Wednesday 21 July 2021

A promise or a threat

If our Mage game returns and we do a beach episode, Didi Duvall, in her duty as THE WORST, will totally get a Tarot Hawaiian shirt.



Monday 19 July 2021

Tanith on Hero Forge

Hero Forge has added decals to its color options, for skin coloration, makeup, hair streaks, blood and other splatters... and, yes, for crying and streaking your makeup.



Thursday 15 July 2021

Cloak & Dagger

All through Cloak & Dagger (except their appearance in Runaways, which I should probably get to next rather than watching the third-last episode in isolation). Aww.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Birthday!

The Invisible Man (2020) on DVD, Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, also pizza and cupcakes.

Tuesday 6 July 2021

Vampire: The Masquerade 30th Anniversary

Hello to the friends I made in this dark corner of the world.

This year, Vampire: The Masquerade is celebrating its 30th anniversary! Let's celebrate with some nostalgia - whether you're here with us for a few weeks or over a decade, tell us:

1. When have you heard about VTM for the first time?
2. What's your most fond memory connected to VTM?
3. Have you met anyone special through VTM?

Raise your blood bags for 30 years more!


1. Adverts for the first edition. In magazines. In print!
2. Little human moments in all the horror, like the time Claudia taught Tanith to play skee-ball.
3. I have friends going back decades, some of whom I've never actually met.

Charles Ashe: I would love to hear more about your dramatic experiences.

I have been asked to talk about my character! Mwahahaha!

Since y'all asked about the skee-ball story on Twitter, sharing for people here:

They were at a fairground after hours following a gig nearby, and Claudia (singer and reluctant leader of the New Bremen Toreador despite being undead six years) spotted a game at the late-night arcade. Tanith (art historian Brujah bandmate) had never heard of it (as I hadn't either) and Claudia attempted to explain while also trying to win without using her superhuman vampire reflexes.

Claudia was also there for the big dramatic story I talk about most often, when due to a Mage and a magic potion (from the first edition Sabbat book!) they became human for a day, and Tanith never really recovered.

See also the time I demonstrated I was actually a Brujah by having to be restrained from throwing Kufuu the Setite out of a window in Elysium. Hi Reuel!

(New Bremen was a strange place.)

Reuel: #KufuuDidNothingWrong

Sunday 4 July 2021

Vampire: The Masquerade 30th Anniversary

Happy Vampire: The Masquerade 30th Anniversary!

30 years ago today, Vampire: The Masquerade premiered at Origins Game Fair. Happy anniversary to Vampire and the World of Darkness!
(This logo is just for fun, there's no V30 book.)

Happy 4th of July

Leave milk and apple pie for Captain America!

Saturday 3 July 2021

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt

Made it into the alpha weekend for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt (trailer). As predicted, I was terrible.

The five minute tutorial took me half an hour as I had to find out you have to be running already to slide. After that, I made it to character creation. 



Note that there are not action shots. :D 

Hanging out in Elysium has always been more my playstyle anyway.

(And posting this on Twitter got a Like from the Associate Character Art Lead. :) )

I had fun being demolished, but would definitely love a "look around Prague" test setting, or an RP hangout.

The first expansion clan is Ventrue, so we have all the "regular modern vampire" clans as well as the "visual interest and stealth" Nosferatu who always seem more popular in games with a visual element than at the table. 

I can confirm that the menu music is very atmospheric.

And the title sequence, featuring the already confirmed Katana And Trenchcoat.