This Sunday I’m thankful for scary lighthouse stories. I tracked these two anthologies down a few months ago. The first, Lighthouse Horrors, is a wonderful collection. Published in 1993, its heavy hitters for me are Kipling, Bradbury, Vance and Lansdale. In addition to those authors it also includes Poe’s last story — left unfinished… Read more »
A Hat Trick of Mysteries
This Sunday I’m thankful for mysteries. Three in particular. The first mystery I’m currently interested in is a technical one. I’ve used a reMarkable tablet for years and never had a problem. I love it. Recently my marker has started writing when it is still about a quarter inch from the surface of the… Read more »
More Ideas for Mutants and Death Ray Guns
In light of someone I was speaking with recently having started a campaign of Mutants and Death Ray Guns, I thought I’d post a half-dozen additional tables for generating and advancing models in your warband. ALTERNATE SKILLS TABLE : This pulls together all the skills listed throughout Project Simian Ultra X. EXPANDED ARMOUR TABLE… Read more »
Fiend Folio Fight Fest
This Sunday I’m thakful for the Fiend Folio. Recently I’ve been thinking — as one does — about the denizens of the Fiend Folio. Specifically the Githyanki and the Drow. Years ago I spent a few years collecting all the Citadel AD&D Githyanki. They’re still the best that have ever been made. Then Otherworld… Read more »
Cyberpunk Mothership
For Sunday, 26 July, I’m thankful for Mothership. I’ve been reading Mothership’s Player’s Survival Guide — getting ready to run it this fall — and I was struck by how perfectly it captures its subject. I was also reminded of another game that did the same thing for its genre when it came out… Read more »
Title Cards
For Sunday, 19 July, I’m thankful for title cards. Hear me out. Recently I was reminiscing about one of my favourite bad horror movies, Night of the Lepus: And it clicked that that movie’s title card reminded me of something. So I looked through my screen saver images (I know), and found it: That’s… Read more »
The Ray Bradbury Theater
For Sunday, 2 August, I’m thankful for The Ray Bradbury Theater. About a year and a half ago I ordered a dvd set from somebody and they sent me this instead. I hadn’t watched it when it was coming out in the late-’80s and early-’90s. I checked the price of this item on the… Read more »
Xenos Rampant: Last Stand
For Sunday, 9 August, I’m thankful for Xenos Rampant, Scenario Lima: Last Stand. When I was 13 I drove down to Origins Game Fair in San Mateo, California with a group of guys from Trumpeter. At the Con I played in a colonial game of Brits versus Zulus. I can’t remember which side I… Read more »
Aliens: Dead Orbit
For Sunday, 12 July, I’m thankful for the four-issue comic Aliens: Dead Orbit. This is a second entry in what looks like it’s going to be an ongoing series about comics I’ve been sitting on unread for nine years. I have to give some thought as to what the heck happened in 2017 and… Read more »
