Updates and Reviews

I am working on the sequel to The Flats: Life on the Margins, and so I am super-busy. However, the TV is on in the background and I have been revisiting some old favorites, such as Dead Like Me. I've also been checking out some suggested TV and movies that I otherwise missed, such as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Gargoyles, and I'll likely breakdown and give Stranger Things another go.

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is of particular interest, since I think it was a comic book that got licensed into a RPG by GDW, and apparently there was even a cartoon on CBS that I somehow either missed or just never knew anything about. It's actually aimed at YA, so it is much easier to parse than some of the fare to which I have been subjected. But, more seriously, I've enjoyed almost everything I've been watching... even if I haven't been actively watching it (I'm busy!).

I bought the $40 Humble Bundle with all of the TTRPG. It was no impulse buy, I assure you; $40 ain't shit to some people, but i fretted over the deal until the last minute then finally took the plunge. It has a lot of filler content, but there are some real gems in there too, like Basic Roleplaying, The Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Guide, Dragonbane, and much more. It may set me back some, but I don't think it will. I've amassed quite the Call of Cthulhu collection here as of late, mostly just by happenstance.

I guess that speaks well of Chaosium's involvement with the community and so forth, though; they've been in all the sales and bundles lately.

I got the Malleus Monstrorum on sale the other day, the Keeper's Guide in the Humble Bundle, and I had the 7th-Ed. Call of Cthulhu book to begin with - probably from another bundle! That should be all I need to run a rousing game of CoC, but I haven't done that since it was in the 4th-Ed. (which is what all my books are from, except for the 3rd-Ed. boxed set).

I cannot wait to dig-in to everything I spent my hard-earned money on this week, but I thought I should update no one in particular as to the goings-on about the house. It's a boring existence to some, but I have a fertile imagination I keep feeding.

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