Buried Treasure.

I've been going through boxes of stuff, to throw things away, and I've found lots of RPG stuff that I'd done from 10-15 years ago.

Some of it is the Shadowrun stuff from the sessions I ran - SR 2 rules, parts and pieces from lots of other places such as Call of Cthulhu and Cyberpunk 2020.

It's quite strange to see it again, handwritten scrawls from different players and me, ideas for scenarios, location maps photocopies of pages. The memories flood back and I can almost relive the rush I used to get, the excitement, the feelings of camaradrie.

Quite amazing, actually.

Also, I can see the moving away from SR 2 towards my own setting and rules, as I use more and more of my own ideas and FASA shut up shop and stopped producing material.

Almost all of the other RPG material I've found is the early writing for my own, homebrew RPG [The Twilight World, since you ask] - rules, notes, random scribblings, rough sketches of gear [and I do mean rough !!], attempts at layout in Word, ideas, setting notes, ideas that no longer make any sense to me.

But it is interesting to see the evolution of the RPG.

Now that I'm putting pixel-to-screen with recent material from the last few years worth of ideas, rules and setting - for people to read, critique and/or enjoy using for themselves - there's material to be mined and possibly re-used.

All in all, interesting times ahead,

Peter

Cameras ahoy !!

Well, jury service is ongoing and still interesting - even if it means a lot of sitting around waiting for things to happen.

I'm off on holiday in a few weeks, so I decided to get a new lens for my lovely Nikon D40x. I was planning on a 18-135mm lens for general use, but settled on a 10-200mm lens so I don't have to carry several lenses.

I ordered on Sunday and t was delivered today !!

Bigger than the 18-55mm lens I got with my D40x, it looks very impressive and I'm looking forward to trying it out !!

Now I have to get a new, larger polariser filter and possible a new case to carry it all around in.

Now I remember why I delayed getting a new lens !!

Until next time...

New World...

So we've had our election and have ended up with the Tories as the main political party [under David Cameron], sharing power with the Liberal Democrats [under Nick Clegg].

I hope they give this country the change it so desperately needs, even though the high may be high.

In other news, my limited edition of Shadowrun v4 arrived - something I didn't expect, as the company is undergoing serious problems and is not expected to survive.

I'm doing jury service, which is something I've always wanted to do [as a service to the country] and is turning out to be an interesting experience.

The weather is flipping between bright and sunny, and grey and rainy, almost on a daily basis...

...Which proves that the expected English summer is finally here.

I've made some progress with my websites, most of which are finally up-and-running.

Roll on June, and a longed for holiday.

Until next time,

Peter

Yippee, sort of.

On 11mch2009, I ordered a copy of Shadowrun 4th edition Limited Edition...
...And in the year since I've been annoyed at their lack of updates, the company's lack of customer contact, the company's lack of professionalism, the company's general crapness.

Now the company is facing financial problems because of the behaviour of the company people, and is likely to lose the license of Shadowrun and is likely to close.

I don't really care about the company, because they've been crap.
I don't really care about Shadowrun, because it stopped giving me what I wanted over 10 years ago - so I moved onto other things.

But on 23apr2010, over 13 months after I made my purchase, I've been contacted and told that the rulebook I had so much hope for will finally be delivered.

Still, now it'll all be over soon...

Yummy Food.

What a weekend for food.

I'm a newcomer to the world of cooking much beyond pasta and simple rice dishes.

But this weekend I got my hands on some big raw prawns...

...I cleaned them up and cooked them, with some spaghetti and rocket - and some chilli paste.

And it was lovely, if a little hot !!