Trailer Tuesday: The Wandering Earth (2019)
What would happen if a rogue moon was heading for a populated Dominion world? What would we do?
Trailer Tuesday: Prospect (2018)
Some days you just stumble on inspiration gold. Prospect is a gold mine starring Pedro Pascal — and it appears he’s playing a villain again, like he did in Equalizer 2. I first noticed him on Game of Thrones as Oberyn Martell, but since then he’s appeared in quite a few other films like Kingsman: The Golden Circle and The Great…
Trailer Tuesday: Pathfinder (2018)
This Week’s Trailer: Pathfinder (2018) This time we have an oddball out of China — the movie Pathfinder (2018) seems to be “in development” according to IMDb, though I found a few details about the film on Asian Movie Pulse. Their summary is: “The film, with a cast that includes Song Yang (Wrath of Silence,…
Gun Battles on the Moon
One of the things I want to bring into Aliens & Asteroids is the effects of various environments on combat. And two of the big things I’ve been struggling with are zero-gravity and zero-atmosphere, so I thought I’d write about that struggle. Let’s describe a scenario. For example, let’s say that we have a group…
Divine Magicks in the Temple of the Earthen Father
As we prepare to release The Brigade, an adventure for Mazes & Perils, I had to review the text for a religion I had created a while back called the Temple of the Earthen Father. There’s an appendix in the module that details it to some degree, but I began considering it from a more extreme…
Five Encounters Direct from the Moon…
Working on the next Little Spaces product for inspiring moon-based encounters and such, I came up with the following examples: (Sight/Shape/Ringed) After the massive collision on the dark side of the moon, we saw the first of three rings form in close orbit above the surface from the dust and rock kicked into the thin…
Four Celestial Omens That’ll Keep Your PCs Up At Night
In our fantasy worlds, we often focus on the things on the ground. Sometimes we may remember that a few things can fly. But just like our PCs, sometimes we forget to look up. In this case, it’s the skies above we forget to mine for ideas. Until modern astronomy came along, most folks interpreted…
