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I have returned!
London did have internets, but by the time I found internets I could use without my own shinyphone it was already Saturday night and I was quite tired from Dragonmeeting. (Having Dragonmet?)
London did have internets, but by the time I found internets I could use without my own shinyphone it was already Saturday night and I was quite tired from Dragonmeeting. (Having Dragonmet?)
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Barrowcliffe kittens - thumbs up.
Also, getting a Doctor Who adventure out of my head after about four months, bonus.
Also, getting a Doctor Who adventure out of my head after about four months, bonus.
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A Night In The Lonesome October: Doctor Who thingy
A shortish adventure that can be duly embellished.
PDF
Part of A Night In The Lonesome October.
This seems apt.
Part of A Night In The Lonesome October.
This seems apt.
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GEAS Sunday plan thingies
Adventure! (or Hollow Earth Expedition) in World War II... or now.
Vampire: The Requiem - or V20 in theory but I'd rather have the two-standard-books version of the latter to actually take to a gaming table, though. My Masquerade always looked fairly Requiem-y anyway.
Supers, probably Icons.
Emergency fallback Doctor Who like the last two years.
That's about it, plan-wise, really. Depends on players.
Vampire: The Requiem - or V20 in theory but I'd rather have the two-standard-books version of the latter to actually take to a gaming table, though. My Masquerade always looked fairly Requiem-y anyway.
Supers, probably Icons.
Emergency fallback Doctor Who like the last two years.
That's about it, plan-wise, really. Depends on players.
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A time-travel fantasy show from the BBC... in Gaelic.
Siubhlachan, aka The Traveller.
And the original five minute short.
"A young girl inherits a watch from her grandfather that allows her to travel backwards and forwards through time. She quickly discovers there are dark forces who want the watch for themselves – and will stop at nothing to get it."
And the original five minute short.
"A young girl inherits a watch from her grandfather that allows her to travel backwards and forwards through time. She quickly discovers there are dark forces who want the watch for themselves – and will stop at nothing to get it."
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Once Upon A Time pilot
The weird outlier of the Festivals here is the Television Festival, which runs for a single weekend and can only be attended if you spend a couple hundred quid on an all-in ticket. But this year, in a bit of a spinoff, the Filmhouse has been showing some selected previews of relevant shows.
Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a preview by twenty-seven-and-a-half hours, but I was able to get a ticket for the pilot of Once Upon A Time which will air here... maybe sometime, somewhere, probably once the first season is completed, and that doesn't start in the US for two months.
It's a very low-key urban fantasy, apart from some big "wow" flashbacks to the storybook world most of the cast hail from, with nothing much fantastical bleeding into the real world... yet. Still, the people who have been trying to adapt Fables to TV must be spittin'.
And Robert Carlyle said hello in a twenty-second video intro. I imagine if he'd been there in person it would have gotten a better screening time than 11am. He plays Rumpelstiltskin in full scenery-chewing panto style, which seems appropriate.
Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a preview by twenty-seven-and-a-half hours, but I was able to get a ticket for the pilot of Once Upon A Time which will air here... maybe sometime, somewhere, probably once the first season is completed, and that doesn't start in the US for two months.
It's a very low-key urban fantasy, apart from some big "wow" flashbacks to the storybook world most of the cast hail from, with nothing much fantastical bleeding into the real world... yet. Still, the people who have been trying to adapt Fables to TV must be spittin'.
And Robert Carlyle said hello in a twenty-second video intro. I imagine if he'd been there in person it would have gotten a better screening time than 11am. He plays Rumpelstiltskin in full scenery-chewing panto style, which seems appropriate.
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Neil Gaiman, GenCon giftage
Thanks to Cat attending GenCon, I now have The One Ring, about which more later, and a funny Doctor Who T-shirt that I won't spoiler you on.
We were at the Book Festival to see Neil Gaiman talk with Audrey Niffenegger about fairytales, how myths decay into fairytales, how characters in fairytales generally only have one defining characteristic - "this character eats people! And you don't really ask why..." and how heroines have to be brave and clever and patient while heroes tend to just inherit things, and about stories getting away with you and how that was informed by ten years writing comics and how "you have let the cool stuff in", and about how Steven Moffat stopped the "hypothetically speaking..." part of the Doctor Who writing conversation "by saying "Oh, Rude Scottish Word it, you know." ... Yes, it was fuck." And aout why Amy and Rory didn't think to hold hands, which he discusses in the DVD commentary.
It then took a mere hour and a half to get through the signing queue. Picture by kind person behind me, who I hopefully managed to likewise photograph on her smartphone. I resisted the temptation to post the one that caught me looking up at the ceiling as the rain really started hammering.
We were at the Book Festival to see Neil Gaiman talk with Audrey Niffenegger about fairytales, how myths decay into fairytales, how characters in fairytales generally only have one defining characteristic - "this character eats people! And you don't really ask why..." and how heroines have to be brave and clever and patient while heroes tend to just inherit things, and about stories getting away with you and how that was informed by ten years writing comics and how "you have let the cool stuff in", and about how Steven Moffat stopped the "hypothetically speaking..." part of the Doctor Who writing conversation "by saying "Oh, Rude Scottish Word it, you know." ... Yes, it was fuck." And aout why Amy and Rory didn't think to hold hands, which he discusses in the DVD commentary.
It then took a mere hour and a half to get through the signing queue. Picture by kind person behind me, who I hopefully managed to likewise photograph on her smartphone. I resisted the temptation to post the one that caught me looking up at the ceiling as the rain really started hammering.
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Doctor Who, Back Soon
Click here, and obviously, spoilers
When are they coming back? What's that? Where is - what the - why is she - Rory punched a Nazi!
When are they coming back? What's that? Where is - what the - why is she - Rory punched a Nazi!
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Back on the Door In Time track, series two episode one in the can. No idea when episode two will happen, but I live in hope.
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Nationals 2012, Day -305
Planning for the Nationals 2012 is underway, including the all-important "new categories" phase.
Currently in the running:
The separation of the old and new WoD systems - will both get enough people? Personally, when I was playing WoD I liked a bit of variety... as long as I didn't have to spend half the adventure in the bloody Umbra again.
A Pirates! category - surely that's more something you attack other categories with? If you can't fit pirates into an RPG category you're just not trying.
The various 40K RPGs - I'd suggest WFRP as well, the grand old man of British RPGs seems like it deserves a shot.
Doctor Who - which I like, as you may have gathered, but I'm not sure the game's big enough to get a category to itself. And I'm not just saying that as I want to run it in my category what I made up.
Thoughts?
Currently in the running:
The separation of the old and new WoD systems - will both get enough people? Personally, when I was playing WoD I liked a bit of variety... as long as I didn't have to spend half the adventure in the bloody Umbra again.
A Pirates! category - surely that's more something you attack other categories with? If you can't fit pirates into an RPG category you're just not trying.
The various 40K RPGs - I'd suggest WFRP as well, the grand old man of British RPGs seems like it deserves a shot.
Doctor Who - which I like, as you may have gathered, but I'm not sure the game's big enough to get a category to itself. And I'm not just saying that as I want to run it in my category what I made up.
Thoughts?
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NEXT TIME...
Series A, Episode 3: Deluge
Yeah, this is what happens when I have months to think of the next adventure rather than a week or so.
Yeah, this is what happens when I have months to think of the next adventure rather than a week or so.
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Made it, ma...
So that was Conpulsion. Good game as GM, good game as player, okay...ish game as GM, stormed the pub quiz, offered to do it next year to maintain my amateur status, raised 80-odd with the toy gryphon, tired now.
Hello Joe!
Hello Joe!
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Happy birthday Warren Ellis and Christopher Eccleston!
Oh, what a Doctor Who episode that might have been.