I, too, would like to be paid to advertise my overpriced house.

Ballad Hunters: Thomas the Rhymer Britain, 1813. Amateur folklorists work as agents of the Crown. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. The dead walk, dragons rise, lovers betray one another, …

The most excellent folks at Roleplaying Public Radio did a most spooky Ballad Hunters actual play with ghosts, a fairy castle, and some really bad magpies!

Pope finger wave also works.

Bless!

The other possibility, that he knew about the vetting process and lied about it, should be an instant resigning offence.

He was a fool.

First, he wanted to appoint Mandelson. Second, he announced it before Mandelson was vetted. Finally, he was entirely incurious about the vetting process, either because he wanted to be deniably ignorant, or because he is naive.

Points one and two are the more damning to me.

A recent sign that I am aging is that I have become inflation-addled. Ooh, everything is so expensive nowadays - I remember when a pint of milk was 30p!

“And the USB stick will go in the right way first time, the onions will be caramelised in five minutes and there will be no odd socks in the wash…”

I have my water wings.

A pastel coloured map of Jack Vance's Dying Earth.

A perfect conflation of my interests - a map of Jack Vance's Dying Earth created with Campaign Cartographer by forum member Wyvern.

#CC4

It simply won't happen unless Labour end their repellent anti-immigration policies and support trans rights. They can do that.

Some much good will burnt, and absolutely on brand for Corbyn.

40K: Origins

Labour needs to understand that being cruel to immigrants and transgender people will shed votes on the left, and get them no votes on the right. Blaming voters will get them nowhere.

I am still thinking about it.

Got up this morning, bleary-eyed. In the kitchen my son said “why do you look like that?”

It was on Google Townhall that we learned that crowdsourced RPGs are terrible.

Go LARG!

Why do we tell children absolute bullshit like the fairies will take your teet?

The more stuff funded by taxation, the better that stuff is and the more people can participate in society and use amenities on an even footing. Rich people will still have money to spend on expensive burgers.

A halfling detective and a pooka find a clue...

Over on the Pelgrane site, I blogged a bit about the origins of the Merryshire Detective club. Contains secret behind-the-scenes gossip from the secret pelgrane Slack...

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To be terribly dull, I get annual car hire insurance - £50 for the year.

I get rental car excess insurance so I can laugh in their faces.

The Australian and US versions are much less transphobic. The British one is pretty much captured,

Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

The folksongs of England and Scotland are coming to life, and not the good kind! Stop the horror, using song magic of your own.

‘My lips they are so bitter,’ he says
‘My breath it is so strong
If you get one kiss of my ruby lips
Your days will not be long’

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Squirrels are your friends.

Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

Ballad Hunters, the GUMSHOE game of folk songs come eerily to life in gritty 1813, is Kickstarting now!

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I suppose it could mean "if you read it more than once, your games will get worse."

If you are a GM and you read this book only once, I guarantee your games will improve.

B&W photo of The Four Tops on stage looking very dapper in pale dinner jackets.

The Four Tops implies the existence of the Four Bottoms.