Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

Today - 20 July 2022 - is the is the 53rd anniversary of the first crewed landing on the moon - official touchdown time was 20:17:39 UTC. NA...

Looking at my Drafts folder, I realised that I hadn't posted this one.  Basically, that's because during a session of the Beast of E...

I started the month with a quartet of well-researched thrillers, all concerning WWII espionage.  Alex Gerlis, The Best of Our Spies German s...

Books Finished Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish Stories about Geralt the Witcher, the character who 'inspired the cult videogame' an...

 While out scouting for books the other week, I came across the following: -  A selection of biographies of people connected with the Apollo...

 A less crazy month than February ! 4 Mar - Wasters (Cyberpunk OSE), Elite Version - on-line 6 Mar - Wasters, Norm Version - on-line 17 Mar ...

 Books Finished HP Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories A collection of seven (not six, as it says on the back cover!) sto...

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,...