I'm giving thought to running a more serious 4E game than my current two-fights-a-night-and-vague-excuse-for-the-next game.

As in, one with roleplaying, plot and stuff.
See, I want to run an alternate-universe Kingdom Hearts. May not have a Sora/Riku/Kairi/Donald/Goofy/Mickey setup, but will definitely involve a lot of re-skinning of powers, ( Read more... )

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Worth watching less as an advert for a console, and an advert for all forms of violent escapist media (and by that I mean 'RPGs').

You can thank Warren Ellis for the link.

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By 'cult of awesome', I mean the trend in modern media towards doing things that are really fucking awesome for the sake of doing them, and showing no shame enjoying them. You can see this is the pleasure people openly take in bad TV, in films like Kung fu hustle and Bad Boys 2, in games like Exalted, God of War and Devil May Cry, in the fight ( Read more... )

I have a terrible weakness for sad, doomed songs.

The love theme from the Underworld movies... it hurts me to listen to it. It's got a quiet calm power and a rising sense of dread, but it tells you only that someone is going to die soon, and they will be missed dearly ( Read more... )

Concept art for a computer game project currently titled 'Epic Mickey'.


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A quote from ExNihilo that made me laugh:

If I ever get banned, I hope any critics of the decision can muster a stronger case in my defense than "Well, we can't be absolutely certain he was a Nazi."

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This is something I said a little over 4 years ago, about the warhammer roleplaying game.

But no matter what, I'll always have the massive dissonance. I mean, Warhammer: vast armies, terrible magics, deamons, assassins, orcish hordes, dragons, mighty heros standing up to the darkness resplendant in magic toys (and often dying for it) and someone ( Read more... )

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