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Comics Alliance has a series of comics that never were--things like "The Brave and the Bold: Batman and Jay-Z in The 99 Problems!" The most terrifying of the lot, though, is...Jack Kirby's "My Little Pony." Prepare your mind for a world where "friendship" is "magic!!!"
One of the best singer/drummers out there, the only American in The Band, died this afternoon. Rest in peace, and thanks for the music.
The Tekumel Foundation is reporting that Professor MAR "Phil" Barker has died. I never played Tekumel myself, but some of my friends did and enjoyed it greatly. 
It all began with dreams. At first it was just dreams of fire, of bright lights followed by darkness. Then it was dreams of screams, of terror, feelings of loss and entrapment, of peril and pain. The thing was, EVERYONE had the dreams. Even the elves, who sleep only rarely and never for long, had the dreams. Then came the sound. Every day, a long drawn out keening sound, as if the sky was being rent in twain. It happened at the same time, everywhere, echoing from here and there. Then came the dragons. Flights of dragons, all converging in the sky to talk. Deadly enemies, longtime foes, all came to speak on the omens it portended. Last came the rips, tears in space that vomited forth strange creatures and strange men who spoke of other worlds and other places, of things that had never been and places that no longer existed: of Azlant Victorious, of the flying cities of Garund, of the lost city of Absalom, or the Disappearing Trails of Old Cheliax. Of cataclysms, catastrophes and things even worse. The world began to buzz with talk of the ending of this age and whether a new one would arise. The fey began to speak of the Third World, a refuge to flee to when this world was no more. And in the City of Absalom, a small group of people prepared to set things right.... (Credit to James Martin for writing almost all of that.) I'm looking for three players to rebuild a party. Character creation as follows: -20 point build (but see below)
Some background: This was originally conceived by James Martin as a multi-GM threaded campaign, whose basic concept was that massive numbers of alternate Golarions were colliding. The PCs were to execute various tasks in these alternate Golarions in order to correct the situation. (In practice, it almost immediately collapsed into a single PbP game.) For more background, take a look at the original recruitment thread HERE, the original discussion thread HERE, and the original gameplay thread HERE. ETA: For recruitment, I'd like a short (few paragraphs) character description, including some information about why you might be involved with an effort to save the world. Crunch is not necessary at this point. Depending on interest I'll keep recruitment open through Saturday (2/4), and make a decision by the following Monday.
There are a lot of iconic DKS covers out there; the first ones I ever really noticed were for Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster of Hed series, and of course he pretty-much defined Robert Jordan's books as well. Rest in peace, sir.
Numerous sources are reporting that Anne McCaffery has died. Link to one is HERE. She was 85. I didn't read much by her after I started paying attention to nitpicky orbital mechanics, but I still have my autographed copy of Cooking out of This World, and a high point of my young fannish career was playing in a con production of "The Smallest Dragonboy" when she was GoH. (I was the villain; it was great fun.)
I've got a Samsung Galaxy phone, and in its built-in browser any content with tabs at the top gets shifted over to the right, leaving whitespace where it should be. The main page at paizo.com only does it for one part of the page (the store blog/paizo blog/web fiction tabs), but the PbP pages are useless--I get the character icons in a column on the RH side of the page, and can't see any of the text. Clearing the cache on the browser didn't help. This only started happening yesterday; got any ideas what's causing it?
Gallowsmith's image has almost subsided back into the mosaic when it returns rapidly to solidity, staring off into space. "Ah! The pattern shifts! There is...yes, I see now. A conjunction approaches, and a single world assumes a more immediate importance. Zeldones, remain here with me; I require your astronomical knowledge. The rest of you, follow Besmarial. He will guide you to the world I shall now show you." As before, the mosaic swirls and reassembles as a picture, this time showing an island in the midst of a vast oval lake, surrounded by scorched and blasted rock. It is night. There is a circle of stones on the island, and from the center of the circle a faint line reaches skyward; the line is a black so intense it stands out against the night sky. Gallowsmith's voice comes from all around you. "This is the Dark Road, a tangle in the fabric of reality that, when combined with the rest of what is happening, threatens to tear all apart if it is not destroyed. Break the terminus before the Road is strengthened by the conjunction. Again, fare you well." With that, the mosaic swirls and becomes only tessellated stone again. A metallic voice comes from the winged helmet. "The island you saw is in what was, in that world, once the center of the forests of Kyonin. There is a rift that will take you to that world from here on Kortos, and I know of two other rifts to there--one from the sea off Almas, and one from the Taldan coast near Cassomir. Which way do you choose? Prester can provide you with a boat." 
Just like the subject says. The campaign is still very early in Chapter 1. I was originally a player, but after the original DM disappeared I took it over and have been playing my character as a DMPC. That's gotten kind of old, so I'm recruiting a replacement, to join the party when they next return to Oleg's. Character Creation:
Here's the catch: The character you'd be replacing is a wizard, and he's the only full arcane caster in the group. The party consists of a halfling court bard, a human paladin of Erastil, a human ranger, a half-elf cavalier, the aforementioned wizard (human diviner), and a gnome cleric of Irori. So they definitely could use an arcanist. For recruitment, I'd like a short (few paragraphs) character description, giving some information about why you want to civilize a large stretch of godsforsaken wilderness and how you come to have the opportunity to do so. Depending on interest I'll keep recruitment open for at least a few days, and make a decision by next weekend. You'd be joining the party probably a week or so after that, depending on how things go this week. Links to the rest of the party, the game thread, and the discussion thread are on my profile. I don't know how to describe my reffing style, so I'll let it speak for itself.
One of the greats has left us. Thanks for all the great comics--Tomb of Dracula, the run on Dr Strange, Howard the Duck....
When last we left our intrepid interrogating adventurers:
Happs looks around furtively. "Just get me back to th' Thorn River camp, an' I'll put in a good word for you with Kressle. She'll need to know there's Restov soldiers here."
I saw a reference to speculation on RPGnet* that if Borders Books goes out of business it'll take a chunk of the RPG industry with it. IIRC, I bought the Bestiary and the Game Mastery Guide from Borders, and they usually have a decent RPG section (albeit lacking in products from smaller publishers). I can't see the loss of one outlet having that sort of effect; has anyone here heard anything different? (How much of Paizo's sales come via Border's, anyway?) *RPGnet is blocked by the filters at work, so I can't check it out now.
According to his website, he was found dead at home yesterday afternoon. Maybe he wasn't as open & obvious a contributor to gaming as Gary Gygax or John M Ford, but I know a lot of people who shamelessly cribbed from Myth Adventures and Thieves' World for their campaigns. He'll be missed. |
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