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Sunday, September 16, 2007

New PARANOIA .PDF downloads 

I'm late in mentioning the new .PDF handouts, templates, and assorted gimcracks now available for free download from the Mongoose Publishing PARANOIA page. (Thanks to Citizen Greymist, a VIOLET over at Paranoia-Live.net, who asked me for these after they had slipped my slipshod attention.)

Now you can get the Criminal Histories character sheet, as well as the character sheet instructions. Also the Extreme PARANOIA new Mandatory Bonus Duty badges (Advertising & Branding Officer, Public Relations Officer, Agent Provocateur, and the rest). And the mandate badge fronts from Service, Service! with the logos for each service group.

If you liked the C-Bay auction format used in the first STUFF equipment book, and you want to put your own devious equipment designs up for auction to your Troubleshooters, check out the STUFF C-Bay page template. In the pipeline is a collection of the decorations that adorn the published STUFF pages ("First-Time Seller!" "Attractive!" "Non-Treasonous!" etc.), but that appears not to be posted yet. Wait, did I send it...? Arrgh.

Not yet available, and yes I know it's been about two years since I promised this, is the set of handouts for WMD, the collection of Straight-style missions. I know I can get to this before the sun explodes. Just another few years....

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Alpha Complex Nights 

Mongoose Publishing have finally posted details of Alpha Complex Nights, an adventure anthology due for release in October(ish). Parts of this book were released in a double-sided adventure that never made it beyond England, as far as I know.

Also in the release queue is Stuff 2, an equipment sourcebook of myriad wonders, some of which are treasonous, explosive or explosive AND treasonous.
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A Soviet Poster a Day 

Comrades! Via BoingBoing, inwestigate and bookmark most glorious blog of Russian citizen Alexander Zakharov, A Soviet Poster a Day.

"Every Soviet poster, no matter the date of creation, bears a stamp of expressiveness and graphical quality. The attention to details is awesome. The scope of techniques is endless. Soviet posters are a treasure chest with inspiration for any graphical designer, not to mention the seeing pleasure itself. And what's important, every Soviet poster has a historical reference essential for understanding the layers of meanings it carries through time."

BoingBoing comment thread also links to glorious Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages.

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

JimHollowayArt.com 

I can't believe I'm only now discovering Jim Holloway Art, official site of The One True PARANOIA artist, Jim Holloway.

The site features a gallery of Jim's copious output, including his paintings and illustrations for D&D/AD&D, Dragon and Dungeon magazines, current work, and much more. Jim's work for PARANOIA is under-represented right now, but it's still early days.

Jim is now doing the best work of his lengthy career. For the new PARANOIA hardcover mission collection Flashbacks 2, which reprints and lightly updates the classic 1980s West End adventures Orcbusters, Clones in Space, and The People's Glorious Revolutionary Adventure, Jim has done a new cover and all-new interior artwork. Twenty-plus years ago, for the original works, West End's art directors gave Jim grotesquely short deadlines, which prevented him from achieving the high quality he always seeks. With these new versions, Jim has outdone himself, particularly in the interior illos for Clones in Space.

Yet he's a self-effacing guy, which helps explain why I only stumbled upon his site via this "Jim Holloway Love-In" topic on TheRPGSite. There the poster "Deogolf," who evidently has some unspecified relationship to Jim, posts with news about the artist and JimHollowayArt.com.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

PARANOIA in the real world: Accidental nukes 

Man oh man, how often has this happened to you: You drive to the supermarket, and when you get there, you slap your forehead and say, "Dang, I forgot and brought along the nuclear weapons again."

Turns out the military makes that same mistake. Last week, a B-52 flew from North Dakota to Louisiana while accidentally loaded with up to six nuclear missiles with yields of five to 150 kilotons apiece.

For some reason this reminds me of the line from John Woo's 1996 film Broken Arrow, which takes its title from the military term for a lost nuclear warhead: "I don't know what's scarier, losing a nuclear weapon or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it."
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