THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Started up on a new crew with yet another new director.  Well, an old director who is new and unfamiliar with the new process (for info on the new way we are creating shows now, please read the Simpsons post on this older article I put up).   Whenever we end up with a director who hasn’t gone through this process before, it always has growing pains.  The crew he has, meaning us, has been working with the new process since the season started. Sometimes the directors actually listen to us and take our advice on how to approach a show. Sometimes they don’t and try doing things that are not quite as efficient only to discover their mistake on the last week when they have three acts left to finish in five days.

I’m not quite sure which type of director we have this time, yet.  I hope it’s the former.

FAMILY

For Part 0, CLICK HERE.

For Part 1, CLICK HERE.

For Part 2, CLICK HERE.

For Part 3, CLICK HERE.

Off we went to Toon Town to see Mickey Mouse’s house.  We passed by the Alice in Wonderland Tea Cup ride and Munchkin immediately wanted to go on it.  No one else was in the mood for it though.  We told her we would do it later, which I fully intended to do, but we forgot and never got back to it.

We made our way into Toon Town and took in the chaos.  We saw Goofy there, but we didn’t try to get a picture with him just yet.  The kids mostly wanted to get in the cartoon cars that where scattered all over Toon Town.  This turned out to be a bad idea since Munchkin drove her car straight into Goofy’s house and we got in big trouble.

For Part 5 CLICK HERE.

ROLE PLAYING GAMES

Alright, so I’ve been writing A LOT, these last few post, about getting Dungeons and Dragons or Dungeons and Dragons type games online for free.  Well, I won’t say I’m done doing that just yet, but I will change the free game to something else this week.

This week, I’m going to be writing about the role playing game (rpg) Spirit of the Century.

Spirit of the Century is a Pulp rpg.  What does that mean? Well, it means you’re not going to be playing a dwarf who fights a dragon to get it’s treasure.  Spirit of the Century  is a game that tries to simulate putting you in pulp stories from the 20s and 30s.  Instead of defining what pulps are, I’ll just name examples of  pulp characters/stories:

• Tarzan
• Doc Savage
• Sam Spade
• The Shadow
• John Carter of Mars
• The Spider
• Conan
• The Cthulhu Mythos
• Zorro
• Dr. Fu Manchu
• Solomon Kane
• Captain Blood
• Kull

…and more recently, some popular movies that are “pulp influenced”:

• Indiana Jones
• Hellboy
• The Mummy
• Hellsing
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Star Wars

If your idea of fun is foiling the plans of an evil Nazi super ape; discovering lost civilizations, deep inside the center of the earth, sometime after World War I, with your trusted automaton or doing detective work dressed in a mysterious looking outfit in order to stop the a sinister plot from Dr. Politically Incorrect Evil Chinese Stereotype, then Spirit of the Century is the game for you.  It’s a pick up game system. This means you can play a game in an evening and be done with it that same session or maybe in two and it’s all over. It’s a very unique system that has gotten a lot of acclaim and you can get it for FREE.

You can get the rough draft of the game HERE. This is a rough version of the game and is not the final book which comes illustrated and has examples.  Still, if you’re broke like me, this is the next best thing.  Check it out.  If you really like it, you ought to buy the book.

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