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Well I found this year’s Salute a bit underwhelming. There seemed to be a lot of big empty spaces in the middle of the hall, which made the scrums around many of the stalls even more annoying than usual. Some cool games but little that really grabbed me. Hence I only spent a few hours there before heading into town, where I ended up doing a bit of shopping.

So, whilst the Salute purchases (a mammoth mammoth, some chaps and some geezers) go onto the annual fund the rest of the day’s shopping is:

Classic Traveller Alien Modules 5-8 from Orc’s Nest, @ £19.99

2 packs of Imperial Entanglements Star Wars CMG miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99 each

Total: £39.97

Total for the quarter: 0.00 + £91.85 + £39.97 = £131.82

Tags: cmg, ctcowg09, salute09, star wars, traveller

Counting the Cost of War(games) – Floating Fund ‘08

Posted on January 1^st 2009 at 12:02am in Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, Magazines, Miniatures, My Life, RPGs.

All spent at Salaute.

1 ticket for Salute, @ £9.95.

Entelodon, Komodo Dragons and Phororachos from Amazon Miniatures, @ £12.80

2 Dinosaurs from Hasslefree Miniatures, @ £13.50

Tactical Miniatures Big City PD, Rattrap Productions Megatherium and Smilodon from Tabletop Games, @ £21.50

‘John Constantine’ and ‘Captain Jack’ from Black Cat Bases, @ £4.50

4 Lurkers, 2 familars, Doctor Hugh and Doctor Masterson from Heresy Miniatures, @ £20.00

Total for Salute: £82.25

Tags: ctcowg08, salute

2008 Books

Posted on December 31^st 2008 at 4:53pm in Books, Doctor Who, My Life, RPGs.

Well, here’s what I’ve been reading this year. I said there was a lot of graphic novels.

Over on the LiveJournal version of this blog you can fill in a poll to show which of these you’ve read as well (not necessarily in 2008). I understand that you can use OpenID to log into LJ rather than creating an account there but I’ve never tested it myself.

Non-Fiction

A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
Counterknowledge by Damian Thompson
Dry Store Room No. 1 by Richard Fortey
JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz
Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
Stand and Deliver: The Autobiography by Adam Ant
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
The Economic Naturalist by Robert H. Frank
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Fiction

A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

Graphic Novels

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate
Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman
From Hell by Alan Moore
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
John Constantine Hellblazer: Bloodlines by Garth Ennis
John Constantine Hellblazer: Family Man by Jamie Delano
John Constantine Hellblazer: Fear Machine by Jamie Delano
John Constantine Hellblazer: Joyride by Andy Diggle
John Constantine Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician by Andy Diggle
Lucifer: Inferno by Mike Carey
Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence by M Carey
Planet Hulk Omnibus by Greg Pak
World War Hulk by Greg Pak
Serenity: Better Days by Joss Whedon
Ultimate X-Men :Ultimate Collection Book 2 by Mark Millar

Doctor Who

Ahistory by Lance Parkin
About Time 6 by Tat Wood
Doctor Who: Bullet Time by David A. McIntee
Doctor Who: Business Unusual by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: Companion Piece by Mike Tucker
Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Endgame by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: Festival of Death by Jonathan Morris
Doctor Who: Grave Matter by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Halflife by Mark Michalowski
Doctor Who: Sometime Never… by Simon A. Forward
Doctor Who: The World Shapers by Grant Morrison
Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles

Odds and Ends

Star Wars: Dark Empire II by Tom Veitch
Star Wars: Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore
Star Wars: Dark Tide 1 – Onslaught by Michael A. Stackpole
Star Wars: Dark Tide 2 – Ruin by Michael A. Stackpole
A Magical Society: Ecology & Culture

Tags: 2008, comics

Dinosaurs Rule

Posted on November 6^th 2008 at 10:00pm in Dinosaurs, Games, RPGs.

I promised you some dinosaurs, so here we go. For quite a long time my Dinosaurs in Miniature page has contained the line Rules (coming soon) so I figure why not do something about that? As this blogging every day thing is very taxing, I’m presenting a skeleton list here and asking you good people to help me flesh it out. What am I missing? What have I got wrong? I’m only after more or less professionally published rules here.

( Lists of Dinosaurs Rules and more... )

Very True Mood: (sleepy)

sleepy

Tags: nablopomo

Counting the Cost of War(games) – October ’08

Posted on November 1^st 2008 at 12:01am in Dinosaurs, Games, RPGs.

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs RPG, via eBay @ £6.20

Renegade Legion games Leviathan and Centurion, via eBay @ £19.00

[Update] – seller sent me Interceptor instead of Centurion, then had to go to hospital, then moved house. Refunded me £5.00, let me keep the copy of Interceptor and says that she will send Centurion if it turns up when unpacking.

Total ~~£25.20~~ £20.20

Tags: ctcowg08, ebay