20 Saturday Jun 2020
Posted in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews
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Source: Anime Lab
By the end of its run Kakushigoto was an acrobatic mix of comedy, drama, and tragedy, which is an extremely difficult story to get right
And then Kakushigoto damned well stuck the landing with a near perfect dismount.
There were tears, and then there was massive laughter at the final punchline. Continue reading
01 Monday Jun 2020
Posted in Game Reviews, reviews
Sometime back I ranted about a recent upgrade to Asmodee Games’ Ticket to Ride app, specifically a non-modal “It’s Your Turn” banner that introduced a risk of significant errors because of the way it was implemented.
It turns out that I wasn’t the only player unhappy with it and, to their credit, Asmodee Games responded fairly promptly with the following commitment to remove the banner: Continue reading
01 Monday Jun 2020
Posted in Game Reviews, reviews, Role Playing, Tech Reviews
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COVID-19, games, gaming, Role Playing, RuneQuest, RuneQuest: Canberra, RuneQuest: Perth, RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
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Dealing with COVID-19 has, of necessity, forced me and several other gamesmasters I know to adopt Roll20[1] as an online platform for table-top roleplaying games.
So, having done so for the last couple of months, what are my general thoughts on Roll20, and are those thoughts extendable to other platforms[2]? Continue reading
17 Sunday May 2020
Source: Anime Lab
The dead parent is something of a recurring trope in anime, partly because it gets the inconvenient adults out of the way of the story that the writers want to tell.
But sometimes it’s more than that. Sometimes it is the story, or a large part of it.
And, rarely, communication from beyond the grave in a mundane manner is that story. Continue reading
15 Wednesday Apr 2020
Posted in Game Reviews
Recently the otherwise excellent Ticket to Ride app on the iPad had an “upgrade”. The most noticeable change was this: Continue reading
