Oceans & Ogres

Octonauts to your stations!

Octonauts explore the Great Big Ocean by MEOMI.

Professor Inkiling (aged, wise old Octopus) playing what is obviously an Old School retro-clone called "Oceans & Ogres" with the Vegemals, miniatures, modules, octocups, polyhedral dice. Awesome! Of course they went for the classic TSR look, non of this modern D&DNextwhenever mumbo jumbo for Prof. Inkling, just pure old school goodness.

I don't usually talk about personal life on this blog, and it's kind of pseudonymous and I like that. Anyway, my kids really love the Octonauts, and I'm a fan too. It's a great pre-school TV programme that educates without being preachy and has lots of adventure and excitement and fun stuff. It's a bit like Star Trek - the central cast of Medic, Captain and erm, Pirate, go off exploring and every episode we get to learn about a different sea creature, and I'm a fan of the design - cute big-headed chibi characters but with a slight Cartoon Modern twist.

Anyway I was reading MEOMIs latest adventure The Octonauts Explore The Great Big Ocean under the covers (it's got glow in the dark pages) and noticed the D&D reference above and thought I'd share.

Random Encounter Table

The books are generally slightly more fantastical than the TV Series - which is much more rooted in science and reality - yes sea-creatures talk but they don't wear awesome viking hats. I'd love to see MEOMI do a rules lite RPG, stat up all the sea-creatures with their unique fantasy twist, the Creature Catalogue would be a wonder to behold, one can but dream...

WARGAME THIS:

The music videos by Phil Mucci just ripe for wargaming. Probably NSFW unless you work in a 1970s headshop or metal club.

HIGH ON FIRE: Fertile Green

 

PIG DESTROYER: The Diplomat

OPETH: The Devils Orchard

Planet Motherfucker + Rogue Trader + Zombie Apocalypse + Planet of the Apes + Satan + Harley Davidson + Psychedelica + Billious Green + Worm Purple.

Thanks to Jack at Tales of Grotesquery and Dungeonesque 

OOPS forgot to use the word Oldhammer.

Derek's Back!

or is it his front? Who can tell?

Derek the Troll 2013 | Lew Stringer

Lew Stringer's classic comic creation Derek the Troll is set for a comeback in Jonathan Green's You Are the Hero - a history of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. Hurrah!

In typical egomaniac fan-boy fashion I  have decided to take full credit for this monumental return of an controversial British icon (well some people on the White Dwarf letters page didn't like him, so that counts as controversial in these parts). The reason for such arrogance being that I hassled both Jonathan and Lew about doing this, on Twitter, no less. Hmm. Very 2013.  What's that Derek? the Warlock said it was all his idea? What a total load of bo.... That's enough of that Zhu or I'll turn you into a toad - The Warlock. llocks....

croak. 

croak.