Matthew Sylvester
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Chip Shop of Horrors – Five Star Review!
This was taken directly from Amazon.co.uk and was written by someone called Alphaprocess. Needless to say I’m very happy indeed that not only I got a good review, but so did everyone else: As Stewart Hotston says in his Foreword to this book, we have a strange relationship with food. Whether it’s the British ‘fairground’ … Continue reading
Star Wars: X-Wing – Iron Fist Campaign – Rearguard Action
*<<<“Gemini 5-4, you’ve got one on your tail! Break left, break left!”>>>* *<<<“This is bunker 3-1, we’re being assaulted by a company of enemy stormtroopers. Request assistance, we can’t hold out much lo…..>>>* *<<<Mayday, mayday, mayday, this is ore transport Pork Belly, Imperial TIE fighters have hit our engines, we’re drifting towards the planet, estimated … Continue reading
Star Wars: X-Wing – This gamer’s excitement is back
Back when I was 9, I started playing Basic Dungeons and Dragons, my first adventure was Keep on the Borderlands. I still have the books. I still remember the excitement. That was 32 years ago. Since then I’ve become a bitter, cynical and jaded gamer, fed up with constant rule revisions and re-releases of figures, … Continue reading
Combat – Why I like writing about it so much
Combat. There’s nothing I like more – aside from coffee – than reading or writing about combat. I’m not talking about mental-based combat such as psionics or magic, I’m talking about the physical, the visceral, weapons-based and empty-handed combat. I’ve always enjoyed writing about such things, often to the consternation of my primary school teachers. … Continue reading
The Brotherhood of Tweed
There is a great divide that splits British society and it is one that makes me particularly sad. There are those that appreciate the work, the years of skill, the hours of dedication and the time spent out in the wilds of Scotland breeding, feeding, chasing after and saving the sheep needed to make … Continue reading
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