Tabletop games, whether roleplaying, board, card, improvisational or otherwise
With the likes of Google Earth, Google Street View and Google Latitude, you might be thankful that Alpha Complex doesn’t have the same kind of coverage. The average Troubleshooter carries a PDC with all kinds of widgets and doodads built in, but the hotch-potch construction of Alpha Complex combined with… Continue reading Given A Little Latitude
Petri Wessman recently posted a short, but reasonably positive, review of The Underplex. I have no objection to any reviews, but reasonably positive (or better) ones are certainly preferred!
Matthew Sprange: Just to let you know that Underplex and Criminal Histories are hitting very low stock levels in our warehouse, and there are no plans to reprint them. If you want to grab these books, act quickly. So, if you want a print copy, get over to Mongoose and… Continue reading Criminally Low Stock
The Urbis in Manchester currently has an exhibition of Andrew Brooks photography entitled Reality Hack: Hidden Manchester. The free exhibit includes fifteen stunning images taken in, around and under Manchester, many in the company of Urban Explorers. Having penned The Underplex and living in the Manchester area, I could hardly… Continue reading Hidden Manchester
The New Year rolls in – and it seems like only yesterday I was thinking about what I might get done in 2008. PARANOIA moved slowly and didn’t get much out bookwise – but, 2009 is the 25th anniversary and there are things afoot at Mongoose. That includes, notably, a… Continue reading Year 214
Harry Enfield has done some interesting stereotypes in his comedy sketches in the past (though not without controversy), including Jurgen, the profusely and masochistically apologetic German, and the Dutch policemen, who are attentative gay lovers and have more than a passing interest in pot smoking. Well, I spotted this PARANOIA… Continue reading I Feel I Must Apologize…
I attended Dragonmeet in London at the weekend. I had intended on meeting up with Graham Bottley of Arion Games – as I recently published ‘The Sward and The Stone‘ for the Maelstrom system, and hoped to promote it with him. However, Graham couldn’t make it in the end –… Continue reading Metamorphosis Alpha Complex
I’m going to be hanging around The Armitage Centre in Fallowfield for most of tomorrow, at Game 2008. I’ll be the one wearing the ‘Fueled by PARANOIA’ t-shirt with Omega Complex advertised on the back (which you won’t see if I’m wearing a coat… but, that depends on the heating… Continue reading Game 2008 – Manchester
Glancing through a copy of ‘The Guardian’, I’ve had since October 9th (I rarely read newspapers the day I buy them… I prefer to relax and absorb the content when it’s convenient to me), I opened the centre spread to find the stunning interior of Torrevaldaliga Nord, a coal-powered energy… Continue reading Torrevaldaliga Nord
…because physical components of the machines expand and contract in response to temperature changes, the amount of time a machine has been running, or even the time of day, might affect calibration—which could explain why the problem didn’t show up in later attempts to reproduce the error. After the last… Continue reading We Are Touchy, Aren’t We?