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April 2, 2021
BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS reprint available at Chaosium.
Link here (I’ve already ordered mine). AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a reprint, not an update: the module uses the Call of Cthulhu 5.5 rules, but they offer conversion advice for 7.0 campaigns. Hardest hit: the folks trying to sell old copies for three hundred bucks.
Heh. Reminds me of why Steve Jackson Games reprinted GURPS Imperial Rome. IIRC, somebody on the forums came on and started bragging about how he managed to score a copy of the first edition for a ‘mere’ hundred bucks or so. Steve Jackson took careful note about how many people were enviously congratulating him, then went ahead and did another print run…
April 1, 2021
Spent two hours trying to get…
…OUTRIDERS to work. I’m not gonna snarl over it, because first-day stuff happens; but I’m just getting a black screen. I am on the verge of uninstalling, then installing the game again, just on general principles. In fact, strike that: I might as well just go ahead and do that now. Grr. Arrgh.
…Okay, maybe a little snarling.
God DAMN it, @GroovyBruce.
Don’t.
Oops. This slipped. pic.twitter.com/VUG8i5eB8Y
— Bruce Campbell (@GroovyBruce) April 1, 2021
THE TRENCH gets killed with a trident*.
I was looking forward to THE TRENCH, too. This is too bad: “”As part of our DC slate, some legacy development titles including New Gods and The Trench will not be moving forward,” Warner Bros. and DC said in a statement. “We thank our partners Ava DuVernay, Tom King, James Wan and Peter Safran for their time and collaboration during this process and look forward to our continued partnership with them on other DC stories. The projects will remain in their skillful hands if they were to move forward in the future.””
Via @SonnyBunch. Sonny is taking the presumably tongue-in-cheek position that this is good news for a restored Snyderverse, but I am (again, presumably) much more dubious about that. I think it’s much easier to just assume this decision is due to the way that the movie industry has been taking body blows for the last year. Pick a reason for why: you’re probably right.
Still, again, a shame. DC-flavored Deep Ones would have been fun.
Moe Lane
USCG goes Lovecraftian for April Fool’s.
Nice reference, Coast Guard. Well-played.
https://www.facebook.com/GoCoastGuard/posts/3926555380721295
Tweet of the Day, Welp, There’s The Peak Of The Mets’ Season edition.
Do not weep for me; nor should you feel scorn. To be a fan of the Mets is to be initiated in the Mysteries of Despair. We have all accepted our fates. We are necessary. Step over our prostrate forms, and leave us with our burdens in peace.
Alexa, show me a gif that encapsulates both Holy Week & Opening Day pic.twitter.com/z5ZCM3FBXe
— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) April 1, 2021
PS: Yes, it’s old. But nothing that I wrote was untrue.
March 31, 2021
03/31/21 Snippet, PROCESSING DUTY.
This one needs a lot of expansion.
Patreon!After that? I went home. Or what we call ‘home’ around here.
It could be worse. The rooms are all underground, sure, but we got air conditioning, heat in the winter, and never mind what I said about the commissary: it’s real good food here. Library, movie theater, bowling alley, even. Compared to how some of us were living outside, it ain’t too bad in here.
Which is good, because none of us are leaving any time soon. You may not want to get stuck with this duty too often, Agents. The Site always need more people. Good, honest, patriotic ones. And churchgoers are always a plus. You hear what I’m saying?
Anyway, I was sitting in my apartment that night, having a smoke, when I heard the alarm go off. Ain’t no place you can go at the Site where you don’t hear the alarms, because when they go off you better start moving. Doesn’t matter what you were doing, because it wasn’t gonna be more important than whatever the alarm’s about. Any alarm: they’re all equally important.
But some alarms are more equal than others, as that Brit might say. This one was the Outbreak one, which meant that something nasty was loose.
The new chapbook will be called DUTIES.
I’m in the process of revising and editing the four stories that will be in them. The genre for DUTIES is fantasy/space opera: nothing particularly horrific this go-round. I don’t know when it’s coming out, though. After I revise, I gotta find an artist to illustrate ’em. I’m hoping no more than a couple of months, I guess.
