Category: General

Today in the astounding campaign of the World Wildlife Federation of Justice the heroes Metalligator, Invisible Fink, Go-Rilla, Otter Destruct and Drako duked it out with the villainous Dark Horse, Tarmadillo, Hypnopotamus and Rhinosferatu in a construction site. They captured everyone except Dark Horse. Lots of fun and Theo & Kate brought me a delicious bubble tea.

The San Diego Comic-Con was this weekend. I knew a couple people who went. I’ve never been. Stewie has been often. The next Star Wars movie got the title that in my brain I knew it would get: Revenge of the Sith

One article I read said “It was a risky move – some of the notoriously fickle Star Wars admirers initially bristled at previous prequel titles The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. ” – so how is yet another campy title along the lines of the precedent set ‘risky’? I actually think it is a much better – simpler title than PM or AotC.

In addition to the title, Lucasfilm also sent concept artist Ryan Church to show off drawings of a Wookie tree civilization from Episode III and played footage of Christensen’s climactic light-sabre duel – minus all the special effects – with co-star Ewan McGregor, who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Return of the Jedi was originally to be titled Revenge of the Jedi. Some advance promotional material even featured that title, but Lucas changed it later in production. “This time, George tells us he’s going to keep ‘Revenge’ in the title,”

This is a tough question for me, so I’ll let you work it out:

Which do you prefer, the Spider-Man movies or the X-Men movies?
And if you prefer one to the other, do you prefer the first or the second?

I got my pound of candy (licorice of course) in the mail while I was away. I got it in trade for a gmail account.

While I was away I did a lot of writing. I worked on the girly D&D campaign a lot. For a recap, the storyline is basically thus:

-PC’s (Player Character’s) wizard mentor has a prophetic dream of the apocalypse.
-Mentor sends PCs into woods to find old oracle/ranger friend to see confirm omen reliability
-While on quest group is underground in grimlock caves (grimlocks are the D&D version of morlocks)
-PCs come above ground to find the land has been afflicted by an aurora that causes blindness. During this aurora invaders from another dimension have taken over major cities and the cleric’s god has been killed.
-Home town has been evacuated, mentor and townsfolk migrated to bigger city through mountains, PCs follow trail.
-In mountains PCs meet old wizard who scries (scrying is looking through a crystal ball, basically) to find out much of what’s going on. He explains how Demon Lord of Undead (Orcus) and his new bride (Queen from alien dimension) are working on conquering the realm. This info ties in with mentor’s omen.
-Wizard (“The Hyrkanian”) sends them on mission to safeguard evil Queen’s little sister so she can return to her home dimension and possibly undo some damage.

That’s pretty much where we are now. Over the week I’ve been working on backstory and come up with some pretty interesting things for the near and far future. I would say that we’re about 2/5 of the way through the campaign, and that the group is slightly higher level than I anticipated they would be, even though I’ve been pretty stingy with the XP to hold them back to be in line with the advancement of the scenarios. Considering I’ve never DM’d a really long campaign where I had to plot out at what level the group would have to be to coincide with a given “module’s” recommended level several adventures ahead (this campaign is mostly a group of pre-published adventures that I’m stringing together with one common thread), it’s working out not too badly. No major hiccups.

I have also been working on a script for a tangentially Lovecraftian short film. I’m not ready to divulge any more info on that at this time though.