When for a walk after dark with my youngest son last night. Not too far, a couple of K, but we had fun talking about ghosts, aeroplanes and the eternal war between cats and dogs.

It's these small things that make life worth living... especially when his first reaction to any sudden noise was to hold my hand :P

I'm sure everyone has their own exciting tales of Thursday night, when the lower parts of New Zealand were battered by the Antarctic storm. I just thought I'd add mine ( Read more... )

So in most cases its reality influencing our games, right? As GMs we go through dark patches, and these reflect in our adventures, or perhaps we want to explore a certain trend or emotion through our gaming. I know I've done both ( Read more... )

There is nothing quite like watching your son get as excited about gaming as you yourself used to ( Read more... )

So back to the Kapiti College games club this Sunday. as per usual this one sprung up on me with late notice, especially as it felt as if last time's session was barely a week or so ago (Luke informed me the last time I attended was 6 weeks ago!!)

With Andy's War Rocket miniatures still in my possesion I brought that along, as well as a neat looking ( Read more... )

I'm sure I say this every 6 months or so, but I think it is time I decided what RPGs I really want to focus on going forward...

It seems to be that my interests rotate around three main games at the moment, and I suppose these are the games I'm always going to support as the years past. If you aren't aware the games are:

• Call of Cthulhu (Horror)
• ( Read more... )

Warning this post is about my recent and sudden bout of Tonsillitus... not gaming at all!
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Late last night I banged together Brutal!  (yes, if you are  wondering the exclamation mark is vital :P) a one page RPG system designed specifically to introduce my son to roleplaying.

Here it is here - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzKxJ3ErEEznOTVhMjFjN2ItNGQ4Zi00NDA1LTljZDQtYTE2ZDRiNzQ3MmMx&hl=en_US

But my ( Read more... )

Or so says my son...

On our way home from dropping off Thomas at daycare this morning (I'm on leave), I expressed by joy at the idea of a book arriving today from Book Depository. Jonty innocently asked 'what book, daddy?', to which my reply was 'Cthulhu Dark Ages'...

'Cthulhu?... Cthulhu?', Jonty replied incredulously.

'Yes, Cthulhu. You know who ( Read more... )

No, not the silly one from the movie of the same name, rather a promise to myself that I will give up junk food (including takeaways and refined sugars) for the next 40 Days. Why? Mainly because I want to prove to myself I can do it, and also I really want to see how much this type of eating  effects my weight (in otherwords do I actually eat that ( Read more... )