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  • Reading Shadow of the Demon Lord: Part 1

    OK. So I picked Shadow of the Demon Lord up at Conception last weekend. Actually, I won it in the raffle at the end, which I appreciated a lot. I had my eye on the game for a while and picked up a bit of the electronic stuff, but the book I had on a sort…

  • Symbaroum at Conception 2016

    I ran two games of Symbaroum at Conception (at Hoburne Park holiday resort, a short distance from Christchurch, Dorset) this weekend based on adventures of my own devising. I referenced existing adventures to get me in the right frame of mind in the week before the event, but the adventures proper I ran based on nothing…

  • Webs within Wheels

    Preparation makes a lot of difference when you’re setting out to run any game. Greater minds than I have spent a lot of time writing on the subject. Gamers can find much advice on the matter scattered amongst guides, short essays and those parts of a game’s core book dealing with GM skills. I mentioned…

  • Storms of Creativity

    I generally hate any article that comes with a Top 10 title. Yes, they pull people in. Yes, they sometimes work on me, like a Venus Flytrap lures with the sweet scent of rotting meat. As it happens I immediately saw the sense in half this link-fest of a Lifehacker piece on brainstorming. Finding ideas…

  • Funko Pop Who

    CNET posted a Tech Culture article on new Doctor Who themed Pop character figures coming soon. The whole range of Pop cuties looks great – with figures for Rose, River Song, Captain Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith, The Silence and the Ninth Doctor. The steal of the collection, for me, has to be the K-9,…

  • Room for All Adventure

    I ran a game of Lone Wolf last night and I fear that I might run investigation games too much to jump start my pace to that more appropriate to rollicking adventure. Last week playing AD&D it seemed we had pace and progress – move to the next room, defuse the trap, beat the monster,…

  • Pens, Pencils and Scratchy Sticks

    Over the last couple of months, my working kit  — i.e. my kit for work — of pens and pencils has changed considerably. Back in the summer, I would probably have used a Uni-ball Eye micro black-ink pen and the dependable Pentel BK77 Superb blue-ink fine ballpoint. Pencil-wise I’d be using something straight out of…

  • Gallifreyan Games

    The Doctor Who RPG needs to be played. I need to run it more often – and take the time to get into the nuances of Cubicle 7‘s Vortex system. Simple post really. While the reception to the last series might be mixed – and I can’t think of a single creative realisation in any…

  • Dimensions in Lego Time

    With Christmas less than a week away and the prospect of a festive episode, I’m quite excited already. Knowing that River Song will be centre stage makes it even better, in my personal opinions. However, better yet – Lego has gifted us, in 2015, with Doctor Who sets; I got a chance to open a…

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