Tannhäuser Tuesday Will Return Next Week

I'm out sick, but Tannhäuser Tuesday will return next week. littlewars has posted this sneak peak for October's U-Chronic Token of the Month.

Doc Savage Complete Pulp Run

Heritage auctions currently has a complete run of all the original Doc Savage pulps for sale.

Check it out here.

Tannhäuser Tuesday - Lady Fürstenstein

Lady Fürstenstein. The figure is from D&D Bloodwar - Doomguard - #47/60 Common.



You can get the full size 2-page spread here.


You can get the full size Tokens here.




I FEEL U-CHRONIC!!!



© 2008 Peter Miller

My custom additions to Tannhäuser are not created by, distributed, or endorsed by Take on You, Asmodee, or Fantasy Flight. Tannhäuser and all related characters are trademarks of Take on You and © Take on You LTD. All Rights Reserved.

FIGHT KLUB FRIDAY - CLAN NAMES VOTING

As of 6:00 PM EST the Top 20 Gang Names for Fight Klub are:

1 The Brotherhood
2 Zero Hour
3 The Forgotten
4 Society of Shadows
5 Schrodinger's Cats
6 Wild Cards
7 The Faceless
8 The Enlightened
9 Dark Lotus
10 Dark Carnival
11 Gunslingers
12 Dead Man's Hand
13 The Hidden

14 Mad Hatters
15 Phoenix
16 Broken Bone Society (B.B.S.)
17 Kaiku (means Evolution)
18 Kaos
19 Harbingers
20 Pathogen

The voting continues until Noon on Sept 30 and the top 13 will become the Gang Names.

Visit the Fight Klub site and remember...

Freak Angels Graphic Novel

Since February 15th Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield have been posting 6 pages a week on their near future post-apocalypse London comic book. For free. They recently finished the first full story arc.

Ellis is best known for writing Planetary, Transmetropolitan, and The Authority. Duffield is relatively new to comics having won an award at the 2006 International Manga and Anime Festival (IMAF), for 'Rolighed', a three minute animated short. He also won Grand Prize in Tokyopop's first UK Rising Stars of Manga competition, for 'Falling Star', an 18 page short comic. He has an uncluttered but detailed line art style.



Freak Angels is about 12 people that were born in different parts of England simultaneously. The all seem to have the same pale skin and have manifested psychic abilities.

When the kids were 17 years old, their world was torn apart. Sea level rose 15 - 20 feet. Survival became a daily fight. The Freak Angels found each other and have formed a loose alliance to protect the Whitechapel district of London. How the rest of the world is faring, we do not know.

Six years after the flood is where Volume One begins. We get to know the Freak Angels and their piece of the world. There are rivalries and romances, moments of friendship and conflict. The story-telling is spare and unassuming. There isn't a lot of exposition or explanation. The story simply unfolds in front of us.

Warren Ellis kept me hooked with the interesting characters and the mystery of the world itself. What happened to Earth and why we do not know, but we do begin to learn about the Freak Angels. Sometimes Ellis can take many pages to get to the point, but I always want to know what is going to happen next.

Paul Duffield has a wonderful art style. Clean and uncluttered, yet rich with detail. The colors are from a muted palette, shadows give a richness and depth. Not all the art is brilliant, but the subtle anime influence has really grown on me. I think that Paul Duffield should have quite a career ahead of him.

The Freak Angels both intimidate the Whitechapel populace and keep them same. Life is slowly getting back in order when a new menace threatens the Freak Angels fragile status quo. I have also read Ellis' Planetary and there is a style of pacing and detail that Freak Angels shares with that book. Planetary has a larger scale, but the intimacy of character is common to the two. And it is free so give it a try.

I came across this fun comic in this months PREVIEWS. In a striking ad for the Volume One trade paperback I noticed that it said it was "from the acclaimed webcomic" so I googled Freak Angels and found it.

I am glad I did.

Start at the beginning.




© 2008 W. Peter Miller

Tannhäuser Tuesday - Doktor Moeller Tokens

Doktor Krisztov Moeller

REVISED CHARACTER SHEET

THE TOKENS

Thanks to littlewars for the blank tokens.

I FEEL U-CHRONIC!!!



© 2008 Peter Miller

Our custom additions to Tannhäuser are not created by, distributed, or endorsed by Take on You, Asmodee, or Fantasy Flight. Tannhäuser and all related characters are trademarks of Take on You and © Take on You LTD. All Rights Reserved.

Tannhäuser Tuesday - Doktor Moeller

Here is the long awaited Doktor Krisztov Moeller two-page spread.



I hope you like it. Tokens are next.

You can get the full size one here.






I FEEL U-CHRONIC!!!



© 2008 Peter Miller

Our custom additions to Tannhäuser are not created by, distributed, or endorsed by Take on You, Asmodee, or Fantasy Flight. Tannhäuser and all related characters are trademarks of Take on You and © Take on You LTD. All Rights Reserved.

Tannhäuser Tuesday - Ikarus Faith

By littlewars

This month, as promised, I decided to provide a bonus token for Ikarus Faith. Ikarus Faith is a custom character designed by Plageman with the input of the french forum. In Plageman's words:

"The original Ikarus Faith card and tokens were based on the idea of creating a new gameplay variant by adding a rogue element aligned with none of the players.

This "hired killer" was to be played by both players before the start of the Game Turn and have a "contract" on some of the player characters. Rules were made, and to use them a "character" was proposed. Since he was a "Hero" type I needed a name and thus Ikarus Faith was born."

You can download V1 of Ikarus Faith's card and tokens from Plageman's Black Sheep Archives site here.

Tannhäuser's publisher T.O.Y. released their own take on the character last January, in the form of a bonus token. You can view it here.

The background text reads:

"For nearly 1,000 years, the Guild of Assassins, in their fortress of Alamut, has trained the most deadly killers in the world. Considered impregnable, the mighty fortress is built on a rocky spur, 1800 meters high on the slopes of Mt. Elbrus. It is there that Ikarus Faith, former student and future rival of Wolf was born... "

Ikarus was overhauled by Plageman to better reflect the new character design. The hypodermic weapon "Death's Kiss" was added to V2 of Ikarus Faith. This month's U-Chronic Token is based on that.

You can use these optional tokens to mark Poisoned characters. You could also use gaming beads or bingo chips, whatever works for you.



Bonus Game Aid: Ikarus Faith Equipment Pack Cards



As a bonus this month, I have made some equipment pack summary cards for Ikarus Faith. These are done in the same style as Universal Head's cards seen below. I never play a Tannhauser game without these, they are an excellent game aid that everyone should use.

Photo by Mara Saurio from BoardGameGeek

The Universal Head Tannhauser Rules & Reference Pack contains a rules summary, token summary sheets and card-sized equipment pack summaries for all characters (including Wolf and Yula). You can download the latest version (updated June 2008) here.



One last note; there is an error in Ikarus Faith V1 that I made. I included a poison vial as part of the Spirit Silencer token graphic. Plageman pointed this out to me at the time, but I didn't get it. Here is the corrected token graphic: