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wn 1 1 die 2 dice the number indicates the how many injuries you can take before that level is filled up and you move onto the next penalty level when a column is filled up you shift to the right and start taking injuries in that column when you get to the end you are dying but i don t have any particular rules for dying yet f s k g 1 3 2 1 die 3 2 3 2 2 dice 3 2 3 2 right now the game is somewhat purposefully a huge death spiral i m working on some kind of advancement mechanic to slightly balance that healing only the highest penalty in each category matters for healing purposes if your character does nothing but rests he can make a taking a beating roll to heal fist and stick penalties 10 all fist penalties healed stick penalties drop to the next lowest level 6 9 fist penalties drop to next lowest level stick column loses one injury 1 5 it gets worse nothing happens and 1 to subsequent healing rolls healing from knives or guns is different you have to either figure shit out i e first aid find a back alley doctor or act normal to get a regular doctor hospital to help you first then you get to make a taking a beating roll at 1 if you re not at a legit hospital 10 one level of penalties is healed after a week of rest 6 9 a week of rest gives you get rid of one injury 1 5 it gets worse nothing happens and 2 to subsequent healing rolls stuff that could happen investigate find random crimes beat up bad guys question bad guys spy on bad guys help people with problems the bad guy list heat 1 6 1 vandal 1 2 brawler 1 3 domestic disturbers 1 4 prostitute 1 5 mugger 1 6 car thief 1 heat 7 12 1 burglar 1 1t 2 prostitute 1 1t 3 mugger 1 1t 4 car thief 1 1t 5 drug dealer 2 6 bodega robber 2 1t heat 13 18 1 rapist 2 2 burglar 2 1t 3 drug dealer 2 1t 4 car jacker 2 1t 5 pimp 2 2t 6 mobster 2 1t heat 19 24 1 drug dealer 2 2t 2 bodega robber 2 2t 2 rapist 2 1t 3 car jacker 2 2t 4 pimp 2 3t 5 heister 2 2t 6 mobster 2 2t heat 25 1 heister 3 3t 2 arsonist 2 1t 3 drug dealer 2 3t 4 out of town talent 3 2t 5 mobster 3 1t 6 mobster 3 2t kingpin mobster 3 3t how the list works the goal is to get rid of the head mobster you have to work your way up the ladder though rules you can only figure stuff out about bad guys in your heat level or lower or about bad guys of the same type of one you ve already dealt with although this requires figuring stuff out sneaking around and or telling them what s what you can only roll randomly on patrol in the current heat level once a target has been chosen the gm needs to give that bad guy a name and choose traits if necessary from then on that bad guy slot is filled up and if a random roll hits it again it bumps up to the next level bad guy traits bad guys have a rating and one or more traits the rating is how many injuries it takes to subdue them if you choose to go the violence route and the penalty bonus associated with their traits tough need weapons to injure speedy 1 against running determined 1 against telling what s what taking a beating knife fighter injure with knives 1 to doing violence well armed injure with guns gang 1 against doing violence running away 1 against sneaking figuring shit out mobbed up draws attention of mobsters corrupt cops cannot be arrested talked out of etc must be killed to be permanently removed from list hard to kill takes double injuries to kill out for justice 1 against telling what s what doing violence under siege 1 against figuring shit out sneaking around telling what s what 1 against running away defeating bad guys defeating here might mean beating up or killing but it might also mean scaring straight or turning someone i e into an informant when you defeat a bad guy you get an xp for each point of rating and each trait you can spend xp as follows a 1 to a single roll costs 2 xp you can spend it after the roll you can only get a single 1 per roll by spending xp but this 1 stacks with 1s from other sources you can add a rating point to a gimmick for 3 xp you can add scope to a gimmick for 3 xp you can buy a new gimmick for 6 xp note this new gimmick can start with a drawback you can increase one of your areas of activity by one level for 10 xps posted by jon hastings at 09 38 4 comments labels design games rpgs street level friday april 16 2010 the american comics after andrew sarris inspired by this comments thread the pantheon winsor mccay george herriman e c segar frank king harold gray chester gould roy crane walt kelly jules feiffer harvey kurtzman carl barks charles schulz jack kirby r crumb the far side of paradise george mcmanus hal foster crockett johnson milt caniff bill mauldin will eisner jack cole john stanley otto binder saul steinberg bernie krigstein steve ditko leonard starr garry trudeau expressive esoterica lyonel feininger billy debeck lou fine lynn ward floyd gottfriedson fletcher hanks jerry siegel george carlson milt gross c c beck basil wolverton george price johnny craig jack davis will elder wally wood james thurber stan lee fringe benefits herge osamu tezuka goscinny uderzo less than meets the eye al capp alex toth al feldstein lightly likable bud fisher harry tuthill rube goldberg noel sickles chic young alex raymond stan drake mac raboy v t hamlin curt swan hank ketcham graham ingles jack davis sheldon mayer strained seriousness burne hogarth neal adams working with various artists posted by jon hastings at 10 19 no comments labels andrew sarris cartooning comics criticism lists thursday april 8 2010 screening log march 2010 two rode together john ford 1961 v the kind of a movie die hard auteurists are likely to overvalue a good but not great that happens to be very interesting to think about in terms of how it relates to other movies other john ford movies mainly the searchers other westerns the anthony mann movies where jimmy stewart plays an amoral anti hero midnight mitchell leisen 1939 v at first i was watching and thinking okay this isn t bad don ameche isn t great but the movie seems pretty enjoyable but then once the false identity stuff gets going and john barrymore shows up the movie came together for me and all of a sudden i was watching one of the most wonderful romantic comedies i ve ever seen the art of the steal don argott 2009 v the blind side john lee hancock 2009 v i would have given this one star but for that obnoxious little kid the lusty men nicholas ray 1952 v once again my favorite nicholas ray movie is the one i ve seen most recently early spring yasujiro ozu 1956 v mon oncle d amerique alain resnais 1980 v interesting and ambitious it s hard to think of another movie that explains itself so directly and blurs the line between telling and showing werckmeister harmonies bela tarr 2004 v two stars provisional based on watching a truly awful dvd of the movie i really loved what i saw but the experience was definitely marred by the poor image quality paisan roberto rosellini 1946 v the keyhole michael curtiz 1933 v gentleman broncos jared hess 2009 v the invention of lying ricky gervais and matthew robinson 2009 v zombieland ruben fleischer 2009 v stars in my crown jacques tourneur 1950 v they had to see paris frank borzage 1929 v clunky will rogers performance seems forced born reckless john ford 1930 v another good but not great ford interesting to me from a historical perspective for the way it blends genres pilgrimage john ford 1933 v near great ford and another example of moviemaking before genre ossification set in brigitte brigtitte luc moullet 1966 v up down luc moullet 1993 v the lives of others florian henckel von donnersmarck 2006 v a fraud that tries to reduce an extremely complex subject to a case of good apples and bad apples it also pushes the idea that loving art makes you a better person in a rather simplistic and self serving manner ruggles of red gap leo mccarey 1935 v r perfection my winnipeg guy maddin 2007 v l argent robert bresson 1983 v it seems like much of the contemporary european art house festival style comes out of this movie the hitch hiker ida lupino 1953 v effectively bleak the ghost writer roman polanski 2010 a perfect thriller bromo and juliet leo mccarey 1926 v s i liked all of these charley chase leo mccarey movies quite a bit they re interesting partly because their comedy comes less from big gags and more from character based humor dog shy leo mccarey 1926 v s innocent husbands leo mccarey 1925 v s isn t life terrible leo mccarey 1925 v s his wooden wedding leo mccarey 1925 v s surrogates jonathan mostow 2009 v i liked this slightly better than i robot but it has a similar problem a sci fi premise that already seems horribly out dated matched with special fx that already seem horribly out dated the searchers john ford 1956 v r at a party last summer during a wide ranging conservation about movies a friend of mine remarked that he thought the searchers which he had just seen for the first time was overrated at the time i tentatively agreed not because i didn t like the movie i explained but because i thought there were at least a half a dozen john ford movies that were better so here i am less than a year later watching the searchers on blu ray and i m asking myself what was i thinking i mean yes i still don t think that the searchers towers over all other john ford films but it certainly does belong among his best and if i can t quite get behind it as a top ten movie of all time i wouldn t argue with anyone who could more simply this is a breathtakingly painfully beautiful movie just about every scene every shot is perfectly calibrated emotionally nuanced and thematically complex the shot where ward bond averts his eyes from john wayne s goodbye to dorothy jordan ranks as one of the greatest single shots in the american cinema key v seen on home video dvd dvr etc r not my first viewing s short film star system borrowed from the chicago reader no stars not recommended redeeming feature s recommended highly recommended masterpiece a place in my personal pantheon posted by jon hastings at 10 49 no comments labels criticism john ford movies screening log monday march 15 2010 screening log february 2010 note this one is late and anemic but march s should be a doozy the damned united tom hooper 2009 v sheen broadbent spall and meaney are all very fine the movie itself though is the kind where every beat is played exactly as you d expect hunger steve mcqueen 2008 v 13 rue madeleine henry hathaway 1947 v bright star jane campion 2009 v a surprise killshot john madden 2008 v lorna s silence jean pierre and luc dardenne 2008 v 24 city jia zhangke 2008 v julia erick zonca 2008 v the bad lieutenant port of call new orleans werner herzog 2009 v frontier of dawn philippe garrel 2008 v an education lone scherfig 2009 v a few really strong performances although not from carey mulligan who s much better in the bleak house miniseries trapped inside a preposterous movie whip it drew barrymore 2009 v i was surprised by how much i liked this movie lots of nice low key touches and a true generosity of spirit key v seen on home video dvd dvr etc r not my first viewing s short film star system borrowed from the chicago reader no stars not recommended redeeming feature s recommended highly recommended masterpiece a place in my personal pantheon posted by jon hastings at 15 22 2 comments labels criticism movies screening log friday march 5 2010 my year in movies i m putting the finishing touches on my february screening log but since i ve now been doing these for just over a year i thought it would be a good time to share my top 20 list for 2009 nyc releases which serves as a shorthand for my year in new movies i ve enjoyed putting together these monthly screening logs for one thing monthly is just about the only kind of blogging schedule i m able to stick to for another making quick notes about what i ve watched even if it turns out to be nothing more than a quick star rating works as a memory aid finally it s interesting to see how my take on a movie is shaped to a certain extent by the other movies i saw around the same time due to some big changes in my work and personal life i don t believe i ll be able to see so many movies next year i think it will be especially difficult for me to see things outside the house i ll probably be making even more use of services like ifc s in theatre on demand cable offerings but i plan to keep plugging along with these screening logs even if i m watching only a handful of movies a month anyway here s my favorites of 2009 01 two lovers james gray 02 inglourious basterds quentin tarantino 03 a serious man the coen brothers 04 night and day hong sang soo 05 hunger steve mcqueen 06 the headless woman lucretia martel 07 pontypool bruce mcdonald 08 the bad lieutenant port of call new orleans werner herzog 09 crank high voltage neveldine taylor 10 duplicity tony gilroy 11 35 shots of rum claire denis 12 julia erick zonca 13 summer hours olivier assayas 14 in the loop armando ianucci 15 taken pierre morel 16 still walking hirokazu koreeda 17 whip it drew barrymore 18 the informant steven soderbergh 19 police adjective corneliu porumboiu 20 frontier of dawn philippe garrel the gray is imo just about a perfect movie my friend asked me what my favorite scene was and i listed off five of them before i had to give in and say that they re all my favorite right now though phoenix standing on the beach looking out to sea holding that glove in his hand is my favoritest i kind of surprised myself by putting inglourious basterds in the second place in the ongoing list i had been keeping throughout the year basterds was always solidly in the top 10 but not always in the top 5 but the movie ended up taking up a lot of my headspace and it was hands down the best most exciting movie going experience i had all year so 2 it is as for the rest of the list it is what it is in general things that aren t there aren t there for a reason although i still want to get to the last station before it leaves town as for old movies my big discovery of the year was how much i like hong sang soo s films and i was truly grateful to finally see jim henson s time piece thanks whoever uploaded it what a great film my goal for the year ahead is to continue catching up with some of the more respected movies of the last ten years to keep watching and re watching john ford movies and to finally dive into bunuel it should be fun questions and comments always appreciated posted by jon hastings at 10 16 no comments labels lists movies screening log top ten friday february 12 2010 superman secret origin 1 4 one of the things i liked the most about geoff johns run on action comics was the commonsensical kitchen sink approach to what i call the mythos johns stories all grew out of earlier superman stories but there was something agreeably laid back about the way that say last son co written by richard donner riffed on the superman movies and superman and the legion of super heroes picked up from old i e three or ...