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So I'm running this. It's Star Wars a couple centuries after the movies (and not Legacy) with new heroes, new villains, and new gigantic impractical superweapons. It will, I hope, be fun.

My Buffy game for Conpulsion was going to be about a ghost-hunting reality show, but I see the Dead Of Night game is about a ghost-hunting reality show.

Therefore, thinking of changing it, but what to?

For reference, last year's winner was Evil Buffy, following the previous year's silly-as-possible easy-to-run Godzilla.

Other options considered include Ragnarok, Arthurian Mythology, Pirates, Predator, The Hulk, The Mummy, and The 1960s.

Doctor Who is already up against 2012, so that's taken...

Propulsion 2011 is done! Thank you all!

And nobody got the questions about Mythos or Chrononauts or, I believe, Mass Effect.

Vampire: The Requiem is go, Uncharted not. More players in the evening than afternoon. That's fine. (sniffle)

Happy birthday dad!

Now evenings only, and at Teviot, and Wednesday is New Comics Day and I missed One-Off Sunday so I looked in.

Alan's running homebrew steampunk airship pirates for six people, Phil's running a homebrew SF game for six, Euan's running some sort of homebrew real-world fantasy for four, and some new American guy's running an actual published game, specifically Scion, for EIGHT. Best of luck!

I got one inquiry about my "well, I could run various things" platform, but one is not really sufficient. Next Sunday for first regular session I will actually bring some books, I guess. Not sure which ones, though...

The Wednesday after I get back from TGM... and then the Sunday ten days later. Am I missing something? Like a Freshers' Week event?

This time I'm sure people had fun. Or were so sugared up and caffeinated we couldn't tell.

Despite me and another GM in my category putting the representative from Stirling at the top (which was totally not motivated by location, for reals!) they were beaten to second due to a third place in the final category, by Cardiff.

"Cardiff, huh? You could totally do a Torchwood tour while you're down there..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAGHH"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"... Win."

Conpulsion. It's nine weeks to it. Aaagh.

So about time to come up with the all-important "hey you, play my adventure" pitch blurbs. They have to be short, pithy, relatively accurate, and for games I'll be able and ideally happy to GM in two months' time.

I only have to come up with one game to GM this year, as one of the events this year is IRN GM, in which you get three GURPS setting books at random on Saturday and have to run an adventure using bits of all three on Sunday. So that's my Doctor Who adventure sorted probably...

So I dunno, Buffy or Adventure! or somethin' on Saturday.

While leaving room to play Gar's Primeval demo hopefully. The Laundry game with Charles Stross there will probably be rather busy.

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.

The Council in charge of London all have their own problems, keeping them from working together as well as they once did. This has given the renegades (a coterie that looks a lot like the Council in demographic terms, but averages a few decades younger) an in to oust them.

Both sides are Invictus.

The Holy Lance of the Hawksmoor Churches and the Circle will probably take opposing sides because of each other rather than their political purposes.

No Carthians or Dragons unless someone wants to play one. Other power blocs in the city (the drug lords and slavers) are covenant-free.

I have a page about prominent mortals in my notebook.

And a page about VII... which is deliberately left blank.