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Logan’s Run Movie Review

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Logan’s Run is my 2nd favourite movie of all time (FYI my first is Labyrinth). Now I’m going to explain why.

Logan’s Run is a Science Fiction movie made in the 1970’s. It is set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans have sealed themselves in a domed city. The city is a utopia, automated systems provide all of life’s necessities leaving mankind free to pursue an existence of pure hedonism, but there’s a catch: nobody lives past 30. It’s Logan’s job, as a ‘Sandmen’, to kill anyone who tries. These people are known as Runners.

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Tags Logan's Run, movie review, science fiction

Blog Lifestyle

My Logan’s Run Birthday Party

Post author By amuletts
Post date May 29, 2014
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So, just over a week ago it was my Birthday, and not just any Birthday. It was my 30th. The Big Three-Oh. Being a Sci-Fi Geek (and an Old School Sci-Fi Geek at that) that Milestone meant just one thing to me: Lastday. Time to Renew, or time to run.

Welcome to Sanctuary (there is no sanctuary), behold my blinking Life Clock

Tags 30th Birthday party, ankhs, arcade hand, carousel cake, lcarousel costume, life clock, Logan's Run, Logan's Run party

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Coping with Anxiety – 10 Methods that work for me

Post author By amuletts
Post date March 9, 2014
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I’m writing this because I suffer from depression and the root cause of this is anxiety, ergo to manage my depression I had to learn coping techniques for my anxiety. (Okay, I don’t mean regular, run-of-the-mill anxiety – this can actually be quite useful! I mean Chronic Anxiety that negatively affects your everyday life). The following is a list of things that work well for me, and maybe will help you to.

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Tags anxiety, coping with anxiety, depressing, stress. chronic anxiety

Art Blog Drawings

Character Design: Lan

Last character design for Epic Fails old adventuring party – those who passed the torch to our current crew. The next time you see them they will be in the comic!

This is Lan, Human Fighter who wields a Bastard Sword. He was young and inexperienced and I’ve tried to make his appearance reflect this. He is wearing chain mail, not having been around long enough to pick up some really good armor. I went with a classic medieval style hairstyle for him.

It’s sort of a challenge to make each character look distinctive, but fun too! Do you think I have succeeded?

Tags character design, D&D, fighter

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Character Design: Willi Creutsfeld

Post author By amuletts
Post date February 24, 2014
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This is Willi Creutzfeld, high-level Fighter and original leader of the adventuring party (the position has been in dispute, or just plain neglected, ever since). He hailed from a place called Brighton Pierre and for a while that was our default rendezvous point.

I have his Player to than for buying me my first set of D&D dice; I remember he was quite superstitious about his and hated people touching them, therefore I’d deliberately aim to borrow his (yet is is only by playing Amuletts that my full potential as wind-up-merchant is unleashed)!

I’ve dressed him in Plate Armor, which I’m pretty sure is correct, although I may regret all that detail later on. I wanted to make him look experienced and leader-ish. What I find a bit awkward with designing suits of armor is that traditionally they would have a MASSIVE CODPIECE! If I’m being faithful I ought to include it but they are… a little… distracting? I don’t think anyone would be looking at the characters face! Actually you don’t tend to see them in Fantasy Armors so I feel there’s a precedent for omitting it. Then again his name is Willi…

Right, four down, one to go!

Tags armor, character design, fantasy, fighter, Willi

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Character Designs: Dalion & Minerva

Post author By amuletts
Post date February 22, 2014
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Character Designs for Dalion & Minerva – more of the ‘original crew’ of the adventuring party now known as Shieldless (and previously known as ‘hey you guys’). Want to know something cute? These two got married (the Players not the Characters)!

Dalion is a geriatric Halfling Mage who, due to being small and wrinkly, we nicknamed Raisin. He wasn’t always a Halfling; he used to be an Elf but died many times (actually on the day Amuletts met the party they were dragging his corpse around), failed his system-shock, and the only way to bring him back was a reincarnation spell. This is what he came back as. It could have been worse.

Minerva is not a Bard, she was just very fond of Bagpipes. She is a human cleric of Idun, the Norse keeper of apples and granter of eternal youthfulness, and as such she always appears 18 (regardless of her actual physical age).

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Character Design: Jira of the Singing Axe

Post author By amuletts
Post date February 21, 2014
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The next few pages of Epic Fail are going to be a flash-back to an earlier adventure where the PCs met Loki. Now since the party make-up was completely different then (aside from Amuletts & Martin) I’m having to create some new character designs.

This is Jira of the Singing Axe. She is a female fighter who would not be seen dead in bikini-mail!!

As you can see I have a couple of armor designs for her. I dug out her character sheet and she is supposed to wear Banded Mail (an armor somewhere between chain & plate). Neither of these are actually banded mail because that was a poorly-designed, inflexible armor whose use was quickly abandoned. So design number 1 is based on Gladiator armor over chain whilst 2 is more like Mongol/mirrored armor (but it’s fantasy so I can totally make stuff up!).

Which design do you like best? Tell me in the comments!