Copplestone Casting has several very cool lines of miniatures — the historicals would be great for pulp action. I particularly dig the Back of Beyond line, which covers Central Asia in the 1920s. Read the Web pages at the link back there; the historical information rocks.
Category: Gaming
In a fit of automation, I have abused the excellent MTMacro plugin to create an <amazon> tag. <amazon title=”Monster Manual II” asin=”0786928735”> would be blithely transformed into the appropriate link to Amazon. I do this, yes, because I’m too lazy to build affiliate links by hand each time.
The macro code, for those even lazier than I:
<MTMacroDefine name="Amazon" tag="amazon">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<MTMacroAttr name="asin">/unofficfengshuih/ref=nosim/"><MTMacroAttr name="title"></a>
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Mind you, I’m also too lazy to implement this in all the site templates, so until I get unlazy and do a bunch of editing, the feature’s pretty worthless.
The road signs are marked with secret codes which instruct the military where to go when it’s time for the coup. Quintessence of the Loon has more of the same.
Won’t you join me in my quest to convince WizKids Games to release a Grant Morrison miniature for HeroClix DC? Grant’s a legitimate character (with superpowers) in the current DC continuity, having appeared briefly in Suicide Squad Volume 1, issue 58. Thus, he’s appropriate fodder for a HeroClix minature.
I encourage you to write support@wizkidsgames.com politely registering your interest in such a figure. It’s probably good to mention that Morrison exists in continuity, as per my geekish notes above.
I got back a nice response to my email:
Dear Bryant,
Thanks for your email. I’m glad you are enjoying HeroClix. We do appreciate hearing from our fans about what they would like to see in future expansions, even if we can’t always accommodate the request. I have no idea what characters will be included in any future expansions. Game Design likes to keep the figures a secret until they are announced.
Best Regards,
Heather
So there you have it. You’ll be appreciated. How often do you get the chance to be appreciated just for writing an email?
“All these facts suggest that there may be, somewhere in United States government (or better yet, the privately-held Federal Reserve system), a department of gnostic artists who perform the priestly function of communicating between man and God.”
Check out this beautiful shot of a Child of Light from the Delta Green CRPG. Wow, that’s batrachian. (Picture changes weekly, so if you look at it and say “Hey, that’s not batrachian at all,” it’s not my fault.)
Best trick for finding NPC pictures ever: google://party+pictures
The roleplaying industry is so damned quirky. A glam science fiction RPG about the transformative power of rock and roll? Why not?
Some of you may recall the Web-based puzzle game designed to promote Spielberg’s A.I. Pretty cool stuff, made cooler for me by the involvement of Sean Stewart. Anyhow, that game has defined an entire genre of alternate reality games and associated websites.
The community is pretty interesting. I particularly liked this writeup of a talk given by one of the authors of the A.I. game.
The estimable Q Daily News pointed me at the High Line, an abandoned elevated railway across Manhattan. There are some absolutely beautiful photographs of the line on that side; grassy and overgrown, and looking very out of place in Manhattan.