Humble Bundle - Masters of British Comics

I remember my first exposure to Judge Dredd and the 2000 AD world of comics. It was at Forbidden Planet on 13th Street in Lower Manhattan in the mid-80s, and I didn't care if the issues were new or old, I just knew that they were new to me.

I still have a special affection for Judge Dredd and 2000 AD, so seeing the large collection of titles available with the various titles included in the Masters of British Comics Bundle. 25 bucks get you the following 64 titles. You can purchase for less for a smaller selection of titles.

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Deal of the Day - Barbarians of the Ruined Earth (Special Edition Cover - OSR)

It has been a busy day, or else I would have shared this earlier. As it stands, there are about 12 hours left in this deal.

Barbarians of the Ruined Earth (Special Edition Cover) is a post-Apoc OSR ruleset/setting. Normally 15 bucks in PDF, it's on sale for a mere $6.00 until tomorrow morning, 11AM Eastern.

This is the Special Edition cover for the book by James V. West.  You can find the Standard Edition cover by James Hanson here.  

Barbarians of the Ruined Earth is a weird post-apocalyptic fantasy setting inspired by Thundarr the Barbarian. Throw in a healthy heap of Mad Max: Fury Road and a little Pirates of Dark Water and you’ve got yourself a Saturday Morning Cartoon Stew fueled by heavy metal!

The players take on the role of heroes (or maybe some feisty brigands or profiteers), wandering the Ruined Earth defeating evil Sorcerers, beating the crap out of mutated frog-men, bashing some raider skulls, or wandering through the stinking ruins of an Ancient Earth space shuttle hanger looking for bits of Stupendous Science! 

Blurb From the Back Cover: 

What can I say about Barbarians of the Ruined Earth that the tasty 89 full color illustrations packed into this goddamned book doesn’t already scream at you? I mean aside from the fact it uses The Black Hack, has 4 classes and 4 races (each with cool abilities, starting gear, and tables to generate unique trinkets and life events), 7 sample traps, new magic system with 30 spells, new and fun equipment for the setting, including 12 weaponized animals, hireling and vehicle rules, 14 pieces of Stupendous Science, 60 different mutations, 18 pieces of cyberware, 11 charts and tables for GM’s to use on the fly, 46 adversaries to pit your players against, a point crawl in the ruins of the Los Angeles area with 13 locations, all channeling the spirt of Thundarr the Barbarian, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Pirates of Dark Water and it’s wrapped up in a 162 page sexy package… what else is there?! Not much, I’m afraid…

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Deal of the Day - Beyond the Wall - Further Afield

I am a huge fan of Beyond the Wall. It's an oft-forgotten OSR ruleset, but it truly has mechanics to drive the story, and I'd love to have a version or adaptation for Swords & Wizardry. Or just hack it on my own. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Today's Deal of the Day is Further Afield for Beyond the Wall. Normally it costs 5.99 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning you can snag a copy for 2.40.

An exciting supplement for convenient campaigns of Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures.

Sometimes heroes must wander…

Shadows gather throughout the world, threatening you, your village, your friends, and your family.

The lands are wide and wild, filled with dangerous foes and fantastic treasures. You are a little older now, ready to see the world far from the village, face the darkest threats, and make your own legend. It is time for you and your companions to leave home.

Travel further afield...

Just as Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures provides for an exciting evening of play with zero prep, Further Afield offers guidelines and rules to create and run an extended campaign in the same spirit. Now the players and gamemaster work together to create the myths, legends, and rumors of a unique setting. Included in this book are all the necessary tools to create your world, travel and explore within it, defeat great and terrible adversaries, and reap the rewards of adventures even further beyond the wall.

• Collaborative player-driven campaign creation for making your own shared sandbox. 

• Threat Packs for dynamic villains and dangers affecting the world beyond the village.

• Helpful hints and systems for integrating new characters into existing groups.

• Rules for creating magical items through your crafts, deeds, or sorcerous powers.

• Four Threat Packs, including the Blighted Land and the Vengeful Wyrm.

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In Memory of John Browne, Pub Owner and Bartender without Equal

 Tonight, Rach and I went to the wake of John Browne, owner of the Grandstand Pub and Restaurant. Rach and I did much of our courting here, had our wedding reception here, and celebrated many family milestones in the establishment I’m sitting in right now. 

We are celebrating John’s life, which touched our local community deeply. 

If I could accomplish a tenth of what John did in his life in my own, it would be a life well lived. 

God bless you John. May you legacy last 100 years. 

Bundle of Holding - Worlds of 2000 AD

I was a HUGE Judge Dredd / 2000 AD fan in my college days. There was just something about the comics - over the top, gritty, and far from other comic book fares for the time.

When I saw that ENWorld Publishing had the RPG licenses for 2000 AD and other related IP, I wasn't all that excited. Maybe it was the time between when I collected and now, or the fact that it used the WOIN System, which really didn't do much for me.

All that being said, for 7.95 for the Worlds of 2000 AD Rulebook Collection, including Judge Dredd & 2000 AD, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, and the Judge Dredd GM Screen is a price point I can buy in at, even if only for the setting material and background stuff. The threshold price (about 19 bucks) includes the Adventure Collection with seven more Judge Dredd RPG supplements worth an additional $49, including the Luna-1 Sourcebook, five full-length adventures (The Apocalypse War, The Cursed Earth, The Judge Child, The Day the Law Died, and The Robot Wars), and the Case Files Compendium of short scenarios.

Bang for the buck, I suspect the Rulebook Collection is all I need. YMMV.

21 days left for this offer as I type this.

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RPGs and Dating......?

I've mentioned a couple of times now that I'm in the (way to effing long) process of moving into a new home. It's shaping up to be easily a stressful month-long process and it's intruded somewhat into my gaming life. "Somewhat" because I have discovered that Minecraft is strangely calming and while it's not D&D, it's getting the job done for me.

No, this isn't going to be a Minecraft post. If you need some of that I highly suggest YouTube. Tons of videos there.

This week I was supposed to be slinging dice at my new place, but the GM bailed....to go out on a date. While the gamer in me says, "Really dude....a date?" The single 50 y/o in me totally gets it. In my gaming group only the GM and I are single. My old gaming group used to be made up of couples so Sunday was game night and dating just wasn't a potential pitfall.

These days.....gaming and dating don't mix very well. Lucking my gaming group is just every other Saturday night so the timing isn't too much an issue, although it could be. No the hardest thing is having the "RPG" conversation with a new date. I'd say maybe half of the women I get involved with think they get what my gaming is, with the other half just thinking I play Xbox...well just play Xbox. That 1st half that gets it.....no, no they don't. I've yet to have one understand that we use dice in our games. Yeah, if you've got to explain what a d20 is.....no bueno. Luckily most don't really care, or that's it's too early for them to express that they care.

No that's real life....in-game I've never had a PC "date" or even heard of that ever happening. Too cringey, most likely. Now I have run a married PC before, which was married to my (then) wife's PC. I know I ruffled my GM a bit 'cause I played things up a bit...because I could. Due to the nature of HackMaster's tournaments our PCs hadn't seen each other in a couple years game-time (they were Elves, so not that big of a deal?) so when they did get together, my PC demanded an extra week-downtime where he rented out a boat. Yes, I told the other PCs, in-character, "If this boat's a rockin', don't come knocking." I allege that it sounds so much more eloquent in Elvish.

Yeah, I'm generally coming back around to the opinion that gaming and dating don't mix. Adding a pre-existing relationship to the gaming table, probably....but a new date, not so much. Too bad that "Only Gamers" dating site from KoDT (not the actual name, mind you), doesn't exist.