Discovering digital comics

Guess what, grandpa, they also have these things called telephones, that let people talk to each other from hundreds of miles away.

I got a Kindle Fire tablet last week, and one of the things I've gotten into are digital comic books.   The killer app for me was the feature from Comixology that allows you to scroll through panel to panel, not page to page.  It makes it much more legible and enjoyable than looking at a PDF or something.

I've enjoyed many free books, and bought some others.  I particularly like the fact that you can get a whole story-line easily without any fuss.   That's one thing that deters me from buying them in hard copy, coming in mid-story and then missing later issues.  It's also awesome that I don't have to store them or chuck them when I'm done.

The only danger is how easy it might be to accidentally spend way to much money on stupid comic books.

Calling Dibs

I'm calling Dibs on being Judge next week.    I want to yank a plot-thread I've been waving around for a year or so.   I also want to set the parameters for the clearing out of the Island of the Dead, since Yoeville will never thrive until that is accomplished, as Andrew has pointed out.   Perhaps the dungeon portion will be still automated, and if Andrew wants to do a lightning round, we can still do that, but I want some time to play out a few things with me as full judge.

1 more level

Many of us are 8th level now, only 1 level from the stronghold levels.    I go back and forth all the time as to whether to try to rule over some peasants, or just run my sacred order of neo-Ardean assassins.


Despite the fact that I get the Savage Worlds or Homebrew Game or Traveller itch every now and again, I'm pretty excited that we're actually reaching the "name levels"  and are going to start building stuff soon. 


Should we perhaps have a page on the campaign wiki for each person who builds one's stronghold?   We need some sort of uniform of monitoring what people are doing, time and effort wise.


I know Jason has been banging away with Badaxe Jack all along, how much paperwork is involved?

Worst movie ever

It was called "The Meanest Men in the West" and xfinity on demand claimed it was a 1970 movie starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, both fine drunk and violent movie stars. However, it turned out to be 2 episodes of the series "The Virginian"  one from 63 with Marvin, and one from 67 with Bronson.  The two episodes were incredibly hamfistedly edited together in pretense of making a single story, and padded out with pointless stock footage of cows and random pioneers.  I am just glad I didn't spend any money on it.

Just Couldn't Do It

I went over to Comic Store West on Labor Day.   I stood there looking at D&D 5e.   I looked and looked and looked.    I just couldn't do it.  I couldn't buy the Player's Handbook.  It didn't seem bad and there was nothing off putting about it (except for the $50 price tag), but there was nothing about it that could nudge me into buying it.

Agents of S.T.A.B.

I've been reading some Nick Fury comics of late, and my daughter has been subjecting me to endless episodes of the TV show "Supernatural", the two have started combining in my head in the form of a potential campaign:  Agents of S.T.A.B. (Supreme Terrestrial Action Brigade)---whereby units deploy to defeat alien, super-powered and extra-terrestrial threats that the locals just can't handle.

Outdoor Survival

I was thinking about the Mutants and Muskets campaign, and whether an edgier post apocalypse game might be worth a try some time.   I was thinking about the old board game "Outdoor Survival".  I know I played it once or twice back in the 70's, but can't remember too much about the mechanics.  If it's actually cool, it might be a way to do the non-combat end of things.