If the current law passing through parliament banning the ownership or distribution of media depicting incest or step incest passes, what happens to Game of Thrones? Or anyone with the Blue Ray of S1 House of the Dragon?

I feel like I travel a lot, but honestly, it's only been recently that I discovered that spending £3 more means I can get a direct train. No changing at York and Doncaster. Honestly, I am such a dumb ass sometimes.

Have the odds of Tulsi Gabbard being the new Man City manager just increased substantially?

Just had to explain who Judith Chalmers was and the concept of 'Holiday' as a programme to Lara. Through today's lens, utterly crazy town

Somehow I managed to miss that yesterday was both the FA Cup final and Eurovision. Well done, Neil

It's not like I said this when these things reappeared, but does nobody remember the debacle of Google Glass when we suddenly realised that smart glasses can mean covert recording or streaming? The arrogance and hubris of our times to think that our 'big idea' will survive the nonsense vexes me!

This week in 'Shit Alexa Says...' both Elvis Presley and Glen Campbell have covered 'Touch of your Love' by Little Mix. Clearly in a chip shop in South Shields.

By the way, hi Bluesky. I've been chilling for a week. How's things? Did I miss anything critical?

Watching Troy with a classics nerd allowed me to experience what it must have been like trying to experience the latest D&D movie as 'just a fantasy film' in a room of hardcore players. Oh the sage thrown at that screen was epic! 'Where's fucking Cassandra!!!' being a favourite.

Prepping The Last Caravan for North Star, has me thinking hard about safety tools for a game potentially involving a family, children and a dog. Like, triggers to the left of me, red flags to the right. Probably need some explicit guidance right?

On this day in history - Newcastle managed to be 2-1 up entering the last few minutes of a match and not fuck it all up magnificently. We have never known it's like in (recent) living memory.

In which I discuss the next (two) installments of our 1-on-1 Werewolf game, including what I did to up the horror, avoiding CSI RPG and how I used tarot cards to try @fandomlife.net 's improv skills to destruction! www.omnihedron.co.uk/play/roadtri...

I am so weak, and predictable. But it's JUST SO CUTE! --- I just backed Battle Box - Age of Sail on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fer...

Today the impossible happened. I found a mobile game so satisfying, I had to delete it! It was a bit like that film Mortal Engines. Your castle on wheels, with little dudes inside, smacks the shit out of your opponents. The games were quick and intense, there were tactics, and you could play...

There can be few more aesthetically pleasing things in the world than an Ellie Kildunne try on the wing ... Except maybe Maud Muir stuff arming someone...

It's been a proper bug bear of mine, and honestly more than a little petty, but I was very pleased to see Iron Maiden are to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this morning. That's all.

Always the last to meme... TTRPG about me First game: Basic Red Box D&D Last game: Daggerheart Longest Game: Symbaroum Favourite Game: Monsterhearts Favourite Mechanics: Aspects in Fate Favourite Art: everything in Wildsea is amazingly evocative Nothing super sexy or quirky. Sorry folks 😄

I have far too many potential games rattling around in my head (Wildsea, Imperium Maledictum, The Between, Blades in the Dark, Soulbound) and not enough players to play them with. Bollocks.

Yesterday, at this time, it looked like I wouldn't have any gaming this weekend. Now I have three games tomorrow. Life really does know how to pull a Crazy Ivan sometimes!

Junk mail arrived today tell me I could have £000s owing to me because of the car I bought on finance years ago. Does anyone in the audience know why this is demonstrable bullshit? Hands up, don't be shy!

I suppose I should start BinQuest. No fences down at the back, which puts Dave in the 'nowhere near as annoying as Arwen' category,.but I heard some hot Wheely action going on last night, and not the good kind! (The lack of good C&tW GIFs is an outrage)

Wonder how the flat earthers are handling this morning? I assume it's all just airfix models and CGI, right?

Back from my holidays with a cracking case of the zoomies, a 38pt list of jobs that need doing, five hours of shit sleep and a gnawing feeling that if I'm not in the cafe within the hour, the entire days routine will be off kilter. Today will either be the most productive day of my life, or ...

Hey groovy RPG kids! Want to play a game all weekend like when we were kids? Yes? Sign up to LongCon, Sheffield, 27/28th June and indulge that long game groove. longcon.ttrpg.uk There's spaces left in my weekend game of Spectaculars, a full run of A|State, DCC and much more. Do it!

Because it's always true...

Oh so *NOW* people are being all vocal about their ambivalence, if not disdain, for Firefly? Where have you been for the last decade? That said, welcome to The Resistance...😀

Watching rugby after watching Aussie rules is like watching sport in slow motion... Egg ball bleed is a thing. For at least some of the year I watch rugby and wonder why someone isn't downed by contact!

Out of the house for the 08.26 bus to go playtest D&H v2. The PCs are hunting down a traitor in Oporto, and someone has been murdered at the last society ball before the French arrive....

Time for a rare internet moment. I was wrong about Knight of the Seven Kingdoms I wrote it off after the first couple of episodes as slow and plodding, but it has been excellent, compelling and technically brilliant. Loved it. Don't abandon shows after the first brush, you might miss greatness

Once settled, I can be a little difficult to persuade to move from the sofa, even to go to bed. Previously my daughter has taken to playing 'What I've Done' by Linkin Park to force me to stand and do the Optimus Prime monologue. Tonight? In her shrillest voice: "Get up! Get up Ser! Get UP!"

Could this week be any worse? Sliced by nail making tea last night, and the thing has come away now. So I have a nice big plaster on my left index finger, making typing less than efficient. So, when it's pissing down with rain outside, I can't even easily crack on with D&H or Liminal stuff #ouch

So I asked my daughter to proof read of D&Hv2. What I expected was the application of her degree-level English skills to the text. What I got was a litany of sarcastic comments. "What is your obsession with hypens?" "What has the humble full stop done to you?" "Widow. Another widow. Another widow"

I wonder whether there will be a tipping point where the writing ticks of AI as presented in scripts for Tik Tok etc. will become so normalised that they bleed into people's own expressions? It won't just be a disaster - it will change the written form forever.

In which I discuss the start for our new Werewolf game and why getting a solid base to play from is so important for all games, but I believe in this 1-on-1 scenario especially www.omnihedron.co.uk/play/roadtri...

Session 1 of Werewolf: Roadtrip today, with @fandomlife.net 1-on-1 drama antics inspired by modern cowboy tales and gothic Americana. Fascinating and fun experiment in laying down a rock solid premise and then riffing hard to make great choices.

My gaming brain is doing some hard handbrake turns at the mo'. I'm exiting Arthurian Liminal headspace, taking a detour into 1809 and all the Peninsular War action I can muster, and then bodyswerving into midwest USA wandering small town werewolf stories...before I start planning teen e-sport drama!

When did I become this organised? Everything planned and printed for my D&H2 playtest on Friday morning, next week's Liminal game and my first session proper with @fandomlife.net for WW5e. The days of Last Minute Charlie seem to have disappeared...

Finally watching 28 Years Later. So Spike and his mam hoof it across land from Holy Island to near the Angel of the North eh? And from where they were standing, straight by the Metro Centre and Newcastle, stood on the hill next to Lobley Hill Rd. Fast travel, dodged all the Geordie zombies too

Started watching Yellowstone as research for an RPG thing. It's about the least Neil show I have ever watched. It's the anti-Neil, however there's definitely something there. I continue with my modern cowboy conversion...

Hey North East folks, if social justice and socially conscious business is your thing, the lovely people at Society Matters are on Bluesky now. You might even see my handsome mug popping up there from time to time!

Quick WWE snark: I hate it when wrasslin' tries to merge real life logic with in-ring antics, like wrestlers pressing charges against each other. As if the unspoken pantomime rules of pro-wrestling don't apply. See the emerging storyline from RAW last night between Bron Breakker and Adam Pearce?

Cracking game of Daggerheart with @eddieap76.bsky.social on Sunday. To earn our underwater breathing gills, the local archmage challenged us to face the dreaming versions of our own worst moments, riffing off the background questions. We each learned about our instigating moments and bonding as...

My good deed for the day was telling the staff that this book absolutely does not belong in the kids section. Not ever.

Surely now the ghost of Hereford Utd and Ronnie Radford can be exorcised. Surely...

Quoting this so-as not to dilute the replies but this has got me thinking about the possible perceived hierarchy in the RPG scene Publishers Designers Con Organisers (?) GMs Players Purchasers There may be a place in there for reviewers but I'm not sure. It explains the glee when some people...

When lyrics creep up on you... 15 Years, by the Levellers. "He's never been kept waiting, cos he pays the landlord's wage" I always assumed this wasbecause he was a high spending regular. It only just struck me because he could be the landlords employer, drinking in his own pub. Different take.

Do you know what I would love to do? A 'full production' RPG campaign. You know the ones - maps, music, minis, artwork, handouts - the works. Session on session. Proper commitment to create an ongoing gaming experience. The game is layers and reintegration of ideas and characters. Ah, bliss...

After a brief hiatus, gaming returns to the Gow household this weekend. Lara is off on her Cthulhu adventures tonight, I'm in Saltmarsh with Daggerheart and @eddieap76.bsky.social on Sunday, we restart the Caliburn Chronicles on Tuesday, and the first D&H playtest is next Friday. Whoo hooo!

I emerged, blinking into the light, at 17.00 last night, having finally finished the first redraft of Duty & Honour. Weighing in at 160pp, author and draft printed copy are doing well... It's a very weird feeling to have it so far down the line so soon, never thought I'd see the day etc.