Do it with a fireball ...

Quote of the day from Real Men Don't Play GURPS:

If you can't do it with a sword, do it with a fireball. If you can't do it with a fireball, it isn't worth doing.

87% Zombie Proof

87%

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I must admit though that I cheated - I was only 44% the first time through (too soft-hearted).

Transformer Thinking

Imagine if we actually built everyday vehicles so they could transform to kickass robots?

The Pasha Bulker would be off Nobby's Beach:

The Singapore Navy would need far less recruits:

Aussies would actually want to go buy a Citroen car (especially if we had ice to skate on!):

A fear of flying would become much more rational too:

NCIS: Homage to Gibbs

I missed my favourite TV show this week (hint: NCIS) but found this fun homage to Gibbs at YouTube:

Six words to tell a story in ...

Wired set a group of well known writers a challenge, could they tell a story in six words or less?

I've reproduced a few of my favourites:

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 - Closed Casket
- Richard K. Morgan

Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin

Deadline postponed. Five words enough...?
- David Brin

Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card

Finally, he had no more words.
- Gregory Maguire

Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
- Steven Meretzky

They also created some interesting graphics to go with these micro-stories:

The DM of the Rings

Shamus Young had created a most excellent comic interpretation of how a 'normal' D&D party would tackle the Lord of the Rings. If you've ever played D&D (or any of its many siblings) then this is sure to cause you to lose it, so do not read this whilst drinking, eating or in a place where loss of composure could be seriously embarrassing (like work).


In the words of the creator of this misadventure:

Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.

That sums up the comic nicely, and explains why I kept having flasbacks to the various times when I tried to get my hack-n-slash friends interested in my latest campaign, based on {insert seriously good scifi/fantasy novel, film or comic name here}.