Cyberpunk Timeline: 2020-2045

Cyberpunk RED - Break stuff

 

Over on the R.Talsorian website they have a new free DLC up for Cyberpunk RED. This time it's all about your gear breaking down and getting it repaired. Because in the future everything is disposable. 

You can find the page RIGHT HERE.

Don't forget to check out all their other free material for RED that they have up as well. 

Fantasy City Aesthetic

 I always liked the look of fantasy cities that a lot of European fantasy games use. Especially Warhammer Fantasy. That cramped feel, multiple story building, and just a lot more creative than just a few single story buildings laid out all neatly by a grid. 

For example this one from "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Building of the Reikland". 

Very much worth the 3.99 price tag if you ask me. 

I mean this look is much more appealing to me. Sparks the imagination more. Someday I need to run a city based fantasy game again using Advanced Fighting Fantasy, which has become my go too choice for rules light fantasy gaming. But who knows when I'll get the time.

However the pdf of this book shall be looked at whenever I do get around to it.

Promise You Won't Freak Out | Nimona | Netflix

Nimona, the movie Disney tried to bury only to be picked up and saved by Netflix, is nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Picture. 

Metal.

Dungeons and Dragons 2024 releases

 

Working at a game shop I try to stay caught up on new releases and what is coming out. Of course the most asked about property is still Dungeons and Dragons. Now while we've seen a list of what they are planning on releasing in 2024 there is nothing about when in 2024 any of the books are coming out. Even the WPN network page that Wizards has set up so shops can keep up to date has nothing slated for release after the much delayed Deck of Many Things. But here's the list we can find.

Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth – 2024

Vecna: Eve of Ruin – 2024

2024 Player’s Handbook – 2024

The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons: 1970-1976 – 2024

Quests from the Infinite Staircase – 2024

I'm assuming this is the order in which they are going to be released but even that is unknown. As for dates, well the only safe thing I can assume is that the 2024 Player's Handbook will be a GenCon release with DnD Beyond getting it a few days early. 

I am also going to assume that more hard dates will be released at GAMA if not a little before. 

Now why isn't there any mention of the new version of the DM's Guide and Monster Manual? This is a good question and I have two theories. 

One: They are going to stagger the release of the books with the other two coming next year. Since they are claiming that the new editions/versions/whatever will be compatible with 5e spacing out the dates shouldn't be an issue. This could be used as a meter to see what players and GM's think they need in the a new DM's Guide and MM plus give them more time to work on them since they fired several folks.

Two: The one I would almost bet money on. This isn't the new edition/5.5/One/whatever of the Player's Handbook. As we all know, at least those who buy or sell the books, the price for regular print DnD books has gone up recently. This 2024 version is just a little update, maybe some new art or cover, but with the new price point on it. We all know that Player's Handbooks outsell all the others hands down so it would make sense that it is on the verge of selling out of the last print run. So Wizards of Hasbro not wanting to miss out on charging more are upping the price on the new printing. With the actual new edition still being off in the distance as they struggle with an audience that is getting fed up with everything.

All that being said I'm not a DnD fan. I don't buy anything they put out. HOWEVER the Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons book is certainly catching my interest. There have already been so many different project trying to detail out that era I'm wondering if there is anything new to be said about it. But the history of the hobby part of me sure wants to find out. 

Now about those other releases:

Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth revives the classic first-edition adventure, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. It’s a single-session dungeon-crawl that’ll evoke the feeling of an adventure module from 50 years ago – complete with a tournament scoring system to see how well you fared. 

This doesn't sound like a full fledged hardback book. Could they maybe be testing the water with smaller adventure modules like the days of old?

Vecna: Eve of Ruin We’ve known for a while that a Vecna 5e adventure was on the way, and it’s been confirmed in the form of Vecna: Eve of Ruin. This is a rare campaign – not just because it features all sorts of iconic D&D characters, but because it actually goes up to level 20.

Quests from the Infinite Staircase updates a range of old-school D&D adventures, much like Tales from the Yawning Portal did previously. Several elements apparently tie these individual adventures together, one of which is a cosmic being who’s “completely new to the D&D canon”, according to Wizards.

Those last two sound like standard hardback releases. One and done. 

DARK DUNGEONS Full Trailer (Ultra HD)

I backed the Kickstarter for this oh so long ago and have the DVD. About time to  have another viewing party one night. It's freaking amazing. 

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Squad Names Three

 

After a two and a half year complete stop I have finally managed to get something new up over on DrivethruRPG. It's been a while yeah, after catching Covid and going on a ventilator for a bit my brain got real fuzzy. Took me several months before I could really talk without having to stop every sentence or two just to remember what word I was wanting to use. But with my job and finally gaming on a very regular basis the brain fog cleared up. Then it was just getting down and actually doing it. So starting off the New Year with new stuff. 

Another installment of 100 various squad names for military, cyberpunk or scifi games. Works really good for Sla Industries as well. Best thing is that it's really cheap, only 75 cents. 

You can PICK IT UP HERE if you want.

Or get it bundled with all three volumes OVER ON ITCH. 

Hopefully this will be a slow start to me getting more stuff up there. Got a lot of ideas but it's kind of hard to get it down in a way that I like. 

List of artists Midjourney scraped

 

Well it appears that things aren't going well for the Midjourney AI art generator folks right at the moment. They've been made to release a list of artists and sources they trained their AI with. 

You can find that list RIGHT THERE.

So many folks on there. Elmore, Easley, Brom, Frazetta, Kirby, Steranko, Foglio... the list just goes on and on. They even went and used Studio Ghibli imagery, stuff from video game companies, just anywhere they wanted. Don't see Midjourney being around for much longer as the lawsuits are probably going to start getting really heavy here soon.