#ONTHEEDGE

KUVO Playlistkuvo_playlist
2025-10-23

4:06am On the Edge by John Fedchock NY Sextet from Into the Shadows

An image of the cover of the record album 'Into the Shadows' by John Fedchock NY Sextet

Throwback: On the Edge

Remember those heady days just after Magic: The Gathering came out, when all of a sudden any TTRPG related publisher decided to push out their own trading card game?

Well, so does Atlas Games it seems, who have been sitting on unopened “On the Edge” boxes for the last 30 years and are still selling them, for pennies on the dollar by this point.

I’m not sure why I thought it was a good idea to order them, but now I would have enough to I don’t know, run a draft tourney or build a cube or something.

On the Edge is the trading card game for Over the Edge, a rather surreal conspiracy RPG set on an island somewhere in the Med. It’s basically X-files crossed with Burroughs’ Interzone.

Now Over the Edge was a popular but definitely niche RPG in the 90s, but it hardly was what I would have called ripe material for a trading card game. Back in the days it had 2 editions, and a few years ago they published and updated version for the 21st century. But back then was a weird time, and so trading card games popped out from everywhere. There was a Deadlands TCG after all, there even was a Das Schwarze Auge one which seemed to miss the whole point of what made Magic work so well.

Still, the On the Edge game managed to get a main set and 4 expansions. Unfortunately it never seems to have sold all that much, but unlike other companies Atlas Games seems to be unwilling to let go of a good idea that easy (and I didn’t say the game wasn’t good, just that the property wasn’t all that ready for a TCG and it definitely got lost in the shuffle). So they are still selling it. In 2025!

Quick calculation: I bought the big packages for 20 bucks each. They sold in 1995 for $117, which equals about $247 in 2025 money. Which means they were basically marked down to $10 in ’95 money.
At one point you have to wonder if AG isn’t losing money storing these things for three decades.

“The object of the game is now to arrange 6 or more cards in a row so that the first letters of their first names spell out an English word. First player to do so wins, […]”

This is from the The Cut-Ups Project expansion, which tries to gamify surrealism.

Now of course the issue is that I might need someone to actually play this game with me. At least thanks to the low price I have enough cards to actually do that, something I can’t say for my unsuccessful ventures into the Star Trek: TNG and Babylon 5 Trading Card Games.

#ontheedge #overtheedge #tcg #ttrpg

RikaXXX1984RikaXXX1984
2025-07-15
Deadlinedeadline
2025-05-12

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ & ‘Coco’ Animation Artist Octavio Rodriguez To Direct ‘On The Edge’ – Cannes Market

deadline.com/2025/05/octavio-r

smartwater 📯 :vivaldi:smartwater@bonn.social
2024-12-01

@ntv
Is ja geil.
Ist wirklich so wie in diesem Internetz geschrieben stand, wenn eine Nachrichtenüberschrift eine Frage enthält, ist die Antwort zu 90 % "Nein".

Der Artikel gehört zu den 90 %.

#Nein #Journalismus #OnTheEdge

2024-06-24

Mastodon Biography: Cristiano Ronaldo
Source: linktr.ee/MoreCelebs

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded the 🏆 Ballon d'Or five times. Yet, it was his fierce 🆚 rivalry with another 🇦🇷 football legend that kept fans on the edge of their 💺 seats...

Sara Angeloni 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺Satiah
2024-03-22

SET AUTOCOMMIT ON;

I like to live 😈

🎬
#OnTheEdge
#EntreLaVieEtLaMort

Thriller europeo ben recitato ma che dopo una buona prima parte si affloscia su se stesso.

📝Voto: 5,5
"Entre la vie et la mort" di Giordano Gederlini, 100minuti, 2022.

#cinema #film #30gennaio #cineMastodon #cineItalia #Movies

"Entre la vie et la mort" di Giordano Gederlini, 100minuti, 2022.
Valerie Nortonvalhikes@en.osm.town
2024-01-06

A 2nd visit to the High Schells Wilderness, this one to the high point, the highest Schell. I made it a quick overnight trip, finding a tiny flat spot high on the ridge and out of the wind (at least for the evening) to spend the night.

New blog post here: valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/11/

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #Nevada #backpacking #overnight #HighSchellsWilderness #HumboldtNF #HumboldtToiyabeNF #ridge #abovetreeline #ontheedge #publiclands #wilderness

North Fork Timber Creek (where it has water!) in High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt National Forest, Nevada

A valley of dried grass with rocky walls climbing to bare tops. Lines and groups of leafless aspen and bright green spruce occupy the lower hillsides.Looking back south along Timber Creek from the North Fork to the South Fork in High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt National Forest, Nevada.

A long V shaped valley, largely bare rocks on the left and with a thin covering of evergreen trees on the right and a patch of snow on the far end.Looking north from North Schell Peak, High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada.

Bare ridge winding north with rocks of white and light yellow. Spots of green do grow in some places.Golden late light on the peaks south of North Schell Peak in High Schells Wilderness, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada.

Bare ridge line winding and rising to a point before winding a bit more. Some snow is on the surfaces on the left. The slopes drop in a steep line to green in the bottom of the valley before rising faster to another ridge, bare with a little snow on sheltered faces.
Chris SlaneSlaneCartoons
2023-08-31
Debbie D. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪Debbie_D
2023-07-28

ICYMI: Today's theme is at
📷📷📷📷📷

Peering down at the bowels of the Colosseum in Rome.

It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the biggest one standing, despite its age.

Construction began in 72 AD and was completed in 80 AD.

Read more:
thedogladysden.com/return-to-r
Clickable link in bio.
🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️
#colosseum… instagram.com/p/CvL0hI3MaOG/?u

Debbie D. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪Debbie_D
2023-07-27

Today's theme is at
📷📷📷📷📷

Peering down at the bowels of the Colosseum in Rome.

It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the biggest one standing, despite its age.

Construction began in 72 AD and was completed in 80 AD.

Read more:
thedogladysden.com/return-to-r
Clickable link in bio.
🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️
#colosseum… instagram.com/p/CvL0hI3MaOG/?u

Dr. Dani Sanchezanalgesicsleep
2023-02-11

Fun-In-The-Sun shorts double feature: Curtis Harrington’s “On The Edge” and Jan Švankmajer’s “Picnic with Weissmann”

2023-02-11

Given the limited budget for On the Edge, Harrington used a time-tested independent filmmaker technique to save on casting. He had his parents play in the film for free.
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#TCMParty
#OnTheEdge
#TCMUnderground

2023-02-11

Here’s some fan art inspired by On the Edge that I’ve drawn in the past!
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#TCMParty
#OnTheEdge
#TCMUnderground

Pen drawing of a man with a furrowed brow drawn on a yellow Post-It note.
2023-02-11

On the Edge was actually filmed at The Salton Sea in Southern California, a  fascinating and terrifying man-made environmental disaster created by a breach in an irrigation canal in the Imperial Valley in 1905. It was the target for the test run for the Hiroshima bombing, and the dead fish smell hipsters loathe at Coachella emanates from the literal millions of rotting tilapia that make-up the sea's shore. READ ABOUT THIS PLACE! IT IS TERRIFYING!
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#TCMParty
#OnTheEdge
#TCMUnderground

Dead tilapia at the Salton Sea.

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