From the first moment I chose to play a bard in D&D, I kept humming in my head "We're screwed" to the tune of "Hey Jude". Finally, I wrote it down but it was several sessions before, finally, it was appropriate for it to have its premier last night. With the assistance of co-gamer and the far more talented singer, Chrissy Bowdery, we sung this, ( Read more... )

Well, almost ready for OddConUK. It's been quite stressful the past couple of months. Money has been the root of it for the most part, or lack thereof. Quite fortunately, I've just about got enough to afford to go to OddConUK this year, which is just as well what with me being one of the guys running it!

It's going to be a great turnout. In bookings ( Read more... )

Well, after nearly missing the train to Birmingham, the stress of running around trying to coordinate going to my storytelling gig as well as heading up to a convention, my back threatening to utterly break on me at any moment and munching ibuprofen and paracetamol like breath mints, the weekend itself (as usual) was fun, but not without a few ( Read more... )

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I've finally caught up with the last four days' correspondence and web-comics, so onto the IndieCon report.

It's a good thing I'm not married with kids otherwise I think I might be risking a divorce. Not two weeks after OddConUK, I've gone to IndieCon and not two weeks later there is Dragonmeet to come. Though clearly I must marry a gamer and ( Read more... )

So, I'll write up about OddConUK properly soon, but in the meantime, I just received this in my inbox and thought I'd share ( Read more... )

OddConUK is almost here and I've been doing the final push to get prepared. Unfortunately, prepared is anything but how I feel right now. Maybe it's due to the fact that I was ill for the first half of the month which meant I couldn't do any prep work like read/write scenarios, work on the website, sort out my travel and what I'm taking with me. I' ( Read more... )

A shout out to any convention-goers. I hope you've booked your accommodation for Conception as all on-site accommodation is gone. If you haven't there is off-site static caravans available, apparently. See the site for details.

It was rather serendipitous that I even managed to make Dragonmeet Southwest considering that the original plan was to have it in April on the same weekend that I was up at the Student Nationals. As it was, the date was moved and I had no excuse, really ( Read more... )

While on the one hand things have been progressively and pleasantly moving in a productive direction, things have also been familiarly but still unpleasantly tempestuous ( Read more... )