Gaming and Related Services

New case in Seward, AK!  It's February, 2024. The envoys are having dinner with Lila Brown; she's a counselor and is in charge of some of the mundane aspects of QCOM. She also checks in with t...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/11/chill-who-is-mimi.html

Tales of Terror is an anthology horror movie based on several Edgar Allen Poe stories, directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/11/movie-833-tales-of-terror.html

Yee ha! Let's round up and rope some broncos! Or Incubi. The Game: Era: Deadwest The Publisher: Shades of Vengeance Degree of Familiarity: Never played it, but the system feels very familiar B...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/11/character-creation-era-deadwest.html

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight is the first Tales from the Crypt film, starring Billy Zane, William Sadler, CCH Pounder, Thomas Haden Church, Jada Pinkett (pre-Smith), Brenda Bakke, Gary Far...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-832-tales-from-crypt-demon-knight.html

It's a bug-eat-bug world, princess.  The Game: Stingers & Spores The Publisher: Twitchy Butcher Studios Degree of Familiarity: Haven't played this, but it's SWADE and I know that pretty well ...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-stingers-spores.html

Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood is a horror/comedy starring (ugh) Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Corey Feldman, Chris Sarandon, Angie Everhart, Phil Fondacaro, Aubrey Morris, and Kim Kond...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-831-tales-from-crypt-bordello-of.html

After a long hiatus because of fucking COVID, we're back in the magical land of Abhaile! Here's last time . Our heroes rest up and then decide to head out into the woods, go back to Zook's hide...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/d-back-in-woods.html

Tag is a comedy starring Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner, John Hamm, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress, Annabelle Wallis, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, and Lesie Bibb.  Simple enough premise: Five childhoo...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-830-tag.html

I'm sure this is deliberate, but whenever I see this game the song of the same title from Bloodsport starts going through my head and I wind up chanting "kumite! kumite!" to myself.  The Game:...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-fight-to-survive.html

The Swan Princess is a very 90s animated movie, somewhat based on Swan Lake, that I found utterly mediocre but has somehow spawned a film franchise that was still going as of 2023. Life is perpl...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-829-swan-princess.html

Surf's Up is an animated movie about surfing penguins starring Shia LeBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Jon Heder, Zooey Deschanel, Diedrich Bader, James Woods, and Mario Cantone.  Presented in mockumenta...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-828-surfs-up.html

At last, a -punk game with some actual punk in it. The Game: Ecopunk 2044 The Publisher: Dice Kapital Degree of Familiarity: None Books Required: Just the one So, at the heart of it, it's a p...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-ecopunk-2044.html

RED is an action/comedy based on a Warren Ellis comic (which I've not read) starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman, Karl Urban, and Mary-Louise Parker. ...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-827-red.html

Nearly Halloween, better do a horror game! OooooOOOOooo! The Game: Infected! The Publisher: Immersion Studios Degree of Familiarity: None Books Required: Just the one Zombie-themed games are...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-infected.html

Parasite is a black comedy/tragic drama kind of thing directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Jeung-Eun, an...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-826-parasite.html

Yesterday we jumped in the ol' Zoom-mobile (fuck COVID) and played some CHILL! Here 's last time. It's the afternoon of Sunday, October 29 2023 (in game, that is), and that envoys are having so...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/chill-meet-me-in-boiler-room.html

It seems like it's been forever since I did an actual play write-up, and...oh, actually it's been like two weeks, which for me is a good long time. No wonder I'm twitchy. ANYWAY. Here 's last tim...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/pugmire-honey-i-shrunk-dogs.html

 Man, COVID sucks. Someone should do something about this. The Game: Agon The Publisher: Evil Hat Productions Degree of Familiarity: None Books Required: Just the one As I may have mentione...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-agon.html

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a rather surprising horror film by Mike Flanagan, starring Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, Elizabeth Reaser, Henry Thomas, and Parker Mack. In 1967, Alice (Reaser) is bri...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-825-ouija-origin-of-evil.html

The title of this game always puts this song in my head, which...I don't know. My high school years were a strange and wondrous time.  The Game: It's Only Magic The Publisher: Monte Cook Game...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-its-only-magic.html

Trevor Noah lists "being flabbergasted" as one of the top five things white people love. I dunno, it is fun. The Game: Flabbergasted! The Publisher: Wanderer's Tome Degree of Familiarity: I've...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-flabbergasted.html

Kill the Irishman is a biopic of Danny Greene, a local (for me) criminal figure who started a gang war with the Cleveland mafia in the late 1970s. It stars Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vin...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/movie-824-kill-irishman.html

STICKERS! The Game: Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes The Publisher: Nerdy Pup Games Degree of Familiarity: None Books Required: Just the one It's a gonzo and fairly lighthearted post-apocalyptic ...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-rebels-of-outlaw.html

Time for a Rick Mitchell Special! The Game: The Last Caravan The Publisher: Mythworks Degree of Familiarity: It's Forged in the Dark, so I know the underlying bones, but I haven't played this ...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/character-creation-last-caravan.html

A couple weeks ago, we played what was supposed to be a one-shot of ASUNDER , but it wound up being kind of one-and-a-half. Here's the half.  (The post title comes from my players being hella ...

https://blackhatmatt.blogspot.com/2024/10/asunder-in-wudz-somewhere.html