29 June 2023

Savage News: SWADE 5th Printing and Player's Book

The Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary Collection is being crowdfunded via Kickstarter and will consist of a 5th printing of SWADE, a softcover Player's Book with five different covers, and a new accessory box full of accessories. You can pledge through 27 July 2023. Click on the link for details.

23 June 2023

Flash Gordon Initialisms: A Proposal

If we ever need or want a shorthand for referring to various Flash Gordon media, I would propose the following:

FG: SC
Flash Gordon: Sunday Comic Strip
Flash Gordon

FG: DC
Flash Gordon: Daily Comic Strip
Flash Gordon

FG: RS1
Flash Gordon: Radio Show 1
The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon (1935)

FG: RS2
Flash Gordon: Radio Show 2
The Further Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon (1935-1936)

FG: MS1
Flash Gordon: Movie Serial 1
Flash Gordon (1936)

FG: MS2
Flash Gordon: Movie Serial 2
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)

FG: MS3
Flash Gordon: Movie Serial 3
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

FG: TV1
Flash Gordon: Television Series 1
Flash Gordon (1954-1955)

FG: AS1
Flash Gordon: Animated Series 1
Flash Gordon (1979-1982)

FG: TM
Flash Gordon: The Movie
Flash Gordon (1980)

FG: AS2
Flash Gordon: Animated Series 2
Flash Gordon (1996-1997)

FG: TV2
Flash Gordon: Television Series 2
Flash Gordon: A Modern Space Opera (2007-2008)

Table: City Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible persons (sample names included) the protagonists may encounter as they explore the cities of ...