(Yeah, I know everyone has already posted about this, but give me a break I have a 5 week old.)

Warren Ellis has gotten a hold of one of my favorite childhood properties.  Amazingly enough, I don't want to cry.  Just the opposite in fact. It starts tonight on Adult Swim but you can find it hereat Adult Swim.com  or on youtube. 

I have only watched about half of the webisodes at this point, but enough to see proof that Snake Eyes is cool as ever and this is just about perfect.

Just read the National Geographic article on Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as Pharoh and is often depicted with traditional male atire and symbolism, and it (of course) got me to thinking about Game Plot elements.  Why did she really dress like a man, call her self the Wife of the God Amun, and usurp her stepson's place on the throne even after he was of age?  Was she trying to be an avatar of the Mystic Hermaphrodite? Was there something even more sinister going on? It seems rife with possibilities for Unknown Armies, CoC, or any game of High Wierdness.  Transpose her to a DnD world, say set her in Pathfinders Osirion or GR's Hamunaptra, and you have a great possible ally or enemy for the PCs.

She came!  10:47 PM March 23rd, 2009 .  A 7 lb. 7 oz. baby girl with red hair just like her Mommy.  Now if we can just get this feeding thing worked out we are all good.

Leaving in about 15 mins. to "publish" my greatest creation:  Rebakah Lynn Carter!

"And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show."

Or is Wunnderkammer not an appropriate theme for a nursery?

Check out fvza.org and the Newsarama article about the coming comic.  It would make a great modern game setting (using nWoD?  Maybe Hunters?).  The Website is full of interesting things, but I just had to share this video. He reminds me of  a guy I used to see when I was doing nursing home ministry.

(I am not, BTW, just reposting a lot fo stuff from seankreynolds todaty, but it does seem like it.)

I am still digesting, even reading bits, of this article on a 4e playtest but I think it pretty much sums up my feelings about 4e.  Its a perfectly viable game.  An I think for some people an even better one, but its not DnD to me. I don't have enough experiance across editions to say "Its not DnD" as the author does, but its not what I want to play - even though it has some high points.

Instead I am much looking forward to Pathfinder coming out in August as a system that is DnD and adresses some of the problems with 3.5.

While this article on swords is longer than you are likely to want to read, it makes the excellent point that swords in the middle ages were, in fact, useful and not just big heavy sharp clubs.  The only real upshot of it?  Theweights given for swords in DnD aren't, contrary to what some History Channel shows would have you believe, all that wrong.

Today I finished up and sent the Campaign guide for the Tressa/Jeremy Starter DnD Game.  A fairly generic world, but hopefully will feed their desire to play.  And hold them over until we actually can.

I have serendipitously found a piece of an adventure from Pathfinder which will fit in with my plans for Manifest (City of Ghosts) for the Mosaic game this weekend.

I now have two Cthul monsters for Monster Apocalypse, but want more units.  I have Terrasaurs, Martians, and Lords of Cthul units - which is the way the trades have worked out.  But wish I had a GUARD monster and units. I suspect that Thomas and I will play a few games after Rebekah comes.

In the SMGSLT category:  

I really want to play or run a 1960s espionage/space game playing of the Artemis Group themes from Planetary.  A secret Space Program that went to the moon before the Apollo program, hidden science cities in the USSR (and the USA), and  even concentration camps in the US.  Low level psionics but mostly action adventure and conspiracy gaming.  PCs would be part of a Men in Black kind of goverment agency that might not actually know whats going on.  I bought Spycraft: The 1960s decade book for that, but need lots of Ken Hite style research to go along with it.  Of course its not going to happen

I have ordered Mecha v. Kaiju with an amazon gift card given to me by Donna for GM's Day this year.  This plays into the Eldritch Electrorangers game I created years ago, but never saw print.  But it might yet.  The sytem is True20, whcih I am not that familiar with or keen on, but it seems to be the way modern gaming is going.  I cant wait to get the full version, the partial setting in the T20 book is intriguing.

I was reading  the Newsarama story about Kingsand realized about a paragraph into it that I had just covered this with my Old Testament Survey Class. (which they do of course admit, but its striking nevertheless) Its the book of Samuel, set in the modern day, sort of.  Looks interesting.