Recent content by ersatzphil

Reminds me of the Venture Bros episode, "Viva Los Muertos!", with it's pastiche of Mystery, Inc - the possibly demon possessed dog Groovy talking to the Shaggy analog: "I'm not here to talk to them. You are the hand chosen by the Master! Yours is the will of plot, yours is the sword of Michael!"

Oh man, I used to buy Warhammer and Necromunda stuff at the The Wizard's Tower - I was also playing a lot of MtG there my freshman year of undergrad. I've been to Midgard before, and entered a few of their modeling competitions, but my being in northern MA it's (almost always) more of a hike...

Man, small world! I was buying D&D stuff at Hobby Emporium by the mid 90s. They've gone full into model kits, model trains, and doll house stuff, but they still have racks and racks of paint and modeling supplies. The staff are the same guys from the 90s, and are happy to talk about all kinds of...

Well, as long as we get one of the Mikes.

Hearing him talk about 'rolling to hit' in a game based on Into the Odd was a real mask-off moment for me. Dude, the rulebook is 44 pages! 44 A5 pages!

He recently offered a 'review' of Mausritter, where he got every single rule he mentioned wrong. I sincerely doubt he bothered to read the (40 page!) book, but apparently felt confident enough to offer his review as an 'expert'.

Chalet Brantifax is explicitly in the Shadowfell; other than the book being written by a Vistani there's not much to tie the adventure to Ravenloft - no Vistani even appear in the adventure. I will say, of the Candlekeep adventures I have run, 'A Deep and Creeping Darkness' was easily the best.

Speaking as someone who bought Candlekeep Mysteries because I heard there was a Ravenloft adventure in it, I would push back on this, hard. 'The Book of the Raven' just happens to randomly have wereravens in it. Which two do you think would be good thematic fits?

First off, your logic is unassailable: that's clearly Uncle Palpie's hand. That being said, I will point out that - as least as I recall - Strahd and Soth did meet in the period where Soth had been pulled into Ravenloft but before he became a Dark Lord in his own right.

I dunno man - I'm no artist, and I'd infinitely prefer something drawn by a human to something generated by an LLM. As someone said on here the other day, if you can't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?

Everything you're saying is true, but it is hilarious to hear it put like that.

I mean, HPL wrote that story in 1928 - a big steamship was huge and leading technology at the time, and Cthulhu pops and reforms unhurt, but goes back to sleep. Had he written it 20 years later, I imagine we would've seen Cthulhu get winded by being hit with a nuclear weapon.

By way of agreeing with you, Dan O'Bannon literally described "Alien" as being an inverse Lovecraft story - in HPL, aliens from beyond the stars come to earth, in "Alien" people from earth go beyond the stars and find the horrors where they come from.

Just because it has tentacles doesn't mean it's Lovecraftian.