My players have been pushing me to include more rules involving social skills in my table top RPG rules system because otherwise social skills are just "useless". Admittedly I have never called a Conversation (the system's equivalent of diplomacy) roll in 4 years, so possibly this is more a failing of me as a GM than the system in general ( Read more... )

On Monday I was asked to sit in on a session of my roleplaying system that was being run by a friend of mine. What was special about this is it was the second game he was running without my involvement and where I didn't know any of the players ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was in Glasgow for a meeting to celebrate 50 years of the laser. It was quite good fun listening to various eminent speakers (including three Nobel laureates) talk about whatever their latest research was and how it tangentially involved lasers ( Read more... )

I've just come back from a camping holiday in Norway to find fhtagn's massive posts from Australia. Unfortunately I'm too tired and have too much (very smelly) laundry to deal with to post anything similar on my last three weeks ( Read more... )

I seem to consistantly get this:


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Well we seem to have a hung parliament. That's fun. It should make reading the news very interesting ( Read more... )

The Cambridge Beer Festival is on Monday 24th of May to Saturday 29th of May this year.

I'm thinking of coming down again for it. Who's likely to be going?

Fortunately someone has decided to step up to the plate and edit my massive ~130 pages of roleplaying rules documents.

Their initial verdict on the CURSwiki: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/curs/wiki.pl?SoftheFS

"A total re-write of Jack Levell/TheSecretOfTheFadingSuns by ( Read more... )

( What I've been talking about on my LJ according to a collage generator. )

On Friday I was up to 3 am gaming and eating mince pies with my friends.

Then on Saturday I woke up and went to a 12 course medieval banquet and sang drunkenly with my friends.

Then on Sunday I got up and cooked pizza for 11 people in my research group (who are also my friends).

I think I need a day or two to recover from this weekend.