Not a Dead Communist

Last weekend, we held the first session of my Torchwood 1890 game . Having discussed the broad concept and rule system last time , I thin...

As anyone who has been reading the last two-and-a-bit years of posts on this blog knows, I've long considered the possibility of runni...

And, then, in 2005, the series came back. But it had, of course, regenerated into a form notably changed from its former self. This was ...

The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook was always going to be the hardest of the series to write, and the one that was going to be least like all t...

And so, with this sourcebook, we reach the end of the classic era of Doctor Who . The broad fan consensus on this era is that, at least in...

Okay, it's confession time: the Sixth Doctor's era is my least favourite in all of Doctor Who . Nor am I alone in this. While th...

You're never going to get the whole of Doctor Who fandom to agree on when, or, for that matter, even if, classic Doctor Who "ju...

The Fourth Doctor Sourcebook was always going to be the most challenging for Cubicle 7 to pull off, at least among the first seven of the...

With the third in the series of past Doctor sourcebooks, we reach an era that is, perhaps, one of the most distinctive, quite different in...

The Second Doctor's era is a crucial one in the development of Doctor Who as a series. There's the obvious point that the regener...

A bit of a departure as far as my sparse and occasional reviews are concerned, I know. Not least because I haven't got round to review...

By now, Moon Design has a tradition of producing expensive, but hefty, sourcebooks for Glorantha. The latest offering, Pavis: Gateway to A...

It's been several months since my last post here, and it will probably be at least as long, if not more, before I do so again. (Althou...

Some of you may recall that, in addition to the Book of Glorious Joy , I was also commissioned by Issaries to write a similar book on Seshne...

One of the questions I have seen more than once with regard to the Book of Glorious Joy (well, all right, the only question I've seen...

So, in my last post I discussed the reasoning behind the rule mechanics I used for Jonating commoner caste magic in the recent piece at m...

Yes, it's been several months since I've posted here. Not that I haven't been busy writing in the meantime, of course. For one...

I've just returned from the d101 "convention" in Matlock, Derbyshire. It's not really a con in any meaningful sense, just...

So, earlier I posted about my recent experiences on providing ratings guidelines for an online RPG, and how they might (or might not) be mor...

As some of you will know, in addition to face-to-face RPing, I have, for many years now, also been helping to run a message board RPG bas...