Given that there's literally hundreds of coffee memes out there, why on earth I got a sudden explosion in views on PC when I posted a few of my favorites is beyond me. It's not like they're that new, either, but oh well.
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| I'm not above using one of the ones that missed the cut for a few extra pageviews. What I find disturbing is how close the 'After' picture looks like David Tennant. From Laugh Lore. |
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Under the header of 'video games getting a board game treatment', there's a beloved Bioware franchise that has a boardgame in the works:
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| This landed in my Inbox on Monday from Modiphius. |
Yes, Modiphius is going to publish Mass Effect: The Board Game, a cooperative and story-driven boardgame designed by Eric M. Lang and Calvin Wong Tze Loon for 1-4 players. It sounds interesting at first blush, and given how Modiphius tends to have high quality plastic pieces in their games, this ought to look pretty too. Here's the signup page for more info and to receive emails about the release of the game itself. Just make sure you fill out the correct info for US vs UK/Europe so you end up with the correct website.
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You know, the Dracthyr race in Retail World of Warcraft has taken some lumps for it's decidedly un-dragonkin-like look.
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| From Wowpedia. |
I was perusing some RPG sites the other day, and I came across some artwork from RuneQuest that made me go "hmmm..."
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| Look vaguely familiar? Found on Glorantha Bestiary, Pages 36-37. Verified with my copy. Also found here at Artstation. |
These are Dragonewts, as drawn by Cory Trego-Erdner back in 2016-2017, for the RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary.
In RuneQuest, Dragonewts claim to be the oldest sentient species and are one of the races found in the main starting area in RuneQuest, Dragon Pass. Now admittedly there's only so much an artist can do with the basic dragon design, but the reason why I don't mind the look of the Dracthyr is that they do evoke a similar look as that found in RuneQuest. The lore is obviously very distinct, but given that nobody seems to bitch about the lore of Dracthyr so much as that they don't look "cool enough", that's my two cents on the matter.
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Finally, I wanted to mention a long departed podcast that really sucked me into RPGs back in the day.
Before "modern times" and the proliferation of podcasts in their current monetized form, Chuck Tinsley and Lonnie Ezell created the Dragons Landing Inn podcast back in 2005. They kept it going for about 126-130 episodes, and then Steve and Rob kind of picked up the mantle for a dozen episodes or so in a relatively unmoderated format until the podcast faded away. When I asked my brother-in-law what good RPG and gaming podcasts were out there, he said without hesitation "Dragons Landing Inn".
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| I've tried to find a better version of their graphic to no avail. |
With the tagline "Gaming Goodness", Chuck and Lonnie would espouse on RPGs, whatever the news was in RPG space, and eventually would broach RPG specific topics on running a campaign and having a rules set fit the type of campaign you wanted to play. Although the news is quite dated --it began in a time before D&D 4e and Pathfinder existed-- the old podcasts are still available via the Internet Archive at this link. I don't believe they're complete, as the original podcasts start at Episode 27, so you'll have to search the Internet Archive for individual episodes to complete the entire run of DLI.
I still have my old downloads of DLI on my desktop. I've dutifully backed up and transferred them over the almost two decades that they came out, and have no intention of ever deleting them. Given how podcasting has evolved as a format since DLI's heyday, it's refreshing to find a podcast in a raw, unmonetized state (and low bit-rate) still providing entertainment.
EtA: Corrected grammar.
EtA: Corrected more grammar. Sheesh.
In my cynical moments, I start to think people complain about the Dracthyr because they don't have boobs. I used to think the fans commissioning art were the sweat ones, until I saw artists state they weren't going to draw dragon-form dracthyr without breasts. :sigh:
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DeleteI guess I shouldn't be surprised, since when I attend Gen Con there are a couple of artists in Artists' Alley that make me raise my eyebrows a bit. I'd say that 90% of the artists there do fantastic work and I'd love to purchase some of it (except for the money thing and the lack of space on walls thing), but that 10%... Hoo boy.