10 January 2013

So, no apocalypse then?

Happy new year, everyone, and I hope you all had a marvellous Christmas!

It would appear the Mayan's bought a new diary after all, so Time Itself didn't come to a crashing halt with unfortunate consequences that even a towel and a packet of peanuts wouldn't protect against. However, on the down side, the school term started again and I got my traditional New Year Lurgy. Nice.

Despite being genuinely lovely, toy monsters and dice-wise, Christmas was a total bust. Not a geeky present received or game played. EDIT - sorry, one of my brothers took out a subscription for me to Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy. Regardless, 2013 needs to have more dice and monsters for me, now I just have to try and sort it out...


In stuff-what-I-stole-from-a-much-better-maintained-blog news, legendary games designer Nick Priestley may have summed up what has irked those like myself who were brought into wargaming and roleplaying by Grandma Wendy, and now find she has developed some sort of dementia so we don't recognise her any more:

The modern [GW design] studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!

Yup, that's about the sum of things, Nick. And with nothing of my own to contribute (although there are rumours that painting will take place on some of my lead/plastic pile in the near future) I shall leave it there for now.

Happy geeking,
Rab

2 comments:

  1. Happy New Year, Rab. I'm glad to read that it's okay to leave my bunker. :)
    I finally got around to posting your pics up over at Inked Adventures and Adventures &Shopping - I hope it's all to your approval.
    http://inkedadventures.com/main/2013/01/gaming-with-the-kids/
    http://billiambabbleinkedadventures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/gaming-with-kids.html
    http://adventuresandshopping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/dungeon-crawling-with-kids.html
    http://inkedadventures.tumblr.com/post/40314077860/all-photos-courtesy-of-rabs-geekly-digest
    Good luck with this years projects !

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  2. Blinking out into the light of an undestroyed world, eh, Will? As long as you kept hold of your precious moleskin notebooks!

    You're welcome to use the photos - although I'll admit I'd lost track of all your electronic outlets; how do you keep up with them all?!

    Happy new year!

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