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DARK HISTORY is now available at DriveThruRPG!

DriveThruRPG did not send me a notification that DARK HISTORY was up and running, but it looks like it’s available for purchase (it’s also showing up here). This is 36 pages of generic spooky goodness, system-agnostic, ranging from locations to artifacts to adventure seeds. And just in time for Halloween, thank God.

Check it out today!

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PS: There’s a lot of modified clip art! I swear to God, next time I’m just going to get my kids to do some, and teach them some valuable life lessons about deadlines and PitA clients in the process.

Tweet of the Day, I Don’t Know How I Missed This edition.

It’s got that peculiar clarity you get when you see an observation that is insanely obvious. In retrospect. I mean, I didn’t see it for myself, now did I?

@Strangeland_Elf as the leading expert, what say you? pic.twitter.com/tBli8HhRWM

— Celtica Mater Paparum (@Keltoi_Santess) October 12, 2024

New @HPLHS DART title drops.

THE TEMPLE. Should be fun.

Well, I’m sure at *some* point DARK HISTORY will be available.

I like DriveThruRPG generally, but their approval process needs more obvious benchmarks. I think it’ll be available by Monday, but I can’t really confirm it yet. Guess we’ll see.

I’m mildly pleased with the cover, though. It’s the best clip art no money whatsoever can buy make himself!

10/11/2024 Snippet, CALL OF THE MOON-BEASTS.

Needed some action/drama.

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“Fine. I’m in shock.” Clumsily — too clumsily — Tobias pushed himself up to a sitting position on the bed. “Or maybe it’s a stroke too small for you to deduce. It’s suddenly hard to move. Like I have to push harder to get my arms to respond.”

.Interesting. How is your fine motor control?

Tobias rubbed his fingers. “Huh. That’s not so hard.”

Excellent. Pick up something, and drop it.

Tobias eyes’ widened as he realized what Asenath was implying — but he grabbed a pillow on the bed, brought it to eye level, and let go. It fell fast. A little too fast.

I estimate twelve feet per second, squared. A bit less than the gravity of Mars. Asenath’s voice had a certain… hesitancy to it, almost as if she didn’t want to tell Tobias. I suggest that you instead concentrate on the air temperature and humidity, Commander.

The last season trailer of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS.

I’m fine with this being the last season, mind you. Five and done, and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS doesn’t outstay its welcome. This is, I feel, smart. I’m just glad they got four seasons out of the concept, and hopefully a fifth one as well.

(I don’t judge anybody who doesn’t like this show, by the way. I have an amiable disposition towards shows, and a weird sense of humor. I recognize that people like stuff that I don’t, and vice versa, and it’s not a moral judgment either way.)

(SCOOBY-DOO: MYSTERY INCORPORATED is still the best Scooby-Doo, though. I’m not wavering on this one, sorry.)

#commissionearned

MD Renn Festival in two days!

Supposed to be sunny, mid-seventies, and thus undoubtedly packed to the rafters. Excellent book-selling weather then… one hopes. I’ll try to get some photos of the space this go-round.

As always, if you can’t buy my books then, feel free to buy ’em now.

#commissionearned

Sort of successful on the Aurora Borealis front.

As in, my wife and I went out on a lovely, clear night to look at the stars. We found a dark spot, along with a bunch of other people, and then the person with the best camera got the settings to work right so that we could all see it. Success! I can check that off now, more or less.

Alas, no good pictures on my end. My wife and I discussed the possibilities of an Iceland trip on the drive back. I like volcanoes, and think Vikings are pretty cool; she likes Vikings, and thinks volcanoes are pretty neat. So this might end up being a retirement trip at some point.

Henry Cavill apparently watched VOLTRON as a child.

Either that, or he still does, and collects them. I mean…

DC Universe star Henry Cavill is set to headline Amazon MGM’s feature adaptation of popular anime Voltron which Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing.

Cavill joins previously announced star Daniel Quinn-Toye. Thurber is directing the film from a script he wrote with Ellen Shanman. The storyline is being kept secret.

…the man’s career has essentially been an ongoing opportunity for Henry Cavill to geek out and get paid glorious sums of money for it. I say that without any bitterness in my heart whatsoever. I enjoyed watching Simon Pegg get to be in all the cool stuff, and I enjoy watching Cavill doing it for the exact same reason: both actors are fully aware how ridiculously awesome this all is. I always like to see fellow geeks do well for themselves.

(H/T: GeekTyrant)

Moe Lane

PS: A live-action Voltron would be nice, but why isn’t a Japanese studio doing it?

10/10/2024 Snippet, CALL OF THE MOON-BEASTS.

Getting into it.

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I do not understand people sometimes, Commander. By now Tobias could hear the emotional overtones in Asenath’s voice. He supposed she had finally automated those subroutines, which was nice. Did she not understand that you are in an existing relationship? 

“She did,” Tobias muttered. “She just didn’t know how seriously I took it. Now she does. — So, next up is… Marcin Grabinski, yes?”

Yes. Painter and mathematician. Refugee from Baza Heweliusza. Technically the highest remaining POLSA representative who remains accessible to us. Tobias found Asenath’s pauses considerably more ‘natural,’ now. I do not understand why he and the other Commonwealth refugees did not throw in with the Europeans.

“I’m not,” Tobias muttered. “I’d tell you to remind me not to bring up the subject, but I don’t need you to. Anyway, he was doing stuff with asteroid mapping, if I remember. Nothing theoretical.”