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Review of War of the Rohirrim (2024)

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In a crumbling theatre perched on the third floor of a dead mall, alone I watched the new Lord of the Rings film War of the Rohirrim, directed by Kenji Kimiyama, whose body of work I confess I am not familiar with. This wasn't the first Lord of the Rings film I've watched in this very theatre--I have distinct memories of watching The Two Towers here. I loved that film from the moment it started playing, and the desperation felt in that packed house during the Battle of Helm's Deep may have been the first moment I gained an appreciation for the types of media I have today. And so, in service to this legendary moment from my childhood, I paid my $15 for entry to the new film. It was also partially in service to convenience and an empty schedule; that particular theatre is just a short bus ride from my apartment. My partner was working today, and none of my friends felt particularly interested in going to see it. So, on basically a whim, I decided to check it out on my...
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So I think I figured out what I'm gonna write about

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A Pitch for the Twisted Classics Jam A ferry crossing from the mainland to Vancouver Island encounters untraversable fog, and is forced to shelter at a nearly forgotten port town fully enclosed by the surrounding mountains. With only a couple hundred residents, a diner, a gas station, church, and abandoned lighthouse, the town of Raven's Lot seems like the perfect place to wait out the fog. But little do the passengers know that they are truly trapped here- the next victims of the immortal vampire who has established himself of the town's reverend, and of the monstrous congregation who call him Master. Raven's Lot , as I currently imagine it, will be a modern spin on both the classic module Ravenloft as well as Stephen King's second novel Salem's Lot. When I saw Goblin Archive's announcement of the upcoming Twisted Classics Jam for Liminal Horror , my brain gears started spinning. I've been looking for a new project for awhile, I think I have found ...
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On Getting Started

On Getting Started with Blogs and getting restarted with rpgs I was scrolling Twitter today when I happened to stumble across Zedek Siew's Bloggy Awards . Reading it really awakened a desire in me to participate more in the RPG scene online. Since Twitter's demise, I've been trying my best to use it less and less. As a result, RPG discourse has sorta fallen outside my reach--I can't for the life of me use Discord or any of the newfangled social medias everyone has seemingly scattered to. Not that I have ever really been a part of the scene who's scattering I feel so deeply. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that I have always been more of a, well, consumer of RPG content than a creator of it. Sure, I did write my own Call of Cthulhu adventure one time (shout out to the Storytelling Colective ) for dragging me through that unmotivated summer), but for the most part I lurk Twitter, binge Questing Beast and Seth Skorkowsky videos over and over again, and ke...
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