Mazes & Monsters

Also, Don't Fuck the Priest Reviewed!

I have other concerns and should be hoarding money incredibly tightly right now, but Dungeoncraft just reviewed Don’t Fuck the Priest and that caused a nice little cluster of orders and I couldn’t resist treating myself to a little something something. And I found a gem in a local video store.

Ah yes, Mazes & Monsters. In a slipcase edition!

This is the movie where Tom Hanks’ character loses his mind after joining a gaming group in college and the whole movie is a big cautionary tale about the dangers of role-playing games. It’s about as credible as any other OH NO CURRENT THING IS DANGEROUS movies or programs such as Reefer Madness or Adolescence.

I have a 40+ year old relationship with this movie. My mother got me into D&D way back when, and then after I really got into it, she found out about the various controversies involved and she had me watch this movie like it was a documentary or something. It was a “be careful Jimmy” situation.

pfffff, like I’d let RPGs ever at all interfere with the normal workings of my life.

I’d never just ignore homework to just draw maps and maps and maps on graph paper. Not me. Hell, I’d never ignore in-class assignments in favor of just making dungeons in the middle of class. Not me. I’d never have all my friendships and social activity from ages 10-17 entirely revolve around RPGs, what are you insane? I’d never spend the 90s collecting RPG books even though I almost never played, that would be nuts. And then deciding to make a career out of it and having my entire life and well-being depend entirely on my having an endless well of inspiration and excitement for RPG material? Never. Not in a million years. Fuck off with your concern that people could be too into RPGs.

Now that we’ve settled that, here’s the Dungeoncraft video with the review:

The Don’t Fuck the Priest review starts at 10:34. It’s the main event!

Note how in the video the boobs on the box cover are censored but not the crotch oozing rainbow slime.

Trivia: The review references The Human Centipede, and way back when I actually tried to license that property for RPG use, but they wanted what I considered way too much money and sales would have been limited to the Nordic territories and I had/have no idea how to negotiate in these sorts of situations so it (obviously) didn’t happen. The idea I had was to use the villain Iri-Khan (from the tutorial book included in the Grindhouse box set, also referenced in Fuck For Satan) as the antagonist and creator of the Centipedes, including the adventure featuring a Giant Centipede (a human centipede made up of giants).

ah well.

And since I didn’t send the last post out by email, I’ll note here that I found some more Disastrum slipcase sets in a mislabeled box in storage (details here) and they’re up in the EU webstore now. We still have a few in the US store as well.

Until next time!