tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37436843502468583412011-07-08T01:10:09.546+01:00Doing stuff for the love of it.Nick Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443169211528000148noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3743684350246858341.post-64855743733525467682008-06-02T12:12:00.001+01:002008-06-02T16:29:49.925+01:002008-06-02T16:29:49.925+01:00

Following on from my rant on how slow and pointless the Zombies! game is here are a set of fast play rules that simulate all of the flavour of the game but in a fraction of the time.Fast Play Zombies!:Roll dice to pick half the players - they are out the game because the helipad turned too far away from them.Each of the players who are out the game pick a player they don't want to win so that

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Last Saturday was our bimonthly games night; we get together and play board and card games, socialise, have a beer. Like a million other gamers.We ran through the games wondering what to play. Perhaps one of the regulars: Lunch Money? (an ok game), Settlers? (good game); Cash and Guns? (great game), Dalmutti? (great game). Or perhaps one of the waiting to play games: Junta? (said to be excellent)

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Here's some advice that I posted years back. It was on a Heroquest forum but it relates to rpgs generally. I'm putting it here for my own benefit if not anyone else's:Stephen Rennell said:> I've had the reverse problem - they assume that they can kill> all the opposition after they've defeated them, and it's very> hard to get them to be happy with their enemies not being all> dead. (Especially

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I've been trying to find people into story games in Birmingham (UK) for some time. Seems like their a rare breed or their hiding really well. Any of you out there please add a comment to this post and let the rest of us know.

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It's Concrete Cow in a few hours. Its a gaming convention in Milton Keynes with a track history of indie and story games, so I'm looking forward to playing something cool.

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I'd been intending to buckle down and learn to use a flash by following the assignments on the Strobist site. But now that he's started a new series of articles called Lighting 102 it seems like its now or never. So I'm all excited and I've bought the book he's going to complement the course with - Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting.One of the things the Strobist

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While stumbling round the web trying to find out if Birmingham's The Courtesy Group still gig I stumbled onto a post listing hods of mini-festivals in and around Brum this summer. It reminds me; I should take advantage of not being dead at the moment and get out and do stuff. Probably.

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