A couple of photos from the seminar...



The first cover we were shown for Fantasycraft

Alex couldn't quite follow Wolvie's accent.

That was me actually.

And that has given me my new forum signature

While I'm at it, where were you at the seminar, Psion? Had I known I would have come up and introduced myself.

I saw the whole thing when it was up on Daily Motion and it's pretty darn impressive. The graphical quality is Pixar level, or even better, and it has a touch of adult naughtyness about it, too.

[DnD 4 the MMO]

I'll start by saying that all my thoughts on WotC are rather... biased. Just an FYI

I hereby decry 4th edition as silly.  Just throwing that out there. 

Absolutly agreed!

They may as well have called it DnD 4 the MMO or DnD: Jumping the Shark Edition. I understand the reasoning behind wanting to make it more like an boardgame, but forcing people to subscribe to 'complete' their books is the worst idea they have ever had.

I'm just glad we now, officially, have Fantasycraft to look forward to

If you want to expand...

Anything specific you'd like to know about?

Don't tell me, immediately after the release we will be swamped with them?

Not quite, but things will certainly pick up overall once the first couple of books are out of the gate. At this time, blame US customs for the lack of Spycraft at GenCon.

If the cover on the Mongoose site is real then it looks like million stolen bucks.

That's the one. The whole thing is f'ing awesome.

Oh, and for those of you who heard about the DnD 4 (or DnD: Jumping the Shark, as I like to call it) announcement - Fantasycraft should (all going well) be out in time to snap up all those gamers disillusioned by the changes that they make. Oh, and there wasn't a single boo during the Crafty seminar

I've got some photos, but they'll have to wait till I get home on Thursday.

I caught the pilot (finally) last night. I didn't think it was too bad, but then I wasn't expecting much from it either.

I did notice that they managed to go though the entire episode without once naming Dr Zarkov ::

I dug it, actually. To each his own.

I'm with Pat on this one. I really liked the lineup of actors they got for the show - including General Moon from Die Another Day and Badger from Firefly. Plus, Evil Starbuck rocks my socks.

I'm actually considering going to Comic-Con instead of Gen-Con next year. Not that I'm tired of GenCon, more that it's something both my gf and I could enjoy. (I'm having a little trouble getting her into gaming)

I have big floppy ears and die wrapped in barbed wire while 'bright eyes' plays in the background!

Or... you chew on a carrot while messing with a lisping hunter

I listen to them while writing sometimes.

They're great for that sort of thing. I had both albums on last night while doing some Photoshop work. Some of the more melodic tracks - like Sing for Absolution - are particularly good for this sort of thing.

The DVD also contains the first episode from the old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serial.

I've seen those locally on DVD. Well worth the purchase if you can find them.

In other news, I was watching the ComicCon Flash Gordon Panel and they confirmed that the Hawkmen and Prince Barin and his Arboreans would be appearing in the new show. So that's something to look forward to.

The problem with the Dresden Files was that it continued to have problems with the crew in the city where it was filmed. I think I read some where that film production crews kept threatening a strike or a walk-out and the studio and the Sci-Fi channel didn't want to risk it.

Funny you should mention that. I heard that one of the other SciFi shows was getting moved from Toronto to (I think) Edmonton for it's next season. Sadly, they didn't seem to want to do this with Dresden. Still, at least it was a pretty good first season. Not perfect, but some darn entertaining tv.

Even better than the original video is the 300 version - tho it is remarkably lacking when it comes to unicorns and robots.

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It's sad that the people who run a television channel specializing in sci-fi would be so clueless about what sci-fi fans want.  Or what sci-fi fans will tolerate.  Or even what makes sci-fi *good*.

Case in point: The Dresden Files (not the best show, but still) gets canned, while SciFi keeps playing Wrestling week after week. Sure, they don't have to pay to produce the Wrestling, but still. It's like having a whole bunch of live-action shows on the Cartoon Network. Or drama on Comedy Central. Or actual news on Fox News