Tabletop games, whether roleplaying, board, card, improvisational or otherwise
Like having about a dozen CCTV cameras per head of population wasn’t bad enough (yeah, OK, so I’m exaggerating a bit), the UK Government seems dead set on knowing what email we read, web sites we view, and mobile phone calls we make. The basis for this intrusion? That the… Continue reading Spammers Buffet, anyone?
Not PARANOIA… but, I surely get the opportunity to trumpet my own writing whenever I get something published, right? In 1446, Wales perched on the precipice, faced with the prospect of a new rebellion by restless natives. Complacent English nobles, entrusted with expansive domains, stretch themselves all too thin, leaving… Continue reading The Sward and the Stone
In the continuing tale of a would-be game writer, I find myself wanting to write a mission, but lacking the energy to get it done in anything less than a geological era. I keep setting time aside to get going, but fail to make the most of what I have… Continue reading No One Expects…
Last Sunday, I spent a fair portion of the day playing games. Situated in the upstairs rooms of the Doffcocker Inn in Bolton, we played from noon until early evening with a group of gamers called the GNOMEs. We started with Ca$h and Gun$, a Reservoir Dogs-style stand-off over the… Continue reading Treacle-flavored Cold Fun
In a move as bemusing as Prince changing his name to squiggle, Amazon.com currently lists the PARANOIA core book as ‘Pa RPG‘ and just about every other book in the range has something rum or slightly amiss in the listing. Pa RPG, however, tells you nothing and doesn’t make much… Continue reading What’s Up, Pa?
You work for The Bank. You work hard, you get a bonus. Heck, you might even get a promotion. You often look at the penthouse offices and aspire to be one of the Board someday. OK, so the work isn’t very interesting, but this is a bank, right? What could… Continue reading The Bank
PARANOIA originally relaunched as XP, then it became XP Service Pack One… and then the XP vanished, because it wasn’t worth making Microsoft grumpy. For collectors, the middle copy is the holy grail, because so few of that edition exists (if any!), and purists might prefer to cling to the… Continue reading XP for Me!
While Gareth Hanrahan indicates that the release of The Big Book of Bots in August might be a tad ‘ambitious’ (considering he’s only just handed over the art notes and the book is still in editing and layout), that shouldn’t stop fans of Jim Holloway‘s PARANOIA art going over to… Continue reading It’s Published, Jim, But Not As We Know It…
Until July 27 (which to my reckoning gives you three days) DriveThruRPG have declared Christmas in Summer for a plethora of games. Forget the Non-Fun Games though… You could own almost the entire run of new PARANOIA for £82.92… or $165.48 (which, in my calculations means you save $0.60 going… Continue reading Like an Extra Scoop of Cold Fun
Yesterday, my SQL database took a dive. This morning, I realised that the whole blog had disappeared. An afternoon with Google, however, has almost returned the whole thing without much more effort than a mass copy/paste. Thanks Google! Oh… and a new theme for the site. Seemed like a change… Continue reading Gotta Love Google