Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Monsters
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Apparently there has been a hundred year quest to find them, ever since Darwin’s contemporary discovered the first Zombie ants, but lost all records in a mysterious fire that destroyed his ship. Some new researchers have discovered them in Brazil. But will they, too, be ruined by a strange curse?
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I just discovered a new book, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, by Daniel Drezner, which is nicely summarized and reviewed at Inside Higher Education. There is much speculation on the explosion of zombie cultural material in the 1990s, but little consideration there of the possibility that it’s related to public health awareness rather than…
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Revealed through a friend, the Don Kenn gallery of monsters drawn on post-it notes. They have an Edward Gorey-meets-Where the Wild Things Are feeling about them, along with a childhood nightmare atmosphere. I like them! Especially the floating baloony ones, and the child’s cthulhu imaginings.
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I always liked the Slaad, those vicious froggy bastards from another plane. Recently the Australian Museum discovered a flying vampire frog[1] in Vietnam, which would surely be the inspiration for an excellent and very terrifying undead Slaad. — fn1: This is a slight exaggeration
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I devoured this novel in 4 hours on the Beppu-Fukuoka return train, and I thought it was awesome. The book is an Oral History of an international zombie conflict, which starts in China and brings humanity to the edge of extinction. It is written as a series of interviews, which were intended to be incorporated…
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NOTE: this post contains spoilers for the WFRP 1st Edition adventure Fear the Worst, so if you’re planning on playing it (which I recommend you badger your GM into doing) you should stop reading here. We left our PCs in a state of near death, surrounded by the bodies of 7 vanquished mutants, with only…
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From my favourite Japanese magazine, Tokyo Graffiti, comes this delightful but slightly strange web campaign. The magazine have teamed up with the Chiyoda shoe company, and every day they have arranged for a cute girl to stand in front of a camera, express her preferred weather for tomorrow and the reason why, and then kick…
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Another of my (several) complaints about Warhammer 3rd Edition is that it doesn’t seem to contain a great deal of flavour about the world, compared to the 1st and 2nd editions. I think this is largely because it is new[1], though I think Fantasy Flight Games are doing the rather nasty trick of assuming that…
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Last night was the 6th session of the Rats in the Ranks campaign, so about my 9th session of Warhammer 3rd Edition. This time, we again were missing one of our players (Mr. Camphor) so we again decided to put off the main plot of the campaign for a random side adventure, which is fine…
Compromise and Conceit 