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Acquire
For the first day of the convention, we were clever for the first time on the trip. Rather than going to the convention centre to buy our tickets, we bought them at the tourist office next to the main station, before hopping on to the U-Bahn for the 10 minute ride to the Messe, where the event was being held. After about half an hour of waiting in ( Read more... ) -
I knew that GCSE would come in handy one day...
I'm not the world's greatest traveller. It's not that I don't like travelling; give me a DS, MP3 player and a supply of food & drink and I'll be fine with pretty much any journey; it's more that I don't get the opportunity to travel that often.
Breaking the habit of a lifetime, however, last week I went to Essen in Germany for the annual Spiel ( Read more... ) -
God rest ye merry merchants...
Today is the 24th of September. Sighted in M&S in Basildon this lunchtime: A box of "Christmas Chocolates".
*sigh* I'd hoped that we might be able to last until at least Halloween. I suppose there are only 79 shopping days left to go... -
"Get Involved!"
I'm way too lazy to do a full report on my trip to the Edinburgh fringe, suffice to say that I went with Kikuichimoji, Callylevy, and Jen and had a really great time.
They say a picture tells a thousand words, so you may want to click on to the full size version of this on flikr. Yellow blobs are my star ratings! :)
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Birthday
So... it's my birthday soon, and as usual the Swiggle is on the nearest weekend. :(
With that said, I'd like to have a party the weekend after my birthday, that is, August 2nd: would anyone be able to make this? -
This is boring with hats
It's not often something reduces me to the giggles, but this did so I thought I'd share:
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RPG Design - an opinionated rant
We bought Lost Odyssey for the 360 recently. It's not a bad game - actually,it;s quite good - but in terms of design choices it might as well have "Copyright Squaresoft 1997" stamped across it's forehead. It's inspired the following list - numbers 2 and 11 in particular, but also 1, 3, 6, 9, and 10.
Rif's Tenets of RPG design
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A change to the advertised schedule
Some of you may recall recent phone calls from me asking when you might be free in may for a games weekend in May. As it turned out... none of you were. Well, ok you pretty much all were, but not on the same weekend. Tch ( Read more... )
