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Darktheatre.net is a general odd ball site that's sort of like a blog and sort of like a portal. Founded in 1819 by Lenny8088 while searching for Arcadia, our destiny and our right, it's been in continuous operation since then with only a few short outages (lack of internet was a bit rough) which were beyond the control of it's owner.

News For Gamers September 4, 2010

Mythos: Read Any Good Books Lately?

Why yes, yes I have read a good book lately. I think you should read it too.


What have you got to lose?
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-05-13 12:04:24 (comments[0])

Mythos: Tcho Tcho in Stevens Point WI

A 41-year-old woman is in jail after police say she went on a blow gun spree in downtown Stevens Point. The womand told an officer that she "liked to hear people say ouch."


Rotten Tcho Tcho.
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-28 12:25:12 (comments[0])

Random Page Clip: Avalon - Weapons and Healing

Chapter 6 of the Avalon setting.


Posted by: BotMan: 09/04/2269 (view Avalon - Weapons and Healing page)

Space: Meteor Over WI

Last night a fireball was spotted over parts of WI, MN and other states. The rumble of it's passing shook my house in southern WI as well.


Chances are good that it was a meteor and not one of the Ogdru Hem falling to earth to turn us all into frog monsters.

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-15 08:15:03 (comments[0])

Space: Aliens Land in Jordan?

A Jordanian mayor is considering suing a newspaper over an April Fools' Day report saying aliens had landed nearby.


The mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, said parents were so frightened they did not send their children to school that day.

"Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents," Mr Mleihan told the Associated Press.

"People were scared that aliens would attack them."

He immediately notified the security authorities, who he said combed the area looking for the aliens. They did not find any.


HAHAHAHAHAHA!
[Odd Topic]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-06 09:14:11 (comments[0])

Mythos: Whisperer in the Darkness Trailer

From the folks who brought us the CoC silent movie comes the next bit of black and white mythos coolness.


Looks pretty damned good,
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-01 19:24:46 (comments[0])

Mythos: Where the Hell is Targets of Opportunity Anyway?

Arc Dream Publishing has put the latest on the status of the Delta Green book Targets of Opportunity up on their website.


Hope it's a solid as the first two books.
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-28 16:21:53 (comments[0])

Gaming/Fight Club: Custom Game Furniture

Yeah, the gear is a bit expensive but can you really put a price on something this important? Especialy when its hand crafted from Black Walnut and Hard Rock Sugar Maple from domestic sustainable forests and can accommodate 6 - 10 players with individual player stations.



Behold The Sultan!
[General Gaming News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-19 06:59:19 (comments[4])

Announcements: The Hobbit Movie Update

Shooting The Hobbit is set to begin in New Zealand in July. Looks like Ian McKellen will be back as Gandalf and Guillermo del Toro will direct as we had heard before. And, following the sucessful formula from LotR, both Hobbit films will be shot back-to-back.


What I'm not sure of is what they're saying the breakout of the films will be. It looks like the first film will be an adaptation of The Hobbit but the second will be an original story focusing on the 60 years between the book and the beginning of the Rings trilogy.

Not sure I like this.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-18 06:37:38 (comments[0])

Gaming/Fight Club: Today is GM's Day

In honor of today I ask that you all raise a toast to all the GMs (good and bad) that you've had over the years - Even the worst game session is better than the best day at work.


We should have gotten today off as a holiday.
[General Gaming News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-04 12:19:25 (comments[1])

Entertainment: A Team Movie

That's right. The A Team movie.


You know you want to see it. You know it won't be that good, but you're going to see it anyway.



There is no plan B.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-03 11:44:59 (comments[0])

Ravings: What is Time?

My wife has been trying to figure me out for years with little progress. Perhaps this physicist will be able to shed some light on things.


Be kinda cool if I turned out to be money.
[Odd Topic]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-02 13:23:06 (comments[0])

TPG Gear/Tech: Colonel of Dice

I am probably one of the last gamers on earth to actually see this vid of the Colonel and his dice making techniques. Excellent. Perfect. This guy is a gamer.


I am buying dice from this guy at Gen Con
[General Gaming News]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-03-01 09:43:04 (comments[0])

Entertainment: Superman for $1M

At a recent on-line auction a copy of the first Superman comic has been sold on the internet for $1m.


Pretty sweet profit on that if you were able to get the original back when it solf for 10c.

Sucks that my comic collection will never fund my retirement.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-26 07:39:05 (comments[3])

Mythos: MiGo OS

From Charles Ward and the LNN - this little gem is too good to be true. Intel and Nokia create a mobile OS and decide to name it after a malevolent species from the mythos. MeeGo.


Wonder if the phone will be called a Brain Jar?
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-25 06:33:54 (comments[0])

War/Politics: Nazi Nukes

Finding odd shaped uranium in a Dutch scrapyard and tracing it back has all the makings of a good CoC/Delta Green like story. Add in some cultists (besides the Nazi's), a shoggoth, maybe a few strange idols that blister the skin when held, and a long lost Ph.d dude and you'd be ready to go.


The bomb that was Azathoth
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-24 07:12:45 (comments[0])

Death and Dying: Homicidal World

Time and I have discussed this a few times and it always seems surprisingly tough to find good stats on how many people are homicided (nice word admin!) each year. But this here is a good visual of the murder rates across the globe.


And a good reason to stay away from Mother Russia - not so friendly.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-23 06:04:46 (comments[1])

Places: Old Humans

Some Ph.d dudes have found some stone "tools" (that look a whole like a bunch a rocks I have in my backyard) that says humans were on Crete a bajillion years before they were supposed to be.


The age of Conan was real!
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-21 13:49:27 (comments[4])

Gaming/Fight Club: Pathfinder Monsters

Pathfinder will be putting out a second monster book later this year. Would be cool if they had it ready for Gen Con so I could get my hands on it then, but I guess I'll have to wait.


GMs need monsters.
[D20: Dungeons and Dragons]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-19 17:47:17 (comments[3])

Mythos: Quake Strikes IL

I'm certain that this 4.3 quake that hit Sycamore IL is of no relation to some terrible Mythos spellcasting or caling forth of creatures man was not meant to know. There's also no possible way that the Mythos would also be responsible for the April, 2008 quake that hit West Salem IL either.


It's all perfectly normal.
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-11 06:14:18 (comments[0])

Gaming/Fight Club: 12 Days of Greenwood

While I know Lenny hates the Forgotten Realms for various reasons I know there are others who like it. Me, I'm a fan of the old school, 1st Ed setting only.


Anywho... this dude, J. Robert King has put together 12 blog entries from an interview that he did with Ed Greenwood and he's been posting them day at a time.

If nothing else, Greenwood serves as an example of how a writer who has enough passion for his hobby can make a living at it.

Elminster would be proud.
[D20: Dungeons and Dragons]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-10 05:30:09 (comments[5])

Mythos: Now How Do We Cast the Banishing Spell?

In gaming whenever the intrepid adventurers run into a rare and powerful language they don't know ("can I kinda know it ... I speak draconic?"), they find some librarian or Liche or janitor that does know it. Even if you roll a "1" you still get some clue, hint, pathway to success. Why? Because if the last speaker of that language had just died, only a couple of days before you got there, it would mean you (as adventurers) were SOL and the adventure was over.


Moral of the story? Stop dicking around with side stories and get on with it ... You never know when your resource could die
[Cthulhu]

Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-09 14:17:49 (comments[0])

TPG Gear/Tech: Google Wants In on the iPad Game

Sure they're just in the mock up stage right now but Google is looking for a Chrome OS based tablet computer to eventually hit the market.


While Google seems to do things right when they finlaly pull the trigger on something, I'm not sure they could beat the iPad.
[Geek News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-08 07:23:51 (comments[1])

Entertainment: Karaoke Will Get You Killed

Apparently over half a dozen people have been killed for singing Old Blue Eye's "My Way" in Karaoke bars in the Philippines. It also looks like John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads" is bad too.


I don't know if this is a bad thing or not.
[Odd Topic]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-07 10:37:33 (comments[1])

TPG Gear/Tech: MS to Patch a Bug - From 17 Years Ago

A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. Aparently this update will close the loophole that involves the venerable DOS operating system.


At least they're quick to respond when there are issues right?


[Geek News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-05 05:47:30 (comments[2])

Space: Iran Hurls Turtles into Space

Iran said Wednesday it had launched a rocket carrying a rodent, two turtles and some worms into orbit, claiming it as a successful advance in their space program.


I kinda get the rodents bit, we test with rodents all the time but turtles and worms? WTF?

Could it be that turtles are nature's hard shelled astronauts?
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-03 05:49:22 (comments[2])

Conspiracy Theory(s): Return to the Moon?

Obama has called off the moon return project. Which can only mean that he has just found out that we never were there in the first place. I mean, how embarassing would it be to not be able to find the flag from the first "landing?"


Show me the proof.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-01 10:08:05 (comments[2])

TPG Gear/Tech: What the iPad Isn't

Forget the jokes around the name (e.g. "Where's the Max-iPad?") this article outlines the 10 things that the iPad isn't, why it isn't and why that's not a bad thing.


You going to get one?
[Geek News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-29 09:55:44 (comments[8])

Conspiracy Theory(s): India Goes to War in Space

First we have Nazis on the moon and now it looks like India will be sending some folks to space by 2016.


Is this some sort anti-Nazi Hindu move? Should we prepare for the fallout of a massive space battle between the moon-Nazis and the space station Hindus?

This reporter says yes.
[News From Around the World]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-28 06:00:40 (comments[1])

Script Kiddies: If you make it - someone will hack it

The hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has recently stated that he has hacked Sony's PS3.


Seems like a waste of hacking skill to me.
[Geek News]

Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-27 04:49:38 (comments[1])

Announcements: DC 20

If shower dances weren't enough to keep you from wanting to go to prison, you lose your RPGs, to boot!


Sucks if you're in the middle of an epic campaign...


[D20: Dungeons and Dragons]

Posted by: Arioch : 2010-01-26 05:49:06 (comments[5])

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