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Archives for March 2019

Koen van Herk cosplays Chappie

March 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This cosplay was built and modelled by the Dutch Dovahkiin, Koen van Herk. The photographer is EosAndy.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: chappie, cosplay

The surreal visions of Jacek Yerka

March 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

He holds the 1995 ‘World Fantasy Award’ and its easy to see why.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Jacek Yerka

Nanotech Dragons & Post-apocalyptic Dungeons: A review of Radioactive Evolution

March 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mankind is surrounded by dangerously mutated creatures and has become reliant on regular injections of nanotech to avoid death.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Anneliese Rennie, Armen Taylor, dragons, litrpg, Richard Hummel

We are all living in a Lovecraft story: This Chrome extension swaps political headlines with Cthulhu mythos

March 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We are all living in a Lovecraft story is a plugin from Frogwares that turns headline political news, like Brexit, and world leaders’ names, into Cthulhu mythos mentions instead.

Filed Under: Console, Cool Tech, PC Tagged With: chrome, Frogwares, H.P. Lovecraft, the sinking city

Toast Notification: Niantic launch Ingress’ April Fools early

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ingress Prime bugs have included words that tell players ‘Toast Notification’, and this April Fools seems to be inspired by them.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: April Fools' Day, ingress, niantic

What’s a spindown dice and are standard d20s any fairer?

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An unbalanced spindown, should you happen to have one, is more likely to favour a set of numbers (high or low) than an unbalanced but otherwise standard d20.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dice

Blue Exorcist Okumura Rin figurine

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Megahouse has a few limited editions of Okumuru Rin available on Amazon.com.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Blue Exorcist, megahouse, models

Contagion Chronicle: The setting that enables World of Darkness crossovers

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gamers in the World of Darkness universe have long experimented with crossovers. It’s hard to do without making some sacrifices, though, as the various supernatural powers in the multiple settings are designed to be at odds with one another.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, matthew dawkins, onyx path publishing, The Contagion Chronicle

This works in progress The Name of the Wind animation is full of promise

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this animation, the characters still sketches, put together by Ethan Becker for the purposes of teaching, we see a pivotal scene in the first book.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, patrick rothfuss, the name of the wind

Keeping bounty hunters busy: Villains & Lairs review

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inspired by stock art available on the DM’s Guild and DrivethrurRPG, and 111 pages long, Villains & Lairs is a D&D 5e supplement chock full of villains.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jeff C. Stevens, reviews

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