Halloween’s just over a week away… at least, it is if you’re reading this issue of Echoes from the Wyrd at the publishing time… and if not, who cares? As it happens the feature updates to GameWyrd all have a spooky theme; monsters, evil GMs and the terrible horror of 404. Read on at your own risk!
Your Monster Name!
Oh come on, you have to know your hidden monster name. What if someone asks and you can’t answer? It’ll be terribly embarrassing! Help it at hand. Here at GameWyrd we’ve constructed arcane and powerful rituals that’ll transform your name into a monster name. Are you an Orc? Are you an Ankheg, deary me, perhaps you’re a Succubus! You can only find out by clicking here.
In this issue of Echoes from the Wyrd the authors Phil Masters and Aaron Loeb are e-View. We put their names into the Your Monster Name! ritual and made some interesting discoveries. Phil Masters aka Rust Monster and Aaron Loeb aka Iron Golem! Wouldn’t that make for an interesting encounter?
You Know Your GM’s Evil When…
The original You Know Your GM’s Evil When… first appeared on GameWyrd during Halloween 2001. We’ve updated specially for 2002 and, of course, it’s been added to and expanded by the Wyrdlings. As every paranoid player will tell you it’s vital that you know how to recognise an Evil GM as soon as possible. Watch for lightbulbs exploding when they open their notes, especially rounded corners on the damage dice or perhaps just the gentle weeping of other players. Check out the compiled list here and if it the advice has come too late then always remember the Famous Last Words.
Some sample tips so you can tell when your GM’s Evil…
- … they start all their sentances with ‘Okay, if thats what you want to do’
- … the angry gold dragon has a friend.
- …your dreams are haunted by the sound of his dice rolling.
- … atomic bombs detonating near by are the least of your worries
- … every shopkeep is a retired 20th level character that will attack at the smallest provocation.
Wyrd 404 Errors
You’ve been surfing the web for a while, everything’s going fine, you’ve found a page that seems to be just what you’re looking for in a search engine, you click on the link and then… ack… error 404 – file not found. This dead webpage is the horror of all Net-land. You need not suffer this terror at GameWyrd any longer. We’ve banished the annoying and terribly dull “file not found” error to history and replaced it with a whole string randomly generated errors of our own. What about:
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… and as with other Wyrd projects you can vote for your favourites, check out the full list and add you own. You can do that all right here.
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