FREE Thundarr the Barbarian adventure!

The exemplary Mind Wizard Sniderman has put together a FREE RPG adventure themed to his popular Thundarr the Barbarian posts. It comes complete with pre-generated characters (play as Ookla!) and is written as a convention one-shot. Just the thing for your Saturday night mutant ooze and pretzels gaming!

The module is called Across the Dimensional Divide and is written for Mutant Future rules, but we all know that just means it can be revamped for your game of choice, yes?

I see heads nodding, so let's cut to commercial.

Thundarr link round-up

What can I say about Thundarr that's not already been said? Nothin. But what I can do is provide a list of awesome Thundarr stuff that will make you wish you were 10 again. Feel free to suggest more links in the comments.

LET'S RIDE:

Click image to see a clip of the show's intro

WIKIS & DATABASES

• Wikipedia page
• Mutant Future wiki page
• Internet Movie Database listing

MEDIA & MERCHANDISE

• Warner Bros. official DVD page
• Thundarr intro clip on YouTube
• Facebook page
• Tonami's Thundarr action figures (retired)
• Thundarr 80s board game

BLOGS & FANSITES

• Thundarr.com
• Thundarr history on Branded in the 80s (Fantastic article with original Jack Kirby concept art!)
• Thundarr fan art site
• Kirby Museum post on Thundarr
• Thundarr illustrations on deviantART
• Thundarr post on Kirby Primeval (nice villain screen caps)

GAMING AIDS

• Thundarr posts and RPG source book on Savage Afterworld using Mutant Future rules
• Under the Broken Moon source material using Over the Edge rules
• "Mutate Your Game" article by Critical Hits - adding Thundarr to Gamma World D&D 4E
• RPG Examiner Thundarr post with game items
• Gaming photos using custom Thundarr-themed miniatures
• Another set of custom Thundarr miniatures at Skankgame

COUSINS IN COMICS

• American Barbarian (web comic)
• Kamandi
• Mighty Samson

THUNDARR POSTS ON THIS BLOG

• Thundarr tag

Thundarr Presto Magix

If I had a time machine it would be set for 1981 and I would buy CASES of them. What are Presto Magix? They're like Colorforms where you'd use a pen to transfer the characters onto a battlefield--but full color and permanent. Plus you could "forget" to transfer a leg or a wheel and inflict cool battle damage. I had mostly Star Wars. Maybe a Transformers one, I can't remember. Here's the awesome background.

Thundarr looks awesome. I love that horned whale. What sets did you have?

Props to Branded in the 80s.

No seriously, Herculoids is coming to DVD on June 14

Just so you know. In case you missed me sayin' it. FYI. HERCULOIDS. ON. DVD.

Optical beam firing dinosaurs! Igneous simians! Rhinoceratops-i-pi! Far future barbarians! Shape-shifting elasto-blobs! Because the world needs more science fantasy cartoons filled with Alex Toth designed characters.

Pre-order the complete series or order on Tuesday, June 14!! Relevant promotional copy from Warner Bros.:

Somewhere out in deep space – and out of the creative imagination of the animation aces of Hanna-Barbera Studios – live the Herculoids. Humanoid Zandor, along with his wife Tara and son Dorno, lead a group of unique creatures: Zok the flying dragon, powerful simian Igoo (who possesses rock-like skin), rhinoceros hybrid Tundro and two protoplasmic wonders appropriately named Gloop and Gleep. Together, they use their diverse super strengths to defend their utopian planet against attack from such sinister invaders as the Pod Creatures, the Reptons and the Mutoids. For all-family entertainment, this 18-Episode, 2-Disc Collection of The Herculoid: The Complete Original Animated Series is out of this world, literally.

It's a "manufacture-on-demand" set from WB, which, kinda stinks because the price is set firmly at $29 without extras. The upside though is clean prints of the entire series. Frankly, this is the only way you're gonna get an official set. So don't go out for lunch this pay period and you can stop watching crappy Boomerang uploads on YouTube or (ahem) those other DVDs you came across....



Relevant Herculoids awesomeness:

• AD&D Herculoids write-ups
• Herculoids for the uninitiated (seriously, how could you not know?)
• Pick up Thundarr too, if you don't already have it!

/so awesome, it's getting re-posted on Spellcard and Exonauts.