Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 11: Play Resources

This entry is part 11 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it, though perhaps you might find materials here of use in other games… who knows?

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Recent Reads

It’s been awhile since I said anything about what I’ve read lately—I don’t think I’ve written a review post since this one I shared in September, in fact! One reason is that I haven’t managed to read as much as I’d like. Writing, a toddler, overtime at work… they all converge on me having less time to read, and even less to post about what I’m reading. Still, I have been reading, to be sure. I have also written a few specific posts on individual books, which got stalled out because of what a challenge it is to really do the …

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Old Movie Promo Posters in Korea

This entry is part 66 of 72 in the series SF in South Korea

In Korean cinemas, upcoming and currently-running films are advertised using handouts (available on a stand within the cinema) that are A4 printouts of the film’s poster on the front, with a writeup and some still frames from the film on the back. Maybe these exist in Canada now too, but I’d never seen such a thing before I arrived here, years ago.  As long as I’ve been here, these flyers were always just a re-texted version of the film poster, with the title in Hangeul. (Sometimes, the title really is just “in Hangeul”—not translated, just written using English words in …

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“The First Quest” AD&D Double LP

UPDATE (18 Feb 2019): More information on this album was emailed to me by someone named Michael (‘Mick’) Baker, after my spamblocker apparently ate his attempt to post it as a comment. Here is the email in full: Thanks for a nice article, I actually have the ‘First Quest’ album and i got it in the mid 80s on a hunch that one track on it, may be the one i was looking for, and it turned out right :), The track The Living Dead is a slight variation of the intro into the awesome 85 film ‘The Return of …

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 8: Tie-In Fiction and Comics

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 12: Conclusion… for Now

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 10: Orpheus

This entry is part 10 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts… and  just a little bit beyond, as you can see from the featured image of this post. If you’re only after information about the Orpheus RPG White Wolf published in 2003, then this post is for you. However, if you’re new to the series and interested in Wraith, then I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Revisiting Wraith: The Oblivion—Part 7: “Concept” and Other Books

This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Revisiting Wraith the Oblivion

Welcome to my revisitation of the Wraith: The Oblivion RPG book line. I’m reviewing the whole run of gamebooks in this series of posts. If you’re new to the series, I recommend starting with the first post. If you’re not interested in reviews of older RPGs, I suggest you skip it. 

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Ghostbusters and Kpop, Men and Women

If you’re hoping for something about Peter Venkman hitting on a Kpop star, or who’s the sexiest female ghostbuster according to Koreans, or some Korean pop Ghostbusters mashup video? Sorry, this isn’t the post for you. (It’s not really an addition to the middle-aged man kvetch-fest of last summer, either.) I just saw the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters for the second time (in just over a year: we saw it in the cinema in Canada last year, but I wanted to see the extended cut). Watching it, all the little callouts in the film to online furor and criticism and …

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Read Lately, or Last Year (January 2016-August 2017)

It’s been a while since I said much about the non-RPG-related books I’ve read lately—and in fact I missed doing a roundup of the best books I read last year. What can I say, having a newly-minted one-year-old around was pretty time-consuming. But he’s in the day care system now, so not only am I reading more again (phew) but also getting more time to write about it. (Especially because I ended up taking a break from working on my book to deal with the Plague Upon Our House—a toddler ear infecion, mom with a sore throat, dad with bronchitis, …

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