Card based, single session, ELIMINATION RPG playable in 3 hours? Sign my ass up! I picked up a print on demand set of cards from Drivethru CCG and am going to try to run it on an unsuspecting group this Sunday.
You can check out the goods here in the mean time.
Dan Carlin, after the massive Mongol series, posted a podcast about the Reformation. All good stuff. This is shit you were not taught in school at all. Pure fuckage.
Obligatory post here. The boys from Champlaignge Illinois have really upped the ante of crazy sit. If there were any illusions about GTA being worth even looking at compared to this, those are gone now. I’m trying to stop myself from a pre-order. I will not be able to. The ripping on Mass Effect alone is worth it. The video below already lists it as game of the year and it’s tough not to simply agree.
Reader was good, it dominated the scene since nearly inception, but it never got any better. They never did anything much with it and it sort of sat there. Since Google’s products to their customers is people’s personal information, it’s going to be a LOT better moving forward with blog aggregators by people that actually care about blog aggregators. So reader was a blip and will not be missed. No one will look back and say “oh I really miss google reader,” because while it was good in 2005, it’s not 2005 anymore last I checked.
Anyway, I’ve switched over to a Chrome Plugin called FEEDLY and it seems OK so far. What I really need now is to get is a newsgroup reader…
Took awhile to find it, but here it is: the best CCG card ever made.
C.A. Radford. Chaos Personified. 2 Cost. 3 Attack. 3 Defense.
Sub-random, Cut-up.
Sub-Random gear on Radford may not be popped. If Radford is popped, Sub-random gear cards on her are returned to your hand instead of going to the dead pile.
She is an illusion created by a side-effect of the dreams of the child vampire god Krassjsduvul, who lies in status in a prison /tomb in the core of the planet Mars.
I backed Star Citizen by Chris Roberts and was real glad that it got uber-funded because despite his fat face showing up in the wing commander movie (piss from the very depths of space) the fucker makes great games and has literally defined the space fighter/trader genre. I’ve been ignoring the backer emails from some time now– I just feel, hell I backed your shit, now leave me alone until the game is ready for me to play, plus now he’s sitting on a pot of gold which COULD make someone build a shitgame like Duke Nukem or Diakatana, but I just checked this out on a whim and Roberts is putting out something SERIOUS here–fake commercials for spaceships in his games that rival some of the best BF3 videos from EA– and those are essentially TV commercials. Lay your burned out eyeballs on this tasty morsel:
Oh man, there is some amazing stuff here. The following is a post on the Realm of Chaos blog that shows off some dude’s collection of 80’s art from the White Dwarf/GW artists who actually paid him in art. It’s pretty awesome that this stuff survived and is in one place. Not going to post any pics as they are all at the link below.
http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-are-they-now-art-collection-of.html
This is such an awesome blog as well if you dug the glory days of GW in the 80’s and early 90’s, it’s something to keep watch on (though I do REALLY like 8th edition Warhammer far better than any other version so far), so we may be in another period of awesomeness for the company. This time it’s a lot more expensive though!
The video is supergreat but on the Wii U? Really?
I don’t see very many movies but I was down in Miami for a bit and got to see the new Star Trek (which was entertaining but the pace was a bit silly) and the Raid: Redemption. Raid is very similar to last year’s Dredd wherein a bunch of cops try to take down a gang boss in a very large building. I was trying to run this type of plot in my Apocalypse Palau campaign for a modified Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, but the characters were just to powerful (they could have just punched the building down for the most part).
However, like Dredd, the Raid is a MUST SEE if you like action films of the John Woo genre. With the Raid, you get a bunch of awesome kung fu to boot! The knife fighting bits are especially mind blowing. Check below for a nice fight scene of note.