Tab Creations Forum

I was thinking about tropes recently (because we keep being asked about them) and I realized one that I don't really like and thought would be an interesting discussion. So I'm starting this thread.

A trope I hate:

Magic Wand Limited by Plot - I would say that the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who is the biggest offender, in my mind, of this trope. The sonic screwdriver can do anything at all, unless it is inconvenient to the plot. Then it just doesn't work. Basically, the Doctor has this device that is, for all intents and purposes, a magic wand, and the only weakness it has is a writer who needs it not to work to solve a problem.

another one, while I'm thinking of Doctor Who:

Obvious Trap Landscape - What put me in the mind of this was actually the second episode of the new series. When they're on the space station, they find a room full of giant, rotating fans with a catwalk passing right underneath them so that anyone walking on it has to walk through the fans. The moment you see it, you know they're going to have to walk through the fans at some point in the episode. I hate that. Who builds a maintenance room and then turns it into a meat grinder in the first place? It's something that brings disbelief crashing back to the fore. Like I said, the moment you see it, you know someone's going to have to go through it and risk their life, even die. That's the sole reason it's there in the first place. And it's stupid.

A new blog post is available here.

Contents Below:

This will be our final update related to the Against the Dark Yogi Kickstarter, as at this point we have released all the products promised by the Kickstarter, and all the rewards have been shipped to backers.

Neither Tab Creations, nor the Against the Dark Yogi game line, are going to end, however! We are hard at work preparing our next two games: a casual horror spoof card game called We’re All Going to Die Here and a hard science fiction RPG called Shadows Over Sol. We may also have a couple more Against the Dark Yogi products in the planning stages as well. In the future look for occasional updates regarding our upcoming games.

Today, however, we released our official Against the Dark Yogi: GM Screen Inserts. These are three pages of important item properties, consequences and combat options, designed to make the Against the Dark Yogi GM’s life easier. The GM Screen Inserts are in landscape letter-sized format, designed for use with a variety of customizable GM Screen products.

That’s it for now. Happy gaming!

A new blog post is available here.

Contents Below:

Earlier this week we released a new Against the Dark Yogi product, Zone Consequence Cards, in both print and PDF!

Introduced in Against the Dark Yogi: Campaign Options, zone consequences are effects that can be attached to regions of a battlefield to produce more dynamic and exciting battles. Various mechanics within the game can cause consequences, including special traits, critical successes and failures - or any situation where the GM thinks that consequence will heighten the action of the game!

Against the Dark Yogi: Zone Consequence Cards are a quick and easy way to keep track of zone consequences in your game. Simply set them on the table in the area drawn for the zone, and all of the effects are there and easy to reference! Each of the 21 zone consequences introduced in Against the Dark Yogi: Campaign Options are featured.

A new blog post is available here.

Contents Below:

The Against the Dark Yogi download at DriveThruRPG has been updated to include the EPUB and MOBI versions of the game, as well as an updated PDF. All three versions of the game also now include the corrected errata discovered in the last couple weeks. A list of the errata can also be found on our forums.

More Character Sheets!

Last week we announced the release of the form-fillable Against the Dark Yogi character sheet. Today we would like to announce two more character sheet options: a landscape character sheet and a form-fillable landscape character sheet! Consider these a free bonus for the game!

Printing Proofs Ordered

Over the last week we have ordered printing proofs for Against the Dark Yogi: Mythic India Roleplaying, as well as for the Against the Dark Yogi: Campaign Options supplement. These are expected to arrive with us either late this week or early next week. Once we receive the proofs we will look them over, and if there are no errors or other issues, place the general print order. On the other hand, should we find issues, we will need to correct the files with the printer and order another round of printing proofs.

So this was brought up on reddit. The first episode's pretty funny. Kind of like Final Fantasy meets Monty Python. Good times.

Hey, we only need $102 more and we have 4 days left on our first kickstarter project, our Ganjifa cards!

Just for everyone's information, I have moved this forum back to public visibility. I think the worst of our spam problems have been solved for the moment. And I think we need a place for the public to be able to post topics and comment. I should have a general forum cleanup along with the site revamp later, when we present our new public face.

Valve is giving away Portal currently (I think until the 24th) so I've finally had a chance to play through it. Has anyone else played it or is planning to? I still haven't bothered with any of the Half Life games, but Portal is spectacularly fun.

http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/the-pledge-to-not-suck-at-the-internet-311053.php

I found this and thought it was pretty funny. And neccessary. Now if only it was enforcible somehow…

Yes, thats right dragging up oldballs topics for oldballs forumers. Who still plays and on what servers?

I found this earlier today and have been reading through it– http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

It's by Scott Adams, but it's not really humorous, just thought provoking. It actually poses some really interesting questions about the nature of both God and Science without really supporting or condemning either one, just questioning them. It's a bit of a read, but I definitely think it's worth it.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/03/004215.shtml

Turns out that if someone types “startkeylogger” or “stopkeylogger” in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning

Credit goes to Sluggy Freelance. Date of the comic is Feb 6, 2006