Since the announcement earlier this week that Jodie Whittaker's upcoming 3rd season as Doctor Who will be her last, the internet has been full of folks tossing out who they think would make the perfect replacement casting. When it was announced that Peter Capaldi was leaving the show, I contended that fellow Broadchurch alum Olivia... Continue Reading →
Free League’s Alien RPG
Fans of the Alien film series have had little in the way of official RPG material over the years. If you wanted to run players through a campaign set in the world of dubious mega corporations, the vast, emptiness of space and Xenomorphs, gamers had little to no options available for them. Well, we're in... Continue Reading →
I don’t get the appeal of watching people play Role-Playing Games (with a singular exception)
Critical Role is like the Dave Matthews Band. While I fully appreciate what they do and acknowledge all the work and talent involved in making it happen, it's just not my jam. And if I'm honest, no group that streams RPGs is either, save for one. I've tried to watch, several in fact, groups that... Continue Reading →
‘Star Trek 4’ moving forward with WandaVision’s Matt Shakman at the helm
News hitting the airwaves that the long rumored Star Trek 4 project with the Chris Pine led cast from the Kelvin Timeline movies is back in the works at Paramount, with Matt Shakman set to direct. Matt is fresh off his work on Marvel's WandaVision series and looks to add to the current run of... Continue Reading →
Maybe it’s time for board and RPG game publishers to start thinking about domestic manufacturing?
So before you click off, hear me out. As has been discussed ad nauseum, the woes of freight costs from China continue to loom over the hobby space like a dark cloud. This problem is not going away any time soon, and in fact it continues to get worse by all accounts. With this, most... Continue Reading →
Everything is Invalid
So in what appears to be the never ending saga of TSR, or TSR3 or Wonderfield Inc or whatever they're calling themselves these days, the company formerly known as TSR has blessed us with a "press release" per their Discord server. In it, apparently everything that has transpired up to this point on any/all social... Continue Reading →
Review: Katla (streaming on Netflix)
Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð plays Grima in Netflix' Katla Set against the backdrop of a subglacial volcano (Katla) in Iceland that has been spewing ash steadily for over a year, Katla is at its heart a show that explores personal loss, tragedy, grief and how differently the shows main characters deal with them. The show slowly... Continue Reading →