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Category Archives: Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
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
My Friend Fancies You – Gaming Romance
So I’m back from Peaky, the game writing weekend, after a few hours on site. I left at breakfast on the first full day, with a full refund and a lift to a train station, but still pretty dejected and … 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
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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The 12 Games of Christmas — Board Games are not ALL Terrible!
First, Merry Christmas! Secondly, we have all been there. A family Christmas turns toxic when someone suggest playing a board game, and Aunty drags Monopoly out of the cupboard. Now Monopoly can be a lot of fun I guess – … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Reviews and Past Events, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged 7 Wonders, Agricola, Atlas Games, best board games, Cthulhu 500, Dominion, GMT Games, Hanabi card game, King of Tokyo, Love Letter card game, Pandemic, Settlers of Catan, Star Wars: X Wing, Ticket to Ride, Twilight Struggle, what christmas board games to buy, Z Man Games
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An Unexpected Kindness…
A few of you may know that I write a lot for the books for the Ars Magica 5th edition roleplaying game published by Atlas Games, and that I am something of an enthusiast for the game, originating and often … Continue reading
The Day I Met Myself: or how I survived my death-omen doppleganger.
It was an overcast day, and I was walking through Bury St Edmunds with my best friend, Hugh. After lunch sometime, killing time before our scheduled afternoon classes. I don’t know the date or even the year — and Hugh … Continue reading
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 →