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Larp

Step into

I was sorting out some old files the other day and I came across a game I wrote back in the summer of 1995 (and had completely forgotten about). It’s essentially a larp, but set indoors and for just six players, with pregen characters. The working title was (the dreadful) ‘Cannes-tasia’ – the characters are […]

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PBM

Some Transylvanian traditions about vampires and related phenomena

‘Tis the season and all that, so I thought it might be nice to share these with you. Courtesy of ar_boblad, about 15 years ago now I guess it must have been. Où sont les vampires d’antan? A crossbow bolt through the heart will stake a vampire. Cut off the feet of someone killed by […]

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PBM

Silver on the tree

I’ve just realized that this week is the twenty-fifth anniversary of me starting full-time professional work as a game designer. I can’t now remember exactly what the date was, but some time in early September 1985, just before my 18th birthday, I moved down to Southampton and set up Undying King Games. I’ve been in […]

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Tabletop role-playing

Gone to the great DM in the sky

Goodbye Gary Gygax, it seems. Like most people of my sort of age, he provided my introduction to role-playing. We may have moved onwards and outwards, but we can still thank him for our beginnings. I met him a couple of times at Gamesfairs, when he was still with TSR. Being young and cocky, I […]

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PBM

My favourite email of today

Subject: about some info i read About susan walsh. you are deeply wrong. She had walked out of her apartment to make a call and was never heard from. The date was July,16,1996 when she dissapeared. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would change it. If you want to reply of any sort, […]

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PBM

Bizarre email of the week (so far)

“Dear Sirs. I have just conducted a search of ‘metal wall atlanteans’ and I have noted your site. I would be most grateful if you can advise where you obtained the origins of the extract noted on the following link: http://www.undyingking.com/oldgames/inferno/truehist.htm As I am very interested in some of the detail and it there a […]

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PBM

Bizarre work-related email of the day

Every now and then I get emails relating to Ixion’s Wheel, a PBM RPG that we used to run some years ago.