Recent content by TomWhitbrook

Just to prove to myself I'm not completely crackers, or at least I'm not the only one. I was working on my groups ongoing D&D 4th campaign yesterday, and between statting up some cannibal dwarves and their shadow masters I found myself getting the urge to roll up yet another PC for myself...

Qayin said everything I wanted to say really. Good show.

True that. I am occasionally drafted in as player two Super Mario Galaxy, but I can do that while doing something else, like reading a book. In another room. Other than that, if the dust ever comes off that thing, it's to play a cube game.

Saskwach, did a particularly large dice pool crush a beloved childhood pet of yours once? :P In all seriousness, I too cannot stand dicepools, which coincides neatly with my desire never to actually play in or run a White Wolf game. Which is a shame, because I enjoy reading their fluff no end...

Everyone in the group is always saying "Man, you should try some Exalted, you'd love it" or "We should play Exalted next week, give it a another chance man", and I feel like I'm letting the side down by telling them I'd rather have rabid ferrets chewing on my testicles for the entire 5 hours...

I have the GURPS Traveller book they put out. Apparently it's a sort of alternate version of the continuity, but I can't comment so much because I don't know any other version. It was a good read, but I never ran or played it. I remember mining some concepts for something else I was doing, but...

It's a great game, I enjoy running it, but you really have to have players who either already 'get' the setting or alternatively explain the world very well beforehand before you jump in. It really isn't tolkeinesque fantasy rpg #951 in terms of accessibility. The system itself is relatively...

Ehh, kids these days. No different to the youth of any generation, except we don't cane them or make them go up chimneys anymore, we just treat them like potential criminals one and all. I know what people will think of my children and grandchildren, I just wonder how they'll be treated.

I've been fortunate enough to have really great teachers, as well as a few who were not so good. In the main my teachers were knowledgeable and enthusiastic almost to a fault. They also participated very thoroughly in running extra curricular activities. But then, I was lucky enough to go to a...

I suggest, in all seriousness, going and learning about the 1870 education reforms in Britain and the driving force behind them. Check in on the voting records and find out for me who supported Hitler, and those who actually made some attempts to resist his regime. I know it doesn't fit into the...

My hope is that some sort of terrible accident (I was banking on the LHC for this actually) fuses together the coders at Infinity Ward and the writers at Obsidian and the dudes at Ion Storm who made Deus Ex. This freakish fusion of flesh lives only to create awesome videogames, and gives me a...

Next to nothing on the civil war, but there's a little bit on the "Irish question". Usually in the context of the First World War. I assume Irish books go in to much more detail, but having said that I know a few Irish people who don't have a clue about their own history. That would be the same...

Secondly, I have given an example of a public institution that is haemmorrhaging funds - to the private sector. The single biggest drain on the public sector is the superprofits made by its private sector suppliers; in second place is the massive pay unaccountable politicians and civil servants...

My D&D crew are currently trapped in a shadow dimension and surrounded by insane cannabalistic dwarves driven mad by the black power of a demonic essence. As they're level 1, I might be pushing things a little, but I've found 4E to be awesome at low level heroism. We'll see how it goes. My...

I'll take issue with these points in order: 1. Do you now, or have you ever, lived in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Have you ever had to deal with any publically owned institution? Inneficiency, waste, and incompetence are endemic in almost every one of them, as...