Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!

I have just finished Ian Livingstone's 2022 Fighting Fantasy gamebook Shadow of the Giants . It's not too bad! The main issue is tha...

This is an arrow made of some sort of lightweight but strong metal. The name "Saint Sevurdapoy" is carved along the shaft. Fee...

This small, scrappy shield -- almost a buckler -- is made from the stretched face of some hideous swamp-dwelling creature, and was created ...

This is a withered severed leg with dirty bandages wrapped around the stump. Two-handed club. The wielder counts as unarmed for any releva...

On Monday night I dreamed that I visited my Korean cousin in Toronto. I don't have a Korean cousin in Toronto, so I suspect this is my s...

Patrick Stuart has written an interesting post about tweaking the rules of D&D -- or rather tweaking how you use the rules of D&D ...

I have fond memories of sitting on the sitting room floor and leafing through the back section -- always the last few pages, with the t...

This is a review of the new edition of Melsonian Arts Council 's Troika! but first, a bit of a digression. It will be relevant, I promi...

Last weekend I again endured the pernicious lottery that is Southern Rail and visited my friends Courtney, James, and Liam in That London. Y...

Oh okay then, let's have a look. I'm not going to do one a day; no one wants to see that. Let's bash through the whole lot ...

The first entry in my top ten may have come as a bit of a surprise but this next one is perhaps more predictable, if only because like many...

A few weeks ago my group had a go at Gumshoe -- why do they capitalise it? Is it an acronym? Are they shouting? -- with The Esoterrorists ...

Undeterred by our previous experience with the game, tomorrow my gaming group will have another go at Dungeons and Dragons 5 , this time u...

I have just taken a delivery -- thanks Ben! -- of a pile of boxes from my university days that had been in storage at the other end of the c...

I didn't get involved in the February Dungeons and Dragons blog event meme thing because I didn't want to clog up the blog -- blogc...