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January 23, 2025
‘This Too Shall Pass.’
This song lives in my head, but fortunately it’s a really good tenant.
This Too Shall Pass, OK Go
Somebody tell me I don’t need to spend the weekend…
…putting together a PDF of a campaign concept from a third-party RPG setting that nobody plays anymore. Especially since I don’t have the rights to do anything commercial with it, which means I cannot sell it. And I cannot in fact go get the rights, because I don’t have the money and would feel the need to ask yet more unwelcome questions that would be very ill-received. Tell me the smart idea is to work on something else.
Because I’ve been thinking about doing it anyway this evening. Like, a lot.
Shooting starts on James Gunn’s SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW.
More here. I actually picked up the complete SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW graphic novel, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Specifically, the aesthetic of it pushes my buttons: the artistic style evokes Flash Gordon / Art Nouveau in a way that I look at, and think ‘High Romance.’ I am very much looking forward to seeing if James Gunn saw the same things that I did, and if he can put it on the screen.
#commissionearned
PS: Seriously, the art is amazing. I kind of want to grab the book and stay up late to read it again.
Check out “The Wolfman of Westhaven” and my Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit! Free!
All very cross-promotional, sure. I turned “The Wolfman of Westhaven” into a playtest adventure when I was working on the Fermi Resolution Worldbook, so it’ll do just as well as a stretch goal adventure. Thanks to the vagaries of what can be posted where, the story went up as a PDF on Patreon. Check it out! Check it all out.
Patreon!
What about the UFOs?
We’re hearing nothing about the UFOS.
Notice we're hearing nothing about the UFOs. pic.twitter.com/3PUz5x3h5X
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) January 23, 2025
This actually surprises me. I figure we’d have at least gotten a ‘There are no UFOs’ (which is the overwhelmingly likely, if boring answer). Instead… nothing about the UFOs.
January 22, 2025
Coming Soon: the Fear The Forgotten Foes Kickstarter. (Back it!)
Fear the Forgotten Foes is an upcoming 5e Kickstarter being run by Tuz, who is the dude who will be fiddling with the manuscript for my upcoming crowdfunding project. It also features art by Ben Fleuter, who was the artist for my upcoming crowdfunding project. So, basically, I’m recommending you join me in signing up for notifications for this Kickstarter. Obviously.
01/22/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOST.
Rooftops!
The two of them had taken to the old buildings after Oxman had ‘felt something funny’ coming from the ground. Nat hadn’t felt it, himself, but he also didn’t argue. He could sense stuff Oxman couldn’t, after all. And since neither of them wanted to stay out in the open anyway, breaking into abandoned houses and shops, climbing up, and traveling via rooftop was appealing.
It wasn’t working out exactly to plan, though.
As usual, the door to the roof opened with one hard shove from Oxman. But then, getting to the roofs was never a problem, and neither was jumping from building to building. The trick was getting across the streets. Old American roads were ridiculously wide, and had none of the overhangs you got in modern towns. Both men possessed certain items that quietly and discreetly boosted their ability to leap in straight lines, but every few blocks the two simply had to descend, sneak across one of the side roads, and make their way back up.
They stayed up top as much as they could anyway. It was that or stay on the ominously quiet streets — or worse, see what horrors the sewers held. In the Marcher lands, you only did that when you absolutely had to. You never knew what would be down there, except that it would always be filthy.
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Robert Eggers’s next Focus movie will be called WERWULF.
Gee, I wonder what that will be about? “Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features after the phenomenal success of Nosferatu becoming the studio’s second highest grossing movie stateside with $90.5M behind Downton Abbey, and that is with the new genre movie Werwulf.”
Via Geek Tyrant. If you like horror movies at all, do not sleep on NOSFERATU. It is a good vampire flick, solidly based in its time period. I assume that WERWULF will be the same way, and that it will not be a happy-shiny werewolf movie. Eggars doesn’t roll that way.
#commissionearned
Put a Fermi Resolution filksong up on the Launch Party!
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of the Zone Kickstarter/Fan movie.
They crowdfunded this a couple of years ago: the movie is based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 video game. I’ve just started said movie, and so far S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of the Zone has been pretty dang good. I’m gonna go back to watching it now.
Game link: https://amzn.to/4hqlG3g
#commissionearned
