This year, I'm going to reverse my process of previous years and post the updates up top so readers don't have to scroll down to see my latest activities. I'll continue to add links to all my text reviews at SkiffyandFanty.com in this older post. For roundups of my 2024 and 2023 activities in podcasting, gaming, media, videos, etc., please see here, here, here and here. Activities from before then are listed further back in my blog.
Jan. 21, 2025
AUDIO/VIDEO: I continue to edit podcasts and YouTube videos professionally for the Twitch streamer Arvan Eleron. The Hearthglow campaign based on the Tales & Tomes from the Forbidden Library D&D 5e module had a new video and podcast posted Jan. 15 and will get another podcast episode Jan. 22. This will probably wrap up in March, and he'll launch something else later.
AUDIO: For Skiffy and Fanty, one podcast and video that I'm on have been released so far this month. It's a "Mining the Genre Asteroid" episode about Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow (1955) that Shaun Duke, Paul Weimer and I recorded this fall on Shaun's alphabetstreams Twitch channel. Skiffy and Fanty will resume streaming there starting Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. Eastern, and should have new programs, mostly live, every Friday.
GAMING:
Jan. 13: Thunderchild: The modified Cold City/Hot War campaign, set in London a couple of months after H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, resumed after its winter break. As other characters explored their own agendas and objectives, my character, Iris Worthington (a suffragist and the daughter of an industrialist), finally won the trust of the head of the Thunderchild science/defense project when she realized her brother had secretly obtained and experimented with Martian War Machine materials, and turned him in to Captain Spencer.
Jan. 20: Thunderchild: It's worse than that; Ronny Worthington was also selling information to the French, and by the end of the session, they had established a beachhead in the south of England. Meanwhile, other characters are finding out horrific things about the Aurora Project to create modified humans who no longer need sleep, and the Royal cousin in our group has been marked for destruction by whoever has been wielding a captured heat ray.
Thunderchild is a game being run on a private Discord server, so I can't share it here. However, the DM, groundhoggoth, is great. He has a number of games for sale at itch.io; I've played two of the Foretold one-shot narrative card games and enjoyed them greatly.
Meanwhile, Cold City/Hot War will be launching a kickstarter for a second edition soon. That page includes a link to sign up for playtests. You can also find out more about the game at the DriveThruRPG link there.
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