Ha. Yesterday, I wrote about the bandits slain by Theseus. Bandits, it seems, come in many villainous forms and obstruct many strange paths. Cracked.com had the following story up yesterday as well. Their #1 dick move in the history of online gaming was attributed to World of Warcraft’s Angwe—an in-game PvP bandit who “camped a [...]
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One More Bandit
Posted: November 29, 2011 in Heroes, Monsters/VillainsTags: angwe, cracked, theseus, world of warcraft
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The Queen Bee
Posted: November 14, 2011 in Monsters/VillainsTags: grimm, portland, queen bee, villains
These days, everything’s social network… at least, as far as the show’s I’ve been watching. The League, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and now the most recent episode of Grimm. Something like this. Each week, our detective hero finds and neutralizes some fairy tale monster. First it was a were-wolf, then a were-bear, and now [...]
Darth Vader’s Pants on the Ground
Posted: November 1, 2011 in General, Heroes, Monsters/VillainsTags: costumes, ghosts, halloween, heroes, monsters, star wars, villains
When I was a kid, you didn’t want to go trick-or-treating too early. Not when it was still light out. That was for little kids. No, you wanted to go just as it was getting dark. A good, late twilight was the best time to start. Last night was no different. Not that I went [...]
I talked games where one of the players takes the role of “it”. Then there are games where one of the players takes on the even more involved role of game master. When I was a kid, “game master” was the person who knew the rules of the game, taught it to the rest of [...]
At the end of Betrayal at Game Day, I asked what games had one (or more) of the players in the role of villain—not just opponent, but actual villain. I couldn’t think of any outside of Betrayal at House on the Hill (unless you count playing as the Axis powers in Axis and Allies, but [...]
Last night’s dream may have come courtesy from my viewing of The Thing. John Carpenter’s The Thing (in preparation for watching the most recent version). In the dream, I was on a cruise ship and one of the attractions was a living dinosaur found encased on a block of ice. The ice was partially melted, [...]
So what’s the next trend for monsters? Well, there’s mummies. That high school out on Forks WA might get a new foreign exchange student from Egypt, I suppose. Perhaps he’s discovered keeping his organs in canopic jars, and stockpiling food in his room for the afterlife. Or perhaps not Mummies are trickier. They’re harder for [...]
The next monster wave, and certainly a strong one, has been zombies. Unlike vampires and werewolves, zombies have fairly modern origins, moving from their African and Caribbean roots into their own story conventions. Usually the story goes something like this—for unknown reasons, or from a mysterious outbreak, the dead have started rising from the grave. [...]
