tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58343542012-01-17T19:37:48.288-05:00Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.comBlogger13051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-16950626275317925472012-01-10T15:29:00.001-05:002012-01-10T15:29:28.839-05:00

I am going to talk about Desolation Jones today. What is Desolation Jones? I hear you asking. Simply, it was a six issue mini-series published by the late, lamented Wildstorm Comics in 2005, written by Warren Ellis and with art by J.H. Williams III. We're not going to talk about the follow-up that Ellis was unable to finish in this and focus on the mini that was completed. If you click the

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Because not just the big boys want you to play some new games this New Year, a group of small press and independent publishers and designers have banded together like a Justice League of Independence to offer to you some of their games and supplements at a reduced price. Why? Because they like you, and they want to get their stuff into your hands. While everyone else is speculating about D&D

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-7265536464065661372012-01-03T13:42:00.000-05:002012-01-03T13:42:55.367-05:00

Of the posts that I made last year, three of them rose to the top to be my highest traffic posts for the year. I've never done a post like this in the past. Is this just a big for more traffic? Maybe. My commentary on each follows the link. The highest traffic post was my repost of the start of the Speak Out With Your Geek Out movement, from over the summer. I like what became of SOWYGO, even

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-75082771463698304702011-12-29T16:20:00.001-05:002011-12-29T16:20:12.843-05:00

A couple of days before Christmas, I went to see the new American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (TGWTDT). I'm not going to call this a remake, since it was an adaptation of the book, rather than a remake of the Swedish movie (which I have not seen). I read the book of TGWTDT back in August, and I have been looking forward to this movie since I heard it announced. Daniel Craig and

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-56281343018674542662011-12-29T12:57:00.000-05:002011-12-29T13:01:20.709-05:00

File this under Music and Mashups. Culture Bully has posted their 2011 Mashed compilation. You can find it here. This incredible production from The Reborn Identity (one of my favorite producers) kicks off the compilation. The Reborn Identity - Cosmic Lifeforms (Florence + The Machine vs Carbon Based Lifeforms) by The Reborn Identity

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-3017583887039694442011-12-21T18:45:00.001-05:002011-12-21T18:45:24.224-05:00

Here is Bootie's Best of Bootie 2011 mashup compilation. This is the continuous mix version. They also have an unmixed version with the individual tracks available. Best of Bootie 2011 by bootie Downloads and extras can be found at the Best of Bootie 2011 page. 

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-62114993926182976422011-12-19T22:01:00.001-05:002011-12-19T22:12:53.328-05:00

OK, this is another one of my opinion pieces. :) Forgive the crappy photo, but I couldn't find a decent graphic online to use. There's been an ongoing "controversy" in the online gaming communities: bloggers, Twitter and whatnot. I put controversy in quotes because I think the whole thing is more than a bit of a tempest in a teacup. There is a blog run by Zak Smith (author of the very cool

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-33339409033264095142011-12-11T11:02:00.001-05:002011-12-11T11:37:55.609-05:00

I will admit that I'm not a Marvel fanboy. This is the first Marvel comic that I have bought since Agents of Atlas was cancelled. Mostly it's a taste issue...the currently in vogue style of storytelling at the House of Ideas isn't what I am interested in when reading a comic book. That said, I have been a huge fan of the Defenders since I was a kid. I found The Defenders not long after I

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-64904393164363675732011-11-30T15:25:00.001-05:002011-11-30T15:29:35.060-05:00

 Comic Creators Participate in National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (December 1, 2011, Columbus OH) Comic Creators For Freedom announced today that the prep work for their third annual fundraiser against Human Trafficking Awareness has begun. Each year comic creators (web and print) collaborate to create an image that is available in both digital and print formats. This year’s

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-7360176325663344252011-11-25T18:46:00.001-05:002011-11-25T18:46:00.848-05:00

Just a quick test post to show that I can blog from my new tablet. Once I get used to the keyboard, I may use this for blogging all the time.

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-90684635007786836402011-11-21T18:48:00.001-05:002011-11-21T18:49:34.246-05:00

OneBookShelf, Inc., the parent company of DriveThruRPG.com and DriveThruComics.com, announced today that they recently launched DriveThruFiction.com. DriveThruFiction.com is a genre-focused website that will offer e-books, audio, visual, and print editions of short stories, novellas, novels, and more. Readers can subscribe to their favorite authors and publishers in science fiction,

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-83880302912220244872011-11-11T13:32:00.001-05:002011-11-11T13:55:36.207-05:00

This, my readers, is opinion writing. In this current economy, in this current market for the tabletop gaming industry, it is sometimes a fight for each and every sale that a publisher makes. More and more, there is a reliance on the early adopter, or the so-called "alpha gamer," to help create buzz and talk up your games online, in gaming groups, and other places to lead to sales. The right

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-10414175795200734932011-11-04T12:07:00.002-04:002011-11-04T12:07:14.332-04:00

About the Dragon Collector’s Set Each dragon is a deadly match for an experienced band of adventurers.   Of all the monsters in the world, dragons are the most feared. A fledgling group of adventurers might have what it takes to best a weak dragon, but the most powerful dragons are awesome, devastating creatures that rival even the gods.     Key Features: This set

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-56449078479593445902011-11-03T17:54:00.001-04:002011-11-03T17:54:38.205-04:00

For National Game Design Month I am working on a role-playing game, an urban fantasy game to be named later. One of the questions I get a lot, as a fan of urban fantasy, is "What is urban fantasy?" Well, while I'm not sure that I want to really tie down that definition completely, I know that I can tell what it looks like to me. I confuse this further by using urban fantasy to also describe what

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-974446813855220822011-10-28T16:43:00.001-04:002011-10-28T16:45:29.686-04:00

Last week, after I finally started reading this book, I tweeted that it read like a cross between Robert Heinlein and Rudy Rucker. Now that I have finished the book, I think that I am going to stick to that analogy and broaden it a bit. This book represents why I like to read Science Fiction. It had a wild energy that drew me into it's world of the future, and the way that Forbeck breathed

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-61222841664177611272011-10-27T16:38:00.001-04:002011-10-27T16:38:32.307-04:00

As long as I am posting "mixtapes," here's one of Halloween-type music compiled by the fine folk over at RCRD LBL. Like music? Like free music? You should check them out. For me, Halloween is strictly about screams and sweat, straight up thrills, nightmarish parties, and sweet sweet (ear) candy. The louder, the weirder, the filthier, the better. Between witchy Purity remixes, Hussle Club

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-38259624036712353852011-10-27T16:31:00.000-04:002011-10-27T16:31:48.324-04:00

Artist, musician and our buddy Akira the Don has released a new mixtape, titled Manga Music, featuring “a tribute to the monumental works of Manga Entertainment, who this year celebrate 20 years of serving us Westerners with the very finest anime.” Each song samples and is named after one of their releases, such as Evangelion, Full Metal Alchemist, Crying Freeman and, naturally, Akira.

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-11028158967583700662011-10-25T15:46:00.000-04:002011-10-25T16:07:03.131-04:00

OpenQuest is a game that readily admits to standing on the shoulders of giants. Much of the foundation of it, as a game, were laid by the multitude of designers from Chaosium and Mongoose working on Basic Roleplaying and the games that it inspired. That does not, however, make this a knock off by any stretch of the imagination. Like many games being put out today, particularly those among the

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-36285223667951366532011-10-21T08:49:00.001-04:002011-10-21T08:59:16.942-04:00

Necronomicon 2011 (the 30th anniversary of the convention) starts today in sunny St. Petersburg, FL. This is my schedule for the weekend (I added myself to a couple of panels because I didn't have anything to do during that time, and the panels had openings). Stop by and say hello at some point. I'll also be hanging around the table of an author friend, selling some PDFs of HeartQuest and

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-88683311931982404082011-09-30T14:48:00.000-04:002011-09-30T14:48:46.112-04:00

(Chicago) September 30, 2011: Rogue Games Kickstarts Containment RPG The Second World War has ended and a the battle for the world has begun, a war fought not with armies and fleets but in the shadows and whose battle lines are not clearly drawn. Two years ago, Germany and Japan were the enemies and the USSR an ally, but times change and the West now turns to former Nazis and their expertise in

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-91365600340407032012011-09-16T05:09:00.001-04:002011-09-16T09:23:06.474-04:00

There's really no getting around it (even if I somehow wanted to avoid it), I am a geek. Not only am I posting this to a blog that I call Dorkland, but I am tapping away at this particular post on a smartphone. I am a lucky geek. Despite growing up in a smaller town in Indiana, I managed to have a pretty tolerant time of my formative years. No football players, or other jocks either, ever

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-81596657258370189632011-09-02T21:03:00.001-04:002011-09-03T14:53:48.675-04:00

Are you a geek? Well, if you're reading a blog with a name like Dorkland! there's a good chance that you are one. Because of a recent article that appeared online mocking a certain Magic: The Gathering world champion (that we're not going to encourage by linking to because the website pays according to the number of clicks that an article generates) there's a movement afoot to get people to

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-35433508137163023152011-08-21T19:16:00.000-04:002011-08-21T19:16:42.709-04:00

BEST NOVEL Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra) BEST NOVELLA The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean) BEST NOVELETTE “The Emperor of Mars” by Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s, June 2010) BEST SHORT STORY “For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s, September 2010) BEST RELATED WORK Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-29464381122620906552011-08-19T16:55:00.001-04:002011-08-19T16:55:47.250-04:00

This (only slightly rambling) interview with Donna Prior was done at GenCon. Thrill to the crowd sounds as talk in a hallway about gaming (both tabletop RPGs and computer MMOs) and inclusiveness in gaming. Donna Prior from Heatwave Interactive at GenCon by dorkland. Uploaded with SoundCloud Android

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-39193495710994719392011-08-19T16:50:00.004-04:002011-08-19T16:51:00.224-04:00

I have some 20% off codes from DriveThruRPG/RPGNow for Iron Dynasty, Volume 3 of the Field Guide to Superheroes, VampireHunter$, Genius Guide to Another 110 Spell Variants and a cof other fine games/supplements. This code will be good until September 20, 2011. I am not responsible for the sale code, so the items covered and length of time the code works are not up to me (nor can I change them).

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-72508440348092926972011-08-11T22:43:00.001-04:002011-08-11T22:43:44.660-04:00

A Brief Talk With Steve Jackson at GenCon by dorkland. Uploaded with SoundCloud Android

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The way that I had these attendance numbers explained to me on Twitter was this: Turnstile numbers are Badge Per Day, so a weekend (4-day) badge would equal four Turnstiles, while unique equals the number of different people. A person buying a Friday/Saturday badge would be one Unique and Two Turnstiles. Hopefully that makes sense of the numbers for everyone, or at least as much sense as the

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-17292199929166577352011-08-08T10:28:00.001-04:002011-08-08T10:28:23.775-04:00

It was a long weekend. (Photo via Phil Reed) I met a lot of people that I've only known as tiny Twitpics and screen names on Twitter, Google+, and forums like RPG.net. That is one of my favorite parts of any convention, connecting to others. I'm kind of weird that way. I also got to meet Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games, Munchkin, GURPS, Ogre, et al. As a matter of fact I got to speak

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-58443744224507958392011-08-07T02:39:00.000-04:002011-08-07T02:39:05.668-04:00

An epic battle is underway over one of the oldest super-hero roleplaying games, but sadly it won't be settled by muscle-bound men in tights. The creators of the game Villains & Vigilantes, Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Scott Bizar, the longtime publisher of the game. The suit, filed July 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-22558330188342599722011-08-06T15:00:00.028-04:002011-08-11T16:25:58.480-04:00

Thursday I spoke with one of the Brand Managers for D&D from Wizards of the Coast. The topic was the new Neverwinter campaign setting launch from the company. You can see the initial press release sent out by Wizards over here. There has already been some controversy over the above-linked press release due to their wording of the "It is the first-ever RPG book focused solely on one city"

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-80484366903552762402011-08-06T09:05:00.001-04:002011-08-06T09:05:11.076-04:00

GenCon is chaos and, unfortunately has has terrible, terrible connectivity issues. Makes it difficult to the the blogging that that I am actually at GenCon to do. Those following m Twitter feed will have seen what the big Margaret Weis Productions (MWP) announcement on Friday was that they now have the rights to produce an RPG based on the Marvel Comics universe. I think that this was the big

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-45077585402893595372011-08-04T11:51:00.002-04:002011-08-06T08:32:30.076-04:00

Right now I am propped up against a back wall in the Exhibition Hall of GenCon, collecting my thoughts and trying to put down some words of my first thoughts on the con. Pictures will follow because, unfortunately the WiFi doesn't't like my netbook right now. That will probably make this post shorter, because while blogging from my phone is cool (and it males me feel a lot like a character from

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com1Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association, 200 South Capitol Avenue, Suite 300, Indianapolis, IN, United States39.764313 -86.161846tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-84790260840274369622011-08-02T13:46:00.002-04:002011-08-02T15:16:42.428-04:00

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce that it has entered a comprehensive licensing partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd. for the worldwide rights to publish card, roleplaying, and miniatures games set in the popular Star Wars™ universe! Find out more at the FFG website. At first I thought that announcing this now was an odd choice, being two days before the start of GenCon and all, but as

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-89705244917796757292011-08-02T11:45:00.001-04:002011-08-02T11:45:16.811-04:00

Exciting, New Suite of Neverwinter Offerings Unveiled at Gen Con Indy 2011 AUGUST 2, 2011 – INDIANAPOLIS – Wizards of the Coast today announced that its iconic roleplaying game of fantasy and imagination, Dungeons & Dragons®, will return to one of the most well-known and fascinating cities within D&D lore and the Forgotten Realms novels – the city of Neverwinter.  Along with the new D

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-68541221040831850272011-07-20T13:21:00.005-04:002011-07-20T15:57:41.599-04:00

INDIANAPOLIS – July 19, 2011- Spin Master is excited to make its debut at this year’s Gen Con with the launch of its exciting new Trading Card Game, Redakai™ as well as featured games from Spin Master Games; Stomple™ and the 50th Anniversary of Stratego™. “Spin Master has a strong history of launching hits. Their balance of innovation and love for classic gaming is a great fit for Gen Con.

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-29045705092571800132011-07-20T11:20:00.001-04:002011-07-20T11:20:12.061-04:00

Dear Syfy and Alphas, I really want to like your show. Really, I do. I admit that I started watching it because David Stratham was in the commercials, but I thought you had some cool concepts. Thought. Sadly, you seem intent to keep up this pseudo-scientific claptrap to make the show "believable." In a show where a guy can "see" Youtube videos and "hear" cellphone conversations, or where a

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-88483441728398134202011-07-14T14:14:00.000-04:002011-07-14T14:14:13.111-04:00

Yes, I know...I am a few issues behind the curve. Hopefully I will be able to catch up, during or after GenCon. I have fond memories of the original print run of Unspeakable Oath. I was lucky enough to find the issue introducing Delta Green on a news stand when it came out, and that is what introduced me to Pagan Publishing and books like Golden Dawn and the Delta Green sourcebooks. While I

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-79722183089966700712011-07-09T03:49:00.001-04:002011-07-09T03:49:16.385-04:00

I will be doing liveblogging, photography and hopefully some audio interviews as well. I am going to be combining this blog with the resources of other social media sites around the internet to bring you what I hope will be some of the best coverage of GenCon out there. In addition to this blog, be sure to also follow my Twitter feed (look to the right side of this blog for a link to my Twitter

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-11511294256035013502011-06-16T03:36:00.022-04:002011-06-16T14:20:46.644-04:00

Those moments when I can't sleep is when the strange ideas creep into my head: What would some like d20 Modern have looked like if it had been made at the same time as OD&D?My one problem, for drawing influences, is that I can't really think of any contemporary "fantasy adventure" fiction or shows that could have been an influence. All of the stuff that I personally remember from the late 70s

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-33416549037545352882011-06-14T14:17:00.000-04:002011-06-14T14:17:56.435-04:00

In spite of the debut of DC’s Flashpoint event comic there was no periodical comic that sold over 100,000 copies once again in May and only 3 out of the top 25 comics posted gains in circulation. DC’s Flashpoint’s debut at #2 has to be considered disappointing. Several retailers contacted by ICv2 have indicated that they sold out of their initial orders, which means that Flashpoint might well

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-37660289444964346772011-06-14T14:15:00.000-04:002011-06-14T14:15:09.312-04:00

Two weeks ago we ran a blog post here at CO2 Comics titled The King and The Man that compared excerpts of interviews with Stan Lee and the late Jack Kirby who recollected their dramatically opposing perspectives of the creation of the FANTASTIC FOUR and much of the Marvel Universe.The post sparked an animated debate throughout the internet in forums and discussion boards on comic related sites,

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-34417482533565008742011-06-09T22:24:00.000-04:002011-06-09T22:24:02.811-04:00

Ever since George Smiley, the espionage genre and its fans have been interested in moles and double agents. These operatives were a cornerstone of Cold War espionage. The question is, how do you do this with your Agents of SWING games? With NPCs, this is easy enough to do...in fact the upcoming Nefarious supplement will no doubt have some villainous double agents and defectors to plague your

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-91171552338071273472011-05-10T15:40:00.000-04:002011-05-10T15:40:37.653-04:00

I know that it is an artifact of the character creation rules in Spirit of the Century, but I'm not a fan of how the Phases of character creation are handled in it or in either of Cubicle 7's Fate offshoots: Starblazer Adventures or Legends of Anglerre. Luckily for me, Fate is an easily hackable game system. I like the idea of Phases in character creation, just not the implementation of it in

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-53925923336663031952011-04-28T15:09:00.002-04:002011-04-28T15:23:23.192-04:00

Readers of this blog and my Twitter stream know that I've become a fan of Troll Lord Games' Castles & Crusades. Just today on Twitter I mentioned wanting to see GammaSIEGE, a Castles & Crusades take on post-apocalyptic gaming that would combine the best elements of things like Gamma World and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and bring it together under the mechanics of Castles & Crusades. That tweet

Chris Heltonhttps://profiles.google.com/100051837928894807640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834354.post-82681858605568176872011-04-12T15:06:00.002-04:002011-04-12T15:08:10.921-04:00

MASHURRECTED 2011 :: m i x t a p e by madmixmustang 01. Mashup-Germany - Everybody speaks no Americano [Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP vs. Backstreet Boys vs. Phantom of the Opera vs. Bob Sinclair vs. Benny Benassi] 02. A Plus D - Don't You Want My Bad Romance [The Human League vs. Lady Gaga] 03. DJ Morgoth - Carry On My Wayward Island [Pendulum vs. Kansas] 04. Pheugoo & Bo the MAN -

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Inspiration for a game designer comes in many places: books, movies, music, overheard snippets of conversation, the internet. In that way, game design is just like any other creative field. Inspiration comes in strange places. For this post, I'm going to do something a little different than usual. Hopefully this works. I am going to start with an inspiration, in this case a video that I saw

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One of my favorite books (and copyleft/public domain texts) is a little something called The T.A.Z. - The Temporary Autonomous Zone. One of my goals is to one day design an RPG around this great little text. My pitch for an RPG based around Nemesis the Warlock was built around the principals of this text, but unfortunately I wasn't able to work on that. Consider this a public notebook posting,

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Have I ever mentioned being a big fan of Matt Wagner's Grendel? No? Well, I am. And back when I had my Uncle Vurt's Fuzion Homepage the second most popular netbook was the one that I put together for Grendel. I was leary about reposting this one because it takes a lot of copyrighted material from the Grendel Cycle. However, if anyone has any complaints I'll be happy to take this down. This is

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Since I was going through my archives, I found some more of my fun, old Fuzion materials. Here are some Martial Arts powers that I created using the power creation rules from the Champions New Millennium version of the Fuzion rules. Thankfully they put a PDF version up on the internet a long time ago that has never died. If you're look for a good, fairly simple and easy to use set of rules for

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I've been thinking about the Fuzion system again recently, so I started nosing around some of my old files for the game. Back in the 90s, one of the first websites that I built (using library computers for decent internet access when I had a dial-up at home) was a Fuzion fan page called Uncle Vurt's Fuzion Homepage. Unfortunately that site is long gone (as is Geocities) but some of the material

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After talking about Ken Hite's Suppressed Transmission books with Tyler from Held Action over at Twitter, one of the things that we both mentioned liking about the book versions were the incredible bibliographies in them. We also both said that non-gaming books that inspire gaming would be a good topic for blogging. Rather than create one gigantic wall of text, I thought it would be better to

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It all started with a bit of dialog from the criminally underappreciated movie Slacker by indie film auteur Richard Linklater “You know about the suppressed transmission, of course? No? Oh, well,” a manic beatnik (Jerry Delony) raves to a student he’s buttonholed on the sidewalk. He careens through a unified field theory of paranoia that links government cover-ups of extraterrestrial contact,

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The rules in this post are cribbed from StarSIEGE, and as such are not considered Open Content. I'm sure Troll Lord Games would probably prefer I not do this, and if they would rather I will take this post down. For me, a major flaw with Castles & Crusades is the lack of a skill system. Ironically, this wasn't an issue for me with D&D or AD&D back in the day, at least until I got the old D&D

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Back when I was studying Journalism in high school and college I did a lot of what was called Opinion writing, and of that writing much of it was taken up with writing reviews. While I still have no shortage of opinions, I don't do much reviewing anymore. Well, that's something I want to change. In the spirit of disclosure, I received my copy of the PDF of Black Seal #3 as a complimentary PDF

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Ok, so this is going to be a little bit of "filler" almost. I'm going to share some more contemporary music that sets a tone (for me) for Cyberpunk gaming. I'm going to try to keep away from the expected. These are all songs and artists that come from my personal music collection. Are they "cyberpunk" enough? Do I care?     Why am I going through music, you might ask? Well, I'm looking at how

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As I warned on Twitter, I'm going to be going through my Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook and posting some of my musing about it here. With any luck there will be a reason for all of this, if not at least people will have some cool stuff for their future games. A few ground rules to this, however. I'm going to be talking about the rules as written and published. If something that I go over was addressed

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Update: Borders has opened a website that's a clearing house for information on the bankruptcy and reorganization. You can find it here, at the Borders Group, Inc. website. Among the points they make on that site are: Borders stores are open for business. We will continue to provide our customers with a vast assortment of books in a warm and relaxing environment - and we intend to build on

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I like music. I like finding new music. It's always interesting to hear what others are listening to, even if I don't like it. When I was a kid, I loved making mixtapes for people. So, let's make a little bit of a challenge, shall we? I want everyone within the sound of my virtual voice to put together a virtual CD of some of their favorite tunes right now. The stuff that is burning up in your

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Press Release Serpent King Games is new home for the Dragon Warriors RPG 1st February 2011, United Kingdom Dragon Warriors, the classic 1980s dark-fantasy RPG recently re-released by Magnum Opus Press, is moving to new British publishing company Serpent King Games. From 1st April the game will no longer be available from Magnum Opus, which had published Dragon Warriors through Mongoose

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I'm sure someone will look at the source of this link and discount it automatically, but I think that would be a mistake. A prestigious economics think-tank of the Japanese Government has published a study which concludes that online piracy of anime shows actually increases sales of DVDs. The conclusion stands in sharp contrast with the entertainment industry’s claims that ‘illicit’ downloading

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Happy New Year!Ok, my challenge for 2011 is to make a new Found Sound Orchestra track every week and post it here. No doubt quality control will take a hit at various times during the 12 months but hopefully by the end of the year those that have stuck with it will have enough decent songs to make a nice 10 or 12 track album. Please feel free to download, play and delete to your hearts content.So

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I was rummaging through my trade paperback shelves the other day and came across my copy of the first volume of iBooks Mister X trade. Shamefully, this well-designed and thought out book has never found a large enough of an audience (despite the book being optioned for film back in the 80s with Patrick Stewart rumored to play the lead at the time). Besides this trade I have a couple of Vortex

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Back when mashups were only being made in the UK and called Bootlegs, a lovely chap by the name of Deep Disco Force (Nick) organised a series of gigs/weekenders/piss-ups in his home town of Trier, Germany and invited GYBOers to go along and do their thing at his International Bastard Pop Weekenders. I went to number 3 in March 2004 and took a video camera. I made a film about it. Well, that

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Not sure how I missed this one:A former Wizards of the Coast employee has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing $45,000 worth of Magic: The Gathering promotional cards, according to SeattlePI. The theft came to light when large numbers of promo cards were spotted being offered by a Burien, Washington retailer at a Portland convention. The retailer ended up turning over 1700

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We're going to have a party. It's New Year's Eve and it's Second Life. A selection of the mighty, mighty DJs from Radio Riel will be bringing you wide ranging selection of music from different genres and eras as we attempt to ring in the New Year in as many time zones as possible for all of you. The party starts at 2:30pm (Second Life Time) and goes until 12:30am (also Second Life Time). Here's

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A list from the MTVGeek website (which I never knew existed before now). At least it doesn't have Kanye West's new CD on it. :) Actually, joking aside, it is a list with some depth to it even if a fact or two aren't completely right.2010 has been a banner year for role-playing games and accessories -- here's 10 of the best!

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You can the MP3 (and comment on it) here.

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*sighs and takes a deep breath* Twice now in the last week people have tried to make a discussion over at RPGNet about "social contracts" and using better channels of communication to make gaming groups last longer and play better. Twice now in the last week those discussions have been shouted down, mostly by the same people, who say anyone who needs these sorts of things are obviously either

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They got tired, that’s all, or mostly all. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich and her drawing partner June Brigman decided in early December to stop producing Brenda Starr, and Tribune Media Services, which owns the strip, seized the opportunity to end its syndication. Last June, TMS took out of its comics line-up the other redhead, Annie, a remnant of Harold Gray’s plucky waif strip, Little

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The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation has pledged $250,000 over five years to support the new Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum facility, part of the Sullivant Hall renovation at The Ohio State University. In recognition of this gift, the library’s seminar room will be named in honor of Will Eisner. The Eisner Family Foundation gift will be matched dollar for dollar by Jean Schulz, widow

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I know a couple of mash-up artists who've utilized samples from numbers stations, but there is just something so hypnotic and weirdly otherworldly about these recordings that I would love to see more done with some of these recordings that are out and about. It's a shame these are only 64kbps. For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to

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Looking for a version of Auld Lang Syne for your New Year's party that's different from the same old? Check out this release from netlabel Comfortstand from 2006 for some different and interesting interpretations of the song.Another New Year's Eve is upon us, a time to reflect on all that has happened in the previous year and to wonder about events yet to come

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For those wanting the direct link, go here (or click the post title). In late 1998, I was commissioned to compile and produce the soundtrack for a sequel to the film 'Tron'. A draft of the story had already been written and early filming had begun (as reported by ZDNet on July 27, 1999). As I understand it, the film was kept in great confidence with the producers as Pixar was still in

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Let the debate and controversy begin. There are some good mashups here, but I have to say that in the opinion of this fan of the mashup method The Kleptones' Uptime/Downtime was a game changer in the community. They raised the bar so high on multi-part mashups that I don't know if even they will be able to hit it again. To have a track no higher that #6 is disheartening to this fan.That said,

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The panel is from "The Silent Night of the Batman" in Batman #219 (February 1970, reprinted in Christmas with the Superheroes #1, 1988), written by Mike Friedrich, art by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, coloring by Jerry Serpe. Via Comics Oughta Be Fun.

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I know a lot of geeks, gamers and comic fans prefer to ignore political matters, but then that is how this sort of idiocy starts to happen. Seriously, don't these people have some sort of real political issue that they can deal with without having to poke about in comic books for them?A conservative blogger who earlier sounded the alarm about the perceived attack on the tea party movement in

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Adrienne Roy, who created color designs for most of DC Comics' top comic books for more than two decades, lost a year-long battle with cancer on December 14. She was 57 years old.A native of Verona, New Jersey and a Magna Cum Laude fine art graduate of William Patterson University, Adrienne was active in science-fiction and Star Trek fandom before she became one of the first female comic fans

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I'm wondering if this year's might be a little scary, due to the selections available. Following the publication of the Billboard 100 for 2010 (USA music chart), DJ Earworm has been 'working feverishly' to complete his famed 'United State of Pop' mashup track, which seamlessly blends the top 25 tracks of the year.Edit: If you want to keep your own watch, you can find DJ Earworm's website here.

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I've made a change to how people are able to comment on my blog. Since the great number of anonymous comments that I receive on this blog (which is why comments have been on moderated status) are spam, I have made it so that people can no longer post anonymously on the blog. From now on, posting will require some form of logging on. Since I have taken away the ability to post anonymously, I have

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Just a note to those who followed my start on the "Spirit of the Four Colors" FATE build. I want you to know that they project hasn't died. I've just got paying jobs in the queue before it. Look for a big update in the new year. I already have some changes I want to make to the part I've posted and I've been thinking a lot about character creation. This is definitely not a dead project.

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So comic books have grown beyond spandex do-gooders punching jaywalkers in the breadbasket - now they're fit to depict the full range of human experience. And that includes sex.

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In the old days, even the dumbest comics got a chance to thrive - hell, Dazzler lasted thirty-eight issues! Unfortunately, in the post-everything America, stuff gets cancelled right and left. Here's 25 comics that should have lived longer.

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I'm reposting a link to the Radioclash website (click the title above) for a series of compilations entitled "It Ain't Girl Talk, it's BETTER" put together by Tim of Radioclash (and mashup producer Instamatic), for those people who are under the misguided impression that Girl Talk does good mashups. These, my friends, are much better. Click and download. Click and download. Well if you've been

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The daughter of Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman, said her father loved Cleveland because it was the first city to embrace a character who would one day be one of the most recognizable icons in the world.While in town visiting relatives, Laura Siegel Larson attended a meeting of the Siegel and Shuster Society and said her father would be proud of the work the group is doing to promote

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For more than 20 years, I’ve written and drawn comics for a variety of major publishers: Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image and Disney. Like many artists, I’ve seen my sales figures chipped away as the print market shrinks due, in no small part, to rampant online piracy.I tried to count the number of pirate sites that had my work available for free download, but when I hit 145, I was too depressed to

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to re-introduce a revised bill to restrict manga and anime with explicit sexual depictions of children during the parliamentary session that begins at the end of this month. The bill would amend the Youth Healthy Development Ordinance to add these materials to the existing 'harmful publications' classification, and thus restrict their sales and

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Good list, except that I've never been a fan of Birdland (which I believe is the only Eros Comics publication I own). I picked up the book on the strength of being a huge Love and Rockets fan and loving the work of Los Bros Hernandez (singly and together). This list has added to comics that I want to track down with Niplez n Tum Tum and Small Favors. Dirty comics have been around almost as long

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For those of you who fancy vampires and werewolves, parasols and tea, then you simply must meet Alexia Tarabotti. Some of you may remember reading a sample of Miss Tarabotti’s adventures in the pages of Yen Plus. In an alternate Victorian London in which vampires and werewolves have taken their place in high society, Alexia Tarabotti is soulless. That is, whenever she comes into contact with one

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Open Core was my first public attempt at a role-playing game system. In some places it rocks as a game, but there are also some places where the seems show with the welds that I did between the various open content systems that formed my Open Core rules. There are things that I would do different today, and there are things that I could probably do better today (some may argue against that!) but,

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Even if Jerry Robinson had initially left comics for a career in journalism as he had originally intended, he’d still be fondly remembered for his work on Batman, particularly in creating the arch-villain the Joker.

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I've been thinking about AD&D the last few days, since a couple of the panels at Necronomicon and the discussions we had on them. When I say AD&D I mean first edition because I never played or followed AD&D 2e. I don't think I've played AD&D since 1986 or so. My last game in the "old school" of (A)D&D was a Rules Cyclopedia game of D&D in '88 or so. But I've been thinking about it again. Yes,

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Captain Marvel and the rest of the Marvel Family haven't been featured in their own, in DCU continuity, ongoing series for more than a decade, dating back to the 'Power of Shazam' series, which ran 48 issues from 1995 to 1999.But Eric Wallace is doing everything within his power to keep Shazam! alive, first delivering the one-shot 'Blackest Night: Power of Shazam' #48 last January and then

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This post is going to be a bit of a text dump because I am going to start playing with the SotC SRD and molding it into Spirit of the Four Colors. Sometime these changes may seem minimal, while others will see more more extensive. One of the big changes you are going to see in this post deals with gaining Fate points, making them more "super-heroic" in my opinion. This is one of the places where

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HALLOWEEN HAUNT MEGAMIX by cheekyboy And if you want to download it yourself, click here.

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For a little experiment I'm going to start hacking the Spirit  of the Century rules into something suitable for big screen, four color, super-heroic games. I'm looking probably hacking in the power skills from Legends of Angelerre along with some material from Icons and Eddy Webb's Marvelous Super-Heroes Fudge hack. Watch this space for more. Edit: I forgot to mention throwing Phil Reed's 4C

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By the order of the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES CONSTITUTION, a Legion leader will be chosen in a manner determined by its membership. Please review the following list of active members for the Legionnaire that you feel embodies the traits and skills of a strong leader. Remember Legion Constitutional Amendment to Section 8.0: Anyone attempting to use their superpowers to influence the election may be

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