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April 30, 2021
Bundle of Holding now offering permanent starter RPG packs.
These are PDF starter packs, mind you: and Bundle of Holding seems to be offering them at a 25% discount from list price, instead of their usual super-sale. But the offers don’t expire, either. I recommend NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS and TRAIL OF CTHULHU, obviously. Fourth Edition CHAMPIONS… actually, I’m not sure about 4th ed. I think I skipped between Second and Fifth editions, there. Certainly it’s been a while since I did any Hero System games…
PRC’s Long March 5b incompetently put in orbit, likely to irresponsibly deorbit.
I understand that the People’s Republic of China labors under the limitation of a third-rate political and economic ideology, but really, orbital mechanics are hardly new: “China launched the first module for its space station into orbit late Wednesday, but the mission launcher also reached orbit and is slowly and unpredictably heading back to Earth.” One does hope that it doesn’t land on anything populated.
But hoping is all I can do, mind you. Given that it wasn’t us that imprudently put a twenty-one ton hunk of metal in an unstable orbit, and all that. I mean, you can’t expect the oceans to always cover for an inability to do complicated math right…
(Via Instapundit)
Moe Lane
PS: Damn right I’m being snide. Like a large hunk of the planet, I’m currently in a potential impact zone: “The Long March 5B core stage’s orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees means the rocket body passes a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand, and could make its reentry at any point within this area.
Patreon Exclusive: sample chapters from my upcoming novel MORGAN BAROD!
Vampires! Adventure! Obscure regional-based jokes!
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Patreon!The end-of-April Patreon posts are up!
This month we have:
THE ELMERITE ORDER, PART 8 AND LAST: A new campaign world starts next month. Haven’t decided what it’s going to be, yet. Anyway, this month is the last installment, discussing campaigns in this Mage-but-the-Technocracy’s-not-horrible-esque campaign world.PICKMAN’S MODEL: My shameless companion piece to the original! Edited, expanded, and improved for… something. Something to be discussed soon. Keep watching the skies!
Patreon!April 29, 2021
I want to like THE MISFITS trailer. I do.
THE MISFITS has Pierce Brosnan in it, so… yeah, on general principles? I mean, I’m ready to watch THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR again on general principles, just because I’m being reminded of the flick right now. But I’m… not loving this trailer.
This makes me obscurely sad.
Final Snippet, PICKMAN’S MODEL.
Keep watching the skies on this one.
Patreon!Abigail flipped through the sketches, a day or two later. The two were at a low bar, filled with Irishmen and other sorts; Richard was drinking whiskey while Abigail tossed back the roughest, most vinegary wine the barkeep had. They had acquired a certain amount of space of their own simply by having Richard open his portfolio where other people could see it, and Abigail was looking over his work with the eye of an intelligent amateur. “These are really quite good,” she said eventually. “I knew you could paint, so I suppose ‘tis not surprising that you can draw, too.”
“The skills are not identical,” replied Pickman. “But I find it helps if I can sketch certain things before I put brush to canvas. The scene feels natural enough?”
“For its subject,” said Abigail. “There are not many scenes where a man-eating monster feasting in a plague pit could be called ‘natural’.”
“Oh, really?”
“Certainly. Plague-pits have gone quite out of of fashion.”
All of my books are now available in hardcover!
It’s very exciting. It’s also going to be a little more expensive, going forward, since I’m going to need to make sure that I have proper book covers for all formats. But such is the price of progress.
In the e-Mail: Motivation: Justice Wing Halcyon Days.
My buddy Eric Burns-White wrote a thing. Check it out.
