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Daily Sketch: Day 4
Daily Sketch, Day 4. No idea, just started doodling. Discovered that setting Sketchtime to magic marker, in light grey, and a fine point, is like drawing in pencil. Hmmm...Daily Sketch, Day 4. Just...
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Daily Sketch: Days 5 & 6
Didn't get chance to post yesterday as bogged down with assembling some flatpacked shelving. I had a thought about how these pictures may be diluting the basic cause of the blog, so I may keep doodling...
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Roll Your Own Life (15) - Comic Sans
About time I got back to the history of my gaming life. This post diverges a little from the usual gaming stuff, but it's important as it lead to bigger things.Howard the DuckIssue 23 - Star...
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That Time We Were in "Legends of the Dark Knight"...
Last post I talked about comics, and my feeble attempt to get my little shoddy comic published. I mentioned briefly that there was a tale to tell when it comes to D'Israeli's work on Batman. Well, are...
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Dicing with Distraction
Yes, I confess, I failed to do a blog post last week. AND, I've been failing to do the promised "Daily Sketch" posts... in fact, I've been failing to do the sketches themselves. But there's a good...
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Roll Your Own Life (16) - There can be only one!
I'm getting a little ahead of myself with bringing up Conspiracy X. Let's rewind a bit to 1999.We moved to Bournemouth. Wasn't a great idea, but it was one of those "If you don't try it, you'll never...
View ArticleLights, Camera, Inaction
Just a few updates this week, as I'm still trying to get back up to speed with the various projects. Let's have a look at what's been going on!AUTOCRATIKI haven't really touched the video camera for...
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What's so WILD about it? (Part 1)
I'd been ignoring WILD for a little while, looking at other projects that I've been working on, or should have been working on. It was only recently that I really thought that I should get back to the...
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There's "Old School" and then there's OLD School
Okay, sent the way-back machine to a series of posts pretty early on in the "Roll Your Own Life" series of posts, when I started talking about the old gaming group from my little home-town.After that...
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Six of Eight
...and half a dozen of the other.It had been a while since I'd returned up to my home town. The last time was a brief day there and back to bear witness to my mum's ashes being interred at their final...
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Roll Your Own Life (17) - Just Keep Gaming, Just Keep Gaming...
A little out of sequence again, but I really wanted to talk about marathon gaming. Not gaming involving 1980’s Snickers, or the precursor to Halo. I mean gaming for incredibly long sessions.Our little...
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ANNOUNCING: The Beatles RPG
The Beatles Roleplaying GameAdventures with the Fab FourPicture yourself on a boat on a river…The music was just the beginning. The biggest band in the world may be best recognised for their influence...
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"They're all going to laugh at you..."
The trailer for the new version of Carrie was released online today, starring Chloe Grace Moretz (better known as Hit-Girl) and Julianne Moore.From the footage they’ve shown, it’s looking like it’s a...
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Diceni
Sunday 7th April saw a new event in Norwich aimed mostly at gamers in the region - Diceni.Just a handful of the many gaming tables at Diceni 2013 in NorwichHosted at The Forum in Norwich, the event has...
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Then "WALLOP!" Our Turn To Do Some Wiping Out!
As part of my birthday prezzies this week from my lovely wife, I was treated to an evening of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds. Something I've always been intrigued with seeing as...
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Expecto Extremis
Well, it's been a while since my last post - the last three weeks have been intense to say the least...Mid-April marks not only my birthday, but also my wife's birthday and our wedding anniversary, so...
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What's so WILD about it? (part 2)
I'd been having some problems writing WILD, my RPG of dreamsharing. I have the system, I know how to write the slightly different take on character generation, and I had the way the game works written,...
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Roll Your Own Life (18) - As One Door Closes
I mentioned a couple of “Roll Your Own Life” entries ago that I used to publish comics. I had my own company, set up by The Prince’s Youth Business Trust, and the couple of titles I did (Missing and...
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Bad at Games (1)
I’ve decided I may be too old for video games. There, I’ve said it. With the announcement for the new Xbox One and the PS4, both new and exciting consoles that can do everything bigger, faster and with...
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Bad at Games (2) - PS, I Loved You...
(Continuing my story of a gaming life, this time through video games...)It was a time without games. I'd sold my ZX Spectrum, and the Atari VCS, and had no video gaming outlet really at all. My time...
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