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Mar. 27th, 2011 07:22 pmSo 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!
Now I have to go to the charity auction
Feb. 22nd, 2011 08:39 pmFor a shot at Gar's Primeval game.
Since it's during the ceilidh-LARP hybrid I was planning to give it a miss. Maybe I can get someone there to phone bid for me...
Since it's during the ceilidh-LARP hybrid I was planning to give it a miss. Maybe I can get someone there to phone bid for me...
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.
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.
Aaagh, it's nine weeks to Conpulsion
Jan. 24th, 2011 07:23 pmConpulsion. 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.
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.
Yay, new Primeval!
Nov. 9th, 2010 08:20 pmA teaser for the 2011 series
Of course, STV will probably show a ten-year-old documentary about breadmaking or something instead.
Of course, STV will probably show a ten-year-old documentary about breadmaking or something instead.
Yay!
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varyar.)
Okay, the third series lost three key characters, went on a bit, featured Abby's brother, did the episode I always wanted to see reasonably well, didn't address the anomalies getting closer together or the Claudia Brown thing, threw away a side reference to the Loch Ness monster (I swear, I'm this close to writing a fanfic), failed to match the Crowning Moment of Awesome in 2.6 and didn't have enough Future Predators. But hey. More Primeval means another shot!
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varyar.)Okay, the third series lost three key characters, went on a bit, featured Abby's brother, did the episode I always wanted to see reasonably well, didn't address the anomalies getting closer together or the Claudia Brown thing, threw away a side reference to the Loch Ness monster (I swear, I'm this close to writing a fanfic), failed to match the Crowning Moment of Awesome in 2.6 and didn't have enough Future Predators. But hey. More Primeval means another shot!
Primeval looks to be extinct.
Jun. 17th, 2009 06:20 pmDespite a movie and a US remake on the cards, Primeval looks set to join the great unresolved cliffhangers of TV.
I thought the third series (the biggest, at ten episodes) was a bit shaky. Losing two of the main characters (one of them the week it got gubbed in the ratings by the Doctor Who Easter letdown) hurt, and being able to hear about 2/3 of a new character's lines in the old one's voice didn't help. Anomalies in human history appeared for the first time, which could have connected to their increasing appearance in our time and hinted at a looming total breakdown in time, but maybe that's just me reading too much into it. But they did pretty much make one of the episodes I'd have pitched to them when the series started, which was nice.
And although they appeared in what is now probably the final episode, we never did get a Raptor Versus Future Predator fight...
I thought the third series (the biggest, at ten episodes) was a bit shaky. Losing two of the main characters (one of them the week it got gubbed in the ratings by the Doctor Who Easter letdown) hurt, and being able to hear about 2/3 of a new character's lines in the old one's voice didn't help. Anomalies in human history appeared for the first time, which could have connected to their increasing appearance in our time and hinted at a looming total breakdown in time, but maybe that's just me reading too much into it. But they did pretty much make one of the episodes I'd have pitched to them when the series started, which was nice.
And although they appeared in what is now probably the final episode, we never did get a Raptor Versus Future Predator fight...
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Apr. 11th, 2009 10:28 pmSo this cold decided it wasn't uncomfortable enough and gave me an ear infection. So I was in hospital at 7.30 yesterday morning after my ear started leaking this orangey clear stuff, getting antibiotics. So for Easter I have pain, discomfort, tiredness, no sense of taste and stuff leaking out of me.
And the great big Doctor Who special was a slightly longer than normal Doctor Who episode. By comparison, this week's Primeval took a fall in the ratings but totally pwned as entertainment.
And the great big Doctor Who special was a slightly longer than normal Doctor Who episode. By comparison, this week's Primeval took a fall in the ratings but totally pwned as entertainment.
Conpulsion 09: an erratic passing view
Mar. 29th, 2009 04:51 pmHome early due to (a) getting one player for Buffy this afternoon and (b) the new format, where the pub quiz was on Friday and drinking up time is 6.15 this evening anyways. As joexnz noted while very helpfully printing handouts, there are good reasons for this not least allowing setting up early, but I felt that the 1 1/4 hour pub quiz alone (and apparently two tabletop games as well) wasn't really enough for the extra evening. Maybe kick a LARP group or somesuch to do more things next year for more options. More days good!
The lovely and ever generous Janet bought both the things I put in the auction, one of which isn't in the country yet (hello guys!) for more than I paid for 'em, so that's cool. And I got to run Hollow Earth Expedition for a full house, and talk to some folks (hello folks!) so I still feel like I've achieved something.
OTOH I missed all the seminars and never did find my copy of The Extraordinary Adventures Of Baron Munchausen to get it signed. Go me!
Good con, I think, despite these all-about-me things.
In other news, Primeval's back! And using the same Egyptian demon I used for my Stargate game. I'd say great minds think alike, but one of them is mine, so let's not get nuts here.
joexnz noted while very helpfully printing handouts, there are good reasons for this not least allowing setting up early, but I felt that the 1 1/4 hour pub quiz alone (and apparently two tabletop games as well) wasn't really enough for the extra evening. Maybe kick a LARP group or somesuch to do more things next year for more options. More days good! The lovely and ever generous Janet bought both the things I put in the auction, one of which isn't in the country yet (hello guys!) for more than I paid for 'em, so that's cool. And I got to run Hollow Earth Expedition for a full house, and talk to some folks (hello folks!) so I still feel like I've achieved something.
OTOH I missed all the seminars and never did find my copy of The Extraordinary Adventures Of Baron Munchausen to get it signed. Go me!
Good con, I think, despite these all-about-me things.
In other news, Primeval's back! And using the same Egyptian demon I used for my Stargate game. I'd say great minds think alike, but one of them is mine, so let's not get nuts here.
I want one of these.
Aug. 25th, 2008 07:00 pmStar Wars scale Hellboy
And no, this does not mean I'll be doing a smaller-scale The Watch House line.
Not till I find some good likenesses, anyway. (Alfred Molina will be in the second batch of Raiders Of The Lost Ark figures, and between Heroes, Narnia and Potter coming out this size...)
And no, this does not mean I'll be doing a smaller-scale The Watch House line.
Not till I find some good likenesses, anyway. (Alfred Molina will be in the second batch of Raiders Of The Lost Ark figures, and between Heroes, Narnia and Potter coming out this size...)
