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Category Archives: Reviews and Past Events
Review: Continuum 2016, Games Convention in Leicester
WARNING: Many links contain sound. Don’t click on them if at work. Last week was spent on my annual holiday, this time spent visiting my parents in Suffolk and from Friday to Monday at Continuum, a bi-annual games convention in … Continue reading
Review: The New Ghostbusters Movie; or I ain’t fraid o no film!
[tl:dr: great film go see it] It all started with a moving candlestick flying across a room; that was how I got involved with the girly ghosthunter, who is now a parapsychologist with a Ph.D in apparitional experience. And … Continue reading
Cthulhu, Fresh Flowers & Supermarket Shopping in Bury St Edmunds
“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the … Continue reading
Review: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery – Solved by Lawrence David Kusche
Book titles tend to be prone to hyperbole, but this 1975 book, one of my favourite books, does exactly what it says on the cover. It simply explains the Bermuda Triangle phenomena, and also teaches a few lessons in critical … Continue reading
RPG Review: Mars Colony, a 2 player Tabletop RPG by Tim Koppang
Can you save Mars? A 2 player RPG that is not an investigative game, and that does politics well… So this morning I found myself with the prospect of a free evening, and in a spirit of optimism I fired … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 player rpg, Mars Colony Review, political rpg, review, RPG, rpg reviews, tabletop games, Tim C Koppang
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Boardgame Review: OGRE (Pocket Edition) by Steve Jackson Games
A 2 player game about a giant robot mega-tank (the OGRE) as it ploughs towards through the defenders killing everything in the way… Back in my school days in Bury St Edmunds, there was a little boat enthusiasts shop called … Continue reading
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Tagged boardgame reviews, OGRE, OGRE Review, Steve Jackson Games, wargames
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Boardgame Review: Pandemic – The Cure
As Christmas approaches I guess now is an opportune time to remind people that last year I listed a number of great boardgames that people might seriously be glad to get in their Christmas stockings. Like my friend Lloyd, I … Continue reading
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Tagged board games, Pandemic, Pandemic The Cure, reviews, Z Man Games
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The Presence and the Press: Once Again Science Journalists Tell Us Ghosts Explained Away!
OK, I blog very rarely nowadays, but I thought I had best respond to all the press excitement caused by an article from Current Biology, which pretty much everyone (including the authors) seem to think explains away “ghosts”. You should … Continue reading
The One About How CJ came to LARP… Part One: The late 1970s/ early 1980’s
A brief discussion of the UK rpg scene 1979 to 1985 and the prehistory of LARP in the USA and UK. Continue reading
Posted in Games, Reviews and Past Events, Student Life in Cheltenham, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon, James Dallas Egbert III, LARP, live action roleplay, Mazes and Mosters, Michigan State University, The Dungeon Master, Tom Hanks, Treasure Trap, UKFreeforms, White Dwarf
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Pokémon Take Back The Night in Cheltenham?
It was about 2.30pm yesterday and a beautiful sunny afternoon; I was walking along Cheltenham High Street when I first noticed the two elegantly dressed, seemingly normal women. They were in their 30’s I guess, and as they approached I … Continue reading →