Or Mythica the Dragon slayer as it is known over here which doesn’t make sense for as I recall there is only one dragon in the movie and he isn’t even insulted by the end of the movie never mind slain. So after four other movies and some ups and downs and some more downs here we are on the final part of the Mythica tale…………
RPG’s are once more becoming big business like we haven’t seen since the eighties. Is that due to the rise of the nerd? Or are people lamenting that the current tech generation has failed; delivering only shinier and shinier graphics while stripping back in area’s like story and game play? Or is it simply because there are now more than ever, since D&D toppled due to it’s own hubris in the switch from 3.5 to 4, allowing floods of games to reach the market; from slight modifications of old systems to games promising to deliver on the promise of hit television shows, movies and comic book lines.
Truth be told I don’t know; but I do know where they fall down. Yes you get to sit round a table with your friends eating funyuns and drinking mountain dew. Though that means actually getting your friends together and for long enough to play the campaign. This also means one of you setting up a fun, engaging tale for the others to play. So how do we overcome these challenges? We simply watch others as let’s plays have come to the land of the pen and paper role playing game. But I won’t be talking about that hit role playing let’s play, nor that one, or even that one. Instead I will be going all the way back to 2008 for……………………………………………………………………..
Fancy an RPG without all that pesky RP’ing? Fancy being a fantasy hero without all those pesky flaws? Fancy a board game without all that pesky knowing how much space it’s going to take up before hand? Then have I got the game for you and it is a tale for the ages, a saga of heroes it is…………………………………………..
As Marvel prepares to bring to a close ten years of hard work that saw them move from a small independent studio with nary a single hero anyone cared about to one that has now defined every film franchise going forward from monster movies to Robin Hood let’s see how the ‘distinguished competition’ is doing in ………………………………..
When Zack Snyder saw DC’s two biggest names going at it for no desernable reason, leaving a bloody trail of bodies in each other wakes and screaming the name Martha randomly, even he knew he needed something to patch the movie together and that was a job for Wonder Woman. Soon to be the first major blockbuster female led superhero movie, not counting all the other ones we’ve had; where she dates Captain Kirk and visits World War 1. Will it be any good? I don’t know I haven’t seen it, yet. But going off all the other female led superhero movies, probably not. Still this isn’t the first stab at bringing the golden eagle chested heroine back after Lynda Carters defining role. For there was also……………………..
It’s time to grab your fedora and let people know that everything belongs in a museum. Time to gather your party and battle giant crabs, pirates and Nuns for rocks, shiny bits of metal and other useless tat. It’s time for ………………………………………………………………..
Darkon is a Larp group run on the east coast of north America in a place famed for the lack of sexual prowess of a ruler of an entirely different country. With councils, executive boards and senates Darkon is thus to Lord of the Rings what episode 1 is to sci-fi. In truth I have no idea what Darkon is like because it is far away and involves going outside and talking to people. Fortunately there is a movie version; that being……………………………….
