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  • Game I Wish I Owned – RPGaDay 2023

    Game I Wish I Owned – RPGaDay 2023

    Today’s question is: Game I Wished I Owned Oddly enough, the stuff I really wish I owned doesn’t even exist. For example, there are a bunch of 80s FASA supplements and games I would love to own. The Sontarans supplement, referenced in the 1986 Catalog for Doctor Who, for example, would, I’m certain, have been…

  • Favourite Never-Get-To-Play RPG – RPGaDay 2023

    Favourite Never-Get-To-Play RPG – RPGaDay 2023

    The original question was: Favourite game you NEVER get to play I think Star Trek, probably. FASA Star Trek. That said, I did manage to get a game in at a Sheffield convention — North Star —  in the middle of last year. The FASA games were a part of my first journeys into roleplaying, and…

  • Diverse Bloggery

    In the past I looked to focus the content of multiple blogs under the banner of boreders. Now, I have decided that it might be better to stick with the original format. In truth, I think the idea probably stemmed from the fallow state of multiple blogs. If I have many blogs with occasional postings,…

  • Blocks, Cookies and the King of Spain

    Blocks, Cookies and the King of Spain

    For me, attending UK Games Expo in the past has meant preparing and running five or six games – and probably misjudging that prep until the last moment. This year I chose to run only three games and opted to focus on adventures – or, at least, set-ups – that I have run before. For…

  • 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,…

  • Quick Doctor Who Characters

    I’m running one or more convention games of Doctor Who (from Cubicle 7) over the next few months, starting with this coming weekend. This past weekend, I finished creating a set of “pre-generated” character cards for the game. Essentially, they’re not complete characters by any measure – just enough to get through a session. While I could…

  • Not The End

    The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. — Professor Stephen Hawking Hawking has put forward a new theory around information surviving in a black hole. The Information Paradox results from a conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity. One posits permanent destruction of all matter while the…

  • Wing It for Adventure

    I ran the third and final session of the adventure Ice from the Eighth Doctor Sourcebook at the weekend. I think I could have finished this in two four-hour sessions, but we had more of a social thing going on and the focus wasn’t quite there. At a pinch, I think you could throttle this…

  • Bigger Hair

    There’s one thing I like about the second series of each new Doctor – and that’s the business of making the character their own. Somehow, the first appearance isn’t enough. From the scant pictures we’ve had of Peter Capaldi so far, it seems like he has more of a personalised image. I especially like what…