Are you a RPG gamer? A collector card guru? A miniatures maniac? Or are you a geek like me that mostly just bards it up with bits of all of the above? Well, with GenCon freshly in my mind and a 3-foot tall tower of newly bought RPG books to read through I couldn’t help but be inspired to right a D&D inspired song.
I re-cut the awesome Brad Sucks song “Making Me Nervous” with my new lyrics–which unlike Brad Sucks, may actually suck. 1. I am not a singer, 2. I am not a sound engineer, 3. I used the USB mic from Rock Band to capture the audio . Enjoy!
Last week I hit up GenCon Indy in Indianapolis. The road trip was, for the first time, not costly on my car; no flat tires with 400 miles to go, not key scratch along the whole left side of my Honda Civic, no pot hole damage to my axis and alignment. It was just perfect–just like the beef jerky I got along the way (a spicy Italian sausage flavoured one, mm-mmm).
I’ve uploaded all my GenCon pics to Flickr, please check them out, I’ve left comments on a couple of them which might make you chuckle mildly. On a side note, there were in fact quite a few hotties at this years GenCon! I invite all other newbie (or old) girly gamers to take the power away from the above average sized guy gamers and give them something to think about other than Mountain Dew and assorted bags of chips. Get in those tight skimpy fantasy inspired giggity-giggity outfits and make us drool over your woman flesh!
You chicky-poos out there have given me a reason to go back next year. Thank you.
* Updated on October 3, 2008:You want the lyrics, you get the lyrics!
one step at a time, we’ll be walking single file
Not taking the end, i remember the last time
The wizard was slain by a wraith’s level drain
surprise rounds are a whore, resurection spell again
I’m taking a 5-foot step, initiative of 10
we’re swarmed by zombies, get priest to turn undead
Why’d we come here at night, why are you taking a right?
We agreed always take lefts every single friggin’ time
Head back to the inn now, rest
Heading back in daytime, next magic item’s mine
Entering dungeon, getting pumped up for this grind
half-dragon template on a troll-blooded dire ape
Goblins, kobolds and orcs, and a fiendish ogre mage
I think that’s an ilithid, and a displacer beast
Is that a green slaad, a floating beholder head
Did I cross the line, aren’t these all copyright
Umber hulk, yuan-ti, githyanki, and githzerai
Getting handed a can of the whop-ass
Let the battle begin, owning an ancient dragon
Everybody spread, save against its acid breath
Reflex save 39, rogue tumble check, no damange die
Sucker, I got you beat with my dragon slaying vorpal knife
I know the site is in Japanese, but it’s pretty straight forward. I can’t get enough of this. Turn any uploaded photo (or URL photo) into a B&W antique!
This weeks Comic Book Movie Buzz comes to you minus commentary by yours truely. In this new format you get the article title that links to the news and a blurb from the targeted post.
Conan
Conan Revealed to Lionsgate
Conan is slashing his way back to theaters, this time with a reworked script by Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain. The new origin story will be based on the original stories and comics created by Robert E. Howard back in the 1930′s. The goal is to create a franchise, resurrecting the hero in a new, darker universe a la Batman Begins.
New Life for Conan Film
Lionsgate and Paradox Entertainment are attempting to fast-track the film, hiring on Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain to work on a parallel script alongside the writing team of Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Sahara). The budget for the film is expected to reach $100M and will offer an origin of the character truer to the Howard stories than the one offered up by Stone and Milius.
Blackman and McCain to see ‘Conan”s enemies driven before them
Two new writers have boarded the ‘Conan’ redo according to the Hollywood Reporter’. Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain, who are known in the town for their femme sword action script ‘Amazon’ have been hired to write the script.
The Watchmen
The Physics of Watchmen
Professor, author, and die-hard comics fan James Kakalios explains why Dr. Manhattan is blue, how the Owlship can fly, and more
Watchmen Posters Mimic Comics Version in Every Detail!
Check out the exacting detail between the Watchmen posters and their early DC comics counterparts in these side-by-side comparisons. More evidence that Zack Snyder is doing this film right!
Voltron
VOLTRON! Rebooted Via Relativity
Those of us who grew up in the ’80′s know the greatness that was Voltron: Defender of the Universe, and the rumors of the movie version have made us giddy once again, just like Transformers did. The good news is, the rumors are true. The Fox-based New Regency, states Variety is in talks to back the development of the movie, using cost-effective technology similar to that used in 300.
He-Man
He-Man Film Will Go for Realism
It sounds like Marks plans on making He-Man and the Masters of the Universe into a fantasy epic on the same scale of world building that we saw in The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Fans of the old cartoon should be thrilled by that news.
Green Arrow
Black Canary Still Struggling To Break Into ‘Super Max’
Justin Marks’ script for “Super Max” includes cameos for the Riddler, Lex Luther, and the Joker. Heck, as he admitted in our extensive chat about the film, even the prison itself is something of a major character. Everybody’s getting love in the first big-screen incarnation of the Green Arrow. Well, everybody but his wife…
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