Been enjoying looking through the "Tales from the Loop" RPG, very high quality product, art and writing both. Very nostalgic, had 80s music on my little MP3 player most of the last week. One book I've asked my brother to retrieve from Mother's house in Swansea is a colour encyclopedia of technology from around 1983. It's got mention of portable ( Read more... )

Always a big choice when playing a science fiction RPG. Which starship do the players end up with? Since I've started limiting myself now to Sci-Fi RPGs pretty much (Victoriana's gone up on Amazon, grew tired of it, specifically with them bringing out yet another edition after only a few supplements) I've been looking through the various systems ( Read more... )

21st October 2015 to be precise, the date in the future visited in Back to the Future 2 ( Read more... )

Thanks to a timely Ebay purchase I have just got my grubby mitts on the Star Frontiers Referee's Screen and the "Bugs in the System" module. This is significant as both are found on Amazon for prices that are frankly silly, "Bugs" in particular (£370?! Are you mad!?). Anyway, a Finnish seller had multiple copies of both, still sealed too apparently ( Read more... )

Watched "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" the other day. I think it actually holds up remarkably well. Yes, I know that it is often derided as the "Slow-Motion Picture", but it's rather soothing to watch the Enterprise's slow passage through V'ger. I remember when it first came out and getting goosebumps during the sequence where Scotty pilots a pod ( Read more... )

Not done much newsworthy since we got back, recovered from a brief lurgi (me and the Wife), been enjoying tinkering with Star Frontiers. Decided to adapt the "Landmaster" multi-trailer exploration vehicle concept I'd worked out for the Justifiers RPG for this game instead, renamed it the "Landstrider" (a "Dark Crystal" reference), simplified it ( Read more... )

My first edition "Blue Box" Star Frontiers did indeed arrive yesterday. The box is a bit battered, dented in places and with split edges and corners but I knew that when I bought it. It's over 32 years old after all (older than The Wife in fact, although she is in considerably better condition) so that is ok, a bit of careful repair work with glue ( Read more... )

I has a monocular ( Read more... )