Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

Convenient Razor's Edge art by the one and only Chris Trevas.

 

If you're sad on Valentines Day, don't worry. No one loves you on any other day of the year, either.

 

If there are zombies running willy-nilly about, I'm guessing that the probable collapse of society would render a tablet into a mediocre doorstop at best (and a good, heavy book would still have it beat in that department).

 

Oh Tiny Death Star, you amuse me! I unlocked the Bothans today, and their entry says that that have a reputation as master spies, despite their distinctive "dog, cat, and horselike appearance."

I love this game. A little EU nod to the varying appearance of the Bothans? I LIKE IT!

--Adm. Nick

 

Han Solo's chest isn't hairy enough in that picture.

 

Valentine's date went well. Now for House of Cards. Best weekend ever.

 

That's horrible. I wish I'd posted it.

 

HAN, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BUY NEW CLOTHES, YOU KNOW! EVERYONE ELSE DOES IT!

 

I am pretty sure he just owns 12 sets of the same.

 

Outside of the scans of his art I have posted earlier I am rather certain that people here have not heard of Lukas Thelin who is a Swedish illustrator that among other things illustrates the Swedish RPG magazine Fenix (Phoenix in English). Below the spoiler tags are some (rather big) images by Thelin with text to inform what they illustrate.
All images are from here http://lukasthelin.blogspot.se/

Spoiler

Werewolves of Dacia – Kenneth Hite’s campaign setting is a riff on Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, warped through a classical sensibility with a hefty helping of werewolves. From Fenix #1 2012


Once Upon a Time in the North – This setting by Kenneth Hite is a Western moved a century into the future and restaged in the far North. Can be played like anything from a classical western (northern) to pulp, cyberpunk or horror. From Fenix #3 2011


51 Mythos Dooms - where Kenneth Hite have almost every horrible thing from H.P. Lovecraft's works gets their turn at the end of the world. From Fenix #6 2012


Diagoras Sector: an interstellar warzone - Ken Hite goes back to the roots of science fiction warfare by taking the military history of ancient Greece into outer space. From Fenix #4 2012

Just Add Rum – Kenneth Hite provide you with everything you need in order to create pirates for your own campaign that makes sense, adding flavor and excitement to the rest of your world in the process. From Fenix #3 2012


NPC gallery to adventures to the Swedish wild west RPG Western

Right now Fenix is planning to publish some of it’s material in to the rest of the world and I English, so if anybody are interested I can send you their way.

 

Good to hear! If you took her out on Valentine's Day, is it safe to assume this is someone that is a prospective girlfriend?

--Adm. Nick

 

We know he has multiple sets, as Lando was able to wear some after Han was frozen in carbonite.

 

I don't know if "prospective" is the right word; we've been going out pretty regularly for a couple months, but we're taking it easy and not in any rush to use the big words. I tend to move pretty fast, so it's been nice to just be dating someone. What about you? What happened with the one you were showing your battleship to a few months back?

 

So I preordered TESO Imperial edition. I might try to visually recreate my cool Imperial character from Skyrim on the Xbox version -- try as I might I could never get it perfect when I switched to PC. I guess Zenimax lifted the NDA on the beta yesterday so I can talk about it without breaking the NDA like I did earlier. My fears were mostly assuaged based on what I've seen and read the past few days in the gaming press. You start the game in Cold Harbor and must escape, and upon escaping are placed on a different starter island depending upon which faction you are in. Ebonhart Pact is on an island off the coast of Skyrim, Aldmeri Dominion is on one off the coast of either Summerset or Valenwood, and Daggerfall Covenant is on one off the coast of Hammerfell.

I played through the Skyrim starter island and got put into Morrowind, at which point I switched to a Daggerfall Covenant character, which evidently upon completing that starter island you get put on another island belonging to the Orsimer, and must complete a quest line to leave that island as well. This worried me, but I read that upon getting off these islands the game opens up immensely. And the gameplay videos which I've seen look like fun exploring the landscape and finding Aeylid and Dwemer ruins and otherwise exploring and finding a wide range of tasks to do.

Compared to SWTOR, which I've mostly played lately, it's a breath of fresh air in terms of the freedom to explore and not to be chained to a class quest or told where you can and can't go.

 

It is now.

 

A guy was injured by an NHS advertising sign that was blown into/onto him during high winds.

The sign read "Feeling under the weather?"

Seriously.