2023 romantic fantasy. Marguerite the spy has heard of a new invention which will change the shape of the world's economies. Unable to trust any old friends or colleagues, she needs bodyguards from the White Rat…
2025 paranormal fantasy, last of a nine-book series. Lorelei is in supernatural prison, and her boyfriend is being tortured by Lucifer in person. How to give everyone a happy ending?
We can look up what services are available at a starport in an SF game, but what is the feel of the place?
1953 classic SF, collection of shorter works. The Mule is still building his empire. Obviously that has to be stopped. Spoilers for a 73-year-old book.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved poking about with lists. (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café after a gap caused by illness.
2025 Victorian romance. Miles Quincey, a crusading newspaper editor, has been looking too hard into the Academy, so its deputy headmistress, Nell Trewlove, is sent to fob him off. An incident with a cat caught in her crinoline, and an accidental witness ready to believe the worst, leaves her fatally compromised, and all she can do is marry Miles…
You can't have random character generation in GURPS. There are just too many things to take into account. Well, up to a point.
2022 mystery, third in its series. Pentecost and Parker are back in New York, where three murders have been committed in the style of a particular crime writer.
The Oxford Meeples had another quarterly games day, and I had a great time again.