After a hiatus caused by my lack of broadband before, over and through Christmas and New Year, we resumed gaming last week. It’s still going pretty well, albeit it with the occasional interesting visual effect. This wasn’t actually the best one; the best one – which I missed with the camera – was when General [...]

Next Saturday (December 28th) the tenth Dragonmeet will take place at its regular venue of Kensington Town Hall. And I’m pretty proud that I will be one of the convention’s guests. To be an official guest at a convention is quite an honour, and one that I haven’t previously had. I’ve been a trader, and [...]

The writer and journalist Mark Barrowcliffe seems to be many things to many people. To some, he is the author of the excellent D&D memoir, the Elfish Gene (Amazon.co.uk link). To others, he is the author of the vicious attack on D&D and its players, the Elfish Gene. To me, he is the man who [...]

Towards the end of the weekly start-of-game discussion in which I try to remember what we were doing last time… Me: [stumped] Sorry, why are we buying a load of cleaning equipment again? TAFKAC: That’s you saying that, right, not your character? You’d better not be saying that in the shop. If you say that [...]

We’d parked ourselves in an extremely expensive, albeit dubious, club, and had dinner. Post-dinner, talk had moved onto the bill. General Tangent (GM): The waiter tells you that the bill is three pounds. [A discussion ensues about the size of the bill. It is eventually, and reluctantly, accepted.] General Tangent (GM): [To TAFKAC] Okay, make [...]

One of the things I find most interesting about reading reviews of stuff I’ve written (I originally wrote that as “reviews of my works” but realised I was pushing the bullshit needle right into the red zone marked “deeply pretentious”) is the degree to which the score, assuming there is one, can often seem to [...]

When we moved to Brighton, I said there were just two things that it was lacking: an Apple Store and a games shop. Well a couple of weeks ago I found out by chance that a new AppleStore was opening in the Churchill Centre that Saturday. (I went to the opening. It was pretty cool). [...]

…was virtual. “Which one of you has got the lowest luck?” “That’s never a good question for the GM to ask.” It’s been a while since I last blogged about my Tuesday night game. I initially stopped when I took a blogging holiday, but by time I restarted blogging, it was coming up to my [...]

…this wouldn’t be looking good. 2nd June 2009: Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group. 23rd June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Adamant Entertainment Announce Partnership. 24th June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Postmortem Studios Announce Partnership. 25th June 2009: Cubicle 7 – Boxninja Announce Partnership. First GMS, then Grim, and now Gregor! Who’s next? Probably someone starting with [...]

Well after two writing sessions in my new “writing office” (a.k.a. the 0700 Thameslink train from Brighton) I can report that it’s pretty much like my last one, save for having a nicer set of views out of the window. (As an aside, when I get a chance, I’ll put up the profile that Writers [...]