’68, Kickstarters and everything you have come to expect!

The only real work I managed to accomplish this week was barely managing to get Chapter 16 of ‘Buck Who?’ finished. It was a very busy week at work and I had plenty of other tasks which kept me occupied.

Still, I did manage to get another creature written up for the New Mutant Monday, and I even managed to create the index for the series of posts.

Today I had the fortune of finding free time so I could get more work completed on the Harvesting book. I worked on the basic skill for harvesting, which turned out to be quite long. It alone would have made up almost a single issue of Wisdom from the Wastelands. Still I am happy with the overall progress.

I am not happy this project will not be finished by May 1st as I had hoped. I can still probably get the rules finished, but as it turns out there are more charts and topics I will have to cover.

Still, it's coming along very nicely.

I’ve said this many times in the past already, but this week, as long as I’m not overwhelmed after work, I want to get back to completing the powered armor book. Well, that and the Vehicles and robots.

I was hit with some serious inspiration last week, and as such I made sure to copy down the notes so I don’t forget what I wanted to add to the book.

This week I posted the latest nasty mutant encounter for Mutant Future and Gamma World. I guess you could say they really aren’t mutants, other than being slightly larger than their ancestors. I created the ‘Vole Swarm’.

Laugh all you want, but these little buggers could be quite deadly to an unprepared party!

Buck Who? Chapter 14 went up on Friday night as usual. The group does not make it to Seattle until chapter 16, which won’t be going up until the second Friday in May. Wow, to think that we’re already that close to May. I’m going to have to start adding more action, as my readers seem to be losing interest.

Finally after several long weeks of nothing new from Skirmisher, they released a brand new RPG called Cards and Quests. It’s quite the unique game, and although I haven’t had much time to go over it, the premise is something I’ve never seen before.

It uses a deck of cards during play. I do remember the old Twilight 2000 game using cards to determine NPC personalities, but this takes a quantum leap in how the cards are integrated into the game as you play.

Check it out and discover a new system to use!

A young man I met at Comicpalooza last year has been involved in two Kickstarter Projects. Isaiah Broussard has a comic called Transyltown.  I’ve backed the first project and another he was involved in.

Isaiah has another kickstarter for Volume 2: Starlight Summer of this series and there is just over a week left. Help him by donating to his cause and let’s get volume 2 off the ground and into our hands! We need to support independent writers and artists like this young man, and I personally find it far more worthwhile than many of the projects I’ve seen out there.

Wednesday saw the latest in my series of top five lists - Top Five Calgary Entertainment Expo Moments. I guess I should stick to my usual lists, dealing with books, games, and other forms of entertainment. This one did not do so well. I wrote up my top eight encounters at the Calgary comic and entertainment expo. Yes, I typically only list my top five, but this time I went a little further.

Without going into whiny details or boring you about it, this expo was ruined for me. So I wrote up this list to try and recall all the good times I had over the past decade at the expo. Sort of trying to be therapeutic, I guess.

This week also saw me complete Exile: Book 11 of the Starforce series. More was revealed about the ancients, who created the rings, which allow for travel across massive distances. Internal strife and the fight to find a way back home made up most of the book. Overall it was still a pretty good read and I am glad I stuck with the series as long as I have.

I started a new book of course but it’s a longer one, so I don’t know if I can finish it in time for next week’s blog.

Two more Pathfinder Player companions have found their way into my collection this week. First is Blood of the Night. This book covers the four types of vampires found on Golarion. It has more than enough background information on these vampires to all the GM to create some very memorable villains.

The book covers the half-vampire breeds, Dhampir. These are designed to be used as characters in a campaign and with each come the strengths, weaknesses as well as possible campaign uses.

As is the case with nearly all the Pathfinder player companions I have added to my collection over the past several months, they are not massive books, but provide a wealth of information for one to use in their game. Of course this book is more likely to be used in a vampire-based game, but they could be useful in other games as well.

The second is a companion to this book, called Blood Of the Moon. It deals with lycanthropes and more specificially their kin and the Skinwalkers. This is far more useful for a GM who wants to have a game with lots of skin-shifters involved. The book covers eight of the most common types of skinwalkers as they could be used by players in a campaign. It has a little bit of history for each of the races, as well as the usual feats and so forth.

Once again, campaign specific, but very useful if you want to allow your players to, ahem, walk on the wild-side.

Over the past several years I have been buying and reading a series called ’68. It’s essentially a continuation of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, but mainly set in the jungles of Vietnam. There have been I do believe five, four-issue miniseries and a whole mess of one-shot issues as well. It’s incredibly gory and very violent, as you would expect. I finished ’68: Bad Sign recently. This one shot is set in San Francisco during the rising, and deals with the Zodiac killer. Quite the unexpected story! And as such, it was very well done.

I am looking forward to the next miniseries, called ’68: Last Rites, which premiers in June or July.

Finally finished the last two episodes of Revolution season 2. I can really see why it did not get renewed for a third season. I was quite disappointed in the sub-story dealing with the nanites. If
I had to guess that is probably what killed its chances for renewal. It just got way too weird. If they would have stuck with the civil war aspect, I think it might have continued. Shame about it, because I really enjoyed the series. Isn’t that typically the case though, you get into a show and next thing you know, it’s gone.

With that, I’m done for this week. I am very pleased to see that over the past two weeks I’ve gained quite a few followers on Twitter. I’m up to 37 now, and that’s a far cry from the 5 I had for almost a full year! The result is I’m posting more and more, trying to increase the number of followers I have.

The downside is my personal author page on facebook is not growing. I need to change that as well, get more people following me there. So, as always please like my author page!

Until next week, peace!