Struggled through my review of Terrors From Beyond the latest supplement for Call of Cthulhu.

2800 words of me not being happy with it.

Been out tonight to see the Michael Mann directed Public Enemies and discovered why mobile phones were invented ( Read more... )

My review of Days of Steam is up at Gamecryer.com.

This afternoon we had a small board gaming session. DaveL came over and together with lulucthulhu and threetrees, I got three games out on the table.

The first was an old favourite to get us into the mood. It is a while since we played Red Empire and I had intended to showcase the game at Games Expo, but did not manage to get it out of the bag. So we played a lot of ( Read more... )

The second RPG I tried at Games Expo was the (now) Origins Award winning Mouse Guard. This was first thing Saturday morning, with DaveL and I rushing to get there, and not be distracted by everything that was new and on sale! We did not even have time to visit the face painter and get our faces done as mice. Which would have been very silly, but ( Read more... )

This is traditional.

Happy birthday tax-dodging, religion dissenting...

REBEL SCUM!

If you are going to say happy birthday America, say it with fireworks. North Korea did.

Which was nice.

So Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska is going to step down and not run again.

lulucthulhu has been wondering if her next career move will be as a Tina Fey impersonator?

I did manage to get some roleplaying at Games Expo. On Friday I tried the new fantasy RPG from Triple Ace Games, Hellfrost, which is inspired by Scandinavian/Northern Europe cultures. This is set in a world of encroaching winter, and the cold influences all aspects of the game. The scenario I played will probably be available soon, but it can be ( Read more... )

We have tickets to see I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in Birmingham in September.

Hurrah.