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

I dislike simply linking to entertaining articles, but sometimes you have to do it. In a way, there is relevance here, as a recent thread of discussion on the Mongoose forum queried the future of PARANOIA and wondered what a revised core book for the game might hold. Over the… Continue reading Infinite Oregano

The lack of space experienced in many countries coupled with innovative architects makes for some Alpha Complex-like prospects, seeking to “maximize urban density, construct artificial natures, [and] let data-crunching computers do the design work”. This article, focussed on the work of architectural fim MVRDV, proposes all sorts of tweaks to… Continue reading Living in a Box

Sometimes books slither like snails in the face of an oncoming predator. For all the enthusiasm shown by those involved, somehow the creative process fails completely to kick-start, chugging and choking like an ill-maintained TransBot. In the case of the two PARANOIA gear books – STUFF and STUFF 2: The… Continue reading STUFF You Need

‘City of Ember‘ seems to have some familiar elements. People living beneath the ground because you can’t live on the surface. A society desperate for resources maintaining an antiquated infrastructure. A ruler with secrets. A relic from before the disaster. Yes. It’s a trailer for a film based on a… Continue reading The Underground City

It would appear that the extent of real world paranoia varies considerably, as a recent study with a virtual underground ride has shown, and can turn the most benign environment into a harrowing, stress-filled experience. PARANOIA portrays a world where The Computer constantly bumps citizens up to the eyeballs with… Continue reading A Study in Paranoia