The Ghost without a Shell

A year ago I set out to write a million words in a year, a number that I didn’t really understand when I started out with it.  It doesn’t s...

My Gran passed away peacefully this morning. I did not visit perhaps as much as I should, and that's because some part of me wanted to...

It's over... I Won...

Now I know what people are thinking, it’s one of the most updated games in the world, there’s always a new product or a new codex or...

It’s rare that you get games that encompass the struggle to raise a galactic empire, rarer still that those games can be played in less...

Sub 10k remaining from the task this year, the words have just been falling out these last two weeks, and I'd be hard pressed to tell yo...

In the matter of games that need rulebooks to play, most have rules that work in such a way that when you have taken enough time to fig...

The problem with some games is that while they’re possibly the shiniest thing in the world, the simple truth of the matter is that you’...

My mum loves bargain shops, goes to them whenever she can, car boot sales, village fairs, all the things where you can find something...

Day 18 – Favourite Licensed Game – X Wing And I’ve already spoken about X wing on this collection of days, so rather than go on about i...

There’s hundreds of games out there, everything from the ones that have no random elements in them to the ones that have nothing but ...

Some games have an innate humour to them, some are played for laughs, and some are unintentionally funny by virtue of what you find you...

Sometimes, you’re just not there when you needed to be when a game came out, and you find that by the time you realise how cool a game ...

It’s been a while since I put up anything about the million word challenge that this blog was originally intended to monitor, and there’s a...

There’s a number of different schools of thought when it comes to playing games at conventions, on the one hand, it’s an excellent wa...

  It was Dragonmeet 2013 when I first encountered Lords of War, which is something of an irony when you consider that it had won the st...

The best games are the ones where you have the right people in the right state of mind playing the right game, and those don’t come al...

When I was younger, there weren’t the variety of games available that there are now, there weren’t the variety of players available, so...