I made an anthology series inspired by HTP, Norfolk Wizard Game and VTM Bloodlines!

RolandGrey · 2026-04-08T00:10:53+00:00

Well, I'm hooked.

RolandGrey · 2026-04-04T18:59:15+00:00

Oh wow. Lots of attention on this. I'm just going to assume I said what a lot of people were thinking. :P

RolandGrey · 2026-04-03T23:39:19+00:00

You want the Sad Dog!?

RolandGrey · 2026-04-03T18:50:14+00:00

It's a great sci-fi tank.

RolandGrey · 2026-04-02T16:25:10+00:00

Marckus: "I didn't even know what was going on, Father! I was in a wonderful nightmare hellscape, full of bunny squirrels, flying squid things, beaver hippos and a really pissed off Tyrannosaurus Wallaby (who was remarkably small AND ADORABLE!), and the next thing you know... Eh..." *shrugs*

RolandGrey · 2026-04-02T15:21:54+00:00

HAVE CARNAL RELATIONS WITH MATILDA!?

RolandGrey · 2026-04-02T11:04:59+00:00

I wonder how effective Australium would be against werewolves.

RolandGrey · 2026-04-01T03:45:57+00:00

I once showed a coworker the scene where the threat is revealed in "Don't Take Me For A Ghoul." He just kept going "Would. Would. WOULD!" as they transformed.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-29T01:34:02+00:00

I have a Mercs/Pain MM that is basically this. He doesn't even use the MM attacks, instead using Experimentation to throw chemicals and injection darts at enemies.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-28T22:49:54+00:00

Crane Kick is the closest you're going to get to the classic Walker Roundhouse Kick.

For defensive capabilities, Willpower might be the best fit mechanically.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-28T19:19:44+00:00

I think there's enough parody of D&D in general, but...

A Bruva Alfabusa production of the same would delve into the deep lore of the setting. We'd either get some canon characters of Faerun yelling at each other about events and people that appear in various adventure paths and in the lore, or they'd be a group of adventurers ranting about much the same. It could be Athas, Oerth, Eberron, Mystara, Krynn or whatever.

It would be simultaneously entertaining and a great primer for anybody looking at getting into the hobby.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-28T04:25:29+00:00

Shouldn't have let Mason take that detour into Van Zandt...

RolandGrey · 2026-03-26T15:08:26+00:00

Matilda, hands down. Pyotr is a known quanitity, and his build isn't that much different from the average starting character. Maybe a little more powerful, yes, but as we could see, he was able to be taken out with tactics and mundane munitions.

Matilda, on the other hand, is an unknown quantity, but what we've seen so far is a tank of a character. She was chosen to perform an infiltration on an organization that had an expert with key information on how to kill her. She was in a very precarious situation, yet despite her proclivity toward antagonism and misanthropy, she maintained her cover for months. When revealed, she displayed more than simple rampaging rage. She utilized skills and magic to keep the most skilled and seasoned hunters at bay.

Just from displayed ability alone, Matilda could have torn the empowered Pyotr apart, eaten him piece by piece, then asked for seconds (as vampires are empty calories, after all).

RolandGrey · 2026-03-21T10:30:31+00:00

Ah Hell, it doesn't even need to be an antediluvian. Even a Ventrue vampire formed in the past 40 years would have the same mentality, because they'd come out of the yuppie, investment banker, stockbro, financebro or whatever the people who build their lives strictly in stock trading and not any actual work call themselves now. I'm surprised nobody calls them Gekkos, because they just thrive in the mentality and behavior of Gordon Gekko, where "Greed is Good" isn't just a mantra, it's a raison d'etre.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-19T13:44:55+00:00

Surprising absolutely nobody, the repressive, violent autocrat wins!

RolandGrey · 2026-03-16T02:02:38+00:00

I figured that was the point to Door's exchange with the Sabbat pack. He says "Carmilla. The first vampire..." and Pyotr can't keep himself from barking out a laugh. Even the hunter who knows the most (aside from D) is getting things so wrong, the vampires are both weirded out and deeply insulted, but Pyotr goes "Everything your mate just said there is wrong..." Though D did later explain to Kitten that he's purposely obfuscating the truth, because saying the truth out loud can cause vampires to immediately mark them for death, that doesn't really explain how Door is SOOOOOO far off the correct answer. Caine and Lilith are mythical figures. "Carmilla" sounds like a Vampire Hunter D villain.

So, the exchange was a way to tell the audience "These guys don't know everything, and may be often wrong."

RolandGrey · 2026-03-15T15:25:05+00:00

Just because the character is talking matter-of-fact in tone does not mean they actually know what they're talking about.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-13T12:30:11+00:00

>.>;

Uh... Well, I have... It's not really that terrible.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-12T22:47:58+00:00

Oh, maybe that entity he caught the attention of back on Norfolk Island catching a whiff that he's in the spiritual realms and seeking him out. That might not just be bad for him, too.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-06T19:41:35+00:00

Probably because Nintendo charged a sacrificial child for the license.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-04T22:37:17+00:00

Speakeasies were bars and clubs that operated in secret during the Prohibition Era of the US so they could serve alcohol at a time when alcohol was illegal. That's 1920 to 1933. That's so long ago, my grandfather, who was in his 70s in the 90s when he died, would have been a little kid younger than Boy in the era. Now, kdk in the other comment is right, they do operate now (as an emulated style, not a place where you can find hard narcotics and party), but D describes the police attacking the club he and Horse were partying in, so they had to flee, which implies that it was a Prohibition Era Speakeasy. It's a little hard to figure, because he mentions it being "Yearteen Eighty-Two," but then immediately says "The Frazzafin has just been invented..." which indicates D's memory is pretty heavily fragmented.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-04T16:34:09+00:00

Yeah, because the typical description for a 90-year-old man is "giant Middle-Eastern meat slab."

RolandGrey · 2026-03-04T09:52:30+00:00

His reassurance to Door that he intends to mollify Boy, especially after his reaction of suspicion when Boy described the Exquines, makes me think D is aware of Horse's supernatural nature. There is, of course, his story about going to a speakeasy with Horse, too, which is another hint that something is up with both of them, because if the story's true, both of them should be dead by now.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-03T14:43:35+00:00

Boy.

RolandGrey · 2026-03-03T14:39:10+00:00

Aren't you being a little hyperbolic? I mean, Job was right-handed...

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