The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) ended up with a ‘daughter’ after a strange encounter on the planet Messaline. She was played by Georgia Moffett who then married David Tennant in real life. Yup, the daughter of the Doctor, who played the daughter of the Doctor, married the Doctor. And now, after a long wait, she’s […]
Archives for June 2018
Genre Police: The Sum Of All Fears
It’s far too late, far far too late to do anything about it. The end is not nigh, it’s been and gone. All that remains is this wasteland. And into this wasteland comes one man, a man with a mission to inform you about a genre. Count your bullets road warriors, let’s drive headlong into […]
Building the 3D dungeon adventure grid
Andrew French runs DM’s Den a Tumblr for lovers of RPGs. In his latest post the Bear DM shares the development of 3-dimensional dungeon he built for his players. What’s a 3-dimensional dungeon? Exactly as you would expect; you don’t just have passages that go North, East, South and West but you can go up […]
Rehab for a girl of 9 so addicted to Fortnite she wet herself rather than stop playing
British press is reporting about horrified parents and game addiction. The young girl would prefer to wet herself than take a break from the game. She would secretly get up at night and play until to dawn only then to doze off in class the following day. Attempts to remove her from the console resulted […]
Burn this book: A review of Fictional Alignment
To be clear, ‘Burn this book’ is the advice on the back cover of Fictional Alignment. Reading fiction, we’re reminded, is a criminal offence under The Fictional Alignment Act to read a work of fiction and that anyone doing so will be terminated. Terminated is the right word to use when killer robots from the […]
Choose your weapon dice box
I rather like this ‘Dice Sword’ dice box from Etsy retailer Burned Studio. [I want it] This catchy design is wood and metal, stained and sandpapered and entirely handcrafted. The box is about 15.25cm by 5.75cm by 4.4cm deep on the inside, so there’s room to store more than dice if you want. Tempted? At […]
Games Workshop split £5m bonus between staff
Games Workshop has had a good year. Profits are expected to almost double. In other words, the Nottingham-based gaming company will make about £74m this year compared to £38m last year. Why? 75% of Games Workshops profits are made internationally – in America and abroad. The Pound has been very weak which keeps the cost […]
Every monster in D&D’s Volo’s Guide to Monsters 3D printed
Gamers might want to thank ‘mz4250’. The artist is busy creating 3D printable miniatures for free download. If that sounds like a cause worth supporting then look up his patreon here and chip in. At the top their, ancient dragon, you have got a good chance of having a model created just for you. mz4250 […]
Genre Police: Taking Up Space?
Okay….this is gonna be a difficult one. It’s gonna really be a column about how we can’t do a column that turns into a column. We’re going to look at how we look at science fiction, how historically it has evolved and how that isnt’ helpful to us. We might even learn something about games […]
Michael Moorcock’s hilarious 1976 refusal to Edinburgh University
In 1976 Edinburgh University wrote to Michael Moorcock, author of Elric of Melnibone, The Dancers at the End of Time, The Jewel in the Skull and many other favourites, to invite him to speak at their Science Fiction Society. He refused in hilarious style. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgEG_khnbQI/ The Instagram snap taken by Madeline Shepherd of the typewritten […]
