Red Riding Hood the Ikea version?
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Discovered this a month too late, but these are still cool: Be My Anti-Valentine cards
Valentine’s Day is like herpes: just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once more. No wonder some people prefer to call it VD.
Jack Womack is guest-blogging at William Gibson‘s blog about his collection of oddities, such as this wonderful lung remedy:
Produced during that brief moment in American history when heroin, chloroform, alcohol, and North Carolina pine tar pretty much took care of anything that ailed you.
That, and radium.
[heads-up via Paul McAuley]
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Ultraviolet: The RPG
Remember Ultraviolet, the feel-good movie of the decade? Here’s a reminder:
Now via Story Games, I learned that someone has written an RPG that perfectly captures the film experience:
When fighting faceless, roll 2D6. That’s how many of them die. No, they don’t get to try to hurt you. You just kill them.
When fighting bosses, roll 2D6. If you roll doubles, the boss dies. If not, keep rolling until you do. no, they don’t get a chance to kill you either. Just keep rolling.
NOT FIGHTING: If you decide to ride a motorcycle up a building or something, roll 2D6, and then succeed.
ROLLING DOUBLES
If you ever roll doubles for any action, you must change both your clothing and hair colors.
The best part is a random plot twist table: whenever the players think they know what’s going on, roll 1D6 – with results like You’re completely wrong about what’s going on
, or The boss shows up and has some stymied dialogue about how you’re all going to fail.
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There’s even actual play, god help us all.
Now this is a macabre follow-up to my last post, about people dressing up as “real” superheroes:
The dead man, who was said to be obsessed with the character, was wearing full costume and makeup when he was challenged by officers in a national park in Virginia, according to legal documents.
The FBI named him as army specialist Christopher Lanum, who was wanted as a suspect over the stabbing of a fellow soldier at Fort Eustis, a major army base in the state, several hours before. Lanum’s girlfriend, Patsy Ann Marie Montowski, who was with him when he was shot, told investigators that the soldier idolised the Joker…
[ via Warren Ellis]