I’ve been exploring quite a lot of roleplaying games recently, but Microscope is probably the most unique I’ve come across thus far. Arguably, it isn’t even a roleplaying game, although roleplaying is part of it. The goal of the players is not to play a character but to create a fictional history, potentially spanning tens… Continue reading Microscope: roleplaying history fractally
Fighting Fantasy
A filmmaker is attempting to raise £40,000 on Kickstarter to make a film about the development and legacy of Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson’s Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. It’s an ambitious project which I’d love to see happen, so I’ve chipped in and would encourage you to do the same. I was one of the first… Continue reading Fighting Fantasy
Three thoughts about Police and Crime Commissioner elections…
You can’t politicise the police any more than they have politicised themselves Every time the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Police Federation or someone like Lord Blair complains about the “politicisation” of the police, the Baby Jesus cries. The police have always been political, and over the last decade have become quite shameless about… Continue reading Three thoughts about Police and Crime Commissioner elections…