Tag: fuck yeah

Fuck Lord of the Rings.
Fuck Star Wars.
Fuck The Matrix.

The long-awaited Greatest Epic Motha Fuckin’ Masterpiece of All Fuckin’ Time finally has a release date. Octoboer 31, 2008.

I’m all a-twitter.

 

Two buddies of mine–Stan! and Hyrum Savage–have started a new company called Super Genius Games and you can check out one of their newest products for free! (A very good price.)

The Forgotten Tomb of Felgar the Goblin King has a catchy ring to it as a title and the concept is something I heartily approve: an adventure without mechanics. It’s part of their “One Night Stand” series of adventures: little scenarios that can be run in a single night. Because the adventure doesn’t have any mechanics, it requires a little bit of prep on the part of the GM, but all the hard thinking is done for you. Look up the stats for the monsters in your favorite fantasy game (GURPS, BRP, Burning Wheel, Houses of the Blooded, or something even more obscure) and slap some numbers on the beasties. Voila! You’ve got instant adventure.

It’s kind of like baking an instant cake. All you have to do is throw in the egg.

Step 1: Click on the image above.
Step 2: Sign up for an RPGNOW account (also free)
Step 3: Download the adventure
Step 4: Provide numbers
Serves 3-6 players with beginning characters.

I read through the adventure and it has a promising beginning. Of course, I’d add stuff to it to make it more Wicked.

The adventure is certainly worth the price and it comes with a bunch of cool stuff to help you run it. In addition to the GM Map, there are a series of “tiles” that detail each section. You can use them as you see fit. The tiles are in full color, very detailed and damn pretty. Get yourself some colored markers and you’ll have yourself one highly useful GM utility.

The adventure also comes with cut-out stand ups for the monsters. Also very pretty and very useful (especially if you are playing The World’s Most Complicated Board Game).

For free, I was expecting much less. What I got impressed me much. Not just because Stan! and Hyrum are friends (they are) but because my friends always surprise me.

Give them the opportunity to surprise you, too.

(Note to Stan! and Hyrum: when I run your adventure, the players will be the goblins trying to protect their dead king’s tomb from dirty, nasty, filthy grave robbers. I thought you might appreciate that.)

 

Parker is back!

Dirty Money is “part 3” of an unofficial trilogy that started with Nobody Runs Forever and Ask the Parrot: two novels that prove Stark is just getting better with age.

The book isn’t in my hands yet (Amazon sent it today), but I can’t wait. If you want to read an excerpt and see why Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) is one of my favorite authors, you can read the first chapter here.

 

The premise is simple. An aging porn queen wants to go out with a bang. A gang bang. 

600 men, one woman, breaking the record, setting an impossible task for any woman to follow. And yes, she plans to be dead at the end.

The last Palahniuk novel I tried to read was Diary. I didn’t stop because the novel was bad; I stopped because I was in the middle of my divorce and every page hurt like a kick in the chest. I’d start reading and I’d start crying every third page. Not just little drops of sadness, but rivers of absolute hopeless sorrow. Diary hurt me, like putting my hand on a hot oven, so I put it down half-way through.

I own Haunted, but I haven’t read it. Sounded sufficiently creepy/scary/gory, but I just couldn’t get into it. I wasn’t in the right place.

And then comes Snuff.

I have to admit, this one is fun. Not challenging like Fight Club and not clever like Survivor or Choke, but almost like the cotton candy Palahniuk, playing for laughs and gasps. I won’t be thinking about it now that it’s over, but I laughed a lot when I was reading it. I saw through the plot right away, but it didn’t matter. I was still laughing, right up to the end.

And no, I won’t be giving any hint to how it ends.

Sweet and sour on the lips with no aftertaste. Enjoyed. Thank you, Chuckie-P!

EDIT: And thank you Daniel Mighty Mighty Solis for this… Chuckie interviews the star of Snuff, Cassie Wright!

Watch this.

And then come back and we’ll talk about why I don’t read fantasy.

(And why I published No Loyal Knight myself.)

 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.

A reproduction of the minutes of trials against the Templars, “‘Processus Contra Templarios — Papal Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars'” is a massive work and much more than a book — with a 5,900 euros ($8,333) price tag.

“This is a milestone because it is the first time that these documents are being released by the Vatican, which gives a stamp of authority to the entire project,” said Professor Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican’s Secret Archives.

 

There is no Francis Drake, but there is a Walter Raleigh and (gasp!) Doctor John Dee!

(I think I can see his orichalcum ring…)

Fuck yeah.

 

yeah.

Fuck yeah.