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Author: Paul B

  • Take a Deep Breath

    I had no particular expectations about Peter Capaldi as The Doctor, because the actor and the character so often have little in common. I mean, take David Tennant adopted a different accent and before Who his hair wasn’t so flamboyantly coiffured. I wanted to take the new Doctor as something of a blank slate. Deep…

  • And Cough

    Someone asked me whether I was looking forward to the return of Doctor Who this weekend. At a very simple level, the answer would be ‘Yes’. I want to see what Moffat and Peter Capaldi have in store. I have had this date in mind for some time. When I changed job earlier in the…

  • My First RPG Played

    Well, that would be red box Basic Dungeons & Dragons. I’m guessing it would be in 1984, when I was 12, or thereabouts, and in my second year at Beanfield Comprehensive School* – in the small industrial newtown of Corby. I had managed to show enough interest in music to find myself a member of…

  • Free RPG Day with Whitehack

    Whitehack proved to be quite an entertaining choice of game to run for Free RPG Day. Really, it provided a framework primarily for my GM style of largely ignoring the rules and forgetting the dice. However, what aspects of the game I did use ran well for me. I like the positive and negative rolls.…

  • Nokia’s Z Launcher: Day #1

    Downloaded Nokia’s Z Launcher this morning, after seeing an article about it. At a most basic level, a launcher is what you see on your home screen when you power on your Android phone (and get through whatever security you may have in place). The default state launcher will probably have a clock and a…

  • Out of the Blue Adventure Design

    I’m having a weird revelatory experience with roleplaying adventure design at the moment. Key features of a tabletop gaming session come to me at the last moment. I always have an idea in mind – and then I get on with it. Recently, I have had ‘moments of inspiration’ that catch me utterly off guard. These have…

  • Quick Weekend Achievements

    I often beat myself up about what I get done at the weekend. I reach the close, the darkness of Sunday night, and wonder where all the time went. In that moment, I often also wondered what I managed to do with it all – and yet come out the other end with nothing much…

  • Who in 2014

    What Who needs to do this year is go back to the roots of the revival. That’s my thinking. I appreciate that over the last few years, we have experienced a rebirth and with it, the guidings hands involved have taken it upon themselves to try different approaches. All the series have had an arc…

  • Not Really Seeing, Yet

    Wow… I’m reading a basic book on the buddha-dharma at the moment. If I’m taking anything away so far, it’s that if I think I have any idea what it’s about, I’m probably wrong. It would seem to have something in common with Heisenberg‘s Uncertainty Principle or perhaps Schrödinger’s Cat – something along the lines…