For some reason, I recalled the first edition of the Chill RPG. I remember the Lycanthropes supplement being rather good, too. Can't remember much of the system, though I do remember the Mean Old Neighbour lady, Rax, and the art...

Looking forward to being Liminal in Peebles...

Picked up Savage Worlds Horror, Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, and Salvage Union. Looking at systems for my Cold Equations RPG setting once my current writing assignments are done...

I had two of the Skeleton Horde boxsets back in the day... £3.95 for 36 multi-posable deadites.

I keep thinking Lord Binface is some kind of Fallout character..

Think I'm sorted for reading material this hols: the updated "Frozen Hell" (The Thing), Southern Cross trilogy (Annhilation etc), Pratchett's Discworld (I've missed a few!). 10 Judge Dredd Case files anthologies, and a couple of ABC Warriors volumes. Plus writing to do. Working hard at Lake Garda!

I'd forgotten how much hosting a flat viewing takes out of you.

Lobbying is gentrified bribery.

I was reminded earlier that the creation of Sil in the Species movies is totally due to aliens sending a genetic sequence as a response to human signals. Totally going in my Cold Equations setting.

I have been listening to Ich Bin Ein Auslander by, of all people, Pop Will Eat Itself. Its good.Now I feel old.

ITV3/4 really does have some banging shows: Sharpe. Hornblower. Sherlock Holmes. Marple. Poirot. Even Dempsey & Makepeace.

Time to get this aperitif adventure written.

She's poised to ambush her tail...

I think it's funny the new Alien RPG scenario is called Operation Leading Edge. I have fond memories of the Aliens boardgame. Not the Aliens RPG from Leading Edge...

Two weeks to holiday in Italy... With the upcoming move, it might be the last trip for a while. I need to recharge.

Prior to the Great Migration to Peebles, I'm looking at clearing out my Discord servers. I really do miss forums.

From the techbros who brought you Palantir... smart rings.

M Night Shayamalan's films have been OK. More M&S than MNS - the Watchers is rather good, though - Irish folk horror.

Struggling to see any benefit in LinkedIn... Frothing with AI slop and ad scams. It's always been bad, but ye gods, talk about enshittification. I only use it to keep a presence there for writing now.

Positives of having a basement flat - it stays cool in summer, and there's at least a cool breeze off the Castle rockand round the pend. Back to the writing cave!

Lots of new followers! Not sure how that happened!

Currently thinking of a mashup RPG of Wyndham "Kraken Wakes" and London during Split Second. Dammit.

Researching the French Naval city of Toulon. Not only do they have legends of a giant octopus guarding the Two Brothers, the babau, the coulobre dragon, and golden goat... they have a Tarasque.

Things on books-to-buy list: TPratchett's Discworld again (mine fell apart or were given away), and Douglas Hill's Last Legionary series. Fond memories of getting hardbacks of the latter from the library.

Back to the writing cave this afternoon, writing a new campaign...

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If I said Shalebridge Cradle (Thief 3) is one of the creepiest chapters of a videogame, who'd agree?

Moving to Peebles soon! Thanks to @pliminal.bsky.social Liminal RPG, I've been reminded that Peebles is where badasses go to retire. The guy at the bar swears he's Elvish.

Flat now on the market with the ESPC, offer made for new place, and adventure *finally* written. Been a day.

Looking forward to Saturday nights where I don't have to see two ambulances, dollybirds barfing, a street fight, and a bunch of teen yobs riding bikes the wrong way down Lothian road. Only out to the shops. Just popping to Tesco, indeed.

Sadly unable to make it to either Carronade or Cymera this year - next year, perhaps!

After spending nearly my entire life in Edinburgh, I'm moving to Peebles, in the Borders. No job change - similar commute! Flat surveyed and valued and about to make an offer on a place there. It's a big step, leaving Edinburgh and the gaming communities I've help build behind.

Nice to hear that @nightfall.games sold out of Musketeers vs. Cthulhu!

Have fun at UKGE if you're going. I'm not, sadly.

Given how I'm feeling today, it's probably just as well I'm not going to UKGE. Energy is way down and time to say, "That's enough."

A reminder for #UKGE this year, who have no policy like the below: if you don't use AI in your work, swing by my stall (Hall 3, 621) or @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social (Hall 3, 914) for a free sign to let people know you aren't a lazy slop merchant 🥰

Once. Just once. I'd like the whole broken-down car trope to actually get it fixed when someone pops the hood/bonnet...

"Devil below" on Prime reminds me a lot of The Descent. Good though.

Posting Abbadon until I find my audience. What if tension came from watching your options disappear? Cards instead of dice. Dark fantasy setting. Expansion in development. Someone wants exactly this. Help me reach them. losthavenart.com #ttrpg #Abbadon

I don't use AI in either my writing or my IT job. There's no intelligence in AI, it just scrapes together stuff in a glorified search engine.

23 degrees here in Edinburgh (a heatwave! Taps aff!) and I'm writing about rain in Perthshire.

Two more writing assignments after this. Nice to be busy.

2000 words written - that'll do for today.

It's finally public - modiphius.net/en-us/blogs/... - sad news. I've worked on all the books bar a couple.

Starting to declutter. Getting rid of hundreds of DVDs and Blurays on Freecycle. 5 1/2 boxes worth of sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, and romcoms...

For research have acquired the Southern Reach books and Frozen Hell (with 45 extra pages). Inspiration for Who Goes There and The Thing...

Touch my tummy or toebeanz at your own risk.

Collection of ramblings that have been on my mind for a while. billheron.uk/in-the-pale-...

I don't think I have the time or energy for a weekend at UKGE or Dragonmeet. Hope to make it to Tabletop Scotland, though.

Things to do: apply for OU law degree, get art stuff out, build 40k Necron Combat Patrol, and finish writing a few things.