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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-THREE and TWENTY-FOUR: The clock is ticking Jack...
Just a week to go after today for this year's #RPGaDAY, and I'm once again slipping behind. Time for a quick catchup...Day TWENTY-THREE is about a Peerless Player. Tricky, but I'll answer that with a...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Dice, Dice Baby
Day Twenty-Five of #RPGaDAY2024 is all about desirable dice. I love dice. I have far too many dice. I went to a games convention yesterday and saw some of the most beautiful dice I have ever seen - a...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-SIX: Superb Screen
Day Twenty-Six of #RPGaDAY2024 - don't worry, there are not many days left! Today's prompt is about superb screens...I haven't used a screen for many years - mostly because I haven't GM'd for many...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: Marvellous Miniature
We're down to the last few prompts now, and unfortunately this is another one that isn't too relevant to me - I don't really use miniatures, but there have been a few recently that have really stood...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: Great Gamer Gadget
Day Twenty-Eight of #RPGaDAY2024 is all about great gadgets. Again, not really too relevant for me as we don't really use cool gadgets or accessories. No dice towers, or fancy apps. The closest thing...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY TWENTY-NINE: Awesome App
For Day Twenty-Nine of #RPGaDAY2024 we're looking at 'awesome apps' and there's only really one I've used (which is pretty cool), and that's the dice rolling app created for use with FFG's Star Wars...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY THIRTY: Person you'd like to game with
Day Thirty of #RPGaDAY2024 and we're asking about a person you'd like to game with. I mean, there are some crazy and out-there ideas I could suggest. Many years ago I heard tell of a legendary...
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#RPGaDAY2024 - DAY THIRTY-ONE: Game or Gamer you miss
It's the end of #RPGaDAY2024 and for the final post, it's a poignant one about a Game or Gamer you miss. We've lost a lot of people, and I don't want to single anyone out. So I'll go the easy route...
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Travelers with one 'L'
(Disclaimer: This post initially appeared on my Substack on 25th August)We’d just finished our particularly epic TTRPG campaign of Aegean (though playing as mythic Vikings, rather than Ancient Greece)...
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North of the Borderlands
Last weekend we ventured north, stayed with friends, and experienced the wonders of Tabletop Scotland.It has been a while since I’ve crossed the border into Scotland. As a kid, my parents loved...
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Not Content with just Content
I listened to a rather enlightening theory recently known as the “Dead Internet Theory”. In it, it discusses the fact that the ‘content’ we put online, is lost in a sea of replicated and AI generated...
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You Can't Take The Sky From Me
At least, we can hope! I thought I should do a new, almost introductory, post on the Blog as there are a load of people migrating from what we affectionately call 'The Hellsite' over to its logical...
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My Nerdy Life in 100 Geeky Objects #1
Corgi James Bond Lotus Esprit (1977)When thinking about geeky objects that made an impression on me, I struggled to think of what could be the moment that I became a geek.1977 was definitely the year...
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Watching X-Files with no lights on
One Week......to Dragonmeet that is!Just a quick post this time, don’t worry. This time next week it’ll be Dragonmeet, the UK’s second largest tabletop convention and it’ll be the first one I’ve been...
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My Nerdy Life in 100 Geeky Objects - #2 - Super Spider-Man and the Titans
#2: Super Spider-Man and the Titans, Issue 203 (1976) When I mentioned last time (for object #1, the Corgi James Bond Lotus Esprit) that my parents were ‘enablers’ of my nerdy life, I’d almost...
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The End (Of 2024)
The Traditional End of the Arbitrary Calendar Year RoundupAt the end of each year, I look back on my blog post about the end of the previous year and see what I hoped would come to pass in the future…...
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Beauty in the Darkness - David Lynch
Portrait of David Lynch by Debs (2025)I’ve always loved movies and TV. Always. From a kid, those first trips to the cinema, or my parents introducing me to movies and series on the TV. I love them. I...
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My Nerdy Life in 100 Geeky Objects #3 - 2000AD Summer Special
#3 - 2000AD Summer Special Supercomic 1977We’ve already established that I’ve always been a nerd. My mother had me watching James Bond movies on TV, and introduced me to Doctor Who because she liked...
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Remembering Alex
[Warning: This post is about grief, so if you’d rather not read it, please just delete this from your inbox. I know this is a tough topic.]This week, we said our farewells to Alex Guttridge. I know a...
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Form and Format
I’ve been thinking a lot about book formats recently. For many, many years, I’ve been wanting to scale down, and do something smaller. I even made a video about it 10 years ago (back before the...
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My Nerdy Life in 100 Geeky Objects – #4: Palitoy Chewbacca and R2D2
#4 - Star Wars Action Figures: Chewbacca and R2-D2, Palitoy (1977)Something big was coming in my young and impressionable life, and I had no idea how much of a massive impact it would have. I'd seen...
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Sidequest: Every TTRPG Played #1-10
Over where the sky is blue (that's Bluesky just in case you haven't been on there), much respected and loved comics creator and TTRPG writer, Kieron Gillen, posted to say that he was trying to make a...
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Sidequest: Every TTRPG played 11-20
Well, it's been one of those months again. In such a funk, and kinda down, that I can't really think of anything exciting to add to my blog. It's a good job I've got these ridiculous posts listing...
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Passion! (Turn to the Left)
The man, the myth, the legend that is, David Bowie[No, that wasn't a typo. I'm paraphrasing one of the Bowie's song titles.]I watch a lot of Youtube. I don't know if it's because I've a terribly short...
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Sidequest: Every TTRPG played 21-30
Continuing my previous posts listing every tabletop RPG I've ever played, we're starting to get into the Nineties! Of course, just a handful of Eighties RPGs to get through, but we're getting there. If...
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