Monthly Archives: April 2008

“Do people still go to cons?”

Posted on April 7, 2008 by matt

This year, Q-CON celebrates it’s 15th year. It was sixteen years ago that I finished the ‘market research’ of conventions in Ireland (via Gaelcon and Warpcon – and getting illicit copies of their after-con reports from by Bothan spies). This … Continue reading →

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WotW: Earth – The Second Launch

Posted on April 7, 2008 by AJ

“Hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the night after about midnight, and again the night after; and so for ten nights, a flame each night. Why the shots ceased after the tenth no one on earth has … Continue reading →

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Gates of Hell

Posted on April 7, 2008 by matt

A couple of pics of a really accessible volcano. Easily re-used for something gaming…

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“I don’t have any choice, somebody has to save the world”

Posted on April 7, 2008 by matt

I’ve been reading a lot of old comics this week. Warren Ellis Planetary The Eclipse Miracleman stories. I’m trying to track down my Authority trade paperbacks as well. There’s been a recent thread on RPG.net about creating a setting where … Continue reading →

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New Downloads

Posted on April 4, 2008 by matt

Some people were looking for them so I’ve put some downloads on the books page: Wildtalents fanzine 1 60K PDF Wildtalents 3 fanzine 1.5MB PDF Wildtalents 5 fanzine 373K PDF 23rd letter character sheet 22K PDF zombi character sheet 86K … Continue reading →

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Man vs…

Posted on April 4, 2008 by matt

The topic of conversation this morning in the car was the substance of plots. Traditionally, we have plots which are Man versus Man (and yes, I intend to keep the male pronoun because anyone who would be sensitive to it … Continue reading →

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The State of the RPG Industry

Posted on April 4, 2008 by matt

An article on MSNBC writes about the woes in the RPG market: “Wizards does not reveal sales figures, but Pramas estimates the overall market for traditional role-playing games at $30 million annually.” When I first read this, my immediate thought … Continue reading →

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Site refresh

Posted on April 4, 2008 by AJ

Bear with us while we engage in some site jiggery-pokery.  Those of you who subscribe to the feed shouldn’t notice any difference.  Also it’s a bit harder to tell who wrote what post at the moment, but that’s OK by … Continue reading →

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Albion

Posted on April 1, 2008 by matt

Okay, maybe this proves I’m not a comic geek but I’m seriously underwhelmed. It’s like the British version of Planetary. And not very good.

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OREs Magica

Posted on April 1, 2008 by matt

I spent some time at work today thinking about things that could be done with the ORE system. I admit that I’ve not yet had the chance to really test it in anger Part of this is to kick a … Continue reading →

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WotW: Earth – The Computational Analyser

Posted on April 1, 2008 by matt

“In the Spring of that year I had the good fortune to visit my friend, Mr Askell, at the Royal Society where they were pursuing development of a computational device using the research of intellectual giants who had gone before. … Continue reading →

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