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I've been looking through my 2000ad collection* and I thought I'd highlight this one: Prog 2000, released in December 1999 as a double celebration; a big end-of-year special,...
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If anyone out there has unwanted copies of any of these books, I am willing to pay a fair -- as in, not absurdly inflated collector numbers -- price for them. Let me know!
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I walked up a hill yesterday.
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Happy Star Wars Day everyone! #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Ed Balls #EdBallsDay
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Does new Doctor Who companion Belinda Chandra live in old Doctor Who companion Donna Noble's house? It certainly looks like it! This is Donna's house from 2023's "The Star...
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We have been playing Shadowdark, the current old-school darling. I've been running the gang through the quickstart adventure The Lost Citadel of the Crimson/Scarlet -- I kept...
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Hang on. Sauron is Kurtz, sent into Middle-earth, gone native and setting himself up as a god-king. Gandalf is Willard, sent by the Valar to deal with Sauron-Kurtz. The Valar...
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On Sunday morning I went out to the middle of nowhere to watch the nephew's under-nines football team play. Across the road from the pitch was this building: I don't think I've...
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The "other day" Stuart and I played some Blood & Steel. It's a competent platoon-level wargame but doesn't feel much like the era and setting it's purporting to model. It does...
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It's #DrawDeathsHeadDay 2025! The most freelance peacekeeping day of the year! And, coincidentally, Simon Furman's birthday too! A skinny, angry-looking DH this year. Maybe...
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Here's an idea, combining two of my favourite role-playing games. It's completely untested; we're learning as we're doing. Let's go! Let's first of all generate the Icons we're...
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I've just read the collection of Blood Hunt, Marvel's recent vampire crossover event thing. It's not bad, although it seems to lose interest in itself about two thirds of the...
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The Horus Heresy, the foundational story and grand tragedy at the heart of Warhammer 40,000, is an excuse. Back in the grim darkness of 1988 Games Workshop released the first...
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I watched the BBC series Video Nasty the other day. It's pretty good. The trailers made it look like a period comedy set during the 1980's video nasty scare -- of which I am a...
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Following on from the role-playing games I have and haven't played, here are the games I've played but would very much like to play again before my body fails and my essence...
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I played a couple of sessions of the Alien role-playing game over the past couple of weeks. Well, not exactly. I played a couple of sessions of the Space: 1999 role-playing...
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From 1987's "Armo(u)r Wars" storyline in Iron Man: Oh dear. Oh dear.
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Here's another untested and probably insanely unbalanced Stargrave scenario. DANGER ZONE! Sector Periculosum is a terrible place. Some say it's full of toxins from the Last...
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Here's another Stargrave scenario, completely untested, as per usual. THE HERMIT Pagurus Titanicus is known for grabbing bits of debris to build itself a tough outer shell, and...
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This is a lovely Grauniad piece about autism and board games. These parts resonated in particular: Growing up, board games were my refuge from a baffling, often hostile world....
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So here we are, about to shuffle 2024 off into the euthanasia booth (for its own good), and how did I get on with my goals for the year? And those projects I was trying to...
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got together to play more Stargrave in recent days. It was good! It was also a bit of a challenge trying...
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Special #MincePieFest2024 special feature special day four! I've had the lemon flavour before and it's been a firm favourite, but how will it fare in 2024? Alas, there's only a...
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Non-Cornish Cornish mince pie #3! Custard! The custard had set so I bunged this one in the meecrowavey to get the molecules a-jiggling. The result was absolutely gorgeous (but...
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Non-Cornish Cornish Pasty mince pie day two! Chocolate today. The pastry is really quite nice, with a similar texture to yesterday's, and a good chocolatey flavour. No...
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Special #MincePieFest2024 special feature special! The first of four mince pies from Brighton's non-Cornish Cornish Pasty Shop. I honestly, genuinely, only went in for one....
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All of the Marvels, by Douglas Wolk, isn't really about one man's experience of reading 27,000 Marvel comics, although it touches on that. It's not a history of Marvel,...