Recent content by BigJackBrass

If you look more closely, all of the figures appear to be ghosts.

The first actual play podcast was from members of the Bradford University gaming society, recorded and put online by Paul Maclean (circa 2005, I think, but I'd have to check for the exact details 2003, in fact! That's before podcast was even a word): I believe that RPGMP3.com is still going...

Making the planning part of the game is very much the focus of John Wick's Wilderness of Mirrors, which presumes that everyone involved is good at their job rather than ruining the plan simply because of a botched stealth roll. The planning directly pays off in the execution. It's a spy game...

TWERPS Metaphysical Ninja Maniac Chainsaw Vitamin Junkies.

Fairly sure about how Hasbro's lawyers will feel, since they still appear to own it.

Picked up The Ministry Initiative for a very good price on eBay last week, especially so considering that the seller included a set of steampunky Fudge dice not mentioned in the listing. The cover may be spectacularly poor, but it's certainly in keeping with the novels on which the game is...

In middle age and suffering with long covid, it's considerably more difficult than it ought to be. Then again, there are few pressing reasons to learn an entirely new system when my group already plays Fudge, Traveller, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer and a range of others. Plenty of variety...

Hero is also one of the very few games where students of martial arts are not functionally indistinguishable. If it matters to you that karate and jiu-jitsu are not the same thing then Hero allows for that.

Ducks are the best thing about Glorantha.

Ducks are the best thing about Glorantha.

My educational background was being taught metric by people who used imperial, in a country where metric units were eyed with suspicion. The result is the situation common to many British people of my age: I've had to make a conscious effort to adjust to metric because I habitually think in...

Yes.

No, Shipman wasn't from or based in the UK. He did invent a supposed UK art broker to explain away his thefts. He published what he called a 6th edition. 7th edition was entirely legitimate and published by Fiery Dragon. It wasn't great, but it was authorised.