More Weird Thrift Store Finds: Odd, Goofy Stuff

Some more interesting thrift-store...things. Not as terrifying, but certainly not always the product of a sound mind.

...I have no idea.

This elf appears to be throwing up gang signs...

This is a space-hippy returning to its home planet

Weird Thrift Store Finds: Creepy Dolls

Just finishing work on the first stage of the conversion for Heroes of the Sea, which has led me to neglect...pretty much everything online. But here's something I'd been planning on posting for quite a while: weird photos of things found in thrift stores.

Today...terrifying dolls!

who creates these things!?

...and who buys them in the first place?

...and the crown jewel of terrifying dolls: Rapey the clown!

I swear I did not put Rapey next to these poor women

I'm pretty sure he got there under his own power...

A few things

Just some random things here and there.

First, I've got a new Order of Magnitude recording edited and online. I've also decided to move the Order's stories to a separate blog. The new recording and all the previous ones can now be found at http://the-order-of-magnitude.blogspot.com/

Also, for any readers out there who're users of Woot, my wife NJ has a shirt up in their current t-shirt competition and she could use some votes. You can check it out and vote for it here. C'mon and vote, unless you hate my wife. You don't hate my wife do you?

I've also started work on the PDQ conversion of Modiphious' Heroes Of The Sea, the sequel to Zero Point. Zero Point included a new version of PDQ designed for gritty horror which will be used for Heroes Of The Sea, along with a new magic system designed for harnessing the powers of the Mythos.

New Power: The Sharknado

Oh Asylum films...the world would truly be a less insane place without you. The average quality of films might go up a tick or two, but then we wouldn't have Sherlock Holmes fighting dinosaurs or the beauty that is this Sharknado poster.

After seeing this my wife decided that her character needed a Sharknado spell. Since she's a Legendary ranked spellcaster in our Savage Worlds game I'm more or less willing to come up with any spell, for a suitable Power Point cost. So here's my writeup for the ultimate combat spell: Sharknado!

Sharknado
Rank: Legendary
Power Points: 10
Range: Smarts x2
Duration: 1 (2/round)
Trappings: Enough Said
   The spell summons a small, but powerful whirlwind filled with hungry sharks. The spell affects a Medium Burst Template (the whirlwind is about 10" tall) and all caught within must make an Agility roll at -2 or suffer 3d6 damage from flying debris and savage shark-bites. Anyone damaged by the Sharknado must make a Strength roll opposed by the caster's arcane skill or be pulled within the whirlwind. They suffer a -2 penalty to all rolls while caught within and must make a new roll every round to escape.
   The caster may take an action to move the spell up to (Spirit)" once per round, affecting anything that it passes over and carrying along anyone caught within.


So, that's my Sharknado. How would you incorporate the Sharknado into your favorite system? A power or spell? A monster? Natural disaster? Or just a Movie That Man Was Not Meant To See?

Happy New Years

Happy 2013, now hopefully we can stop joking about the Mayans and look forward to a few weeks of filling in date forms incorrectly. Hoping to get back on track with some regular posts now that the holidays are over so hopefully things will get more active again soon. Get some new content online and add onto some of the older stuff.

The Stars Are Right: Acthung! Cthulhu

 It is released!!

That's right, it's Acthung! Cthulhu for the PDQ system. Look at the big guy up there, he's never been happier. Just to recap, this is a stand-alone RPG product using the PDQ system which includes new rules for combat, gear and (of course) insanity and madness. Along with the rules you get the Three Kings adventure, the first adventure in Modiphius' Zero Point campaign series. If you're interested you can get the pdf (currently 5 bucks off) from RPGnow right here.

And of course I'm still looking for playtesters for Battle Royale, head over to zombietoast.com if you're interested.

Dread: It's like 80's night, with Zombies!

You never know what sort of concepts will set your players off and during this game session I found out one such "button" for one of my on-again-off-again gaming groups: Zombie Apocolypse...in the 80s!

The moment they heard this the radio was tuned to an all-80's channel, hair was tousled...costumes were worn. I was frightened.

The game was Dread (a jenga-based, horror rpg) and I was trying it out with something fairly simple and straightforward and I set it in the early 80s to take advantage of Cold War paranoia...I did not know what I was getting myself into.

You can listen to the game here

Still on the lookout for playtesters for Battle Royale!