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![]() Not a bad start, covering familiar early Superman ground but still not bad. Everyone feel really young but then that is the audience they are going for. Interesting choice for the first villain. Merc instead of Shock Radio host. Very different from her original origin. The things they did with the Jor-El hologram were an odd choice. From the tone of his initial speech he came across as sort of militant & threatening. I honestly thought it was Zod at first. I get the choice though, they wanted to have a scene where Clark felt threatened by his heritage and chose to stay with the safety of the Kents. Later when he goes back and he says "I don't even know who you are" you can see the hologram of Jor-El look hurt in response. Very nicely done ![]()
![]() So my friend got me this game while it was on sale so that I could play with him. Basic idea is you are in the Amazon Rain forest and you are trying not to die. So far our best effort is 8 days. Green hell is a "learn from failure" game.
Balance your food, stay hydrated, check your body for leeches, watch for infected wounds, don't sleep on the ground cause worms will burrow into your flesh, Jaguars will eat you and the natives don't like you. Centipedes are super poisonous Should you go insane try not to murder your friend So if you are into that sort of thing, good game ![]()
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![]() So the first three episodes are up on Amazon Now I have not heard the Podcasts so I'm kind of going in blind to this series and it was a lot of fun
Looking forward to the next three ![]()
![]() So Child's Play has a TV series all it's own now. Forgetting CyberChucky and going back to classic Vodo serial killer Chucky The relationship between Chucky and Jake is interesting, it's like Chucky is grooming Jake to become a killer himself. Plus we seem to be going into Chucky's own background So far I am enjoying it, possibly more than I should, but Chucky's whole attitude is kind of infectious. ![]()
![]() So, this could be cool or could blow up in a huge mess. I'll check it out regardless https://www.slashfilm.com/world-of-darkness-universe-film-tv/ ![]()
![]() Started in on early access for a game called Valheim. Viking survival and small group coop adventuring. Basically you died and got dropped into a new world. If you want to get into Valhalla, you have to bring down Odin's enemies in this world. unfortunately you don't get a lot of help on this quest. You don't even start with pants For an early access game it's been running pretty well so far. I'm up to day 5 now. nearly died from a tree falling on me. Nearly died when I set myself on fire sitting too close to the campfire, built some basic tools out of rocks and branches. Built a basic hut to live in and finally on day 5, pants. So far it's been fun trying to talk some of my friends into joining me ![]()
![]() So I am 2 episodes into Utopia and it has been a heck of a ride already Basic Idea - Dystopia was an Indie Comic that spawned conspiracy theories about diseases being used to end the world by the sinister Mr. Rabbit. After a couple buys an old house they discover the unpublished sequel and decide to auction it off at a comic convention. Conspiracy fan club tries to get their hands on it and then some assassin type fellows start killing everyone who has even seen the thing. and from there things just kind of escalate Two episodes in and it's been pretty crazy. Safety of our main cast is very much in doubt. Adds some nice tension when you know that no one is safe. ![]()
![]() Ok so new and supposedly Final Trailer is out and....it actually looks like fun Some Hanna Barbara shared universe stuff but I think there is a relevant linking factor Took me a while to realize it but Scooby - Dinomutt - Muttly Is there a link between the talking dogs of Hanna Barbara? ![]()
![]() So with Christmas came Steam gift cards, which soon turned into new games One of which is No Man's Sky.
Building settlements was one of the things I really loved about Fallout, that and just wandering around making up my own story. No Man's Sky is all that with less raiders trying to shoot me in the face. You wake up with no memory on a planet that is not exactly safe to breath on, and from there you just kind of do your own thing. There is a story to follow but it's not a particularly obtrusive one.
As I said, it's nice, particularly for a builder like me. No pressure just wander the galaxy and do your own things Not to say there haven't been a few close calls. There were some cat things tried to eat me, but I figured that was going to be my biggest worry. I was wrong. Dug up some alien ruins and found a weird glowing orb. No sooner than I take it do a pair of floaty ball robots show up and start shooting at me. Jumped in my ship and left the planet as quick as I could thinking I would be safe..... not so much. There are ships in orbit that start shooting right away....and I suck at space combat. Never been good at flight simulators. So I ran into an asteroid field hopping to ditch them, when I get a weird message from somone offering to save me. I say yes...how could it make things worse. Death Star appears in front of me and I get on board. So now I am technically safe
So about 20 hours of game play, 4 little bases scattered around two star systems, about 20 words of Gek and one mystery Orb. and I am looking forward to seeing where my space adventures go next. ![]()
![]() Traditions are one of the most versatile aspects of the Spheres of Power/Might system. Easy to make and able to add a great deal of flavor to a campaign. I thought maybe it would be good to put up a post where people can share some of the traditions they have created for their own campaigns. This for example, is the default tradition for Goblins in my setting. Even my CR: 1/3 Goblin Warriors use this in place of the normal “All Martial and armor proficiencies” they would normally get for Warriors. Martial Tradition: Goblin Tunnel fighting
Likewise my Orcs use this one Martial Tradition: Orc Savagery
On a less general side of things I have the “Pirate's Rope Game”, which is a common entertainment for Pirates. Two men are tied at the wrist with a length of Rope and a single Dagger is thrown in the arena. The winner is the one who leaves the arena with the Rope. Some go for the knife, others just beat their opponent down. Some Pirates go as far as make a living at the game, others find themselves with no choice in the matter. Martial Tradition: Pirate’s Rope Game
So anyone have their own Sphere Traditions to share? ![]()
![]() Under the Spheres of Power Item creation rules, Craft Wands is replaced by Craft Spell Engine, and some of the example Spell engines are not specifically wands (for example the Dungeoneer's box) Could I enchant a Weapon as a Spell Engine For example a Bow enchanted as a Destruction Spell Engine with the Enegy Focus Drawback (Electrical) To create a Bow that shoots lightning bolts. ![]()
![]() So the next Reaper Bones Kickstarter will be going live on October 1st. Just under a month to set aside cash monies for another giant pile of plastic I will be setting aside much monies. I've gotten in on every Bones kickstarter todate and I have not been disappointed once, and as a result I have a GIANT pile of minies. Frankly I'm amazed at how many of them I've actually gotten painted. Best of all there has been at least 1 Great Old One with every set; Cthulhu, Shub-niggarath, Nyarlahothotep, and Mashaaf, plus Dagon for funsies. I look forward to adding another to the collection ![]()
![]() Just picked up this addition for spheres of might over on drivethru. It's basically a Sphere version of the Leadership Feat. Only given it a quick look but it has some very neat things in it and various options around Conhorts and Followers. The Leadership sphere is not about leading people into battle (that's the Warleader Sphere). Instead it's about recruiting allies and leading organizations. Has some neat Archetypes too.
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![]() Ok so it's been a while since I ran World of Darkness anything and I've been missing it (and discovering they are all up into a 2nd edition and everything). I am out of practice for horror and have been doing lots of Pathfinder and Mutants& Masterminds. But the horror is calling to me Here is the basics of the idea
At first I was thinking the House in question would be isolated like on an island in a lake or something. But I am wondering if it would be better to be closer or even in a city. I am also going to include some NPCs to serve as "competition". It starts with the show crew rigging the house with various scares but as things go the ghosts in the house start to actually get involved. At the climax people start dying. News reports it as a horrible accident, show is cancelled, footage is buried, to be discovered years later by New PCs. anyone have any extra advice or ideas for this? ![]()
![]() For those of you using Spheres of Might in your games. How often do you give the monsters some sphere stuff. either with classes or with the Monster Traditions For Example: early in the campaign I am currently making my Players will face a Giant Spider with the Behemoth Tradition (Brute Sphere: Smash, Stampede and Takedown talents) also all the Goblins they run into will have Martial Tradition: Goblin Tunnel Fighting
What sort of Martial Monsters have you hit your group with? ![]()
![]() Just watched the first episode of Kingdom on Netflix and has made quite the impression. Well done, creepy as heck and it would make an interesting Pathfinder campaign. Has English language track for those of you who don't like subtitles and the dubbing isn't bad. A sick King
and zombies ![]()
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So damn hungry ![]()
![]() Ok I recently started bouncing around an idea for Mutants & Masterminds. I want to run something heavily Jojo's Bizarre adventure inspired. The Ideas I have for it so far
(for those not familiar with Jojo. The Stone Mask is used to turn a human into a Vampire, A vampire can then turn corpses into Zombies that are a kind of lesser Vampire. Vampires in this setting do a lot of Flesh shaping stuff, which is where the Fish men Zombies will come from.
Anyone have any ideas for fleshing things out? ![]()
![]() So yeah.....Pokemon: Detective Pikachu the movie.
gonna be honest with you ....
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![]() Spheres of Adventure
Few House rules beyond using the Sphere stuff
Our Heroes
Player 2
I'll add the other players once they have their characters done. ![]()
![]() Just a general public service annoucement in case anyone might be interested. June 14th there is apparently a special Director's Cut release, in select movie theaters, of the classic Dr. Who episode Genesis of the Daleks, starring Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor. I figured some people around here might want to know if they hadn't already heard ![]()
![]() The Spheres of Power and Might system offers a lot of options for customization so I thought a workshop thread where people can post ideas they have come up with like new Traditions, Magic items, etc... Here are a couple of items I'm working into my campaign Black Feather Potion (CL: 5 Complexity: 5)
Soldier's Pot (CL: 5 Complexity 2)
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![]() So far they have told us about the rough outline for the new edition and then they gave us a Blog about the Action system. What do we need to see first in future Blogs? I know Paizo has their own idea on what info to give and when but there are a lot of implied things from what they have said and what people have heard in the podcast that people are jumping on, some of which judging from comments by Paizo stuff have surprised them. So What needs to be cleared up first and what info do you want them to get to in a hurry? ![]()
![]() Got into a talk about old TV shows people would like to see rebooted. Of course some of the obvious ones came up like Firefly, Farscape, Babylon 5, Buffy, Xena, Darkwing Duck etc... but then the really old obscure stuff starts to show up; Things like Forever Knight, War of the Worlds and "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" So I just figured I'd see what I can dig out of the minds of folks around here and what do you think is worth ressurecting ![]()
![]() So one of our group wants to gather up people who have nothing to do the last week of December and hard core 10 hours a day for a week run Curse of Srahd for 5E I'm supposed to DM and a part of me sais "Awesome" the rest of me sais "You're OLD, that will kill you" So regardless I'm getting myself ready for it. Things I've decided so far
Milestone Level Advancement. Death House gets them to leel 3. Each Artifact is 1 more, finding the ally is another so that covers them to level 7 and they should be 9 once they head for the final battle. Need to decide 2 other milestoens that would be good. These are going to be the level 4-6 range because (the 3 Relics ended up in the 6-8 level range). Using a stripped down version of the Middle Earth Journey system for travel (Hex size difference is 1/4 mile vs. 10 miles so straight port seems excessive), 0-1 encounters per journey. Encounter table built using the Random encounter tables from the adventure. Need to make certain Strahd keeps bothering them, so makeing a few Encounters where he terrorizes the group just for fun. and of course refreshing myself on the 5E rules Now, dose anyone who's run this or played this already have any advice ![]()
![]() Trailer is up I'm still kind of worried and I'm a little wierded out by some of it....but I don't hate it ![]()
![]() Drop Dead Press has created a pretty good thing in their Spheres of Power and Spheres of Might books. One of the best world building tools in these books is the concept of Traditions that give you some background in how you were trained for Combat or Magic. So I thought a workshop thread might be a neat thing to try. Allow me to contribute
Martial Tradition: Bloodscar Savagery
Magical Tradition; Rot Shamen
Drawbacks
Sphere Specific Drawbacks
Boons
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![]() Thought I would post This Article about a computer generating random spell names. Personally I like Summon Storm Bear although Divine Boom has potential ![]()
![]() So I figure we are going to have lots of Starfinder/PAthfinder debates going around for the next little while I might as well start one up myself. Specifically would you want Paizo to introduce the idea of Character Themes to Pathfinder? For those who don't have Starfinder a character Theme is a core part of your character creation. It affects your starting attributes as well as sets some abilities for your character, granting new stuff at 6th, 12th and 18th level. The abilities granted are largely non-combat. (The most combat focused theme grants abilities to carry heavier gear easily and to lead others in battle rather than actual combat bonuses) Quote: A character theme reprisents a focus for your character, which may be a result of background, upbringing, training or mystic destiny. Themes are pretty general and can work with any character class. The Themes in the core book are Ace Pilot
So could that same concept be applied to Pathfinder in a way that improuves the game? Personally I think it could Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, Outlaw, Priest and Scholar could be made to wrok for Pathfinder and there are plenty of other ideas that would fit for a Fantasy setting like Pathfinder. For Example a Noble theme or an Artisan theme? ![]()
![]() So, I've been painting huge pile of minies and I just finished a big one, so I figured I would start a game with it (as well as show off my paint job) We are looking at a size Gargantuan monster but I don't think it matches anything in the beastiaries. So here is the game. A) If this was going to show up in your campaign how would you make stats for this monster. You can use the normal Beastiary rules or the Unchained simple monster rules or Rogue Genius' Talented Beastiary rules or even Green Ronin's Advanced Beastiary. B) How would you use this monster in your campaign. Feel free to do A or B or Both. or post your own unknown beasties to add to the game (and show off your own stuff) ![]()
![]() Starting a thread for this on it's own to pull the discussion away from another topic as well as to address comments made recently by Marvel and somewhat misinterprited by various comic news sites. Personaly I think that Diversity in and of it's self is a good thing. The problem I feel is when it is pushed forward by sacrificing an existing character to make room for the "new and diverse" version. Marvel in particular right now I feel is seeing a bit of backlash on this. The problem with "replacement" characters is that you are doing a disservice to both the old and new characters. Firstly you are shelving/killing/erasing a version that already has a fanbase be it large or small. Right there some people are going to get pissed off.
Creating new Diverse characters is a great move by both companies, but replacing existing characters who happen to be white guys is not the way to do it. To be honest race and gender don't even really matter. Case in Point - DC's new version of Lobo. This was literally new version kills old version and takes over. The new one was same race, same gender, just an "new sleaker modern look" replacing the old grungy biker version. and it failed utterly. it didn't fail because of diversity because nothing had changed on that point. It failed simply because It Wasn't Lobo and it couldn't get a chance to become Lobo because it was hated before the first issue even hit the stands. We do need new Diverse characters but they have to actually be New Characters, not replacements for older ones that already have fans. ![]()
![]() Little bit different little more modern but Duck Tales is back ![]()
![]() I just finished this nifty little series on Netflix. Based on the Douglas Adams books it follows the title character as he investigates a Murder involving a Mysterious Cult, a 19th century inventor, a poor down on his luck Bellboy, a missing rock star, a Corgi and a killer kitten. This was interesting, strange and a mix of american and british storytelling. Not going to be for everyone, and I got the impression it's not following the books but is more using the books to make up it's own story. I enjoyed it though and looking forward to seeing season 2. anyone else seen it? ![]()
![]() So here is the idea I am currently working with. The players are going to explore a Kingdom of Slime. Specifically it is the ruins of a city covered in an Ooze. The Ooze is a single massive creature who's core is located at the center of the city (IE: Final fight ofthe adventure) however it is able to create many peripheral bodies using the city's dead as templates. Basically as the players wander the city they will be fighting Ooze people; Ooze guards, Ooze Knights, Ooze Peasants, Ooze mages, etc.... Now the basic creatures I've got covered thanks to the advanced beastiary from Green Ronin. but what I am working on now is enviroment rules The important thing to keep in mind is despite there being lots of Ooze people to fight it is actually only a single creature as big as a city, creating fake people to fight off the PCs and keep them from it's core. Main points I'm working with
can you think of anything else that might be good to include ![]()
![]() Trailer is up and looking pretty good if you ask me. Looks like a very different story from the sort we've had till now. I'm wondering if Fox has decided that maybe the shared universe thing is a wash and decided to just focus on making a good movie using the character |