The Ghost without a Shell

Started with a million, still writing...

Friday, 22 January 2016

Getting people to choose your games at conventions...

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And here's an interesting one, looking through submissions for Expo this morning, and I encounter this (the only thing I've changed ...

Longcon 2 provisional Dates

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We've provisionally booked the Garrison for the 9th and 10th of July this year for Longcon 2, as far as we've been able to see, it...
Friday, 15 January 2016

Expo Awards advance preview - Era: the Consortium

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There's still going to be a round up of the games that have been submitted to the Expo awards later in the year when we get closer to...
Thursday, 14 January 2016

Assistance wanted for very brief playtesting

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All I'm needing a few people to test run a minigame of breathtaking  silliness, it's not even vaguely sensible and I need the resu...
Tuesday, 12 January 2016

UK Games Expo Submissions going live this week.

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Been a bit busy the last few days because we're in the run up to starting things off at Expo, and that tends to eat a fair bit of my oth...
Monday, 11 January 2016

Kickstarter Delivered - Z Mob

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I backed this one some time ago, had the look of an interesting game, even if the counters weren't the usual all singing, all dancing...
Sunday, 10 January 2016

White Star RPG review

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I don't buy new systems as often as I should, and in truth, I don't try things out as much as I used to (let no one ask of the we...

Blueprints Game Review

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When I was younger, I wanted to be an architect, there's something about construction that has my interest, but it was particularly b...
Saturday, 9 January 2016

Do Adventurers dream of Golden fleece...?

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So yesterday was Roy Batty’s inception date… And nearly four years from now, on a rain streaked rooftop, he dies… And in that time ...
Friday, 8 January 2016

More implements of writing...

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Of pens that I received for christmas, the more curious of the two was the Kaweco Classic Sport pen, something I've been looking for...

Quill - A letter writing roleplaying game for a single player

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And so I found myself this morning with a recommendation from Red about a new game that's come out, combining my twin passions of wr...
Thursday, 7 January 2016

And new implements of Writing...

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So I like writing, and even when I've got what I consider to be nearly the perfect pen, I'm still looking at new pens and new ...

First time playing games at an online table...

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In the spirit of investigating how well games work, I've started to look at all the different types of playing that people get up to as ...
Wednesday, 6 January 2016

What are you looking forwards to in RPGs...?

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I'm putting the finishing touches on the next article for Tabletop Gaming Magazine regarding what RPG's people are looking forwards ...

Layout person required for new RPG project...

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In the course of last year, a lot of my time (read:All) got eaten by running conventions, planning conventions, and generally getting a...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

And sometimes you just need to build a lair...

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And of things I got for christmas, one of them was a couple of shelves that fit rather nicely on top of my existing desk (not so much a d...
Monday, 7 December 2015

Dragonmeet 2015 – An organisers perspective

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So we’re done, made it home, had a day to reflect on things that went right, things that went wrong, and how we’re going to improve all...
Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Board game volunteers needed at Dragonmeet

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A few days till Dragonmeet and several of the people who were going to be helping us there have done the last minute drop... While we ...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

On the subject of troublesome kickstarters....

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From the last few days, I've found that there's more than a few people who've been burned by Kickstarters, and that my own exper...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

And so for the first time since I looked at Kickstarter, I have written off the possibility of ever receiving something I backed...

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This is not a move I consider lightly, for this person has money of mine, and while it is not much, it is still money they took for the ...
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