE West 2013 and StormCon 2013 adn both turned out awesome! I plan to do…