31 Days of Zombie Infestation: Day 24 - Red Cross Prepares for Zombies

The Red Cross Prepares for the coming zombie apocalypse.

That's right. This isn't a prank. The REAL Red Cross is actually preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Not a joke!


They've even launched a website fully dedicated to preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Check it out - www.savingzombies.com.

The site features a clock counting down to the end of the world as it is predicted by the Mayan calendar - December 21, 2012!

Listen, it doesn't get any more serious than this and 1LR has been warning you for 24 straight days now. Prepare. The Red Cross doesn't want you to end up becoming one of the shambling undead. Unless you want to be, and then it's okay.

Cool Blog: Little Hipster Mermaid

Here's why America is great:

Want to have a blog that goes viral? Simply photoshop Ray-Bans onto a picture of angry Ariel from the Little Mermaid Disney cartoon movie and add your own caption. Rinse, wash, repeat and... viral blog. For crying out loud, this blog was featured in Time magazine! Here's a sample:

     

I think this blog's primary feature is just sheer volume. Only one in ten of these gems might make you laugh but you will laugh. Check it out at http://hipstermermaid.tumblr.com/page/4

Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade 2

In my wanderings across the great and vast world we call the internet, I recently stumbled upon a very well done and fascinating website. See, my son loves Star Wars. He's just getting into the Lego Star Wars figures and such so he asked to see pictures of Darth Maul (Lego version) on the internet. I googled Darth Maul Lego to look for images and I found this cool Lego-bust of Darth Maul:



I was interested. I mean, who spends that money time, effort, energy, and Legos to make a life-sized bust of Darth Maul? So, I clicked on the image which took me to...

The Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade 2 at http://www.dmeb2.org/main/index.html. What is the DMEB2? It's an all female fan club especially devoted to Darth Maul. Seriously. This blog has existed for ten years - since 2001! It seems to have fallen off somewhere around 2009 but that's a very impressive track record! KGS could only hope to reach such a benchmark (my money says that we implode sometime around July of this year)!

This is what makes the Star Wars fanbase so great. Take a mediocre villain in a mediocre film and it inspires a decade of rabid fans obsessively detailing every aspect of the character and actor. And, hey, what a great name. You won't soon forget The Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade 2! Heh. Funny.

Garfield Minus Garfield Equals Hilarious!

So.... Here's an interesting premise. You know the Garfield comic strips? What if the cat Garfield is completely in Jon's imagination? What if Garfield doesn't really exist at all and Jon is talking to an imaginary cat the whole time? What would that make Jon? A COMPLETELY INSANE, LONELY LOSER - THAT'S WHAT! And you know what? I'm okay with that. Because it's very slyly funny! (isn't "slyly" a weird word?)

To achieve this effect the creators of http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ Garfield Minus Garfield simply digitally remove the character Garfield and all of Garfield's word balloons from the comic strips. What's left? Crazy Jon. The concept is funnier in large doses.

Check out the samples below:

Marvel RPGs #8 - D100 Online - The Best of the Rest

Here are some other noteworthy websites dedicated to the Marvel D100 system:

http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/battlespire/85/homepage.htm - The creators of this website must really know their superhero RPGs. They have listed conversion charts from most major superhero RPG systems into Marvel D100. Lots of other information is presented, including information originally available only from Dragon Magazine in the Marvel-Phile. Very well done.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/jt/the_black_condor/ - This website has a unique focus. It is purely devoted to charting the alternate realities in (and out) of the Marvel Multiverse. World write-ups and character stats are provided. So when the players, say, get their hands on Doctor Doom's Time Machine or travel to other realities, this website is there to help out the Judge in need!

http://www.angelfire.com/planet/heroicus/files/stats-2.html provides character write-ups and stats from dozens of non-Marvel properties, formatted for  the D100 system.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page The Marvel Database is always a useful tool for clarifying continuity or character questions.

So there you have it! A basic beginner's guide to Marvel D100 on the web! Let me know if you think I left out a noteworthy website dedicated to Classic Marvel RPG and I'll give it some love!

Marvel RPGs #7 - D100 Online - Ben Riely's Marvel RPG Page

Ben Riely's Marvel RPG page is special to me for a number of reasons.

1) My son is named after Spider-Man's clone, Benjamin Reilly.

2) It is THE website to go to for up-to date Marvel D100 character write-ups.

3) I don't know where he gets dozens and dozens of these character icons or if he makes them but they're really cool:

I mean, seriously! Those things are SICK!

Benjamin Riely's Marvel RPG Page http://www.angelfire.com/comics/benriely/index.html is a bit of an oddity, actually. Ben comes across as being a bit young to have played the Marvel D100 RPG when it was originally released. He claims to have only played the Marvel D100 RPG twice with a friend that moved away! It must have made a big impact on him!

Ben's website literally updates character's stats and standings in real-time. For example: The Fantastic Four became The Fantastic Foundation so Ben came up with new profiles for all of the related characters to reflect this change. He keeps the old profiles on there. This was really helpful to me when I ran a Marvel Civil War era game. Since there was no officially produced character stats for, say, the Sentry or Ronin I went to Ben's website and found them. Ben's inexperience with the system shows sometimes. His "Cape Killer" stats, for example, were a little too overpowered to reflect the actual characters.

Still, Ben Riely's Marvel RPG Page is hands-down among the top Marvel D100 resource websites. Fantastic job, Ben!