The BBC have released a trailer prequel to The Snowmen, the Doctor Who Christmas special, and it’s worth a watch. Have you gotten used to these micro-teasers from the Beeb? A few seconds of clips? You might be surprised by Vastra investigates – it’s over 2 minutes long, approaching 3 minutes. That compares very well […]
Garfield does Doctor Who
Garfield makes for a most unlikely dalek? The question is: has he solved the Monday problem?
5 pictures of Yog-Sothoth
This Christmas might be special to the great intelligence, to Yog-Sothoth, only time will tell. Just what does Yog-Sothoth look like? Can you behold Yog-Sothoth without the last of your sanity drooling out of your ears? Thankfully Pinterest is full of artistic renderings of the old one. Let’s take a look. (via) (via) (via) (via) […]
Trailer for Don’t Problem Children Come From an Alternate World?
This isn’t quite the same idea as the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon but there’s an overlap. In Don’t Problem Children Come From an Alternate World? (Mondai-Ji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru So Desu yo?) Izayoi Sakamaki opens an envelope and is transported to a mysterious new world. Izayoi discovers that two other “problem children” have […]
The Role-Playing Color Wheel
This is a tool for Gamemasters. It lets GMs add incidental colour to descriptions of the gaming world. At the start of each session, rotate the rings randomly to create new slices so that when you need to reference some colour you can pick a slice and use it for inspiration. The colour wheel was […]
Hellboy meets Peanuts
I’m a fan of Francesco Francavilla. We have creative ideas with near perfect execution. In this case we take two geeky areas; Hellboy and Peanuts, apparently miles apart and mash them together. The result makes the two competing art styles look like a perfect fit – although it’s the Hellboy story that wins through. The […]
Legend of Zelda: Link the pot smasher
You might recognise Link as Lindsey Stirling, the violin player, who can credit this Zelda video as one most important, successes in her early career. The video does paint Link’s pot smashing in perspective.
Evil Hat offer art preview of Fate Core
The Kickstarter project for the core rules to Evil Hat Products’ system, Fate Core, is a huge success. At the time posting there are 46 days on the $3,000 campaign left to run. How much have they raised $145,845. It’s gone up twice while I was writing this post. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core/ Today, Fred Hicks updated the […]
The Enemy Within returns for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Over on the Roleplaying Games community in Google+, Johnn Four asked; “Which is the best published adventure you’ve come across”. What a great question. For some people the old Warhammer FRP adventure “The Enemy Within” may have come to mind. As it happens, Fantasy Flight Games has just released a re-imagined version. The original dates […]
All The Anime: Mysterious new anime distributor launches in the UK
Anime LTD is part mystery and part familiar. The familiar aspect of the new company, one that will manage anime distribution for cinema and home release, is in the form of Andrew Partridge. Partridge established and makes a success out of Scotland Loves Anime which takes hot Japanese anime releases and golden oldies to cinema […]
