October Challenge: The Raven (2012)

The Raven (2012)John Cusack stars as Edgar Allen Poe in the last few days of his life in the murder mystery with horror elements.   It's not exactly horror, but it has it's moments.Of course this is a completely fictionalized account of Poe's last days and a murderer that is using his poems and stories to act out some grisly murders.  There are some issues with the movie from a historical perspective; the first that jumped out at me was a newspaper talking about a "Serial Killer" a term that was still 130 years away from being invented.There are twists and turns and Cusack is great.  The movie did feel slow in some spots, but overall I rather enjoyed it.  I am not 100% sure it was horror though.Tally: Watched 22, New 17What...

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FantasyQuest 2012 (Fernwoods Garden, Philippines)

A compilation video of the event footage I managed to sneak during Fantasy Quest 2012 (Philippines). It was SUCH a beautiful event, I highly recommend anyone who can join the event to go and join it next year xD !You might notice the event missed out on a lot of the key events such as the Red Carpet walk, Guest signing and Grand Ball dance etc. Because I was personally involved in the key events I couldn't sneak out to film us =( I do have a lot of exclusive backstage footage with a lot of Yuegene Fay though wahahaha. Anyway, enjoy the compilation video and envy those who were there ...

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Binders full of Women?

Yeah have that too.And men, elves, dwarves, halflings, superheroes....but still mostly witch...

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October Challenge: Children of the Corn (2009)

Children of the Corn (2009)Caught this on the Sci-Fi channel recently.  I have not watched the Sci-Fi (or SyFy) is years, but I'll get to that.This is a remake of the original 1984 film (which I enjoyed) and the Stephen King short story (which I also enjoyed).  If anything this movie does cleave closer to the original story than the 84 movie did.  There are no overt demons and in some ways that almost makes the movie creepier.This movie though has it's own problems.  Despite the issues with the first movie this one will always come up short compared to it.  There is no "He's waiting for you Malachi!" moment here.The other is that our protagonists are completely unlikable. Don't get me wrong, Kandyse...

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Getting Ready for the Witch

I just sent my final copy of The Witch back to the publisher to get uploaded to DriveThruRPG soon. I honestly can't wait to get this out to you all.  It seems like I have been working on it forever. I started this blog in fact as a design blog to talk about the development of Eldritch Witchery and The Witch.A number of the monsters, magic items and spells that appear in the book I have posted here.My desire to do this book for "Basic Era" games was partially due to my involvment in the old-school game movement, but also because I had been going back to my copy of Moldvay's Basic Book and some of his ideas on what a witch should be.  I also wanted this book to capture what I felt were some of the best books on witches from the early...

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Blogwatch: Psychosexual Ravenloft

Back in the 2nd Ed days my game world of choice was Ravenloft.I loved all the gothic trappings mixed with heroic horror.  So even though I was a poor college student most of the time, I tried to get everything I could for this game.Including all the novels.Jack over at Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque is doing a series of reviews on the Ravenloft novels.  So I have been reading them.  The reviews that is.I can remember reading Ravenloft novels while in my apartment I shared with three other guys, I remember reading them while giving exams when I was a TA, I remember reading them and feeling guilty about it when I wasn't working on my dissertation. I don't remember them being quite this bad though.Oh, I remember...

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October Challenge: Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

This is one of my favorite movies about Witchcraft.Häxan: Witchcraft Through the AgesInstead of talking about it, here it is. I wanted to rewatch this one because, well I like it and to get me geared up for the release of my Witch books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4xanTally: Watched 20, New 15What are you watchi...

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