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Most people who know me, know that I like fountain pens, and I like letting other people try them out and get ideas about how to write,...

Yesterday, Jude and I were down at the Birmingham Hiton Metropole, but this time not to run a convention.   This time was something else...

Don’t get to the cinema as often as I used to, in some respects that’s because I don’t have the time I used to have, and in recent...

Once upon a time, there was a world where art was a sacred expression of the human experience. People would spend hours, days, and...

Last year, we were looking at the possibility of having to move out of the Novotel as we’d outgrown its capacity, and that hasn’t changed....

Image from Lil Artsy In advance, I don’t have a dog in this fight, I do conventions, I make events for people to play games at, I don’t...

Last weekend, I got a rare opportunity, to actually go to a convention that I wasn’t working or helping at in any official capacity. We...

When you’re running RPG’s, you need several things. Players… Rules… Scenario… The first one will come if the second two are there, the...

Photo by Daniel Frank from Pexels Trigger warning for Dentistry going wrong I went to the dentists today, I hate the dentists, but more...

Watching the season finale, and indeed the series finale, of The Expanse earlier today, and as I’m watching, a list of the pilots names...

It’s unlikely anyone has missed the mood of the United Kingdom following yesterdays Prime Ministers Questions, and even less likely that...

Photo by Brett Jordan from Pexels As those who’ve met me will know, I’m not the smallest of people, and in fact, I’m probably amongst the...

Photo by Anna Tarazevich: When I was 14 I came second in a writing contest and stopped writing till some years later… Overreaction? Not...

Yesterday I talked about the possibilities and challenges afforded by Virtual environments and Hybrid events, today I’m going to be...

Photo by ICSA from Pexels In advance, I know that a lot of what I'm going to say now is going to cause people to argue with me, I'm fine...

As a GM, indeed as any volunteer at a convention, you sometimes find yourself doing things that go over and above the nature of what you...

Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric from Pexels A long time ago (we were still in the eighties) I read an article in Dragon magazine about...

Alien: The Musical When you’re running games at conventions, you can’t be sure which way those games are going to go. When you’re...

So one thing I've been considering for the past few years is why roleplaying. I mean, it takes significantly more effort to get a...

Been a rough couple of years this last few have, mum died in 2017, dad died last year, his greatest fear, of being alone in a hospital. ...