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Author: Paul B

  • Classic Thrills and Adventure

    Mars holds remnants of an advanced civilisation, now fallen into barbarism. The sweaty depths of Venus holds danger and savage beasts, certain to catch ill-prepared travellers unaware. And beneath the cratered face of the Moon, relics of a subterranean people suggest this rock holds secrets more fascinating than it’s drab surface might suggest. A familiar situation,…

  • Pray You Don’t Brick It

    I updated my aging and struggling tablet with the CyanogenMod Android package. It wasn’t easy and it isn’t for the faint of heart, but I got it working in the end with some patience, a lot of reading, and a steady nerve.

  • Make Time. Lose Weight. Be Mindful.

    Eat steady. Make time. Keep it up. Do it your way. That’s the executive summary. Alex Mayo posted a thing about eating breakfast and diet – and I couldn’t help but contribute. Rather than see the whole thing drift off into the Google+ sunset, I thought I’d gather the various thoughts together… Then I lost…

  • Not Too Thin… Just (Too) Focussed

    I have been accused of losing too much weight. I’m not sure that that’s the case, though I might be using the wrong targets as a means to make my own assessment. For example, I have been taking account of Body Mass Index, despite the fact that I haven’t had a proper measurement made. I can’t…

  • Storming and Cliffhangers

    I have had a busy gaming long weekend, running Numenera and TimeWatch at Concrete Cow and Bookhounds of London last night, for my local gaming group. Despite 8 hours gaming I have incited very little dice rolling and managed to get by on minimal prep, which works out fine for me. I have found with many games that despite the mechanical…

  • It’s Exactly Like That

    I ran my Numenera session to time yesterday. The group of numenera hunters, enthusiastic explorers and loyal Truth followers managed to find their way to the source of problems threatening Briary, and resolved it. That makes three sessions, with the first spent creating characters. When I say I ran to time, I ran to a target more…

  • The Tree of Knowledge – a Numenera Session

    Ran a game of Numenera last night with 6 characters (which is probably the upper limit, because it can get hard to give everyone the attention they deserve). It remained a fairly cerebral session of discussion, investigation, travel and planning – only a few dice rolls and no combat. Correction: I actually managed this session with 7 people,…

  • Who’s Surround?

    I have been listening to the CD that my wife kindly purchased me for Valentine’s Day. At the moment, I’m listening to the first of the four CDs included, specifically the music from the First Doctor’s tenure. While the music doesn’t necessarily have the same rich orchestration of new Doctor Who, it does have a…

  • Descriptors in Numenera

    I have Numenera Descriptors on my mind at the moment. Time for a boring Numenera post, largely intended for personal reference – if that’s OK with the two other people who read this blog. The basic Numenera character has a sort of concept defined in a single sentence made from a few selective components. I…