Tabletop games, whether roleplaying, board, card, improvisational or otherwise
At the end of last year I attended the Dragonmeet event in Kensington. In previous years, I attend purely as a visitor; but, on this occasion I attended as a guest of Arion Games. I have been writing for Arion for the historical adventure game Maelstrom, so planned to do… Continue reading Medieval Home Alone
Take some of this CyberClean stuff – cyberclean.tv, scale it up to the size of a medium sized dog and make it artificially intelligent. Then, assign it to both the Equipment and the Hygiene Officer – or just one of them. Or both, but in shifts. The unnatural pooch –… Continue reading Clean Sweep
The official PARANOIA Dev Blog posted about Petri Wessman’s blog where you can dig up all manner of PARANOIA book reviews. I’m reasonably sure I’ve mentioned it before – largely because the review of ‘The Underplex‘ came over as entirely reasonable: This is by no means a “must have” book… Continue reading Entirely Reasonable
It was ever so kind of Citizen Shart to point out that Mongoose has hit DriveThruRPG / RPGNow with a very pleasant surprise: Just thought you’d like to know Mongoose has just reduced price of ALL THEIR PRODUCT DOWNLOADS at RPGNow/ DriveThruRPG by about 40%. This includes PARANOIA and Classic… Continue reading Maxi-Fun Happy Discount Joy
I managed to read a short story over breakfast, using the Stanza app on my iPhone. I don’t manage to do anything quite so significant during breakfast any day of the week, but on Sunday… well, it impressed even me. I read ‘The Defenders‘ by Philip K. Dick. If it… Continue reading The Defenders
I have been trying to track down loopholes in my site of late, because over the years the content has changed and sometimes links from the past lead to a dead end. WordPress has some handy tools for helping with this – so, I added one a while back and… Continue reading World Cup Paranoia
The Prisoner never was an easy thing to understand. I guess, in principle, this recent re-imagining aimed to make the concept more accessible and easier to digest. The series presented a conclusion with some measure of coherence; but, then again, the original Prisoner nestled in the bosom of the 60s… Continue reading The Prisoner
Just a quick note that the All Current PARANOIA Books link (right) has now been updated to include (almost) all books – in and out of print. It references the Limited Editions from the 25th Anniversary, purely because you’re unlikely to shop Amazon for those copies! Also, there’s the ‘Citizen’s… Continue reading Library Core Update in Progress
The recent Doctor Who episode set on a Britain-turned-spaceship in the 33rd century featured a creepy police state overseen by the Smilers – fairground fortune-telling machines turned nasty. I’ve commented on – and reviewed the episode – with a Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space-slant over on my Who… Continue reading The Beast Below
I recently purchased a book called Fear and Fashion in the Cold War for my wife. While I wouldn’t normally consider a gift for my wife as an opportunity to get something of interest to me as well, this actually looked like just such an opportunity. The book looks at… Continue reading PARANOIA Fear of Fashion