Thursday 25 April 2024

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Book Of Hungry Names

The Book Of Hungry Names opens.

At 1.6 million words it would be hard to print as a physical gamebook, being as long as three of War And Peace.

Who Killed Nessie?

Who Killed Nessie? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith is so close to funding that it might... just... happen!

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Multiple NPCs

Just played a session where the multiple NPCs in a council meeting were scripted, and handed out to the players to read for a few minutes. I’ve seen some cases where NPCs are handed out with briefings to play for longer sequences. My usual default is to summarise up to the point PCs can interrupt.

Sunday 21 April 2024

Last Dance 2.16 dialogue

Preston and Vincent exchange money over which of their theories about the Circulatory System’s plans was right, in a standoff with the local System leader.

“... Do I have to explain my villainous plan?”
“If you wouldn’t mind.”
“We’re not exactly Batman.”

That awkward moment when you’re not sure how much posturing to do.

(I did then have her explain, so she could weasel out of repercussions )

Saturday 20 April 2024

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department

You walk into the Succubus Club and...

All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February

Wordplay, gloom, making the Dead Poets Society reference even more explicit with video cameos...

Friday 19 April 2024

Abigail

Abigail is great gory fun, though it takes longer than expected to get to the USP revealed by all the marketing - I like to think I’d have gotten it a bit before the reveal if I’d gone in cold. Much more clearly from the makers of Ready Or Not than Scream 5 and 6.

Dialogue for a possible Buffy idea

“Are you a wish-granting demon? Because you have to say so.”
“That’s cops. And it’s not true about cops either.”
“Oh.”

Wednesday 17 April 2024

Nationals 2025: MMU

I may know what the provisional Nationals 2025 theme is.

I may have already pitched a Buffy adventure for it.

2024 Olympics

100 days to the start of the summer Olympics in Paris.

And I have already seen Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and what may be Porky Pig explaining realy race handoffs.

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Wreck series 2

Wreck series 2, the unexpected return of the comedy-horror about a slasher a cruise ship, doesn’t feature a slasher on a cruise ship as it runs with the reveals at the end of series 1 and shifts to a different and less self-contained location.

It works as a way to continue what felt like a big one-shot, and has fun with the premise, but the setting is more regular-issue.

Monday 15 April 2024

Nationals 2024 banner

The category banners were very nice indeed. Gallery hopefully to follow!


Alexis - Welfare Cult Leader
The banners were designed by the incredible MelWare, our very own plague doctor, with support from Astra (Cultist) and the Pope himself James Cult Pope I <3

James Cult Pope I 
Notepad art was also MelWare
Dice was Xiggy, Astra (Cultist), myself and a Q-workshop employee

Sunday 14 April 2024

Nationals 2024 amusing statistical oddity

Of the seven PCs for groups of four and five, two were played twice.

One of them both days by a player sitting on my right (and they weren’'t spread out so they were closest) who then chose the same role in the PCs’' band, the same gender, and the same character picture out of the fifteen options for that gender.

I didn’t think that specific picture was that that character.

For those wondering, this gives Gangrel and lead guitarist vibes.

Willa Holland in Arrow

I was more thinking Brujah when I included it...

Nationals 2024

My first time running a one-game category at the Nationals and I prefer the more even playing field of a genre category, instead of the wide variety from first time trying to having years of experience and OPINIONS about the various editions.

I in turn have OPINIONS about Nationals organisation.

Hotel room proved as helpfully close as I booked it for, and also proved to be an attic room with an exciting lack of headroom.

Stirling should just build their own union and a hotel so they can host after all these wins.

The World Of Darkness MMO

The World Of Darkness MMO was confirmed cancelled ten years ago today, two years after the first in-g.

Since then, a lot of the concept art has made its ways into V5, including the clan fashion spreads as well as art from the trailer. We finally got to see some of the in-game character movement in World Of Darkness: The Documentary three years later and it looked pretty cool, presumably from a couple of stages as the style varies.

I probably would have played it now and then.