The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

This week’s mail call was Free League’s Invincible TTRPG! It looks super great, and will probably be my group’s next “interlude” game, especially if we manage to get together face-to-face.

The Invincible Kickstarter loot: the core rulebook with the special cover, the Starter Set box, and the first issue of the original comic, but with a new cover.
Contents of the Starter Set, including some dice, some initiative cards, a bunch of standees, lots of character sheets, a rules booklet, an adventure booklet, and a few other tidbits. This looks like a Free League Starter Set alright!
A spread from the core rulebook, showing the great-looking layout that makes good use of the comic-book's art and feels very comic-book-y.
Another page spread from the core rulebook.

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I just learned that apparently the version of “The Name Of The Rose” that’s on Amazon Prime has removed the sex scene, which would of course be ironic, given the movie’s theme of religiously-driven censorship, if it wasn’t just sad. Once again, piracy is the best user experience.

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It’s blackberry season! Go around your neighbourhood and pick a bunch! Remember to taste before taking: some bushes are more sour than others. AFAICT, the more sun exposure (such as south-facing bushes), the sweeter the taste (but I need to look into it properly)

Some blackberries. More picking tips: if the berry doesn't naturally detach with a gentle tug, it's not ripe yet and you can leave it for later!

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I just realized that the excellent mini-series “The Lost Room” and the promising but abandoned “Parallels” TV movie/pilot were both done by the same guy, and now I really need someone to throw money at Christopher Leone to make more cool weird shit.

Poster for The Lost Room, a 3-episode mini-series that came just before, and probably helped kickstart, the whole SCP and creepypasta internet culture
The poster for "Parallels", which is basically "Sliders" but the parallel universe travelling device is a whole building, and it stars Jessica Rothe, both of which are good enough to grab my attention

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Yay! I have joined the ELITE club of people who say cool stuff like “where did I leave my darn reading glasses?” or “can you get my reading glasses from the table?” or “my knee hurts!” or “what?! speak up!!”

Excited about this new chapter of my life.

A pair of Flexon glasses (with the case) on a white table. There's also a Kobo e-reader, currently set on Asimov's "Foundation and Empire".

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Out-of-context Dragonbane session quotes from tonight: “you can’t have a rebound chicken, you need to mourn first”, and “let’s use chicken as AOE attacks!”

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