RPGaDAY 5 6 and 7

Okay time for day five and six I guess.

Day 5: Tribute.

Well that certainly sparks a memory of gaming. I ran a game of Kult once where the players were all a special FBI unit trying to track down cultists. This particular cult liked to make sacrifices and leave the bodies as tributes to their god. As the game proceeded the tributes got more and more intense and detailed as well as using humans for their sacrifices instead of just animals. Ornate designs written in the blood of the victim. The body sometimes nailed to a wall, other times impaled on a spike and hoisted several feet into the air, once even dissected and laid out like a text book example of the human anatomy. 

Eventually their forgotten god showed up and the cultists were at the toothy end of his giant maw as it had went insane during it's years of isolation. Gunfire ensued when the PC's saw what was happening. Finally somebody lit the warehouse it was in on fire and the thing was pulled back into it's own little hell along with the remaining cultists who were still at the scene. 

Day 6: Forest. 

Not spurning to much thought here. Except for the time we decided to go out in the woods to play. Thinking it would be cool and different. It was miserable, wind would blow through and sheets would fly, dice rolling off into the grass and took forever to find, bugs crawling up your pants leg. Yeah I'll leave the forest for the druids to enjoy.   

Day 7: Couple 

For some reason I flash on the 'Super Diablerie Brothers' who we used to joke about being a couple. They weren't, but they were a pair of friends who would found that the only fun thing to do in a Larp was to make everyone else miserable for no reason at all. Outside of the game nobody gamed with them or really knew them at all. Any attempts to get them into other activities failed. 

Their main Larp to play in was the Vampire games by Minds Eye Theater. In which, no matter what, they would band together and try to daiblerize as many other PC's as they could. Which would cause a bloodhunt to be called and then they were hunted down and extinguished. All the while complaining that they were being treated badly because we didn't play the game like they wanted to. Yeah. 

Nobody wanted anything to do with them in very short order. Their characters would show up and players would kill them immediately because they had been through this so many times they were sick of it. One of them took 'Guardian Angel' as a trait or whatever it's called (it's been so long ago) and the other GM had an NPC drug lord pull a rocket launcher out of their trunk to shot at them. The guy goes "What does my Guardian Angel say?" without a beat the GM goes "Oh shit it's a rocket launcher!". Hilarity followed and another Diablerie Brother character was dead. The last game they played their characters were hunter types, female Swedish vampire hunters to be exact, when they were immediately referred to as Busty the Vampire Slayer they walked off and left. 

Yeah I never missed those guys not being around any more. We tried to talk to them, tried to tell them to get involved in the story instead of just killing everyone, they refused to do anything else. Sometimes players can be the problem and you just have to let them go. 

RPGaDAY 2020 a couple more days

Going to do my in batches since this month will be busy.

Day 3 - Thread

Old fashioned threaded forums. Man I do miss some of those. Back when it seemed there were dozens of companies offering you free space to make your own easy to use forum. Kind of like when there were dozens of sites offering you free space to make your own easy to use web page. You know back near the end of the 'wild west' era of the internet.

You could find a forum for nearly any game out there. If a group of folks liked something they were talking about it and probably did so on a forum. Now getting traffic to said forum was a pain but if you managed to get one in at the right time it was great.

Even I sat up one for the Kult RPG. I saw Target looking like it was about to get out of the gaming business so I sat up a forum called "Parchment of Flesh" as a back up in case that happened. Told everybody that if the official forum went down we could regroup there. Guess what? Target shut their forums down and everybody ran over to he one I had sat up. Had great traffic for a couple of strong years there. It was a great time.

Day 4 - Vision

I used to have a vision of trying to big grand things. Some even started off well. Ran a local convention that went really well but things seemed to fall apart while putting the next one together. Tried organizing local players together online so we could help grow the community. Store loyalty shredded that idea in short order. Sort of relating back to day one, lots of beginnings with grand vision that ended up in the garbage heap.

I leave the grand vision up to others now. I'm just using my little vision on doing personal small stuff.

RPGaDAY2020 Day one and two

A day late but I'm going to start at the Beginning and work Change into it. So here is day one and two.

I've had several beginnings in gaming. Where I started something great or got involved in something great and then threw it all away. Either imposter syndrome kicked in and I panicked and backed out. Or I just couldn't handle working with other people. Hell sometimes I just let myself get off focus and went onto something else abandoning what I was doing. All in all it's hurt me way worse than it has helped.

So over the last few years I've decided not to have any more beginnings and just do whatever I want and not worry about it. I'll let other people start the movements, the idea wells, and all that.  It's a change that needed to happen. I'm to old, to busy, and to burned out to keep trying to push things forward.

Sponsorship Arms and Armor released

Sometimes the PC's in a cyberpunk or scifi setting need a little more income on the side. In a corporate dominated setting with a massive amount of constant advertising they could reach out to receive sponsorship. Getting paid each time they appear on the screen with the companies logo showing.

This third installment of Sponsorship gives you two new companies that just may agree to sponsor your runner, agent, operative, whatever. A great chance to move up the sponsorship ladder and be noticed. So while they are on the move they may be getting a few credits from Athena Shell specialized Armor or Defense Designs weapon kiosks. There are even a few extra benefits provided.

Presented as system agnostic so you can transfer over to your favorite system easier.

You can grab it at DrivethruRPG.

Sponsorship Fashion and Lifestyle released

Got the second installment of 'Sponsorship' up on DrivethruRPG. This time with the two companies 'Delusions of Grandeur' clothing and 'Puppy Mill' pet stores. Completely system agnostic and easy to drop into most cyberpunk or scifi settings. Still only 75 cents.

Click here to go take a look.

Working on part three now which will like be 'Arms and Armor'. The two companies listed in it will be Athena Shell and Defense Designs. Releases after that will be the continuation of the Sponsorship line and likely some system agnostic horror setting material as well. This is turning out to be the year I'm getting stuff done.

Another sad troll on Facebook

The dumbasses I run into. Sometimes on Facebook you get that person that just tries really hard to troll you. But the attempt is so pathetic that all I can do is laugh at them. I mean really this particular case just has me wondering if I'm being ridiculed by somebody who is lacking in their mental facilities.

But I figure why not use them to get a few more hits on my blog. I mean that's all this person is really good for right? This particular person goes by the name of John H Dunleavy and yes that is a link to his Facebook page.

Now for you all to see just how pathetic of a troll this guy really is. Feel free to share this around. Actually please share this around maybe even drop by his page and let him know just how sad this attempt is. I've been dealing with troll online for over two decades and this guy is bottom of the barrel worthless as one.

Rampage (2018)

Rampage (2018)

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Watch it digitally on Amazon Prime.
 

Some video games deserve to have a movie based on them. Games that drip with story, developed characters and so much potential. But no, they go make a movie based off of monsters destroying a city. The entire plot of Rampage is so thin that you just know they are going to have to pipe in a ton of material that is should just be it's own movie without tying it to an already existing property. Kinda like Battleship where they tossed in aliens. But hey it's a Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson action vehicle so who cares right?

Well the story is pretty damned thin. Evil corporation makes stuff they will cause animals to grow and go super aggressive. Said stuff gets out by extraordinary means. Three animals get infected and all hell breaks loose. Throw in some odd story bits for human actors and you pretty much get the idea. They may toss in a lot of scientific terms but they also make the zoo keeper ex special forces just so he can do cool shit through out the movie. The plot is paper thin and if you think about it to hard it will tear under that pressure.

They do, however, make a great effort into making you think a couple of characters are going to be big deals in the film. But no it doesn't go that way and they end up dead rather quickly or never show up again. I actually kind of like that because you do get the feeling that nobody is safe until about little past half way through then the obvious survivors become obvious. But still, nice to see you for a little bit Joe Manganiello wish you could have stayed around a bit longer.

Special effects wise this is awesome. Giant monster things tearing everything up and beating the hell out of each other. All sorts of military firepower getting torn to shreds. Buildings collapsing, people getting squished, shit blowing up all over the place like Micheal Bay stepped in the back door for a moment. A body count that must be through the roof. This is where the budget went, well here and into the bank account of Dwayne of course.

In the end this film is entirely bubblegum for the brain. No sustenance but it gives you something to do. If you like story with your moving pictures then I would stay away from Rampage altogether. But as something to watch with friends while you tossing back a few beers it may work. But at least it's not as bad as they Uwe Boll Rampage movie.

 

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Damn now it's giant flying wolf monsters.