Abney Park's Airship Pirates Core Rulebook by Cakebread & Walton Someone screwed the timeline up It's 2150, and the Earth's starting to get over the Great Apocalypse of 1906. From the steampunk sky-cities of Isla Aether and High Tortuga, airship pirates ply the clouds, in search of excitement and booty, kept in check only by … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Abney Park’s Airship Pirates
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GIG 365: Massive Attack – Brixton Academy – 24th April 1998
Massive Attack had just released their third studio album, "Mezzanine", at the start of the week and were playing Bixton Academy as part of a UK tour in support of the album. So Delphine and I headed south of the river to check them out. I'd been a fan of Massive Attack for a few … Continue reading GIG 365: Massive Attack – Brixton Academy – 24th April 1998
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Snowhaven
Snowhaven 5th Edition Setting by High Level Games What is Snowhaven? Snowhaven is a dark fantasy setting perched on the edge of a snowbound wasteland. Cut off from the outside world by icy seas for half the year and snowed in all year round, Snowhaven survives on the edge of the known world by the … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Snowhaven
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Buffy RPG Revised Corebook
Buffy RPG Revised Corebook by Eden Studios The graveyard is cold and still. Bright moonlight deepens the shadows. The silence is disturbed by a throaty moan. Breaking through the soft, recently packed earth, a claw extends, sharp and grasping. A sickly sweet stench rises with the corpse. Desperate hunger is etched on it cadaverous face … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Buffy RPG Revised Corebook
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Action-Heroes: Cinematic Role-Playing
Action-Heroes: Cinematic Role-Playing Core Rulebook by Outland Entertainment Action-Heroes is a cinematic toolkit role-playing game that gives gaming groups the tools to adapt their favorite fictional world and explore those worlds through games and stories. The game encourages heroic action that can inspire the players to become their own larger than life heroes. Action-Heroes encourages … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Action-Heroes: Cinematic Role-Playing
GIG 364: New Model Army – Astoria, 21st April 1998
My eighth New Model Army gig and another mega-set with the band playing 29 tracks! I'm not sure if they had a support band but if there was one I don't know who they were and certainly didn't see them. I suspect due to the length of their set though that the show was pretty … Continue reading GIG 364: New Model Army – Astoria, 21st April 1998
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Shadowrun: Wild Life
Shadowrun: Wild Life (Core Critter Rulebook) by Catalyst Game Labs Critters Call The howl that cuts through the night. The bared fangsin a dark corridor. The talons piercing exposed flesh. All these haunt shadowrunners’ nightmares. You can always try to reason with or buy off other people, but critters? Critters just come at you, relentless … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Shadowrun: Wild Life
GIG 363: Sparrowman – Duke of Lancaster, 14th March 1998
I think this was a local Barnet (North London) gig as there was a pub called Duke of Lancaster in East Barnet. That said I honestly don't know where this was apart from being at a pub called "The Duke of Lancaster". Barnet makes sense on a number of levels though as the band and … Continue reading GIG 363: Sparrowman – Duke of Lancaster, 14th March 1998
(Poetry) Memories & Petals
Along with reams of short stories, and longer attempts at fiction, I’ve written countless poems over the decades. The bulk were written in my teens and twenties and I literally have folders full of handwritten and typewritten compositions. I’d been threatening to put a selection into print since the mid-90’s. I remember discussing it with … Continue reading (Poetry) Memories & Petals
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Hudson & Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure
Hudson & Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure A Call of Cthulhu Setting for Cthulhu by Gaslight by Stygian Fox The first in Stygian Fox's 'Safe House' series for 7th edition Call of Cthulhu™, Hudson & Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure is an official Cthulhu by Gaslight™ consulting detective agency in the style of extravagant freelancers, such as may be found … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Hudson & Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure
