Paizo Con UK is at Aston University in Birmingham on the 11th-12th July. Deadline for booking tickets is end of this month. People with PFS characters and anyone else who fancies some 3.5 D&D with some pretty cool people (I met a lot of them at Gen Con) should come!

So, I've got a satin dress that I wanted to wear for a wedding the weekend after next (May 9th), but it's a couple of inches too long due to my being a short-arse who slouches. Is there anyone who could possibly bring up the hem on it for me within the week? I'd do it myself, but I'm spectacularly incompetant when it comes to sewing of any form. ( Read more... )

Just a quick one - I'm sure it'll turn up on Neil Gaiman's blog sooner or later but for anyone interested, there are preview 3D screenings of Coraline this Sunday morning, including one at Meadowhall. You can get free tickets if you sign up here, enter the code 8554 and bring a copy of this Saturday's Times with you on the day.

From Dave Gorman's Twitter; so pretty!Nationals was fun, played Call of Cthulhu as a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen setting and a 70s Cops setting, shockingly survived both games. Wargamers nearly won on their own despite apparently having a bad weekend... already planning a more extended stay in Edinburgh for next year (assuming I have a bloody ( Read more... )

Febuary is such a sucky time to be made redundant, four weeks in and I've had a massive two interviews, and I don't really know what to do to improve my chances, since every agency I've spoken to (and there's been a lot of them) seem to have nothing but praise for my CV and general attitude. Given moving to London or Cambridge or somewhere else ( Read more... )

Duke Special is playing the Leadmill on the 24th January. He's the best musician for making an effort to engage and involve the audience I've seen after Paul & Storm (last time I saw him the encore consisted of a rather silly sing-along and improv session in the middle of the audience followed by a procession out playing Entrance of the Gladiators ( Read more... )

I mentioned this at breakfast yesterday, but Essential Magic is a really handy deck building resource, with an up to date card database with decent search functions (just needs regular expressions on the rules text to be ideal :P), and if you register you can create decks and get useful info like mana curve and sample starting hands.

And, y'know I ( Read more... )

Grr, teach me to purchase books and not read them immediately. Finally got around to reading Perdido Street Station, turns out where pages 133-180 should be, there are duplicates of pages 677-724 instead. It's just really... ugh! And I bought it ages ago so I doubt I could find the receipt... hohum...

D&D Edition Wars

I wish this weren't so accurate :P

For those sad enough to be interested in such things, the GSL for Fourth Edition D&D is out (here, along with the SRD list). Also known as "Wizards of the Coast want you as their doormat".
( Fun facts about the GSL )