I think the moral of this story might be that if you know a little about something, you may become the everything for those who don’t. The phrase of relevance might be “in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” I was struggling for something to write, but then, this morning, the…
Today I judge my tolerance for new movies by the pain in my butt. A fact of age, I suspect. I cannot tolerate the sit through anything if it means the discomfort of shifting from buttock to buttock. If I lose sensation in my behind and there’s nothing there to distract me, the diversion has…
Heck, today is just going to have to be one of those days when I simply type something out for the sake of typing. That isn’t to say that I might not turn this into something with a little more purpose and value. However, to do that certainly normally requires that I have some measure…
Last week I completely forgot the encryption password for my smartphone. Since the big hoo-ha last year where just about everyone seemed to have got hacked in some way or another (or was it a virus?), I have been changing all my passwords with steady regularity. Nothing with a password stays the same for very…
I ran The Blood of the Zygons this last weekend for Doctor Who (Vortex system) and I declare Quick Characters a workable option. Not flawless, but workable. I introduced the base game mechanic (2d6 + two character scores) and got going with the adventure. When the time came for some action, I laid out the…
I suspect B.A. would pity me for my shoddy respect of his fighting skills. You can only really appreciate that you’ve done something wrong when you test it in anger – and I can see after a couple of sessions that I haven’t figured B.A. Baracus out right. It isn’t a problem – indeed, I…
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…
Otherwise known as Echoes of the Baker. Seriously, for all the right reasons, this could easily have been an episode featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor with his trusty screaming, but supportive, companion Sarah-Jane Smith. An undersea base – once a military base in a village drowned by a broken dam – has been reopened…
Cubicle 7’s Lone Wolf Adventure Game boxed set enters Joe Dever’s world of Magnamund and allows you to take on the role of Kai Initiates. In the face of creeping darkness and scattered pockets of injustice, you have the means to bring light and hope. While the basic – or Initiate – version of the game…
