Fans Pricing Saturday for December 8, 2018
(Note: We request the price changes from Amazon on Friday evenings. Unfortunately, they don’t change all of the prices at one time. As of right now, two of the books have not yet been price changed to fan’s pricing.)
Star Trek Discovery – Space No Longer The Final Frontier
Note: This article contains spoilers of Star Trek: Discovery Season One
Season one of Star Trek: Discovery gripped us like the science-loving nerds we are and dragged us to places we never knew we wanted to go. Michael Burnham is an intriguing protagonist with a more-than-strange past that plays a major role in how her future is shaped.
Being a human raised in a Vulcan society gifted her with an extensive knowledge base of sciences and of course logic. Michael is also Spock’s half-sister, adding to Michael’s already complicated past.
Knowing that piece of information helps ramp you up for what seems to be. As always, there are also teases as to what the seven signals sent throughout the galaxy could be.
Since chasing the impossible seems to be the Discovery’s thing, what new impossibility could they be exploring? Weren’t the famous words of the original Star Trek “Space, the Final Frontier.”?
Yet it seems that the ability to jump across the universe as we know it wasn’t all this new Spore Drive technology had to offer. Lieutenant Stamets showed us it was possible for a human to navigate the mycelium network.
Think about the reality of that possibility for humanity. Could we jump universes at a whim? It’s far-fetched, read more…
Making the Leap from Podcasts to Television
Podcasts have, in one shape or another, existed on the internet since the early 2000s, and as an avid fan myself, I love the medium. Everything from movie and television studios making podcasts to reach out to their viewers, comedians delivering material to their fans, and authors self-publishing their novels as weekly serialized audiobooks. While the medium has been around for a while, it’s widely believed that the current golden age of podcasting was begun by two wildly popular shows, the absurdist horror fiction radio show Welcome to Night Vale and true crime Serial.
Since then, there has been a boom in podcasting, particularly in the serialized science fiction/horror and true crime genres, many of them also becoming wildly popular. As the saying somewhat goes, a high tide raises all casts. In the circular way these things work, it is now podcasts that are being looked to for a source to adapt for other media. Here are a few massively popular podcasts that are, have been, or will be soon turned into television shows.
Homecoming
This sci-fi thriller was already ahead of the curve when it premiered with a star-studded cast which included Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac, and David Schwimmer, whose first season has been wonderfully adapted for television and is currently available for streaming on Prime Video. Starring Julia Roberts, Stephan James, and Bobby Cannavale in those respective roles lending even higher prestige for complex and time jumping story. While the show seems to be a direct adaptation of the first season of the show, the way it is shot and having the visual element adds so much to the story that fixes some of the weaknesses of the show. If you enjoy thrillers and slowly unwinding mysteries, Homecoming would be a great show for you.
Lore
Horror writer Aaron Mahnke in his podcast goes deep into stores of dark history, monsters, and killers. Each episode of Lore takes the listener by the hand and accounts history narratively so that the driest of facts are entertaining and the more sanguine details lessened in their macabreness. The television version, whose second season just released for streaming on Prime Video, does this at a slightly longer, using a huge read more…
Fans Pricing Saturday for December 1, 2018
(Note: We request the price changes from Amazon on Friday evenings. Unfortunately, they don’t change all of the prices at one time. As of right now, two of the books have not yet been price changed to fan’s pricing.)
Cyber Monday Boxed Set Bonanza
It’s Cyber Monday, and it’s also Kurtherian Endgame week (WOOT!), so what better time to have a one-day flash sale on the Kurtherian Gambit series.
You can grab each of the Kurtherian Gambit boxed sets on this Cyber Monday for just $.99 each.
Here’s what’s included in each boxed set:
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 1 (Death Becomes Her – Queen Bitch – Love Lost)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 2 (Bite This – Never Forsaken – Under My Heel)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 3 (Kneel Or Die – We Will Build – It’s Hell To Choose)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 4 (Release The Dogs of War – Sued For Peace – We Have Contact)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 5 (My Ride is a Bitch – Don’t Cross This Line – Never Submit)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 6 (Never Surrender – Forever Defend – Might Makes Right)
The Kurtherian Gambit Omnibus 7 (Ahead Full – Capture Death – Life Goes On)
Grab your copies and complete your library today!
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica Review
Starting in October of 2005, the world-spanning city of Ravnica has been a favorite setting for players of Magic: the Gathering, playing host to seven expansion sets: Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, Dissension, Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon’s Maze, and Guilds of Ravnica, as well as the next two sets for the upcoming year, Ravnica Allegiance and a heretofore unnamed third set. With nearly two thousand cards based on Ravnica and it being the first not Dominaria world to be visited three times, it’s clearly a fan favorite, so it’s no wonder that the people at Wizards of the Coast wanted to bridge the gap between their two very popular brands, Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, in this sourcebook that allows players of the latter to explore the rich cityscape and unique setting in Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica.
First thing off the bat, this book is beautiful, it mixes art from the cards with new fresh art on its 256 pages. The cover features the most amazing piece of art, a black human woman, with natural hair, in the regalia of the super intelligent (sometimes too much for their own good) magical scientists of the Izzet League conducting an experiment before her guildmaster Niv-Mizzet, the firemind and dracogenius. As a person of color myself, it is so inspiring to see someone who looks like people in my family, like me, in a position of prominence when the world of tabletop gaming is still pretty white and male.
There is a plethora of new content for Dungeons and Dragons players on Ravnica, include new races, like the elephantine Loxodons and mutated Simic Hybrids, two new class options in the enchantment focused Order Domain cleric and necromantic Circle of Spores druid, as well as dozens of items and monster stat blocks. In the 5E rules, guild membership comes in the form of a background, rather than the standard urchin, soldier, or merchant. In that way, being a member of the Boros Legion comes with a suite read more…
Temple of Satan Sues Sabrina over use of Baphomet statue
Since it’s release on October 26th, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been yet another massively popular addition to Netflix’s already powerful coven of shows. However, it would appear that the Temple of Satan is not a fan, having filed a $150 million dollar lawsuit against the streaming service and Warner Bros., claiming in the United States District Court in Manhattan, New York City, that they had copied several unique features of the Temple’s depiction of the occult deity in the statue featured in the show.
In Sabrina, the statue resides in the main area of the Academy of Unseen Arts, a magical school read more…
EC020: Holi’s Savior, a Tale From The Kurtherian Universe – Part Two
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This week we bring you the conclusion of Holi’s Savior, by N.D. Roberts, the first story in the first volume of Fans Write For the Fans, Tales From The Kurtherian Universe.
Fans Write For the Fans Facebook links: Kurtherian Universe, and Oriceran Universe.
Here is the blurb for Renegade from Tales From The Kurtherian Universe, Book One.
Holi’s Savior, by ND Roberts
On the alien world Castellegia, brave young Holi fights for the survival of her ragged band of orphans. Who will save them from the green-eyed mutants who stalk the night? Justice calls upon Castellegia at the moment all is lost for Holi.
A story of strength, determination, and the softer side of everybody’s favorite benevolent dictator.
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A Simple Way To Prepare A Table Top Game
Game nights are great fun. Seeing your friends get together to quest and take down evil and play through your story of your own making can be a great way to escape real life, and we all know how badly that’s needed. That being said, all Game/Dungeon Masters or Storytellers know that running a game is not just fun, but is work as well. It is upon you, chiefly, to ensure the fun and entertainment of the group, and that can be a heavy burden to bear, even before you consider having to remember and adjudicate the rules. I know it sounds daunting. It scared me before I got started, but worry not! Here are some tips to remember to make your game day prep easier.
How to proceed
The fabled Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder said it best: “no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force” which is to say, whatever you plan, assume your players are going to figure out a way to do something you didn’t prepare for. Here are three ways to try to handle this situation:
- Overwrite: You could write out every possible outcome you can think of for the situations you put the players in.
- All roads lead to Rome: make it so it ultimately doesn’t matter what your players choose, the result will be the same.
- Underwrite: Have only a bare outline of what will happen and improvise the rest.
When I began DM’ing, I did the former, spending hours writing every permutation of the events of the session, which is not advisable, believe read more…
Fans Pricing Saturday for November 10, 2018
Here are the links for today’s (11/10/18) fan’s priced books.
(Note: We request the price changes from Amazon on Friday evenings. Unfortunately, they don’t change all of the prices at one time. As of right now, two of the books have not yet been price changed to fan’s pricing.)