| FG News 136-Rezolution Saturday |
[Nov. 18th, 2006|12:05 am] |
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The suit worn by the main character in this movie (and in subsequent interviews) has never been cleaned. What movie? Read the movie trivia and mistakes and find out!!
Rezolution Demo Day – Saturday 18 November – 1:00 PM
All are welcome!!
Rezolution is a cyberpunk skirmish based miniature game. Each player represents 1 of 4 (soon to be 5) factions in a battle against one and other. You may hire mercenaries to help you with your cause all the while your foot soldiers mow each other down with gunfire, your psychics sling mental barbs at each other and your hackers do damage on the net.
The rule system is fairly easy. Each mini has a set of stats which are a bonus that is added to a 2d6 die roll. More often than not, your opponent gets to "counter" roll against, trying to stop whatever action you are trying to take (for example - If you shoot at me, I get a chance to dodge). Most minis have special skills that they can use to try and give them the upper hand over their opposition (For example - the ability to shoot multiple times in a turn, the ability to hack computer systems, psychic skills to move freely or fire lightning bolts at an unwary victim...... you get the idea).
Unlike some other sci-fi games, you do not need to have deep pockets to afford this game, it is a skirmish based game, rather than a "unit heavy" game. A handful of mini's is all you need to play the game.
The four major factions are:
Ronin- Mercenaries for hire. They may act as a faction of their own, or be hired out by the other factions. They are a rag-tag group, but a force not to be underestimated.
APAC- The Asian Pacific corporation. A conglomerate of Asian corporations, bent on controlling the world's consumer market (and possibly more?).
CSO- The world (and it's space colonies) need cops, so why not have the Earth's foremost para-military organization do the policing.
Dravani- Sometimes that which seems more human than human might just be. Behind closed doors these not-so-human agents conduct strange experiments.
Meanwhile a group of independent Mercenaries are waiting to be hired by those paying the right price.
The answers will appear in next week's newsletter. The answers to last week's trivia are at the bottom of this newsletter.
| Comic Book - Kandor (silver age) |
What kept Kandor from being destroyed when Krypton exploded?
Where was Kandor “kept” while Superman was looking for a way to restore it?
What did the Kandorians name their new homeworld?
What are the robots infected with?
Why was Romdo built?
Why is the government interested in Proxy?
| Scourge of the Howling Horde - D&D Adventure |
Goblins set upon the quiet town of Barrow’s Edge, and the community cries out for heroes to save them. What has turned the secretive and reclusive goblins into bloodthirsty raiders? Who is the mysterious new leader of the tribe? The truth lies deep within the Howling Caves....
Scourge of the Howling Horde is a stand-alone adventure designed for a group of 1st-level characters. Perfect for new players or seasoned players, it features an easy-to-use encounter format and includes useful DM advice for beginning and experienced Dungeon Masters.
| Yu-Gi-Oh - Cyberdark Impact |
Are you ready to go one step beyond? Cyberdark Impact, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME booster release lets you play with 10 New Cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX series. Play with Zane's Frightening powerful new Cyberdark Monsters. See the new monsters that are used by the master of Cyber Dueling -Zane's Dueling teacher. Unleash the games most powerful and forbidden effects by mastering the chain. This set marks the return of LV Monsters, monsters that grow stronger as you duel!
| Yu-Gi-Oh - Holiday Collectible Tins |
Your choice of: Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder, Uria, Lord of Searing Flames or Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman!!
Each of these great Collectible Tins contains:
• 1 Cybernetic Revolution Booster Pack
• 1 Elemental Energy Booster Pack
• 1 Shadow of Infinity Booster Pack
• 1 Enemy of Justice Booster Pack
• 1 Power of the Duelist Booster Pack
• An Exclusive Variant card based on the tin!
This Limited Edition release contains 5 great booster packs, an exclusive variant foil of one of the best and rarest Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and a highly collectible tin that doubles as a storage box for your Yu-Gi-Oh collection.
| Dragonmarked: Eberron Sourcebook |
A new supplement exploring a unique aspect of the Eberron world.
Dragonmarked offers an in-depth look at the power of dragonmarks and the thirteen dragonmarked houses of the Eberron world. It also provides exciting new options for players with dragonmarked characters, including roleplaying hooks, new feats, new prestige classes, and new spells.
| Pirates of the Mysterious Islands |
Dive or Die!
Discover the adventure as the mercenaries join the crew aboard classic Pirate ships as well as the vessels that dive below. Mysterious Islands introduces cool nautilus style submarines that skim the surface and battle whatever force they come upon be it Pirate, Mercenary, or Sea Creature. Additionally, each game pack contains a “Mysterious Island” that will affect how the brave explorers find gold or ruin in the game. This Game Pack contains a combination of two ships and sea monsters, one crew or treasure card, an island/terrain card, game rules, and a die.
| Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Tiles II: Arcane Corridors |
Your tabletop never looked better! These Dungeon Tiles are the first in a new series of dungeon-building aids for Dungeon Masters. With D&D Miniatures and this pack of customizable dungeon grids, you can add a new dimension to your D&D adventures. Easy to set up and infinitely expandable, this pack allows you to create the dungeons and adventures you want to play. Future sets will allow players to create larger, more elaborate dungeons!
This pack contains six durable, double-sided, four color illustrated dungeon grids, featuring rooms, corridors, and passages of various sizes, plus doors, walls, and other terrain elements that you can use to make great D&D encounters that enhance your roleplaying game experience.
| Cityscape - D&D Rules Supplement |
As Deadly As Any Dungeon!
There’s more to adventuring than crawling around in dungeons. The city holds many avenues of peril and intrigue. It teems with adventure and offers unsurpassed opportunities and challenges. Dark alleys, busy guildhalls, rowdy taverns, fetid sewers, and palatial manors hold secrets to be discovered and mysteries to be explored.
This supplement for the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game reveals the city in all its grandeur and grimness. It makes the “urban dungeon” feel alive with politics and power, especially through influential guilds. This tome also describes new feats, spells, urban terrain, hazards, and monsters guaranteed to make the party’s next visit to the city a vibrant and exhilarating event.
| World of Warcraft: Horde Players Guide |
Glory for the Horde!
Grab hammer and axe to crush the Horde’s enemies! Mok’nathal warriors range across new frontiers. Shamans and witch doctors teach their skills to young adepts, and the Horde’s enemies learn of its strengths and strike at its weaknesses. Delve into the Horde’s history, its structure and its political climate. Discover new races, feats, classes and technology unique to the Horde. Blood and thunder!
Everything a Horde Hero Needs
• Contains three new races: forest trolls, half-orcs and mok-nathal (beings with both orc and ogre blood)
• Contains 15 prestige classes, including the potion doc, shadow ascendant and spirit walker
• Includes variant classes, racial iconic classes and creature classes, allowing you to play just the sort of character you want
• Contains information on the Horde's history, its leaders, and its current military and political structure, narrated by famed dwarven explorer Brann Bronzebeard.
• Includes two adventures to challenge Horde heroes.
• Material is adapted from Blizzard’s best-selling Warcraft computer game franchise, with over 8 million copies sold.
• Provides a wealth of lore and material for Warcraft fans.
• Designed with extensive input from the creative minds behind Blizzard’s best-selling Warcraft computer game series.
From the back alleys of Nexus to the hectic thoroughfares of the Imperial City, from the wide avenues of Yu-Shan to the twisting corridors of the Labyrinth, martial artists of all kinds stride the mean streets of the Exalted world, living their lives by esoteric codes of honor and neither offering nor accepting quarter from their enemies. Will the return of the Solar Exalted throw the Martial Arts World into chaos, or will that culture’s Sidereal masters rein in the Lawgivers or put them down permanently?
A martial arts sourcebook for Exalted featuring:
• Details on the Martial Arts World, a warrior culture that spans Creation
• More than 25 supernatural martial arts styles, ranging from the simplest Terrestrial styles to the inscrutable Sidereal fighting arts
• An array of martial arts weapons and their artifact equivalents
160 page softcover supplement for Exalted Second Edition
| Blackmoor: The Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor |
Revisit the most classic dungeon crawl of all time! The Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor will take adventurers on a journey through the dungeon that started the roleplaying game genre! The Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor details the 20 known levels of the dungeon including the first 10 levels as originally created by Dave Arneson himself. Designed to scale with varying party sizes and power levels, this incredible dungeon includes adventure material for characters level 1-20. Classic styled maps and artwork make this hardback a great nostalgia piece and an excellent tie in for new adventurers to Blackmoor!. Take your party back to the birthplace of RPGs for an incredible adventure through the Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor!
"You who would harness thunder to the chariot of your will and wield the winds with your breath - do you think these things are owed to you? That they will yield to the investigations of your mind, as a ripe fruit to the knife? Does the water obey the stone? No, the water, with its supple flow, carves the stone. So does magic carve your soul. As the sea hides its secrets from the land, so magic cloaks itself, revealing its depths only to those who plunge in. The Temple of the Mysteries lies sunk deep below these torrents, under the sediment of centuries. Can you hold your breath long enough to dig it out?"
- The Tyrian, rumored archmaster
This book includes:
* Advice on creating your own spells and understanding how cultural beliefs affect magic
* Speculations on the nature of archmastery and the rumored Abyssal Watchtowers
* A plethora of new spells and item enchantments
Tome of the Mysteries is a 192 page hardcover supplement for the World of Darkness game, Mage: The Awakening.
The Sadhu
Nicolas Cage and Virgin Comics are planning to adapt "The Sadhu" into a feature vehicle for noted comic enthusiast Nicolas Cage. Cage will play James Jenson, a soldier who time-travels back to colonial India and becomes a spiritual warrior. This is not the first connection between Cage and Virgin Comics. Early this year the company made a deal to publish "Enigma" a comic developed by Cage and the actor's 15-year-old son Weston.
New Babylon 5 movie
Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales will be a direct to DVD movie based on the very popular sci-fi show. It will include a pair of new "Babylon 5" stories, collectively titled "Voices of the Dark," as well as behind-the-scenes content in the package. Original series creator J. Michael Straczynski is writing and directing and returning cast members include Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins and Peter Woodward.
"We are very excited to be releasing this new made-for-video release filled with original content for 'Babylon 5,' one of the most successful science fiction series of all time," says Jeff Brown of WHV. "This popular TV show which has been off the air for a few years continues to have a strong loyal fan base that is hungry for more content. This is the first time we're utilizing one of our popular TV franchises as a made-for-video title, and we have a strong commitment to the growth of this sector."
"Babylon 5" premiered in 1993. The series, set in the 23rd century largely in an orbiting space station, was arced out for a five-year serialized run, though the franchise has also spawned as series of feature-length movies, as well as a limited series. The show won a pair of Emmys and a slew of sci-fi and genre awards.
The Darkroom
Lucy Lawless says she has finished production on an upcoming horror film entitled The Darkroom. Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica) also has a supporting part in movie. "This is kind of the role that my role in Boogeyman was supposed to be, but that ended up on the cutting room floor," Lawless said in an interview. "And I wasn't really sure if I could do it, actually, to play somebody who was a complete victim by choice. A lot of victimhood is by choice, I guess. She's an alcoholic, a mother who loves her child, but is incapable of protecting them or herself. And she's pivotal to her child's redemption. I like those strange little roles." The low-budget movie centers on a teenage boy who befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed. The Darkroom will be released direct to DVD in January 2007.
Them
Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick is teaming up with director Jonathan Mostow and writer John McNamara to develop Them, an SF alien-invasion series for the Fox network. The project is based on the graphic novel Six, written by Michael Oeming and Daniel Berman. Eick and McNamara (Profit) are writing the script for the TV take and are executive-producing with Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines). Mostow is also attached to direct in his first major foray into television.
The basic premise of Them involves a sleeper cell of extraterrestrial terrorists who take the shape of humans. Their mission is compromised when they start experiencing human emotions, which act like a drug on the aliens.
Borat banned in Russia
The Borat movie has been banned in Russia because the film pokes fun at Kazakhstan. The film stars Sacha Baron Cohen as a spoof reporter on a trip to the US. Russia's culture ministry say they will not provide a distribution licence for the movie because the film could potentially humiliate different ethnic groups and religions.
Some reviewers have described it as "hysterical" and "the funniest film of the year" while others have called the film deeply offensive. One Kazakh diplomat says that the depiction of his country as “violent, primitive and oppressive bears no resemblance to reality”.
The Dirt
Christopher Walken will play Ozzy Osbourne in a movie called “The Dirt” based upon the 2001 book "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band". The book tells of life on the road during an Ozzy Osbourne/Motley Crue tour. "How funny is that going to be?!" says Vince Neil (lead singer of Motley Crue). Neil also said that other stars are planned to appear in the film as rock stars, including former Batman, Val Kilmer as Van Halen’s ‘Diamond Dave’ - David Lee Roth.
Kilmer is experienced at playing famously excessive rock stars. He has previously played the roles of Elvis Presley in 1993’s “True Romance” and Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone 1991 biopic “The Doors.” The actors chosen to play Motley Crue themselves will be unknown actors. The film made by Paramount and MTV is now in preproduction and is expected to be completed in 2008.
This week’s highlight is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This is a movie that people either seem to really like or hate – no in between. The plot: Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world." With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.
The suit Sacha Baron Cohen wears when playing Borat has deliberately never been cleaned.
Borat's greeting in the film's trailer - "Jak sie masz!" - is a common Polish greeting, roughly translated to "How are you?" The state and official languages of Kazakhstan are, however, Russian and Kazaki. Sacha Baron Cohen chose to have Borat speak Polish on purpose as an inside joke.
The European Center for Antiziganism Research, which works against negative attitudes against Roma and Sinti people, accused the producers of defamation and inciting violence against the ethnic group. A complaint was filed with prosecutors in Germany in October.
The character of "Borat" was heavily criticized by the Kazakh Government, "being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is incompatible with the ethics and civilized behavior of Kazhakstan's people". Ironically, Sacha Baron Cohen aka "Borat" gave a faked press conference at the White House gates on 29 September 2006, just one day before an official visit of Kazhakstan's president.
Many times, when Borat is speaking in Khazak, he is actually speaking in Hebrew with a fake Russian accent.
The greetings Borat says to the camera are spoken in Polish, phrases such as "thank you", "good day", and "how're you doing?"
Many times in the movie Borat will shape his hand into a W shape, which is a sign for west-side, which is from another one of Cohen’s characters Ali g.
This film broke Fahrenheit 9/11's record for the biggest box office opening weekend ever for any film that opened in less than a thousand theaters.
Ken Davitian's character Azamat speaks fluent Armenian in the film, passing it off as Kazakh as he bounces dialogue back and forth with Cohen.
The police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen 91 times during the production of this film.
The Russian folk tune is "Korobeiniki" (The Peddlers). It's used for the Game Boy version of Tetris (Music A).
Sacha Baron Cohen uses a few Russian and Polish phrases in the movie. In his conversations with Ken Davitian, he actually used a combination of Hebrew with a faked Russian accent and a small amount of Yiddish.
The character of Borat (as with Ali G) originated as short pieces on the satirical British TV show "The 11 O'Clock Show" (1998) presented by Iain Lee.
Borat's hair and moustache are real. It takes Sacha Baron Cohen six weeks to grow the moustache alone.
This film was originally to be directed by Todd Phillips. But creative differences between Phillips and Sacha Baron Cohen prompted Phillips to drop out of the project.
Borat is based on a Russian doctor Sacha Baron Cohen once met. He said the doctor was completely hilarious, but it was unintentional.
The government of Khazakstan is very unhappy with this film and hired two Western public relations firms to counter Borat's claims, running a four-page advertisement in The New York Times.
The languages spoken by Borat are not a mistake but deliberate on the part of Sacha Baron Cohen.
When Azamat is running out of the room at the bed & breakfast, he is empty-handed. When he reaches the bottom of the stairs he is carrying a bag.
When Borat is speaking with the young men, he unbuttons his jacket and lowers his pants to copy them. In the next scene his pants are returned to their original height and his jacket is buttoned.
The piece of paper with the prostitute's phone number is significantly larger when Borat calls the number on it than it was when he tore it out of the newspaper.
The amount of soap changes during the fight in the hotel room.
| Answers to Comic Book/Anime Trivia |
| Comic Book - Samurai Heaven and Earth (1 & 2) |
Who is Shiro trying to rescue?
Yoshiko
What is the oath he swore to his true love?
"I will allow nothing in Heaven or on Earth to come between us.”
What does the Spanish ambassador in France want him to do?
Murder Louix XIV
What are the Haibane?
Angelic beings of unknown origin
Who is the leader of the Haibane in Old Home?
Reki
Who are the only visitors allowed inside of Old Home?
The Toga
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