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ELOTH:TES Makes The News
The well-known Elmenstor Saga, a hit franchise of novels, comics, cartoons, and games, has been featured in a Wired article about the project's continued success. From the article: "Spanning more than 1,400 articles, the Epic Legends of the Hierarchs -- or as fans have unpronounceably abbreviated it, ELOTH:TES -- [is a] modern fantasy franchises: a rich history that spans thousands of years; a contentiously out-of-canon cartoon offshoot, The Wizbits; as well as a crazed, seizure-ridden chief creative director, James Langomedes ..." I always thought Vel Jinglefist got the short end of the straw in the American version of the show. The Japanese treatment of his character was much broader.
So, just to clarify since Zonk cared not to, this is a fictional IP created by the PA guys and elaborated on by losers -- I mean nerds -- damn it, I mean fans. Don't go looking for the Wizbits DVDs. Anytime soon anyhow.
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Anyone with any background in CCGs go check out the rules I wrote for the Wizbits game. I'd like to make it as overly complicated and funny as possible (in a nerd-type "resolution nuances are funny" fashion), while still keeping it playable. If anyone has any pointers (and with this large of an audience, I expect there will be), email or respond.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
Just google the thing, for damns sake. You'll be lucky to find a freakin' trace of any of the terminology or supposed associated franchises in the entire history of the web that concerns this fiction piece of work.
I think it's a hilarious and fun project they're doing, but the fact that anyone would seriously support it as a legitimately existing franchise (at least before it existed in it's recent wiki form) just shows how absurd some people can be. We live in an age where people will make fan sites for 70's TV sitcoms that a total of 2 people in the human world even viewed. I don't know how anyone could think something with such purported cult-popularity could exist without a single trace of its existence anywhere else.
This doesn't even include the fact that one of the PA authors menitoned on the website on Wendesday that it was indeed a hoax.
So yay Penny Arcade and all that, for putting together a fun and interesting world from scratch and within a few days. I think it'd be a great foundation for a future franchise to be created from as a joke; something everyone will laugh about in the future when we think about how it was whisked into existance from nothing by a group of bored geeks.