Google refuses to play embedded YouTube videos because I didn’t consent to targeted advertisement cookies. Fine. But give me a link to the video, then, you fucking ghouls. This is such an obvious dark pattern it’s quite pathetic.
Ramblings of General Geekery
My wife: <starts a movie we ripped from a DVD>
Our kid: “Why is the picture quality not very good?”
From the delightful “Old School FRP” blog, an ad from Lou Zocchi’s Gamescience announcing D10s numbered in increments of ten “to eliminate once and for all arguments over which die is read first for percentages”. I’m surprised this only appeared in 1990!
The Canadian Chronicles are coming soon… three tales of horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada 🇨🇦 and releasing at KamCon! The scenarios are written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself.
“The Topologist’s Map of the World”: I had seen this before but it’s always wonderful to stumble upon it again. Such a great piece of work.
It’s amazing to still see US people think that their country is “great” because it’s got ultra-wealthy corporations, not understanding that actually it’s what contributed to their country becoming a total shit-hole. Enjoy your subscription-based fascism, I guess.
Time Without Tide Quickstart so far:
- Modern-ish STAT+SKILL system! YES! Never too late, Chaosium! 😅👍
- Art is really great and fun.
- Setting is meh 🤷… not bad, just nothing that particularly excites me.
- Overall looks like a Free League game. THIS IS A COMPLIMENT!
Okay I think the cover to “The King’s Daughters” (my Call of Cthulhu scenario set in New France) is almost finished. Ugggh, it’s such an uphill battle for me to paint anything.
“Time Without Tide” looks nice but it somehow doesn’t feel to me like a Chaosium game, and I think the reason isn’t the system, but the fact that Chaosium always made “literary games”: based on mythology and history, fantasy novels, horror stories, etc. TWT isn’t any of that?
As always, I draw a pencil sketch that I’m pretty happy with, then I start adding colour, and within a couple minutes the whole thing looks like shit and I hate it. Painting is sooo harrrrdd
