Vitam’s Blog

I’m not sure how I missed this site, this e-zine, up until this point, as much as I enjoy reading well-reasoned articles related to tabletop role-playing games, but I’d like to correct my oversight now. Places to Go, People to Be is a terrific e-zine with articles on all sorts of aspects of RPGs, from mechanical discussions of systems to group and social dynamics, historical perspectives on role-playing and contemporary real-world opinions on the hobby. I know I’m going to be reading up on all this for the next few days, at least, and encourage other interested parties to do the same! Here’s the address: http://ptgptb.org/issue-index.html

Baron Soosdon and Pinkhair have created a World of Warcraft machinima from a script entitled “Busted” for the “Synergy” contest at WarcraftMovies.com. The challenge was to make the best machinima from either one of two pre-existing manuscripts. The movie, one of six entries and one of three tackling the “Busted” script is available in a pretty impressive 720p, so feel free to check it out.

I don’t know the first thing about World of Warcraft, but the movie features the excellent integration of several OC ReMixes and OCR album tracks, including Voices of the Lifestream and Chrono Symphonic from Pot Hocket, Sephfire, tefnek and Xaleph. Baron’s looking for support for the contest on his personal blog. There’s $300 in scrilla on the line, and the field is full of solid entries, so feel free to swing by WarcraftMovies.com and give Baron Soosdon and Pinkhair your support (since they clearly chose the best music, am I right)!