On the way back from an errand in the Tottenham Court Road area I took a slight detour to pop into two of my favourite shops in the area - Gosh Comics and the Playin' Games boardgame and RPG shop. The former is still doing fine (and I picked up a couple of new Mike Mignola collections - BPRD #12 and Witchfinder.) But round the corner to Museum ( Read more... )

I've been interviewed by Hugh Hancock for his Machinima for Dummies blog's next podcast. Coming soon: I talk to Hugh on the legal aspects of machinima, or How Not To Get Sued By Blizzard.

Rumours that an accompanying video will show us in the guise of characters from Halo 3 are completely unsubstantiated.

Played last night at the Pembury, because somebody suggested On The Underground and I hadn't brought my copy.

When we set it up I dimly remembered it from my youth, and it turns out that The London Game was indeed first sold in the early Seventies. Other than the theme of travelling around the tube though, there's not a lot of resemblance to On ( Read more... )

For the last couple of years I've been a subscriber to Pyramid, the on-line magazine of Steve Jackson Games. It's very much aimed at GMs (Game Masters, aka Keepers or Referees - the person who runs a role-playing game) with articles on scenario and character ideas, or discussions of the problems and opportunities that crop up when running RPGs. It' ( Read more... )