Feeling a strange sense of unfairness and worry about how the little kid is being beaten raw and bloody you wade in, grabbing the fat kid by the hair and yanking him off the smaller kis, tearing a fistful of hair out of his scalp and causing him to scream like a stuck pig. The little kid - amazingly, gets up as you hold the fat kid by the hair and start beating on him, blood dripping from the back of his head as he launches himself back at the fat kid and, unbelievably, bites him. You stare in horror as the little kid, already badly beaten, takes a chunk out of the fat kid's forearm and his squeals get even louder. Out of nowhere Mr Higgins, the PE teacher, barges through the crowd and hauls the bloody mouthed kid away, holding his struggling form under one arm and stabbing a finger at you and the fat kid.

"Fuck off Corran you little shit, and you can be sure I'll be telling the police about you getting in a fight again, and you Jones, get to the nurse's office." He looks down at the writhing mass of blood and bruises tucked under his arm. "As for you Barton, you're coming with me." He starts hauling the protesting, struggling kid off.

What do you do?
	Go behind the CDT block for a smoke to settle your nerves.
	Follow Higgins and find out what's going on with Barton.
	Escort Jones to the nurse's office.
	Fuck this for a game of soldiers, head home.
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Tomorrow I'll be at Dragonmeet in London, selling my stuff so if you're in The Smoke, drop by and give me some money. I'll be selling...

• Hentacle - £8.00
• Hentacle: Sloppy Seconds, Hentacle: Three's an Orgy, Hentacle: 4/Play £3.00
• Final Straw - £8.00
• Cthentacle - £15.00
• Cthentacle: The Dunbitch Horror - £5.00
• 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds - £12.00
• 100 Fantasy Kingdoms - £12.00
• 100 Science Fiction Adventure Seeds - £12.00
• 100 Planets - £12.00
• 100 Horror Adventure Seeds - £12.00
• 100 Dark Places - £12.00
• 100 Conspiracies - £12.00
• Faith in the Future (comic) - £5.00
• Bloodsucker: The Angst - £12.00
• Bloodsucker: The Juice - £8.00
• '45: Psychobilly Retropocalypse - £12.00
• Invaderz - £8.00
• @ctiv8 - £8.00

There will be deals available as usual, three £12.00 books or more for £10.00 each and so on. I'm also open to haggling and offers from anyone, and product swaps with other companies. Make me an offer! :)

These are the last copies of Hentacle that will be printed in this way, the same for Final Straw. These are also the last copies of this version of 100 Science Fiction Adventure Seeds that will be sold as the snazzy new partnership version with Cubicle 7 will be out soon. If you like I'll also be doing the 'gamer rock star thing' (as it was once meanly and derisively called) and signing books if anyone wants me to and I'm happy to discuss upcoming projects and ideas with people as well as any prospective work anyone might have going! Same goes if you've got any ideas for projects or books you'd like to see me do.

Stock will also be available for direct mail order from me after Dragonmeet.

So, if I start a community participation poll game, what'd you like beloved audience?

What should I base a regular poll game on?
	Zombie Horror (Blood!)
	Spy-Fi (Agents of SWING)
	Crime Caper (Future project idea)
	B-Movie Weirdness ('45)
	Other - Leave a comment and I'll re-poll if something grabs me.
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The dreaded has happened, I've become a gamer who - largely - doesn't game, which is something I really, really never wanted to happen, especially as a designer. There's not a lot that can really be done about that at the moment, though I might try a Google Wave game or a Poll game again - on this blog (as I started but never finished with Patient Zero on my personal blog) to keep my hand in, but I really need to game more somehow.

This came to me at Indiecon as I was setting up to run Agents of SWING and I felt this unfamiliar sensation which I eventually nailed down as being panic and nervousness. These are sensations I am normally abundantly familiar with, but not usually in the context of gaming where I'm usually confident and sure of myself. It's particularly worrying as a designer since it means I'm only keeping up with things at a remove, what I read, not what I experience in play. Indiecon was reassuring on that score, but it was also a bit of a wakeup call that I need to get back on top of things and get some proper gaming in somehow, whatever way I can manage.

I'll take any ideas from you guys out there on that or ways that you've gotten around the issues of isolation, separation and lack of spare moolah.

Keep an eye on the blog for some sort of poll-based game and if you have wave, come find me grimstales@googlewave.com

I can't give you a full and shiny report on Indiecon because I've written up a full-on report for Polymancer magazine and it'd be bad form to say too much about it here in a professional reporting capacity - and the same's likely to get in the way for Dragonmeet! Still I can talk about what I did and my experiences there as Postmortem.

Last year the weather was pretty rough but this year we were right there as some of the worst weather for many years struck England with flooding and gales and all sorts of warnings and threats of doom. It was pretty rough, but also - in a pervere way - a lot of fun.

We were at the con for the full span and with the cost split between all of us Indiecon represents a fantastic deal, Thursday night to Monday morning in an excellent chalet - that's actually warm, snug and clean - for what came to around £50 a head for six of us. Unlike a lot of cons the accomodation is excellent and you can actually get a decent night's sleep.

On the plus side Indiecon is great for running demo games and getting a good buzz for your games. People are game to try just about anything and I was very, very pleased to see two of my games from the previous year being played independently by people, Invaderz and Blood!. We ran another demo game of Blood! that went pretty well, but only ran it once this time, we also ran two playtest sessions of Agents of SWING and the feedback was invaluable, as was the fun I had in the couple of instances that I did get to play. It's unfortunate that I was - and usually am - stuck minding the stall and so can't run more demos or get involved in more games, something I'll have to work on correcting for 2010 because, oh yeah, we're going again.

On the downside - and this was the problem last year as well - it's not a very good, yet, from a commercial point of view. Both years I've barely broken even on sales and while there was higher attendence this year I think the combination of the economy and the weather drove off what was, essentially, my profit margin in both people's reticence to buy and the walk-through attendence that could have been there. Hopefully we'll be lifted out of that a bit by next year.

The organisation was much better this year and I think an event of this nature can only continue to grow and grow and deserves to, a great showcase for UK games development in general and UK indie games in general.

Fantasy

The fantasy genre is a hugely broad one, taking in many different themes and sprawling across time and space from cod-medieval mediocrity to modern worlds with fantasy elements lurking in the background and even taking in alternate histories, traditionally more the province of science fiction. The fantasy milieu is usually the one that gamers start with, growing familiar rather quickly with gaming’s take on elves, dwarves and the like, so much so that these things are a cliché and a shorthand for gaming as a whole.

 

High Fantasy

High or epic fantasy takes place within a world removed from our own where the rules are different, where magic is powerful and widespread, where fantastical monsters, creatures and races roam the land and it is a genre in which the stories are generally epic, sweeping and wide ranging and deal with grandiose and world-shaping plots of good against evil.

 

The classic example of the High Fantasy Epic is The Lord of the Rings.

 

High Fantasy is what a lot of RPGs aspire to be and there’s a lot in High Fantasy that lends itself to gaming well. The – relative – black and white of good and evil makes plotting easier and the physical and spiritual presence of evil makes for simpler way to introduce villains and to excuse their motivations. Fate and destiny can also be used to more explicitly manipulate characters in a way that might be inexcusable in other subgenres. High Fantasy is also very much suited to mid and long scale campaigns divided into significant sections or ‘chapters’ and where you have definite conditions of victory and an end to the plot.

 

On the downside expectations are high and the relatively slow rate of character advancement in many fantasy games can be frustrating when it comes to getting to the grand action. It’s also hard, given many fantasy RPG systems, to have truly mixed party levels of competence. Frodo and Aragorn in the same party can be hard to pull off well in many systems, especially those with mechanically heavy, encounter-oriented, carefully balanced systems. The nature of High Fantasy games doesn’t particularly lend itself to unending games, where you go on playing until things peter out, unless you play it generationally with new heroes rising in the same world time after time to face down the same evil, reincarnated or resurgent in each generation.

 

Running a successful High Fantasy game is a matter of managing to make every character shine in their own way – something that doesn’t happen so much in the genre fiction. Not everyone can be destined to be the High King but each character will need their moment to shine and their own great destiny, something tailored to the player and what they find inspiring and perfect for their character. The other big trick is to incorporate all the high-powered fantasy elements without slipping over into the land of cheese and pastiche. The secret of accomplishing that is to treat these elements with gravitas and seriousness and to ensure that they’re consistently treated within their own internal logic, even if you – as the Games Master – are the only one who knows or understands the rules you’ve made for yourself.

It's November and in England that means two things. Fireworks and conventions! (Hopefully not at the same time).

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We'll be at Indiecon and Dragonmeet in November, running a few demo games and selling lots of hardcopies of our products just in time for Christmas. Leftover convention stock will be available for those who want to order it directly from me after these conventions and details will be forthcoming on our website. You'll also, soon, be able to get an updated and art-infested version of 100 Science Fiction Adventure Seeds, published in partnership with Cubicle 7 Entertainment. While you're checking out print products, be sure to look up Origins of the Specious, a gamer's humour book and compilation published under the Flaming Cobra imprint with Mongoose Publishing.

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This last month was 'Schlocktoberfest' for Postmortem Studios and saw discounted PDF products across our horror and other 'gross out' and B-movie type products. We also released a number of new items including:

Several Freakshow products for Blood! OGL Modern and MRQ (BloodQuest) as well as the demo adventure from last year's Indiecon, Blood Tales: The End.

The Art of Hentacle (Adult product!)

The Art of Final Straw (Violent product!)

And some new ZelArt.

If you're looking for images to spice up your games or to publish your own, be sure and check out our extensive library of stock art by Industry Veteran Brad McDevitt and by newcomers Zel and Toby.

This month will be concentrated largely on freelancing and preparation for the two conventions, but we hope to start work on Agents of SWING, a FATE powered mash-up of 1960s and 1970s spy TV and films. If there's time a rough draft and a demo adventure may be ready for Indiecon and - if so - will be turned into a special preview product that you'll be able to download in Christmas or the new year. Otherwise you can expect more Freakshows, more stock art and - perhaps - the companion volume to 100 Conspiracies, 100 Conspirators.

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Lastly I'd like to make you aware of a couple of opportunities we have going. These are strictly volunteer positions but we're looking for people to help with raising awareness of our products online and with running demo games at conventions. There's no money, unfortunately, but there would be free products, PDF and print, and possibly t-shirts once a helper-monkey design has been settled upon. Please e-mail to above link if you're interested in helping out in either capacity. We're particularly interested in talking to people about running games at US, Australian and Irish conventions.

Thanks for your patronage in the past and hopefully more of it going into the future. Let us know what YOU want to see more of or what you'd like to see us develop. You never know, it might actually happen!

Today is the last day of Schlocktoberfest where you can get many of our PDF products half price! If you want to grab yourself a bargain before things go back to normal on Novermber the 1st then hurry along to our RPGNOW store and buy up everything you can, including this month's new releases, card game art books and new Freakshow monsters statted for Blood! Modern OGL and MRQ.

Spend your moneys HERE

So, now you’ve got a group and a place to play you just need something to play. Quite a lot of people, surprisingly, are system monogamous (or bigamous), while that means you’re not going to have this challenge, per se, it can still be a problem all of its own in a group that includes people that like other games and you still need to keep these things in mind in deciding what spin to give your game. If your players are all over the place on their favourite systems, games and themes then you’re going to get a clash that needs to be resolved somehow.

How to Choose
There’s a few different ways you can settle the argument of what game to play, none of them are entirely satisfactory but they should let you come to an acceptable compromise, or at least to shut the whiners up one way or the other.

GM Fiat
You’re the one running the bloody game; you’re the one that gets to choose. If the Games Master isn’t happy then nobody’s happy and if they want to play a game at all, then they’re going to have to do what you say and play what you want and tough titty if they want to do otherwise. One the plus side this establishes the Games Master’s authority right from the start and sorts out what you’re going to play with no quibbling. On the minus side, people who really, genuinely, don’t want to play a game are going to pout and possibly spoil it for everyone else.

Votes
Work out what all the different games are that people might want to play, each list them on a different piece of paper and then give each of them a score based on how much you want to play them, 1-5 or 1-10 works well. The Games Master then tots up all the scores and the one with the highest score is the one that you play. This only works if everyone’s honest and it tends to mean the same games dominate session to session unless something new really takes everyone’s fancy, but it does also tend to mean that everyone can at least tolerate whatever game it is you do end up playing.

Lucky Dip
Everyone writes down one game that they want to play and drops it into a ‘hat’ (or a dice bag, or a box or whatever). Then the Games Master draws one of the notes out of the hat and that’s what you’re going to play. This puts everyone on equal footing, gives everyone an equal chance but it can result in very unpopular choices that one person likes and everyone else doesn’t, a group predominantly of gritty horror fans playing Furry Pirates or something. Not good.

Round Robin
Use one of the methods above but only to determine what order each of the games should be played in. That gives people more time to get used to the less popular choices and makes sure that everyone gets their crack of the whip. On the downside the unpopular choice may loom over all the other games like a black cloud and motivate people to keep these other games going on longer than they should, simply to hold off the inevitable terror of Bunnies and Burrows.

Gauging the Mood
The easiest way to work out what mood people are in and what sort of game they want to play is to ask them. People aren’t always honest though and don’t always answer truthfully about how they feel or what they’re really in the mood for, plus you need to somehow collectivise everyone’s mood together and figure out a game that either makes the best of the overall mood or that hits several different emotional notes as you’re going along. That’s also difficult.

This isn’t really the sort of thing you can be advised on, empathy is something you have or you don’t have and you don’t always have the option to shift the feel of a game session from comedy to tragedy or vice versa. Just be aware of the cues going on as you play, the way people react, how ‘intense’ or ‘shallow’ they’re playing as you go along, be responsive and don’t try to force something that isn’t really working.

• Career - Prior to joining SWING
• Cover - Their cover identity
• Section - The section of SWING they're attached to.

6. Gadgets
These need a big treatment, both for Bondian style gadgets and for the potential widgetry of villains.

7. Rationalise Skill Descriptions
Slim them down, they're very long right now and could be covered in much less space IMO.

8. Separate Out Special Rules
Special rules for car chases etc need to be in their own sections, not intermingled, muddling things up a bit.

9. Allow the Attacker to Choose Consequences?
Might be a little harsh, but allowing the victim to choose the type of consequence and the attacker to choose the actual consequence pushes narrative control more interestingly I think.

10. Skills Pyramid?
I don't particularly see the need to stick to the Pyramid arrangement for skills, it kind of got in the way of making Doc Savage-alikes and I don't particularly see why it should be kept.

11. Psi/Super Abilities
Essential to replicate some of the material from the time but I don't want to overemphasise it. Perhaps a few examples and expand on the material later in another book? Same could be done with gadgets.

12. Organisations?
Villainous organisations need to be detailed as do the various sections of SWING and the rest of the conventional intelligence community, a few examples perhaps and then expand on the rules in a separate book.

13. Clue Based Plot Structure?
I'd like to mix in some of the plot stress ideas in SB with some of the ideas from Gumshoe, perhaps plot stress advancement from section to section, splitting up adventures into investigative sections, interrogations etc which yield points of 'plot stress' that advance the game towards its conclusion.

14. Profit.

The third - and probably final - edition of the Neverwhere RPG, produced with permission and available for PDF only. This is the final, comprehensive edition of the game with an improved system, more detail an expanded A-Z and advice for running the game in tabletop, online or as a LARP.

Download it HERE

Make sure to buy something that actually gives me money while you're there too, don't forget Schlocktoberfest is still going!

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Once you’ve gotten a group together you need somewhere to actually play the games. You don’t need a huge amount of space, just a table with room for a fistful of people, enough space to roll some dice and a bit of peace and quiet for a handful of hours. Can’t be too difficult to get, can it?

Home
The obvious place to choose to play is at home, either in your home or that of another member of your group. You’ve got the advantages of comfort, familiarity and you – or whoever else it is – doesn’t have to lug their entire gaming library to the new location. On the downside there might be a lot of non-gaming people around, interrupting, getting under your feet and otherwise causing all sorts of mayhem and mishaps. Sometimes spouses and house sharers can be less than understanding about tramping hordes of gamers descending upon the house and messing up the place and that’s another disadvantage, you might have to tidy up. It can also be a little difficult to get people to leave once the gaming is over, releasing the hounds can be helpful in this regard.

School
Schools often offer rooms for hire or for after-school activities and you can use these to game in. Schools are often central to areas and can help you get a bit of publicity for your gaming group, plus you can recruit some new gamers from the fledgling hordes of acne-ridden adolescents in need of some power fantasies. On the minus side you might have to include students in the club, be attending, or have a kid going there in order to use the facilities, plus other after school groups may well interrupt or cause problems for you by running up and down the corridors or – badly – practising the trombone in the next toom.

Pub
Pubs often have rooms for rent that you and your group can use, like schoolrooms. The disadvantage here, as with the schoolrooms is that this costs money, but with a big enough group – or a couple of groups – you can spread the cost and then it’s not going to be so much. You’re also going to be restricted on time, usually the rooms are paid for by the hour and the pub does, eventually, close. Another drawback is that pubs sell booze, that means no underage players and it also often means that your players get plastered which, while occasionally funny, can also be a bloody nuisance when someone vomits on their character sheet or starts telling you why they love you in the middle of a scene.

Shop
Gaming shops often have play spaces that you can use to meet up at. Some of these are only open after hours and some of these are only open during hours, each approach has its own issues. If they’re only open during shop hours then that’s no use to you if you work, if they’re only open after hours then time may be restricted and the shop gaming room is more likely to be oversubscribed. In either case there’s likely to be a lot of interruptions and, being surrounded by all that swag, you might be tempted to spend a lot of money on gaming stuff that you wouldn’t otherwise buy; a boon for the shop owner, but not necessarily for you.

Room Sharing Issues
Sharing rooms with multiple role-playing groups has its good and bad sides, on the plus side you get a nice, vibrant feel to a room with lots of people in it and you get to mix with and meet a lot of other gamers, whether you know them already or not. On the minus side the noise makes it difficult to play and if you’re trying to have an intense and serious session of one game while someone else is having a boisterous game of Paranoia or Sea Dracula then you’re shit out of luck. It also tends to be the case that some people don’t take such good care of rooms as the rest of you, but you all end up carrying the can for one person’s bad behaviour.

Burn them in effigy and they might get the hint.

Teh Interwubz
There’s some other possibilities but one that’s really worth mentioning is the use of the Internet. You can use e-mail lists, IRC, chatrooms or potentially Google Wave to coordinate a game. If so inclined you could also spend a small fortune setting up a Second Life area to play in, but that’s not really going to conform to the rules of the game. The Internet is great for all sorts of communication and you can play across it but there’s disadvantages as well. If you’re using a dice-rolling program then all your rolls will be open, making ‘fudging’ the rolls towards a certain outcome more difficult. Not everyone can type quickly either and this can really slow things down no end, even more so if they’re dyslexic or just relatively illiterate and that makes it no fun for people to play at their end either. Playing online tends to really slow things down unless the system you’re using is really abstract, so reckon on things like combat taking even longer.

There’s some nice tools out there that can give you virtual tabletops and tools to help you with the rule of the game but these tend to be amateurish, complicated and not very intuitive to use and they also tend to only cater to a few of the major systems on the market. At the time of writing Wizards of the Coast still haven’t brought out their 3D virtual tabletop and it’s become something of a joke in any case. It remains to be seen if that – or some similar software – can truly provide a real, full suite of online role-playing options that works, is adaptable and is user friendly. Don’t hold you breath!

Forming a Group
These days this is probably about the biggest obstacle to any successful game, getting people to play. It's possibly a downer to go over all the problems but if you're aware of them you can either give up without trying and save yourself the trouble, or be aware of the issues as you're going into them.

• There's a lot of competitors for gamer's time these days. Computer games, MMORPGs, card games, all sorts. Even if you get people who want to play, they're going to want to do a lot of other things as well, leaving less time for gaming.
• Gamers are an aging demographic, that means we're shrinking in size and there's even more demands on a lot of gamers' time, partners, kids, work, all takes its toll.
• Game shops aren't as common as they used to be, eliminating a major meeting place for gamers.
• Gaming has gone from being Satanic (which is kind of cool) to nerdy, which isn't. While there's some 'geek chic' going on it seems to only really exist/persist within existing geek culture.
• These are problems, but they're not insurmountable with the right approach and some can even be turned into positives.

Friends with Benefits
It's pretty likely that when you started gaming (or if you are starting now) that the first people you gamed with were your friends. They're the ones you could rope into trying it and if anyone stuck with it it's likely some of those original friends that you played with. Friends make some of the best members of your gaming group, you know each other, know what you like, have a rapport and are likely to be fairly forgiving with each other and you'll be more likely to find some time to spend together, for whatever reason, not just for gaming but for any other reason. Friends are also more likely to offer up somewhere to play and spouses are more likely to be understanding about you spending time with your friends.

Perfect Strangers
Meeting new people to game with can be a bit of a bind. Where are you going to meet? Sure, there’s some RPG clubs dotted about here and there and a few shops, but probably your best bet is running into people at conventions or the occasional serendipitous encounter.* It can be hard to suss out whether you’re going to get on with someone from such a brief meeting and a chat, but it’s better than nothing. As with dating, go with your instinct to start with and don’t be afraid to run, screaming for the hills if they turn out to be a creepy psycho.

*I met some of my best friends and lifelong gaming friends only because another gaming friend mentioned monowire while playing laser tag. That’s serendipitous.

Blind Dates
Another way of hooking up with new gamers is to answer ads in magazines or on the Internet and to find people near you in that way. This way of hooking up with people is even more random and unpredictable than chance encounters or stalking gamers in stores or conventions. You’ve really got nothing to go on other than the way they write, what they say and maybe a picture, if you’re lucky. Again, there’s no harm in going and meeting up, but it might be a good idea to take a friend with you. People aren’t likely to be killer psychos, but things might be weird or uncomfortable and it’s always good to have backup when you’re meeting any strangers. As with the random encounters mentioned before you shouldn’t be afraid to cut and run or to break off contact if it just isn’t working. Sometimes things don’t work out, even with other gamers.

Conventions
For your part, when you’re at a convention you and your existing group can do things to maximise your opportunities to meet new people, there’s little point all just playing together like you were at home after all! Split up, maybe in pairs so you can feel a little comfortable and then mix it up in as many events and games – or running games – as you can. That gives you your best chance of meeting new people, making new friends, getting new gaming partners and scoring! Bonus!

The Internet
There’s plenty of forums out there, plenty of social networking sites, blogs, e-mail lists, twitter and so on that can get you together with other gamers. Getting you together with other gamers in striking distance of yourself is a little more difficult. Many clubs and groups do make their own websites as well and you can do the same thing. Make sure you’re easy to find via e-mail and that your general location is listed on such a site so that potential players can find you and get in touch with you. The real problem is that the role-playing scene is completely fractured across many, many, many different sites and there’s no real, universal, central point for you to find people and to communicate. Because of this you’ll need to spread your efforts as far and wide as you can. Some ideas to draw interest might include…

• Lots of pictures – people pay more attention to pictures than text.
• Podcasting – You could record some of your sessions on audio, or discuss them, or products you’ve bought that you like. Gamers do value each other’s opinions and that can draw an audience.
• Play reports – Summaries of your sessions and some of the ‘war stories’ from them can give people an idea what your sessions are like and whether they’ll fit in as well as giving clues to the game systems and types of games you like to run.

Schools & Colleges
Schools have a lot of activities after their official hours are over. Community schools may have rooms for hire for clubs and groups to use as well. It’s potentially creepy to play across a big age gap and some games might not be suitable but schools are often the hubs of communities and good places to get the word out about your group and your games.

College or university is also a great place to put gaming groups together, lots of people packed into one institution, away from home and looking to socialise and find new friends. There’s usually plenty of rooms and facilities to host games and directories and notice boards upon which you can advertise. The gaming friends you make there might well be friends for life and universities might well be the hubs of any local gaming clubs in any case, whether you attend or not.

Hobby Shops
While there are less hobby shops around these days, that does mean that the ones that remain are good hubs for meeting other gamers. You can also find out who plays what by seeing what they buy and what they look at, many stores also host games and tournaments during or after hours and most will also have a notice board or let you set out some poorly photocopied fliers for your gaming group. They’re an excellent place to be a stalker and you can lurk behind the miniatures racks ready to pounce out on whoever looks like they might play something you like. Games Workshop stores don’t work so well, they don’t like anyone talking about anything that isn’t one of their games and you can get thrown out, so take it easier there or lurk outside and pounce people as they leave.

Today I have:

• Finished and uploaded Blood Tales: The End.
• I finished writing about 2/3rd of a new Freakshow, a modern horror take on the Banshee. Out of practice with the OGL Modern rules writing!
• Submitted test pieces for a couple of potential pieces of work.
• Pursued some potential magazine work.
• Made some further notes from Starblazers towards Agents of S.W.I.N.G. - I'll do a more proper dev diary on that project as and when it actually gets into gear.
• Tryed to decide whether I can put any time and energy into Nanowrimo this year with everything else going on. No conclusion on that yet...