Jonny Nexus

Category: Gaming

  • Last Night’s Game

    We’re still in Egypt, and still making slow, slow progress. A load of good quotes of which I can only remember two. Following from John’s simplifying of a plan I’d had to persuade certain people to give us information (give them a good time and if that doesn’t work, blackmail them): Me: Hang on a…

  • A Round-Up Of My Old Convention Reports

    People seemed to quite like my Eastercon report, so I figured I’d post some links to previous gaming convention reports I’d done for my roleplaying webzine Critical Miss, just in case anyone was interested. Here they are: * * * * * Gaelcon… Probably The Greatest Convention In The World While shopping at GenCon we…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    Last night found us facing our biggest challenge of the campaign so far: a sanity test in which the penalty for success was a D10 san loss, with failure incurring a scarcely believable D100 penalty. And the three of us were already had San scores down in the fifties at this point. For those who…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    After a hiatus caused by my lack of broadband before, over and through Christmas and New Year, we resumed gaming last week. It’s still going pretty well, albeit it with the occasional interesting visual effect. This wasn’t actually the best one; the best one – which I missed with the camera – was when General…

  • I Will Be A Guest At Dragonmeet

    Next Saturday (December 28th) the tenth Dragonmeet will take place at its regular venue of Kensington Town Hall. And I’m pretty proud that I will be one of the convention’s guests. To be an official guest at a convention is quite an honour, and one that I haven’t previously had. I’ve been a trader, and…

  • Review: The Elfish Gene, by Mark Barrowcliffe

    The writer and journalist Mark Barrowcliffe seems to be many things to many people. To some, he is the author of the excellent D&D memoir, the Elfish Gene (Amazon.co.uk link). To others, he is the author of the vicious attack on D&D and its players, the Elfish Gene. To me, he is the man who…

  • Last Night’s Game

    Towards the end of the weekly start-of-game discussion in which I try to remember what we were doing last time… Me: [stumped] Sorry, why are we buying a load of cleaning equipment again? TAFKAC: That’s you saying that, right, not your character? You’d better not be saying that in the shop. If you say that…

  • Last Night’s Gaming Session

    We’d parked ourselves in an extremely expensive, albeit dubious, club, and had dinner. Post-dinner, talk had moved onto the bill. General Tangent (GM): The waiter tells you that the bill is three pounds. [A discussion ensues about the size of the bill. It is eventually, and reluctantly, accepted.] General Tangent (GM): [To TAFKAC] Okay, make…

  • On Reviews…

    One of the things I find most interesting about reading reviews of stuff I’ve written (I originally wrote that as “reviews of my works” but realised I was pushing the bullshit needle right into the red zone marked “deeply pretentious”) is the degree to which the score, assuming there is one, can often seem to…

  • A New Games Shop In Brighton

    When we moved to Brighton, I said there were just two things that it was lacking: an Apple Store and a games shop. Well a couple of weeks ago I found out by chance that a new AppleStore was opening in the Churchill Centre that Saturday. (I went to the opening. It was pretty cool).…