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  1. Olive

    D&D with "alt film" stars: the WotC interview

    Exactly - it's easily the most interesting gaming blog I read - they guy makes the rest of us look like idiots quite frankly. I don't think WotC did the interview because of the porn connection - I think they did it because IT'S A REALLY GOOD BLOG
  2. Olive

    What are you playing that is NOT D&D?

    I'm not playing D&D at al. I'm playing Ars Magica.
  3. Olive

    Recommend good podcast?

    I've been trying to listen to a few of these so I'm interested in what people think, but I also have a comment on gaming podcasts - why do they all seem to be nearly an hour long? Or even longer? Gamers With Jobs is an hour and a half. Seriously - I listen to a lot of podcasts off NPR and...
  4. Olive

    Your FLGS and You - What's your take?

    That maybe the case in Canada but on the other side of the Pacific it's not. I've lived in Wellington, New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia and Singapore since I got back into gaming in the mid 90s. I've frequented gaming shops in each city and a bunch more in Australia and NZ as well. My...
  5. Olive

    What Do Your Kids Think of D&D, and How Do You Handle It?

    My 3.5 year old loves pretending to be a superhero and hearing stories about knights (him) and monsters (his 1.5 year old brother). He also loves dice and loves watching me play PC games. But he also likes to win (as in he's still at the stage where he thinks he always wins, hasn't yet realised...
  6. Olive

    What do your parents (currently) think of D&D?

    My parents think it's weird that a 34 year old guy with a job and kids and stuff still plays the game that they got him as a present when he was 7. But beyond that, they don't care. For some reason, perhaps because she's lived with them/in the same city as them more and perhaps because it more...
  7. Olive

    Has Lovecraft become required reading?

    It's worth mentioning that Wikisource has heaps of these stories for free.
  8. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    I've finally made it to Singapore and were settling in etc. I've set up a thread on the PI boards for a game. If anyone's interested let me know!
  9. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    Ohh - good link! No, I won't get there till early August, but maybe next year?
  10. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    no one?
  11. Olive

    Games you won't play

    This is fascinating! And nice that it hasn't descended into "you idiot! Why won't you play <my favourite game>?" I'll play pretty much anything RPG-wise once or twice. I'm currently playing in a WoD based game which I would have probably refused to play in if it hadn't been for the group and...
  12. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    Work is organising the agent which is good - I think he sees the potential for ongoing business. The real question is does anyone want a player or a GM?
  13. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    I've got a budget of $2,500/month but with two kids we really want a 3rd bedroom. I'll be working in Clementi and lots of people live in those two areas I think...
  14. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    No idea - just had dinner with my soon to be boss (hopefully) and e was suggesting Bukit Batok and Pasir Panjang. Met with a real estate agent today and he showed me places that were nice but way outside our budget. I checked out the Raffles City Comics Mart and the Bugis Junction Absolute...
  15. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    Cool - good advice! (Apologies to anyone who chooses to misinterpret my comments about his wife as sexism: it's just the reality I have witnessed many times in the past decade and forewarned is forearmed.) I was actually a teenager in Singapore and so I've seen my mum go through exactly what...
  16. Olive

    Game Store in Singapore?

    Hmmm... it looks like I'm about to move to Singapore for work with my family, so this is a useful thread. Anyone looking for a 32 year old Kiwi to join a game?
  17. Olive

    WFRP: what's not to like about Bretonnia: Knights of the Grail?

    Worth reading the book then because I found the way the dealt with that sort of fun.
  18. Olive

    WFRP: what's not to like about Bretonnia: Knights of the Grail?

    A big part of the complaints I've heard made about it are that it uses the WFB 'Arthurian' Knights and Damsels Bretonnia rather than the 1e WFRP Bretonnia which was more Renaissance France. This one is really not about the book as such, but rather about the direction that GW took the setting. I...
  19. Olive

    Boston - tell me all about it

    My wife is pretty keen to live somewhere a bit more vibrant than an outer suburb I think. Which makes sense - she'd be at home, with two little kids and not knowing anyone around. We're not religious so there's no built in network she'd plug into like I would with work and geeking.
  20. Olive

    Boston - tell me all about it

    Cool. Do apartments come with washing machines and the like? And I assume the prices I'm seeing are per month?
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