Hopefully Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be as good as the trailer makes it look

I like that it's set in the Forgotten Realms. I'm sure there'll be folks who wish it had been Blackmoor, Greyhawk, or Dragonlance. Who knows, maybe one day they'll each get their time to shine.

Also, Sophia Lillis's tiefling druid character Doric? Adorable.

So how do y'all feel about the upcoming D&D movie?

Here's the Wheel of Time trailer

Some people will complain about the changes and while I don't like one of them (Rand and Egwene apparently having sex), changes come with the territory. You're never going to get a faithful scene by scene, line by line adaptation because books and visual media are so wholly different from one another that you can never truly transfer the full essence of one to the other.

Just based on the trailer, the WoT show doesn't look bad.

Trailer released for Hercules

Looks interesting. I like the idea of showing Hercules performing his twelve labors.

It's a nice day for a Red Wedding

A modified version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" song popped in my head tonight and after mentioning it on Tumblr, one of my followers pointed me to this video featuring that very thing. Check it out:



Personally, I think the people behind Game of Thrones should have paid Idol to record a Red Wedding version of his song and played it during that part of the episode and the credits. Just rub the salt into the wound there.

Anyone remember the Conan the Adventurer cartoon?

Here's the intro to it.



I'm amazed that they managed to make a kid-friendly cartoon about Conan. The intro explains the premise of the show: Conan's family is turned to "living stone" by Wrath-Amon, a wizard lizardman who wanted this stuff called Star Metal that Conan's father had created from the metal of a meteorite. The metal would allow Wrath-Amon to open a portal and release his god, Set. The metal also had the ability to undo the human disguise of Wrath-Amon and his minions and reveal their serpenty selves, as well as banish them to the same dimension as Set with a simple touch. It was a clever way of side-stepping the violence of the Conanverse. Anyway, Conan's dad had forged the Star Metal into weapons, including a sword for Conan that the latter naturally used to fight Wrath-Amon in order to save his family.

There were several other characters on the show and each was armed with weapons that were also made out of Star Metal. Oh, and Conan had a shield that he could use to summon a smartass Phoenix.

The toys that went with this show sucked, though. Basically oversized chunks of plastic with no articulation except in the shoulders and the hips. Bleck.

In a Game of Thrones, you either watch this season 3 teaser or you die

A bit extreme. *shrugs*



h/t HeroPress.

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Because this is a thing that existed and must be spread far and wide: Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Enjoy.

This "Great Battles of Skyrim" video series is truly epic.

So I was going through the stuff I had starred in Google Reader and came across this post from Nerd Approved about a video called Great Battles of Skyrim Part 1. I guess I had marked to post here later, but plum forgot about it. Big mistake, because the video is awesome as sh*t.



I don't know what kind of mods Tyrannicon used or if black magic was involved, but he deserves a Orson Welles ovation.

There are more videos - apparently, this was just the first episode of the first season - and they're quite conveniently compiled into a playlist for your viewing pleasure.

New item for your RPGing: A potion that works every time, 60 percent of the time

From the makers of Erotic Orc, the only cologne made with bits of real orc.

The hits, they're over 9000!

Actually it's ten thousand, but I'm not passing up a chance to post this video.


More posts to come soon and thanks for the all the fish, I mean hits!

New post-apocalyptic TV series Revolutions - First impressions

So, NBC actually had a smart idea and posted the pilot episode for the new J.J. Abrams post-apocalyptic series Revolution online for free. They had another smart idea and made the video embeddable.

Revolution is set fifteen years after a mysterious event kills everything that runs on electricity and in a single moment, the entire world is thrown back several hundred years, tech-wise. As you might expect of something from the post-apocalyptic genre, society collapses and warlords emerge to carve our their own kingdoms with their militias. However, there's a twist here, with the possibility raised that the effects of the aforementioned event could be reversed and not surprisingly, that potential will be craved by less than savory factions.

Hit the jump for the video and my thoughts on it. Fair warning, the episode is over 43 minutes long, so you might want to set aside some time, lol.

How about some Fallout 3 music?

The Ink Spots - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire. Enjoy.



Speaking of Fallout 3, I'm also planning on expanding Swords, Dragons, and Nerds to include post-apocalyptic fiction. I know the stuff usually falls under science fiction or speculative fiction, but I think it would fit better here than on Rayguns and Space Suits, which I want to keep focused on scifi like space opera, military science fiction, and such.

Cinematic trailer for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Just to be clear, the Pandarans were around before Kung Fu Panda. Interestingly, Pandarans were originally an April Fools joke for Warcraft III that Blizzard staged years ago. Since then, Pandarans have become a running joke with fans and I guess Blizzard decided to finally put them in a game. I don't play WoW, but the video is spectacular.

Charge of the Rohirrim

DEATH!!!

For the fans of Steve Jackson Games

I thought this video might be of interest. Steve Jackson was on the most recent episode of TableTop, playing Munchkin against Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, and Sandeep Parikh. TableTop is a web series created by Wheaton and Day as part of the latter's Geek and Sundry YouTube channel. It's actually a pretty excellent show where Wheaton plays different games with a rotating guest list. I'm not going to say who wins, so you'll have to watch. Suffice to say, it's entertaining, what with the backstabbing and two-timing.

A little musical delight: MC Frontalot - Critical Hit

Enjoy.



Grammys & Groupies is a game that needs to exist. Get on it, OSR!

Enjoy Blind Guardian's epic ballad "Lord of the Rings"

First trailer released for The Hobbit

Enjoy.

"I said diamonds, f*cker"

Enjoy.

Watch this axe-wielding warrior bird lay waste to its enemies

Verily, he is a mighty warrior worthy of song!