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Man I dig this video!

A great new game with a "Silver Age" vibe

"Supers! is a game all about playing costumed heroes - the kinds of hero you see in good old-fashioned comic books. These heroes are larger-than-life; they have high ideals and they know right from wrong. Their world is black-and-white; they are good and the villains are bad. There are no real grey areas. Their cause is justice, liberty and freedom. They seek to protect the weak and defend the common man. Most are loved by all; some are misunderstood and don't get the adoration they feel they deserve. But regardless, they strive to do the right thing and aim to make a difference. The basics of the rules are very straightforward - roll a few dice and try to beat a number. As long as you remember that, you can't go too far wrong. Enjoy!"


You can find Supers! at RPGNow.


I've been a witness to Simons work on this. He is proud of it and rightly so.  It has his "keep it simple" style. He continues to refuse all attempts to convolute his games.


At $8.00 for the PDF it's a quick impulse buy and from the look at the reviews the Impulse pays off.

Vanessa Takes it off...sort of

The hangover (Sword & Sorcery style)

Carousing results table for Legends of Steel (revised)

01 Shanghaied! Your character awakens from his latest revel on a ship that has already set sail.

02 -03 Your character parties with a VIP, a dissolute noble, up and coming merchant, or an entertainer of repute.

04-06 Your character gets married while drunk. His spouse is very attractive.

07-09 Your character now owns a blade of exquisite quality and workmanship.

10-13 Your character gets married while drunk his spouse is not the slightest bit attractive.

14-16 Your character awakens with the poxed whore he was warned about last night.

17-18 Your character overhears whispering thieves and gains a lead on a vast sum of wealth.

19-20 Your character wins a ship or deed. The ships crew hasn’t been paid in weeks. The land title is to a large, rundown, possibly haunted, estate.

21-22 Your character pledges his service and eternal friendship to a total stranger.

23 Recruited! Your character gas joined the army.

24-40 Your character has spent half of his earnings on wenches, wine, narcotics, etc.

41-43 Your character has spent all of his earnings on wenches, wine, narcotics, etc.

44-56 Robbed while drunk - lose all your characters treasure and equipment.

57-60 Robbed and beaten while drunken, as above but your character wakes up with a wound.

61-63 Your character now owns a slave or the contract to an indentured servant.

64 Your character wakes up holding a basket. The basket has a baby and a note “Her name is Emily. Be kind to her.”

65-66 Your character drank some bad date wine, and is incapacitated for a week.

67 Your character wakes up to find he is wanted for murder (He’s completely innocent but that’s not the point).

68-69 Your character now owns an exotic mount (camel, elephant, ostrich, llama).

70-72 Your character defeated the town bully, ruffian or #1 bad guy. Everyone in town loves him, except the kin of the man he defeated.

73-74 Your character wakes up in a luxury suite with a beautiful courtesan and twice the money he had last night.

75-76 Your character awakens clutching a note in his hand. The note has a desperate message written on it.

77-79 Your character wakes up in a nobleman’s guestroom and is mistaken for a legendary hero.

80-85 Your character now owns the tavern, wine shop, or brothel he woke up in.

86-96 Your character is incarcerated for drunken hooliganism.

97-99 Your character wakes up with the “mother of all hangovers” but no other ill effects.

100  Last night she was the sexiest wench in the tavern. Your character now wakes to find “she” is really a “he.”

Manly Monday - Jonah Hex

Lazy Sunday Photo Dump

lending books

To many people books are just paper and ink, but to a book-lover they are much more. Here are a few things I've learned about lending books.


First off NEVER lend a book to a friend. 
If you really want them to read something you think they would enjoy, just buy them the damn book or give them your copy. Lending a book and not having it returned puts a real strain on a friendship. 


Treat books correctly, especially if it belongs to someone else.  I get a lot of my books at the local Goodwill stores, and I cringe when I see the way the clerks throw books into huge bins as they clear space for new titles. 


If a friend lends you a book, try to read at least one or two chapters, even if it doesn't interest you in the least, do it for your friendship. Then you can honestly return it and say you tried to get into it but it just wasn't working for you, your friend will most likely understand and will appreciate the fact that you at least made the effort. 


If you do lend a book to a friend don't get all "Butthurt" (as my son would say), if they don't like it. Not everyone can sit and giggle maniacally through the Flashman series. Anyway its their loss.


And because I always like to put pictures in my posts, here are some books I recently scored on Paperbackswap-

I need more hours in my day.

This looks awesome!
Especially for Pulp or Horror gaming.You can see it all here at RPGNow.

For those that have the time to invest, lots of possibilities...

Monday at the movies

And where will you find all of this...
Buddha's Drive-in of course.


Return to the Planet of the Apes and Hammer House of Horror are worth the visit all by themselves.

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Today's guilty pleasure...Dancing Queen.

One of the Evil DM's Guilty pleasures is ABBA's  "Dancing Queen".  Every time I hear it I do a mind trip back to my preteen youth, and suddenly I'm in a skating rink. I wasn't as much an ABBA fan as I was an Agnetha fan.
Agnetha was my first celebrity crush.
What self respecting 11 year old boy wouldn't fall in love with this angelic face?

The other chick wasn't too bad either, but then I was only 11 and not  too  knowledgeable about the  possibilities, but come to think of it, they were Swedish...

DOG of W*A*R! It's out in hard copy... So buy it already.

DOGS OF W*A*R – The Real Man’s Role Playing Game! Using the rules first seen in the fantastic Barbarians of Lemuria, this great new role playing game gives you the covert adventure and gung-ho thrills of men’s action adventure novels of the 70’s and 80’s. Dogs of W*A*R allows you to create an experienced character ready to play in minutes and straightforward rules that don’t get in the way of role playing. DOGS OF W*A*R - All action…all danger…all guts!


*Be sure to check out the cool sample character bios, written by yours truly.*


Dogs of war can be found online at RPGNow and NOW in Hard copy at Lulu.






And if anyone wants to complain that some of my posts seem like advertisements, please start your own blog and post your complaint there.

Free paper miniatures!

It's been a while since I last posted about anything free. I found these paper miniatures the other day via the Barbarians of Lemuria message board. These are from an outfit called One Monk Miniatures. They look very cool, but to be honest I've been too busy to try them out. If any of you guys can come back with a short review I'm sure everyone would appreciate it. Until then, free is good and I for one appreciate the gesture.

I''m taking a couple of weeks off...

Hey guys,
I'll be taking a break from blogging and such, in order to finish up Hador and the BoL Pulp Expansion. I really can't get anything done between blogging and all the other internet crap that I do all day.  I'm not the most disciplined person at the best of times (though I do talk a good game to the Minions).
I've found I can easily piss away a morning with just RPGNet and my Google reader and get nothing of substance done.
Now, I love this blog and I'm appreciative of all the friends and contacts I have made because of it. I just need to really get these games out. Hador was supposed to be done last year. 
If this was my job I'd  have been fired and replaced by now.
So give me a few weeks and I'll be back. I hate to leave my 100+ followers but I gotta knock this stuff out. If you need a quick Evil DM fix of gratuitous girlie pics and geeky links just pick a random year and check out the archives, I'm sure you'll find something to bop your bippy.
Aloha for a few,
Jeff

Okay, one for the road...