First Weegamers poll results

I am also closing the first poll of the blog and the results below are as follows

1. Pen and Paper RPG------------- 3 votes
2. Computer RPG ------------------7 votes
3. Boardgames ---------------------6 votes
4. Card games ----------------------7 votes
5. Tabletop Miniature games -------2 votes

Hmmmm. The old style RPG in this very unscientific poll has taken a minor hammering as has tabletop games. Boardgames come out very well as does computer RPGs and card games.

I suspect ease of use, speed of play and interactivity have something to do with this.

Please see the new poll for more voting fun!!

Games Moneyshop, or should that be Games NoMoreMonenyshop

Games Workshop has just found itself dumped with a 73% drop in profits. Mostly blamed on a fall in Lord of the Rings sales and the amount of investment they have made.

Part of me says "serves you right for the amount of money you charge for a couple of pieces of plastic" and another part of me worries that if it all goes kaput then how will i maintain my GW games fix??

I don't think they are goning to go away any time soon, but it is slightly worrying that they keep putting the prices up when the prices for models are already over-inflated. Staff get a 50% discount - that's a hell of a discount - on GW stuff. But then again they are on fairly shit pay.

I am rediscovering 40K (much to the dispair of my wife and bank account) and am building up a space marine army and a chaos space marine army (even more rolling of eyes from the wife), though i am getting a bit of a yearning for either necrons or tyranids (NB- keep wife away from kitchen knife set and make sure hammers and miniatures are both inaccessible). I also have far too many eldar and orks at home but have never 'filled' them out with vehicles etc. God, so many miniatures and so little time to paint.

At TTN we will be creating a narrative campaign for the August month based on the Medusa campaign. A few of us have already registered and logged our first battles.

In Northern Ireland one problem has ocurred where the GW shop is linked to the Northern Europe operation while NI is still, technically, part of the UK. I and my friends have all registered for Edethor (the UK territory), but i don't think the shop can register our games as Northern Europe are fighting over another territory. Heyho, no gaming in the shop then. Its like they don't want us to turn up or something.

If anybody out there can clarify this i would be very pleased. I may even venture into the shop and ask.

I will put more info up on our campaign soon and if any of you lot wnat to join in keep your eye out on this blog and on the TTN Forum in the TTN Open board section

renew, renew, renew

Well, if you have been poping in every so often you will have figured out that i have not been updating.

This is because

1. I am a lazy bastard.
2. I could not be bothered.
3. I had too much going on to have time to update a bloody blog.
4. It felt like too much hard work.

I had a lot of expectations for this blog, and still do. My inspiration will return and then things will be back to normal.

Thank you for coming back.

Rolepayers of the World UNITE!!

This explains a lot.

Just to keep you going for a while. I rogued this from the TTN forum, and do not know where it came from but its excellent.

Apparently David Cameron, Leader to the Conservative Party (UK), and his friends are Roleplay geeks as well.

Excellent...... we will take over the world. hehehehehehehehe

On the plus side Vin Deisel is/was a rolepayer as well.

If you have come across famous RPGers stick it in a comment.

Gone but not forgotten

Sorry I have not posted until now. A friend I knew for the past 2 or 3 years died at the weekend. So i have not really been feeling up to it.

Alan Neil was the founder and President of TTN. He began the long saga of Q-Con. He even came to mine in the Navan Centre, in Armagh.

He had a stroke. The doctors could not do anything. And yet he still thought of others, he carried a donor card.

I was not his best friend nor he mine. but he was very likeable and full of life. It could be very infectious.

He leaves a lot of people who loved him and liked him. His long term girlfriend, his long term house mate, his family and everybody else who ever met him.

He will be greatly missed. He loved Guns n Roses, but i shall quote Iron Maiden - "Only the Good die young". His was in his thirties, just like me.

I shall be attending the funeral tomorrow (2nd June 2006). Normal service will resume there after.