TV Shows you should be watching: The Philanthropist

Honestly, the Philanthropist is a show I usually wouldn't look twice it.

It had "typical TV bullshit drama" written all over it. You know, like Grey's Anatomy.

Then I heard it was by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, guys who produced a little show called Homicide, and starring James Purefoy, the amazing British actor who played Marc Anthony in Rome.

Before you know it, I was watching the show religiously.

It's about Teddy Rist, an incredibly wealthy financier who makes his money from "natural resources", basically raping countries in Africa. He's a drunk, a womanizer and he likes to spend his money on cars and flashy paintings.

Then he has an epiphany and begins to use his money to help people.

For the comics fans out there, if you think Tony Stark minus the battlesuit, you'd have a really good sense of who this guy is, complete with a Rhodey-esque black bodyguard, played to perfection by Michael K. Williams, who fans of The Wire will recognize as Omar Little (maybe my favorite character of that entire series).

The show is the type of modern campaign I'd never run, but maybe it's the kind I should run, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, if you liked Homicide, Rome and/or the Wire, you should definitely check this show out.

Chuck

20-page free preview of Arthur Lives! now available at RPGNow

Check out this 20-page PDF preview of the Arthur Lives! Player's Guide for True20, available now from Vigilance Press.

Arthur Lives! is a True20 roleplaying game of supernatural adventure, conspiratorial intrigue, and occult mystery. Heroes and villains from Arthurian myth have been reincarnated, coming back to life in the cinematic present. At first, these individuals don’t remember their former lives, but as they begin to recognize each other, old feuds and tragic affairs resurface. Why has the King returned now? Does some unseen danger threaten? And even if the answer is yes, will these legendary heroes be able to put their old grievances aside long enough to oppose it?

Interface Zero Modern20 edition out now!

So, it never rains but it pours I guess!

Interface Zero, Reality Deviant's cyberpunk setting was converted to Modern20 by me and is available even as we speak!

Check it out!

Voyages of Discovery is on sale!

Check out the awesomeness here.

Also a link to the previously mentioned 20 page preview at that link for those still on the fence (AKA bad people).

Voyages of Discovery Webbook included free with PDF

Just what it says on the tin.

Dear Wizard Magazine

Maxim Magazine is a magazine written by and for frat-boys.

It is not cool.

Wanting to BE Maxim Magazine is a terrible, terrible idea.

Chuck

Burn Notice

My growing love for Burn Notice has once again crossed my mind.

When I started watching this show, it seemed amazingly simply. Throwback with a retro twist.

It was continuity-free TV. One fuzzy bear short of being Starsky and Hutch.

But slowly, they have woven more continuity and character into the show and have completely sucked me in.

This is in direct contrast to shows that slam you with a front-load of continuity right up front, letting you that they demand, DEMAND I say, a huge commitment from you.

In the case of shows like Lost and Warehouse 13, I appreciate this. It lets me watch them once and NEVER AGAIN.