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Monday, March 01, 2010

Treason Point For...er, me 

Loyal IntSec spies have reported that A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Termination Booth has been released by Mongoose Publishing. However, these same spies inform me that one key credit was left out at some point in the production schedule. Hero of Our Complex Andy Solberg was to have been saluted for his role in suggesting the plot of Episode Three (the bit where the Troubleshooters are miniaturised and injected into the bloodstream of a High Programmer). Commie Mutant Traitor saboteurs deleted this vital information, and for this we must apologise.

Citizen Andy Solberg! We have stolen the fruit of your brainmeat without due credit. In recompense, your oxygen ration will be increased by 30%. Respire with joy, citizen!
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Inevitable 

Inevitable, a card game designed by Jeremy P. Bushnell and Jonathan A. Leistiko, forthcoming this summer from Invisible City Productions:
Inevitable is a satirical board game set in a slapstick dystopian future. Every play is designed to provide 2-6 players with hours of quality entertainment, danger, violence, betrayal, mayhem, and laughs. It contains a robust amount of high explosives and dead things. It was designed by people who think Orwell's 1984 is a comedy and the Necronomicon is a romance.
Purple Pawn calls Inevitable "a board game in the same dystopian comic world inhabited by games such as PARANOIA and its ilk. Your job is to beat the overlord computer system in an election."
Posted by: Allen Varney / 2:13 PM (0) comments

Friday, February 12, 2010

High Programmers imminent! 

From today's Planet Mongoose blog entry by Mongoose Publishing CEO Matthew Sprange:
High Programmers/White Washes: Approval took much longer on this title than expected, but it is now all cleared and has been at print for some time - we'll likely be getting our copies towards the end of this month, but it will probably lap round into early March before it appears on shop shelves (worth waiting for though - this is a good 'un!).
High Programmers, you'll recall, is the final volume in Gareth Hanrahan's trilogy of 25th-Anniversary PARANOIA rulebooks, this one for infighting and intrigue at ULTRAVIOLET Clearance. (White Washes is the limited collector's edition of the same book.)

High Programmers uses an entirely new and unusual rules system, unrelated to earlier PARANOIA books, inspired by Amber Diceless Roleplaying and Nobilis. You don't need to know or own the earlier rulebooks to use it. The Mongoose forum thread "How does High Programmers play?" gives more details.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 4:14 PM (2) comments

Thursday, February 11, 2010

SAC Command Post film 

From The Grauniad - a film made (but never released) to counter the negative impact of Dr. Strangelove. After all, it would be terrible if the apocalypse happened accidentally, instead of on purpose.

The film is available online, and is ideal PARANOIA fodder.
Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 9:08 AM (0) comments

Monday, February 08, 2010

PARANOIA in the real world: Registering subversives 

If you plan to overthrow the government of South Carolina, the Secretary of State first requires you to pay US$5 and register as a subversive organization. If you overthrow the government without a license, you face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

(Via BoingBoing.)
Posted by: Allen Varney / 2:57 PM (0) comments

Friday, February 05, 2010

Deserted Latvian town for sale 

Comrades! Now to be leavink corrupt capitalist running-dog Alpha Complex (ptui!) and be movink Outdoors to glorious deserted Russian military town in Latvia:
[B]idding has opened to find a new owner for the former top secret Russian military town of Skrunda.

Bids start at 150,000 Lats (about $290,000 USD). The winning bidder will become the owner of the entire town -- including 5 million square feet of land, 10 apartment buildings, two nightclubs, a shopping center, a child care center, a sauna, and of course a variety of abandoned military buildings. The radar facilities were sadly destroyed, so anyone thinking of starting their own secret missile base will need to find somewhere else.

The town has been abandoned since 1999, so you'll need to make a couple of trips to the local equivalent of Home Depot to fix things up.
Capitalist pig-dog commenter on post: "Wow, a town in Latvia costs as much as a budget condo in the Bay Area."

UPDATINK: Capitalist pig-dog Russian investor is buying Skrunda for US$3.1 million. Never be mindink!

Except for small detail of beink landlocked, Skrunda-1 is othervise beink perfect dock for formerly super-secret Sea Shadow stealth ship, built at cost of US$200 million, now beink given away for free by US Nawy.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

WMD bonus material .PDF 

Four or five or eighty-five years ago Mongoose Publishing brought out the PARANOIA Straight-style mission collection WMD. I edited and packaged WMD, and in the introduction I said the Mongoose website would offer a free downloadable WMD bonus .PDF containing material cut for space from the book.

The Earth spun, the seasons passed, the hourglass emptied, the months flew off the wall calendar in a tasteful animation, yet I never got around to putting together that WMD bonus .PDF. Never, until a few months ago, JUST in time for Mongoose to pull all the bonus .PDF content for the 2004 PARANOIA edition. Yeah, I know. Go me.

But! Now! Thanks to kind permission from Mongoose and from PARANOIA's owners, the fan site Paranoia-Live.net has kindly made available the free downloadable WMD bonus .PDF. Commendation point to P-L.net High Programmer Phial for his worthy assistance in making the .PDF available.

Dear me, it's out at last. Whatever shall I procrastinate about now?

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