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Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back...
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. ...
John Dodd
Jan 1, 20223 min read
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Book Review: Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces
"He killed himself because he loved you, because he believed in the world as you see it." This is but one line of a novel that will...
John Dodd
Apr 15, 20212 min read
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Book Review: The Kobalt Dossier
Eric Van Lustbader was one of the first authors that I became seriously enthused with, and my enjoyment of his stories was a high point...
John Dodd
Apr 15, 20212 min read
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Book Review: The Helm of Midnight
Serial killers are a difficult subject to get right, it's easy for them to slip into the realm of farce, where their convoluted schemes...
John Dodd
Mar 25, 20212 min read
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Book Review: Seven Deaths of an Empire
Minor spoiler included, not for the plot, but the timeline of the book The death of an Emperor, and the machinations that will always...
John Dodd
Mar 18, 20212 min read
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Book Review: Assassins Orbit
A mass murder is just the beginning of something that threatens to engulf the universe in death and slaughter. This book has everything I...
John Dodd
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Book Review: Floating in Darkness
An interesting book, telling of an interesting life. Ron Garan has been a Fighter Pilot, an Astronaut, a Father, and a Husband, and here...
John Dodd
Mar 17, 20212 min read
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Book Review: The Recollection (10th Anniversary Edition)
Driving across galaxies in a Land Rover Interstellar zombies (but are they?) Lost Hope, Found Love Two perspectives, one story,...
John Dodd
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Anna - ARC review, minor spoilers
Content Warning for Sexual and Physical Violence Several weeks back, I got a free advance copy of Sammy HK Smith’s Anna, and while I...
John Dodd
Feb 14, 20213 min read
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Conventions don't Ban people, unless we have to.
I've been considering this since yesterday, about whether to post out about this sort of thing and the effect it has on the community at...
John Dodd
Dec 1, 20202 min read
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That's Make Believe, Dodd, you should do something useful with your life...
I'm a Geek, always have been, likely always will be, from a time before it was allowed, even encouraged to be a Geek, from the time when...
John Dodd
Aug 2, 20203 min read
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Uk Games Expo: How the Judging is done.
Every year, we get asked what the product would have to be to win the awards, what are we looking for, what do we judge things based on,...
John Dodd
Jul 30, 20205 min read
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UKGE Best Adventure: Aria, The Crimson Path
The last entry for the best adventure is The Crimson Path, from First Falling Leaf Different to many published adventures in that it...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Jordenheim
Lo there do I see the next game, Lo there do I see the artwork, and the rules, and the setting, Lo there do I… Wait, that’s the...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Runequest Slipcase Edition
While not the largest entry to the awards this year, this certainly ranks as the heaviest. This is the Runequest Slipcase Edition from...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Devils Run
In advance of the review, we’d just like to say that we think Tina Turner in Chainmail would have approved of this game… This is Devils...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: ERA: Lyres
We’d be lying if we said this one hadn’t been in for the awards before, but that’s entirely appropriate because this is ERA: Lyres,...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Bite Marks
From Zombies to Werewolves, the next entry in the awards is Bite Marks, from Black Armada. It would be too simple to say that Bite Marks...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Zombie World
Our next submission to the awards is Zombie World, from Magpie Games This one drew interest just from the way in which it was presented....
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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UKGE Best RPG: Mork Borg
And on to one of the most interesting entries for the awards, Mork Borg from Stockholm Kartell and Ockult Ortmastare Games, published by...
John Dodd
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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