Deathstalker 2025 looks fun

 Good practical effects.  And Slash was the exec producer. And director drew from Heretic and Diablo games.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVgP1MIbtfw&t=194s

OSRIC 3.0 is AD&D 1e and B&W art

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwB5VOidww&t=1371s&pp=0gcJCSgLAYcqIYzv

Time 50:00 has cool mage burning up a skeleton while holding a dude at bay

Huge and nice review. I like the B&W art

Dark Sun 2nd ed. yt many to go

 Brit narrator DM. Here is episode one, they say … dozens of episodes, maybe 2 years worth  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZwLI9XaCg&t=223s&pp=0gcJCQ0LAYcqIYzv

G3 Dragon speech

 In low rumbling he begins “who now has awakened me from my long slumber? What is this, puny mortals?” Says amusingly. He whispers something old in Draconic, lights flood from his eyes… harmless… then closes one eye. 

Calmly still “Let us speak. Ones so bold must have an interesting story. Why are you here among the foolish giants and stinking trolls?” 

(Waits for some story)

In THUNDEROUS TONES “Now you may witness I, xxxxnamexxxx, in my full glory!” As he rises up on his hind legs and stretches his wings. 

Be you impressed? Of course you are. .. any who behold the Might and Magesty of my kind are AWED and COWED. 

Lo, I see one kind among you with dragon blood! I have heard of many over the centuries but never has one such come to pay homage. Do you acknowledge my right to a dream-filled slumber, or are the others with you convinced they might rob me of my long held treasure? Even these greedy giants do not dare lay a finger on ONE SINGLE COIN!!! (He roars!). NAY! (More calmly), nay… they might be stupid but not so foolish. 

Borrowing from BECMI

Yt of Books Bricks and Boards https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHuUMc0GDZk&t=805s

Time 13:00 you get a solid easy to use mass combat option. Nice. 

• Who has more troops 
• Who has more magic
• Calc
• Roll dice
• Losing side loses 50% of men and very fatigued 
• Winning side loses 20% and not fatigued

Dd

The Backrooms movie - very good

 Really well done. Creepy plus more. Questions still at the end. 

Spoilers below ———

• Was the guy who got bit by the giant also a cooy?
• Was the red head his wife’s copy?
• Is the end real or a dream of the Shrink’s copy?
• Why are there so few natural settings in the Backrooms? Maybe it is psychological in a way, influencing reality (broken reality). 
• Did the Shrinks mom see backrooms when she was child?
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Fantasy Art Artists; color or B&W

“Great Masters of Fantasy Art” Color book I wouldn’t mind having https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uog4e6Q5lOs

Frazetta

Frank Kelly Freas

Greg Hildebrandt

Carl Lundgren

Oliviero Berni

Boris Vallejo

Richard Corben

Vincente Segrelles

Barclay shaw

Rowena moreil

Rodney matthews

Paul Lehr

Richard hescox

Tim White

Michael Wehland

Don Maitz

This one has good ones too  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yryw-3GVyJ4

Here is specific deep dives by Pete Beard English man style, this on Arthur Rackham - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTD0csU14Qs

Even better Arthur Rackham stuff by other yt- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTolFUdG-sU&t=197s

New young artist inspired by Elden Ring and Berzerk, very good - https://m.youtube.com/shorts/U2R51ItlKmA

OSR vs. Newer Games (3.5e and 5e D&D)... doesn't need to be so disparate

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6XcyqF3A0

I like my comment... of course I would, it's my comment. Just kidding, I've been thinking this one over for months and this might just be a short enough version of my thoughts to get the point across to somebody:

I think there are good things in nearly every version of D&D. The OSR: I love the art look. I love the way there is no "one solution only" mindset... usually there are several ways to creatively get something accomplished. Common sense works just fine in most situations without having to roll, I like that a whole lot. Watching some Tenkar's Tavern, I have learned tons of OSR tricks that I never picked up in my youth (never got to play much back then). Newer games (say D&D 3.5e or 5e): the art look has been diminished quite a bit for me, but I do enjoy lots of powers to keep the variety going. Maybe you concentrate less on super creativity using basic things (a spike in your pack used to block a door and hold back the giant spider), but you can often be very creative with your powers, assuming the table has the right mindset. Maybe you cast sleep under the door crack because it's got over an inch of a crack under it, you got down on your belly while the fighter held the door, and bam you put the giant spider on the other side to sleep. Or maybe you try to cast fireball under the door with the huge crack... maybe you can only do it with a wand of fireballs and you slip the end under the door, or the DM let's you know it'll be a very hard aim (50/50 on the dice) ... and then it's up to you whether it is worth the risk. So yeah, it is easy to say newer games refer to the character sheet too much (they do), if you have the right mindset and some exposure to older styles, you mix them up, then you get so many options nobody ever gets bored. That is a recipe for fun in my book.

Tornadoes, craaazy vids

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BFXN3X4e5sE&t=309s Was the multi vortex windfarm killer. Craaazy. This is scariest of the vids of it maybe  

Beat one for clarity - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZDVYzIhgc&t=312s

Same, Greenfield Iowa May 2024 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcWFYUsVchM&t=200s

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Mike wide iowa, April 26, 2024.   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ27T04dNno

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The Clem Schultz video. The sound, the steady approach. The hope that it won't happen, and then when it does happen, you see just how bad it is through the window as the neighborhood gets ripped away a second before it hits him and his house. Has to be the scariest ever because he gets hit. Poor guy... his wife died from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5Y2biSpog&pp=ygUUQ2xlbSBTY2h1bHR6J3MgdmlkZW8%3D

• Right after the hit, here is aftermath. Clem shows up at 6:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfcF5mHmL4c
• More pictures of the same Rochelle Fairdale one: https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1tj4s86/rochellefairdale_gets_talked_about_a_fair_amount/

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El Reno escape by Dan Robinson. Might be a repost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgU1QcFMJM

• quote  daishi3050 "When the camera switched to rearview, at first I thought I was only seeing the rain, until I realized the whole screen was the tornado behind him."

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The one by the overpass. Also Rochelle Fairdale. HUGE, right next to him: 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEqJ2HKR5sE
• Better quality, no crop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmJCB0x21s

Thundarr in RPG

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQtR4IHkJxI&pp=0gcJCQkLAYcqIYzv

• Via BobThemagicOne’s yt. 
• About The Scientific Barbarian.  
• Good point, Thundarr fits right in to MCC. Didn’t know it was the same guy doing this pdf, zine, whatever it is.  

OK I bought it. O_o  impulse buy, but hey. 

Used Bob's link. 

Main site: https://mudpuppygames.com/games/

And it sent me an email... saying it'll email me again later when the order is ready. 
So I'll get the real book in the mail... I GUESS they'll email some link to dl the pdf. ???

The No ai b&w art man, great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNOZktEmEA 

John Cichowski is the B&W artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1r7lW7MJEs

He has some good B&W dnd classic OSR style stuff to buy on drivethrurpg. He made art for the GloomRaider guy (the sort of Shadowdark but more AD&D 1e. See those vids. 

Here's some GloomRaider stuff, like this module for levels 1-5, with undead: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/545072/gloomraider-osr-rpg-the-risen-from-the-tomb?src=hottest_filtered

Here's that free one (again?): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/515076/gloom-beneath-the-sorcerer-s-tower-osr-adventure-for-gloomraider-rpg?src=hottest_filtered

Gary Gygax interesting Quotes from after year 2000 I think.

I have to say, he was wise but also knew how to handle himself (even online). Impressive. 

 Via https://1eonline.info/7ua/elf.dark.htm

Originally posted by Dinkeldog
As an addendum to Redleg's question, was the intent that all drow would be evil and no player could ever be one?
 

Noppers. As noted in my reply to Redleg's post, I didn't think all drow had to be evil--only maybe 99% It then follows that some player might have a drow character, Evil or not, as the DM allowed

Cheers,
Gary

Quote:
Originally Posted by Elfdart
My nickname on the web boards comes from the old English term for back spasms (which I suffered several years ago) being labeled "elf darts" because the ancient Germanic peoples thought sudden pains and spasms were caused by invisible darts from the elves. On the other hand, Tolkien nerds are more of a pain in the a$$.

Interesting origin of the name, and something I had not read before. thanks.

Happy for you that the spasms have ceased. I injured by back when I was working as a mover in my late teens, and had many a chiropractic treatment before a kinesiologist one cured the proble,

Cheers,
Gary

As for Drow, I never envisaged them as a standard PC race.
I guess I erred in not making them more loathesome...although malign subterranean elves that love spiders seem pretty unappealing as is...

Cheers,
Gary

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeolius
Gary,

Were there any beasties from the 1e days (and prior... I respect anyone who puts a tuatara in their monster lists) that you considered to be "classic", that never seemed to catch on with the masses?
That is something I had not considered.

Upon reflection I have to say no, the "architypical" monsters were pretty well accepted across the board and included by DMs...includine many very clever variations and permutations.

What astonished me was the players' being smitten with the drow, desiring to play a PC of that race. I devised them as a most unlikable, ruthlessly evil subterranean race. To cater to the demand, the Drow were made into realtively more warm and fuzzy sorts. I can only liken that into changing Hannibal Lector into a visiting nurse.

All that said, do you find that some "classic" critters to be generally ignored?

Cheers,
Gary

Isometric vs. bl press

 Resuce bl press by 8-12 pts for Systolic by…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQTHHS2YVk&t=213s

Wall sit- (planks are fine too)

Hold position 2 minutes 

Rest 2 minutes 

Repeat that 4 times

3 times a week

Note, do as much as you can working up to these times. Doesn’t need to be 90 degrees on wall sits. 

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Also planks. Use as many muscles as poss.