Video: What is This?

Video: Pussy Talk

Video: It's Toe Tappingly Horrible!

Video: A Scary Little Tune

Video: Well, I do it for the Honeys. How about you?

Grumpy RPG Reviews: The New Flesh (Video)

Episode 42: The New Flesh

• First season finale for GCS Reviews.
• Videodrome, with James Woods, Sonja Smits and directed by David Cronenberg
• Porn - now a weapon of Mass Destruction!
• This is a good horror movie, with solid characters, a good story, fine performances and quality special effects.
• Videdrome is pitch perfect depiction of the World of Darkness.
• The movie gets a 20 on a d20 roll.
• All hail the new flesh.

Video: My Daddy Did a Jig...

Video: It's Very Episodic

As seen on TV...

Game Content: Mind Flayer Redesigns

I have been reading H.P. Lovecraft lately and he is influencing my style a bit…

Grumpy RPG Reviews: The Call of Cthulhu (Video)

Episode 41: Calling on Cthulhu

• It is October and the squid-tree are producing fruit.
• Call of Cthulhu the RPG is 30 years old.
• Something sad happens to the staff of Chaosium at GenCon 2012.
• It is easy to go crazy in this game.
• The book is hard to read, unfortunately.
• Call of Cthulhu gets a 15 on a d20 roll.

Video and Images: It's all Slimy.

Lastly, the "Thing" in the movies titled "The Thing" has a name...

Game Content: Devouring Zombie

Devouring Zombie Level 5 Brute

Medium Natural Animate (Undead) XP 200

Initiative –1 Senses

Senses: Perception +0;

HP HP 40; Bloodied 20

AC 14; Fortitude 13, Reflex 9, Will 10

Speed 5 Darkvision

Immune disease, poison; Resist 10 necrotic; Vulnerable 5 radiant

Traits

[Melee] Horrid Bite (Standard) • At Will

Attack: Melee; one creature; +4 vs. AC (+10 vs. AC if the devouring zombie has grabbed the target

1d6 + 3 damage and the targets contracts the zombie disease (refer to the devouring zombie entry in the appendix)

Standard Actions

[Melee] Slam (Standard) • At Will

Attack: Melee; one creature; +6 vs. AC

2d6 + 2

[Melee] Zombie Grab (Standard) • At Will

Attack: Melee; one creature; +4 vs. Reflex

the target is grabbed (until escape). Checks made to escape the zombie’s grab take a –5 penalty

Alignment Unaligned Languages —

Str 14 (+3) Dex 6 (–1) Wis 8 (+0)

Con 10 (+1) Int 4 (–3) Cha 3 (–3)

Devouring Zombie Disease (DZD) Level 16 Disease Endurable Stable DC 30, Improve DC 30

Someone who has contracted DZD feels numbness starting at the extremities that works its way in, hot and cold flashes and painful seizures.

The Target is cured. <- Initial Effect: The target suffers a -2 penalty to Dexterity and Speed and loses half their total healing surges. <-> The target suffers a -4 penalty to Dexterity and Speed and loses any remaining healing surges. -. Final State: The target dies and rises as a devouring zombie 2d10 rounds after death.

Devouring Zombie Tactics

When not engaged in some form of combat devouring zombie wander aimless, stand still long enough for cobwebs to form on them or sometimes fall into sad repetitions of the actions they took in life. The only thing devouring zombies attempt to do in combat is overpower living targets by striking them or grabbing them and eating the target.

Devouring Zombie Lore

A character knows the following formation with a successful skill check.

• Dungeoneering DC 18: Devouring zombies are rare and given their contagious nature, they are among the most dangerous.
• Arcana or Religion DC 24: There is often an evil “lynchpin” behind the existence of a growing horde of devouring zombies, such as a devil, larva mage or something similar. Devouring zombies transform into a “standard” zombies upon the destruction of this individual.

Grumpy RPG Reviews: Made of Gloom

Episode 40; Made of Gloom

• Shadowfell, Gloomwrought and Beyond Review
• Grumpy is attending a wedding in Barovia
• There probably won't be a 4E Ravenloft
• But this boxed set is good.
• Most of what made Ravenloft appealing is in this boxed set.
• Shadowfell, Gloomwrought and Beyond gets a 20 on a d20 Roll.
• Grampy, Acererak and Baba Yaga take Sergi and Tatyana to Fort Walton Beach for their Honymoon. 
• A promo for Self Critical Hits. 

Images: Fear

Game Content: City of the Dead (Area)

“There are lanterns in these halls but they are dark and without fuel. Sounds echo in dusty corridors and the clang of a slamming gate might be from around the corner or from across the complex.”

A set of passages used as a mass grave twist under the city, providing a last resting place for the many of the dead and uncomfortable passage across the city for the bold.

There are no *known* undead dwelling here.

Grumpy RPG Column: Yet Still Even More General Thoughts

Episode 39: Yet Still Even More General Thoughts

• An out of character blog entry at the tail end of the first season.
• The blog started as something to kill time and fill a nitch.
• The blog took almost three months to find the right voice.
• Acererak still amuses me.
• November will be off.
• In December I will return.

Videos: The Mystical Wizard

Well, everyone knows to be a wizards you have to be a little.... Daffy.