Tuesday, October 19, 2004

The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power

The Official Ninja Homepage

Mystery Of Dr. Dan Burisch

Mystery Of Dr. Dan Burisch

"I was just going through a massive amount of collected data on my friend Dr. Dan Burisch and found this introduction by B.J. Wolf. I will follow this with how it all ended."

Blue Rose: The Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy

While the system looks interesting (a variant of Green Ronin's Mutants and Masterminds system coupled with variants that they developed for use with d20), I am not certain of the viablity of the setting. But perhaps that is because it isn't something for me. It looks like an appeal to the fans of shoujo manga and anime, but is that a big enough of a gaming market to aim an entire game at them, instead of just developing themed supplements towards that market?

If this is an appeal to get women into gaming (while I applaud it), it seems a rather stereotypical approach. I do hope that it does succeed regardless of the intentions.

Blue Rose: The Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy

"The official home on the Web of Blue Rose, Green Ronin Publishing's Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy. This is the place to find Blue Rose fiction, previews, product support, and information about all of the Blue Rose products."

Monday, October 18, 2004

The X-Files Timeline

Some interesting extrapolations and the work of someone with a lot of free time. Not that your faithful web compiler has any geat shortage of that himself. If I have to explain the X-Files, though, you have certainly come to the wrong site. I may plug some of this into my upcoming Call of Cthluhu campaign.

The X-Files Timeline

Therianthropology

The timelines are particularly useful to prospective GMs and Players, wishing to fit werewolves and various other shape changers into their campaigns. Some of it is pretty useful for insertion as backgound material...and some of it can be quite goofy. You make the call.

Therianthropology

"Welcome to THERIANTHROPOLOGY 101. Here we hope to raise the awareness of the casual student as to the nature and history of the myriad shapeshifters that have walked, flown, swam, or crawled upon the surface of this Earth.

"At present, the resources offered are but meager. Therianthropology is a fledgling science, combining elements of Anthropology, Mythology, Cryptozoology, Parapsychology, and several studies of a more esoteric nature. Lycanthropology is but one of the disciplines a Therianthropologist may choose to specialize in, but it is considerably better accepted by modern society as a genuine science, as the Lycanthrope, or Werewolf, is by far the most well known 'Primal' in modern 'pop' culture."

The Secret Doctrines of the Assassins

An excellent resource for those wanting to use the historical Order of Assassins in their RPG Campaigns. I have used these guys and Thugees in games, since I tired of the ever present Ninja in games.

The Secret Doctrines of the Assassins

"Nothing is forbidden, Everything is Permitted."

Pulp Project1557

While it is known that I am not a fan of wikis...this site does seem to have some pretty good resources for Pulp Era gaming. Luckily, I don't have to wory about contributing to it. If you are a Pulp GM or Players, you should certainly check out this site for background material.

Pulp Project1557 (seedwiki.com)

Also, check out this site for historical maps of the NYC Subway system.

Friday, October 15, 2004

HIV virus deliberately created: Wangari Maathai

The Times of India

"Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, on Saturday reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent." [Warning....pop-ups (but not so bad)]

WKMG-TV, Orlando

If this can't upstart a horror senario, I don't know what will....

Preserved Fetus In Medical Container Found At Mall

"A preserved human fetus was discovered inside a medical container Tuesday night in a mall parking lot in Orlando, Fla., according to Local 6 News."

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Notice!

Just so you (whomever you are) know, apparently my blog crashed at some point in the night last night and the template disappeared. So, this morning I went to make a post and was faced with a blank page. *sigh* I picked a new look for the page (hope you like it...not that it really matters) with a little more color. Luckily I was able to grab a cached copy of the blog from Google so all of the links and the news banner, and etc. will slowly but surely make a return to the page.

Edit: At this point, I am pretty sure that I have recaptured everything from the old page. Thank for Google and its cache function. Welcome, or welcome back, to Dorkland. Please be sure to look around and check out any of the many sites that have been linked to from here. The "Dork Links" are my permanent links, semi-regularly tested to make sure that they are not broken. They are a number of different things, from websites of strangeness, to game company sites and designer blogs.

Autonomedia is a favorite site of mine, they publish the books that most publishers are afraid of. I got a copy of one of my favorite books from them a couple of months ago. T.A.Z. is a great resource for GMs, particularly those running a "dark future" or perhaps a "post apocalyptic" game. It is full of ideas that you will never find in an RPG supplement. I am going to utilize ideas from it for my upcoming Call of Cthulhu game.