I want to tell you a story about a friend I had. He’s a mean motherfucker and he’s super bad.
He’s the kind of brother that rules a town, even the coroner follows him around.
His afro’s so bad it won’t ever relax. When he go to the barber they part his hair with an axe.
And he’ll be hauling you out with the rest of the trash, if your mouth write a check that yo ass can’t cash!
That friend, of course, is our favorite Vietnam vet, ex-CIA agent and the master of dealing with Kung Fu treachery himself, Black Dynamite. After successfully dispatching with the group of drug dealers and street thugs who dispatched with his brother and kept drugs in the community (in the orphanages, no less!) we catch up with our hero right after the events of the movie as he’s about to uncover the worst vacation resort to ever be: Slave Island. (more…)
No intro nonsense this week. The fact is it’s almost 2am here and I’ve spent the last 7 or 8 hours playing Portal 2. All of it. I’m done the single player. It’s brilliant. Yea, I know. Big shocker. Can Valve meet cosmic expectations? Apparently, yes.
On with the show!
Here’s the link to give Perpetual Geek Machine: Show #00024 a listen!
Here’s the breakdown on where to find/follow us online!
Click more to see show notes. For Science. You Monster. (more…)
As a self-professed rollercoaster fan I make it my business to ride as many as I can. As a nerd I do my due diligence and spend a fair amount of time learning and reading about them. I never seem to have any passive hobbies, things I just enjoy. I always tend to turn them into passions. Anyway, back to the story.
A few days ago I see a link for something called the “Euthanasia Coaster” which naturally sparked my interest. Turns out that while most people who won’t ride roller coasters don’t because they think they might die on it, this one is actually built to kill you.
Naturally, it’s not real, it’s just an art and conversation piece. The thought process goes that if you were going to die, and could choose the means of your death why not go out screaming and laughing as opposed to sitting in a chair or lying in bed. The loops and g-forces deprive your brain of oxygen and you simply pass out and die.
Seems a helluva lot more fun than fading away in a hospital bed to me.
You can read more about the project and see a scale model here.
Monday night I sat in my study preparing for Wednesday’s session of Encounters. Unfortunately, I was dwelling on the negative. I was disappointed in my ability to get the players to connect with Splintershield in the first half of the season. If I had, then his death would have been more than just a plot device; it would have inspired the players to have their characters live on the edge in defense of their home(s) instead of just going through the paces of the adventure.
This week sets up the rest of the season and is integral in getting the players to buy in to what happens (or could happen) at the climax. If I do this right, it will result in a much more satisfying conclusion to thirteen weeks of work. The challenge for this session is to make sure I role play all my ideas instead of merely turning the first part of this encounter into an info dump. Here is what I planned:
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It’s fun sometimes to play the grand knight in shining armor, the man who will lay down his life with honor to save someone in distress or right a wrong. To stand tall and proud against insurmountable odds. But sometimes, it’s even more fun to sneak in the shadow and stab a bad guy in the back with a poison tipped dagger. To call on the shadows and the darkness itself to power your arcane energy. To have noble intentions even if your methods are a bit… shady. The anti-hero.
So it’s in that vein, that desire to both be a hero and with something to hide that Wizards of the Coast has brought us “Heroes of Shadow” a new book of player options for those of us looking to have a character with a little more edge. It’s the book to use if you want your character to draw their power from somewhere dark. Use the darkness to fight the darkness, like is says on the back of the book. There are new classes. races, player hooks, feats, paragon and epic choices. There are even a few new equipment options. All focusing on shadow magic.
And pretty much all awesome.
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