Mid-July has been and gone and we’re headed to the latter part of the summer already. Where does it all go?
The last pod was Phil’s Choice, a wee diversion once again from the Moorcock, but we’ve had some really nice feedback, particularly from Glenn, Steve and Clarky.
Glenn reminded us of the value of conversation and comradely diversion when things are tough…
Steve picked up some spooky inspiration for his gaming output…
And Clarky prompted us to get on and watch William Girdler’s Day of the Animals, the film he directed in between Grizzly and The Manitou… and it is simply an incredible piece of 70s eco-horror/disaster fiction that happens to include a shirtless, raving Leslie Nielson going full-foaming psychotic Alpha and wrestling a bear. Because of the ozone layer!
Incredible.
Thanks chaps.
I had a wee side conversation with Steve too, about talking Corum and Hawkmoon from a gaming persepctive. After all, it has been a while since our last RPG-centric episode. A couple of days later, I was reading 80s Stormbringer adventure The Octagon of Chaos on the bog and I instantly had opinions. It occcured to me that there is a lot of MM-themed gaming output out there that we could cover in a similar way to how we do our re-read podcasts. Simply delve into a specific publication and yak about it. I threw that idea out on the Discord and a couple of folks said that would be of interest. Jim pointed out that some of them are quite hard to get now, so hearing more about them via the pod would be appealing.
So I think we’ll do just that. I have just about all (if not all) of the Chaosium products, including the D20 version, plus the Mongoose releases and the aforementioned supplement by Theatre of the Mind Enterprises, so that should provide plenty of fodder. I will, of course, be looking for co-hosts for some of these – folks that have the publications in question to hand. Steve will be one, our old mucker Dave Dempster is running Moorcockian games currently, as is his wont, so I’ll see if he’s interested in a comeback. There will be others over time and as the Moonbeam Roads converge.
More on that soon.
As we’ll be in August in a couple of months, the Halloween poll will be landing too, so look out for that.
Otherwise, it’s been a strange week.
After only being in the pub with him for my birthday just a couple of weeks ago, STIMBOTCLASSIC is up against the forces of entropy once more. As a result, we’ve had to bump our recording of Phoenix in Obsidian back a week, but we will get there. There may be a wee delay in the next pod upload as a result though. We’d got pretty close recently to one release per fortnight for a sustained period, but that may slip slightly for a while. We’ll see how things progress.
I’m typing this out on a Sunday morning before we leave our hotel. An old favourite. It’s a 7 out of 10 at best but there’s always been something about it I’ve liked, tired as it is. It’s the impression it gives of once having been some kind of old 1960s or 70s institute out of a Christopher Priest novel. It has a vibe.
Like Professor Millar once worked here.
And did unspeakable things.
Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast 