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Gaming FOMO
FOMO = Fear of Missing Out! Kickstarters, gaming conventions, cool stuff! There’s so much of these on these days it’s got difficult to focus! Especially for someone like me whose time is limited in regard to leisure pursuits (and wallet!). I did think about heading down to London for Dragonmeet next week but it’s an…
Mutant Chronicles: End of an Era!
Sadly the Modiphius run of the Mutant Chronicles license is ending. It’s a pity but all good things come to an end. I’ve worked on various parts of the line. I had a few more bits and pieces I’d like to have seen published, but that’s just how it goes. Here’s the full announcement: In…
A New Direction
For several years I’ve been using themandragora.com as my main website (and blog) but I’ve decided to separate my professional RPG work from what is essentially a hobby website. As I’ve been working pretty hard on a number of projects over the last two years, the hobby part (and website/blog) had to take a bit…
William Heron’s 40, ‘K?
It was my 40th birthday earlier in the week. The last twenty years seem to have passed so quickly, but its quite a long time when I think about it. In that time I’ve changed careers form Audiovisual to Computing – I probably wouldn’t have been the best AV guy anyway given that I was…
Dark Age of Technology
Seriously, that’s what its starting feel like. We’re continually bombarded with information on the news with absolutely no way of checking the veracity. Nowadays all that is important are rumours and speculation; instead of informed and objective reporting. Often on the news there are “people on the ground” or “as it happens” who are asked…
Happy New Year 2011
Note: those of you who remember or have seen Babylon 5 will (hopefully) recognise this sort of summary; a sort of foreshadowing. It was the dying gasps of 2010: a month had hung on too long for everyone. The chaos of the big freeze has left us cold, leaving us all bad-tempered and charity was…