I got my first DreadBall package a couple of weeks ago, and I calculated that it contains over £150 of miniatures – an incredible deal, when you also consider that I’m getting another two packages next year. So far I’ve played three games with the unassembled Marauder and Corporation teams (luckily, even without arms and …
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2012
OK, let’s do this again. As usual, I post for the first few months of the year, tail off until December and then stick up this post to justify having a blog at all. Did you enjoy this year? Aside from massive tiredness caused by the most difficult teething ever – yes, I have. I’ve done …
Dreadball
I’ve been hooked recently on a new, unreleased game called Dreadball. It was described in a nutshell as ‘Sci-fi Blood Bowl, but nothing like Blood Bowl’. A slightly better description is that it’s a fast-paced sports game with a futuristic setting. I played a demo game of it at Cut ‘n Thrust Wargaming in Bristol, …
It’s like ra-a-ain on your wedding day…
I think more hospitals should be self-service.
"I take off my sock" and they all ran in fear
A few months back, my fellow adventurers in 15th century France punched the planet by destroying a caravan of gunpowder pulled by the French and daemon allied army with a divinely gifted Sunspear spell. Since then, we came across the French army (slightly diminished) where they scored a major victory over the English army. In …
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I got 99 problems…
One of which is that I am not a Java developer!
Keeping Up Appearances
My sister is a better person than me because she does stuff for charity, whereas I sit at home and do nothing for anyone. Every year she takes part in the Race For Life, and this year is no exception. Physical exertion in the hot summer (perhaps) to try and encourage people to donate money …
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
I’ve been playing a roleplay game based in a 15th Century Europe, based on the Runescape rules. We’ve been playing for about a year but the campaign itself started many, many years ago. It has Runescape gods, but in the guise of saints since there’s only one God and we’re all Catholics (although at this …
2011
Ha, well I certainly couldn’t miss a post today, could I. Not after writing a review for 2009 and 2010, anyway. I’ve noticed that most years, I get one big thing and nothing else matters. Freddy in 2008, the house in 2009, and the car in 2010. Taking into account my daughter was born this …
It’s Oh So Quiet…
BIG NEWS! On Wednesday 15th June, at 15:45, my daughter Elizabeth was born! She is gorgeous, and looks a lot like her brother when he was new. She weighed 6lb 2oz. It was a very strange day – our son was a (planned) home birth, and we’d looked into getting a birthing pool. Unfortunately, they …