Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

I've just backed Gig Economy , a zine which provides 200 retainers and hirelings suitable for Old School RPGs. It hits a lot of buttons ...

 Finished Books JRR Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Hurin I finished this.  As I said before, it's is a much easier r...

I've decided to abandon the backlog of these posts (Oct 2021 to Jan 2022) and to pick up on a very busy month gaming, which saw my retur...

  On-line session played 1 Feb2022.   This is a report of the second session of a short campaign that I'm GM-ing using Old School Essent...

I heard today that my Zeppo died in his sleep last night.  He was 17 and a good dog. When my wife and I separated in 2019, he went with her,...

  Finished Reading Mike Resnick, Will the Last Person the Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? An interesting collection of short sci-f...

On-line session played 18 Jan 2022.  This is a report of the first session of a short campaign that I'm GM-ing using Old School Essentia...

Coming soon...  (In theory at least)  ...my over-view of reading in 2021.   Books Read Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller A diary of...

Still playing catch-up with these summaries! 3 Sep - Wasters Elite (cyberpunk OSE) - on-line 17 Sep - Wasters Elite (cyberpunk OSE) - on-lin...

I only read two books this month:  British science-fiction first published within two years  of each other ( Earthlight in 1955 and The Blac...