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GM Submission thing

So far apparently we have some fantasy games, something steampunky, Matt has swiped Doctor Who and/or Icons, Irn GM which at this point I might win by default and for which I'm holding off prepping a Doctor Who adventure because it seems like a fair bet to keep that in reserve, Gar I believe running Primeval and The Laundry with Charles Stross there...

And I need something for Buffy to Versus.

Current forerunners include Ragnarok, Arthurian Mythology, Pirates, Predator, The Hulk, The Mummy, The 1960s, and... Buffy.

Right then. Playing Icons and running Doctor Who, as the brand-new player looked like she'd be keener on something lightish than Vampire quite possibly being darker than the pits of Hell.

Offer Doctor Who of a Sunday afternoon, as 'tis simple and from here to exam time makes a thirteen-episode series pretty well.

Bring my Vampire books the first week, just in case.

Dragonmeet was lovely. Getting back rather less so. But being an hour and twenty minutes late on a packed train full of drunk Newcastle fans for the last two hours ain't as bad as not being able to get back at all would have been.

Got to meet Ian Livingstone, the man responsible for my first gaming type experience (City Of Thieves, which I now have a signed copy of the new edition of), Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Andrew Peregrine, Jeff Combos... as a result, my signed stuff bag was rather heavy. And Alex Jurkat wasn't even there but I still got a signed limited-edition Buffy rulebook at the auction. (I never got the limited edition when it was out, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.)

C7's new game, by Gar, is Primeval. Sweeeeet.

Hope everybody made (or makes) it back okay.

Since it's so far drawn zero comment, a reminder that I yammer about gaming a bit more over here.

Yes, I called it The Watch House.

Also out there, and this drawing comment due to plugs at the DWAITAS officially unofficial forum, my Who gaming miniblog.

Why?

British writers (and, in all fairness, an Australian writer-artist) at the World SF Convention. Doy.

The Clock Strikes Thirteen

See also the DWAITAS forum repost which gets less views but more comments.

The first minute and 46 seconds of this is the musical cue cited.

Ending the game proved to be a good call as I haven't been able to get two of the players to rub together all summer. Still, GMing a Christmas special would have been fun.

Now that it's in a not-actively-horrible location, I don't mind spending £2.50 to get in to Claymore and look at trade stalls and be in no danger of playing anything nearly as much as I used to. (Although this year I could have, if the half-hour Dalek skirmish game hadn't been so popular.)

Also got the new Conpulsion flier. My scepticism about the big Saturday night event being a ceilidh with attached LARP has been noted. And how the heck am I gonna make a figure of next year's Gryphon, I do not know...