Warehouse 23 Blog

The City That Never Torpors

Posted: September 06, 2007

Running a chronicle in a podunk, no-name, off-the-map Anytown can really undermine the epicness of your bite fest. It needs to be a city. A big city. A brooding city. A big, brooding city. Vampire: The Requiem - Damnation City is a big, brooding book about cities, so it seems the logical place to start.

Poor Planning

Posted: September 05, 2007

What happens when your city planning committee takes the phrase "let's get down to brass tacks" a hair too far? You get The City of Brass. It's a good thing they made a campaign setting out of it to stimulate tourism. Commerce is expectedly stagnant when your city slogan is "Lookit All That Brass!!"

D20: The Rolling

Posted: September 04, 2007

Monte Cook's World of Darkness is a world unlike any you've ever seen before. Unless you've seen the World of Darkness. Then, um, yeah, you've probably seen something sorta like it before. But this is still good. See? It's got polyhedrals and everything!

Phoned In

Posted: September 03, 2007

Changeling: The Lost is the roleplaying game of shapeshifters with bad directional sense.

Heh Heh . . . "Stones"

Posted: September 02, 2007

And they're pink, no less. Nope, we're not touching the jokes for the Gaming Stones - Pink Opal with a standard-issue ten-foot pole. Wait. "Pole?"

Swan Laugh

Posted: September 01, 2007

Much like the song, but funnier. Nodwick Chronicles VI: Nodwick Goes Hollywood brings the Nodwick print comic to a close. Though Nodwick yet lives on through a series of tubes, this truly is a book not to be missed. Because, y'know, it's got the ending and stuff. It would be silly to come all this way and not see what happens. Bad silly, not silly silly.

100% Pure, Unfiltered Awesome

Posted: August 31, 2007

ps238: Not Another Learning Experience is the fourth ps238 trade paperback ever. Which, actually, doesn't really mean anything . . . but doesn't it make the book sound more enticing? No, you're right. It's ps238. It basically sells itself on Pure Awesome alone.

FAIL

Posted: August 30, 2007

If you spend your evenings sitting around a table, shouting about how your half-elf ranger could totally track "hot chicks," Full Frontal Nerdity: Big Book of Epic Fail is the book for you. Which is to say, it's about you. Remember, those who can't make fun of themselves are doomed to be made fun of by their friends. And family. And the Internet.

A Defining Moment

Posted: August 29, 2007

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a nebula as "a diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass absorbs or reflects incident radiation." We define the Nebula dice from Chessex as "dude, sweet!"

Lies (Statistics Sold Seperately)

Posted: August 28, 2007

Rifts and the Megaverse: The Art of John Zeleznik is exactly what it sounds like. Yup, that's right, it's a cookbook. Made of chocolate. Written in Esperanto. From space. (Yeah, okay, those are all lies. Buy the book anyway.)

Weapon Of Mass Dei-struction

Posted: August 27, 2007

What's better than one Holy Hand Grenade? Two Holy Hand Grenades. Get a set of Monty Python: Plush Holy Hand Grenade Danglers for your car and you'll never have to worry about being underarmed on the interstate.

You Down With DRD?

Posted: August 26, 2007

Yeah, you know we. We've all enjoyed watching Moya's miniscule minions scuttering around, making and cleaning up messes in equal measure. Alas, everyone's favorite little frellnik has been unavailable for use at home. Until now. It's the Farscape: Plush DRD! Guaranteed not to go insane and start shooting at you! Or much of anything else, unfortunately. Plush and all.

In Space . . .

Posted: August 25, 2007

. . . no one can hear you overuse a joke. All Flesh Must Must Be Eaten: All Tomorrow's Zombies is very narrowly saved from being the subject of a "Zombies! In! Spaaaaaace!" joke because - wait, does that count as actually making the joke? Poopie . . .

To Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrms!

Posted: August 24, 2007

Wait, was that too many R's? One, two, three . . . nope, that's right. Har, matey! Ignore all those other books, they be rubbish, arr! The only book ya be needin' is RuneQuest: Pirates. And if anyone be tellin' ya different, jes send them our way, ha-har! We be havin' all manner o' ways of . . . convincin' em, ha-har! Like these dissertations! Aye, you'll find no more convincin' an argument in all tha seven seas!

You Smell Funny And I Will Destroy Your Town

Posted: August 23, 2007

Messages. T-shirts are all about 'em. Some more nuanced than others. Example: the I * Tokyo T-shirt is vague enough as to be open to interpretation. The big nuclear lizard saved Japan as often as he put it in danger. The Dork Hygiene T-shirt, however, is about as subtle as a bowling ball dropped from a fifth-story window.