Good news: The trailer is out

Bad news: We have to wait a year.

eff’s Carousing Mishaps table. It’s a classic. Tons of people use it. Jeff has many tables on his blog–why does this one work so well for so many people?

Let’s pull this bitch apart:

-It deals with something that’s already in the game but isn’t usually dramatized in the game. Your PCs don’t have to do some new thing or behave in a different way to use this table. It’s assumed that characters are always drinking and wenching when they’re not punching giant rats. It’s also usually assumed that the game is about when they’re punching giant rats and not about when they’re drinking and wenching.

via Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Anatomy Of A Good Houserule.

Independent developer Red Wasp Design has announced that its bringing turn-based strategy RPG Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land to Apples App Store on January 30th.Set during World War I, the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror title sees a team of soldiers and investigators struggle against an evil cult who are hell-bent on using the wars death toll to summon an unspeakable evil.

via Turn-based strategy RPG Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land coming to iPhone on January 30th | Call Of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land news | iPad & iPhone Universal | Pocket Gamer.

A Game of Thrones fan site winter-is-coming.net is reporting a rumor that HBO is going to order two more seasons of their hit TV show, A Game of Thrones. According to the story, cast and crew filming in Northern Ireland have already been told to expect another nine months of filming next year.

While I’ve not received any confirmation regarding this rumor, I don’t find it out of the realm of the possible. For one thing, the show is doing really, really well. I know people who haven’t read George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire or even read fantasy in general who won’t miss an episode of the program, and those who have read the series already know that the later books would require more than a season of episodes each for a faithful adaptation.

via Rumor: HBO to Order Two More Season of ‘A Game of Thrones’? « Suvudu – Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, Comics, and Games.

The Bard’s Tale originally began as a trilogy of hardcore dungeon crawling RPGs released in the mid-80s for desktop computers and gaming consoles. In 2004, InXile Entertainment created a new The Bard’s Tale for Playstation 2, Xbox, and PC. This game was related to the original series in name only, and featured 3D action-adventure gameplay rather than first-person dungeon crawling.

via Hit 2004 Action RPG ‘The Bard’s Tale’ Heading to iOS | Touch Arcade.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta Impressions – Twenty Sided.

Josh at Twentysided is not feeling the love for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Human beings like organising themselves into groups and fooling themselves into thinking that the particular group they belong to is in some way distinct, having different (superior) characteristics to all the others. This is an element of in-group – out-group bias, a psychological phenomenon in human beings that seems one of our most fundamental social characteristics. We decide that we belong to a certain group, with its own special and brilliant flavour, and begin disparaging and agitating against all other groups with almost embarrassing ease.

via Monsters and Manuals: What Astrology and Werewolf: The Apocalypse have to say about the human condition.