ps238principal (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ps238principal) wrote,@ 2008-04-26 01:46:00 |
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| Entry tags: | 4e, blake's 7, hobbit |
Blake's 4E!
What will 4E bring, license-wise? The new version of D&D seems to be under a new aegis, and according to some sources will be quite the headache if you want to stay with 3E and its Open Gaming License. ICv2 has an interview with D&D's brand manager here where this transition is discussed. All I know is that there was a lot of conjecture at GAMA about whether or not you could sell something past 2008 if you put a sticker over the "d20" logo. As for the actual rules themselves, more 4E general info and documents are available. All I want to do is roll some dice without getting sued; is that so wrong? :)Anyway, if anyone has any pertinant info about this (or any other topics), feel free to post in the comments section.
While the UK waits for the next episode of Doctor Who and America digests the first one of the season, let's look at another British sci-fi franchise that's getting a revival: Blake's 7 is returning, and I hope it's at least as good as the best of the original. For what I mean by that, this show primer should help. Like with a lot of genre TV, how good your long-term story can be often hinges on whether or not you can count on getting another season, which can result in a lot of uneven production and writing. Still, the character of Avon is one of my all-time favorite anti-heroes, managing to pull off the smug-and-superior character while making us root for him as he proves that he often IS superior to those around him. I wonder if this will be more "serious" science fiction, in a Babylon-5/Battlestar Galactica vein, or if we'll get the more "fantastical" stuff as seen in Farscape and, of course, Doctor Who. I'd love it if Norman Lovett got to be the voice of the new Liberator's computer, but that's probably too much to ask...
Regarding my many worries about the upcoming G.I. Joe film, to be fair I should report that two friends of mine (who shall remain nameless for security purposes) called and said they'd visited the set and called it "way cool."
And we're getting a "Hobbit" movie directed by the guy who brought us "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy." At least you know the dragon will be awesome, right? And maybe Del Toro will reap the weight-loss benefits that Peter Jackson appeared to get from directing the LOTR series.
A side note about my Las Vegas trip this week: I saw gas was about 3.49 a gallon there during the GAMA trade show. I was distressed to see a sign in the Brookside area of KC with the same price today. I think that Vespa scooter is starting to look more attractive...
Links under a buck a gallon:
- Frequent readers will recall the "Creme Egg Suicide" ads we posted here before. Now we've got an elaborate Rube Goldberg setup to Cream That Egg!
- Cats playing with a jumping spider isn't all that link-worthy in and of itself, but I cracked up at about the :15 second mark of this video.
- Not frustrated enough from the work-week? Play the Frustration Game to properly adjust those stress levels. Try to navigate your mouse through a moving maze of obstacles.
- In the more "traditional" vein of video games, enjoy the bouncy side-scroller Cheese Dreams. Bounce the moon (made of cheese, naturally) out of the lair of the space-mice who captured it.
- For the gamer who already has the LOTR chess set and the "Treasure Chest" version of Settlers of Catan, we've got a super-deluxe version of Clue. If Professor Plum did it in the conservatory and got blood on my copy of this game, he's in for it...
- A mini ha-ha from the Dinosaur Soothsayer.
- Last Wednesday's multiple toy posts demands this follow-up of Bizarre Toys. Also, I once gifted a "crazy cat lady" figure to a friend of mine.
- Finally, since the weekends are (sometimes) for sport, let's go fishing for some ridiculously huge and cool-looking fish.
