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I spent too long coming up with his tattoo design but West needed a better one. His gear also needed a glow up.  

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T.A.R.O.T ha compiuto 7 anni oggi!

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Here’s Victory Games’ James Bond 007: Role Playing in Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1983), probably the most popular espionage RPG of the 80s.

Character creation is a point-buy system, complete with disadvantages (here called weaknesses, like Bond’s weakness for beautiful women). Skills are tested using a resolution table; something of average difficulty looks at the central column, an easier task shifts down a number of columns, a harder task shifts up, a clear inspiration for the Universal Table in Marvel Super Heroes and maybe Fudge? If you succeed, you check the result on an additional table (so many charts in the 80s!), which determines the level of success. James Bond 007 has four degrees of success — acceptable, good, very good and excellent. Up to now, skill tests were binary results — pass/fail. This works to the player’s advantage. The rules explicitly state that, unlike most other RPGs, GMs should give every advantage to the players, letting the dice determine their failures rather than plot contrivances, something mechanically supported by the tiers of success. This leads to play that is snappy and cinematic, which is amplified by the use of hero points, a luck mechanic that allows players to alter outcomes at a cost. Most unusual, Bond is designed for small groups; it never says so explicitly, but the rules seem well-suited for duet play — one player and a GM.

Weird thing: Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his organization SPECTRE isn’t in the game, thanks to a decades long rights dispute involving the film Thunderball (1961). Instead, we get Karl Ferenc Skorpios, his pet greyhound and his Tarot-card themed organization T.A.R.O.T. (Technological Accession, Revenge and Organized Terrorism), which is arguably superior. Cats are obviously more villainous than dogs, but the Tarot theme and its implied hierarchy is a good deal spookier than SPECTRE, which unfortunately has nothing to do with actual ghosts. And, is it me, or does it look like Grand Admiral Thrawn took a little inspiration from him?

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Book Blitz: A Knock in the Attic by John Russell

  True Ghost Stories & Other Spine-chilling Paranormal Adventures

  Mind-Body-Spirit, Religion and Spirituality, Occult and Paranormal

Publisher: Outskirts Press

  A Knock in the Attic—my second award-winning book—is, as Uri Geller stated, “a fascinating true story of incredible psychic experiences.”

  In these entertaining and adventure filled stories I’ll tell you what it was like to grow up with a powerful and accurate psychic gift that sometimes spooked the adults around me, leaving them bug-eyed and slack-jawed; and I’ll relate some of the emotions I experienced while encountering hair-raising visitations from ghosts on a regular basis.

I’ll share with you the times when my own Guardian Angels not only protected me from physical harm but when they also literally saved my life with a belated Christmas Miracle, to the astonishment of others who said I had lived through the impossible.

Travel with me to Roswell where I have my very own “‘UFO’ encounter” at the Roswell UFO Museum, an encounter that validated the fact that the Roswell UFO crash was a real event and also explained why many witnesses to UFOs are reluctant to come forward.

Plus: I’ll tell you what it was like to meet Uri Geller; give you a behind-the-scenes look at filming the TV pilot for The History Channel; take you along with me to a haunted horse barn; and then…what was that knocking in the attic…?

You’ll enjoy more than a few spine-tingling moments as you join me to experience these astonishing true stories of the unknown…incredible paranormal events that you will not soon forget.

  Praise for A Knock in the Attic

“John Russell’s A Knock in the Attic is a fascinating true story of incredible psychic experiences.  If you are a skeptic or a believer this is a book for you.” — Uri Geller

“This is a book that is filled with adventure and mind-blowing experiences…[told in] prose that is crisp and in a voice that is irresistible.” — 5 Star Review by Grace Masso for Readers’ Favorite

“John’s second book, A Knock in the Attic, is an experiential tour de force of the Other Side.  John immerses us in his life’s fascinating journey through planes both seen and unseen, giving us powerful insights into how the two worlds intersect. With his distinctive Texas-style storytelling, John has laid out a must-read for anybody wanting to gain more clarity about all things paranormal.” — Jim Mullen, multi-award-winning television producer/editor/writer

“Takeaway:  Readers who enjoy a good heart-racing, spooky ghost story will enjoy this collection claiming real-life encounters with the paranormal world.  Great for fans of:  Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; Sylvia Browne’s The Other Side and Back.” — BookLife (by Publishers Weekly)

“I’m giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.  In response to John’s message to his readers on the last page:  yes, this book has challenged me, made me laugh, given me food for thought, and inspired me.  I highly recommend this book to ALL readers who love reading real paranormal stories.” — Shey Saints’s Reviews

  About the Author

John Russell has been a professional psychic for 50 years.

He is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries.

For over 15 years he has been a popular featured guest, heard worldwide, on many radio shows and podcasts, including: Coast to Coast AM with George Noory; The Unexplained with Howard Hughes (UK); Beyond Reality with JV Johnson; The Leak Project with Rex Bear; FATE Magazine Radio with Kat Hobson; Beyond the Darkness with David Schrader of TV’s The Holzer Files; The Singularity Lab with Michael Mataluni; and many more.

John also filmed a TV pilot for The History Channel in which he psychically explored the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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For a prompt, perhaps one or two of your T.A.R.O.T characters dressed for a military ball or similar formal event?

This was a fun prompt <3

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T.A.R.OT.- The Major Arcana (2/3)

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T.A.R.OT.- The Major Arcana (1/3)

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T.A.R.OT.- The Major Arcana (3/3)

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T.A.R.O.T

Hope you all don’t mind the OC art dumb.  T.A.R.O.T is my special forces organization inspired by the tarot cards. They’re an international group of specialists who respond to a variety of global threats. I’ve had the 21 (Chariot excluded) characters roles and vague concepts in my head for awhile now. I’ve drawn a hand full of them but wanted to really sit down and get all 21 down on paper.

I drew these to act as something like reference material for me when I go to draw them in the future. I’d like to do more art with them and further flush out their designs and character.

Each of these guys have a lot of background and more info about them. Some are good friends, have spouses, are friendly rivals, and they’re all their own band of idiot <3 Hopefully I’ll be able to do more art to share with you all. Hope you like them :)

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I’ve gotten much better with this crew’s character designs since the first batch I did. Wild.

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More OC doodles

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Flushing out some OC designs.

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T.A.R.O.T ha compiuto 6 anni oggi!

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T.A.R.O.T ha compiuto 6 anni oggi!

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