From the ashes will rise a new Hivemind.

[Jdvn1]

I don't know anyone anywhere that says holla holla, actually, it just popped into my head as something to say in the Hive today.

Sounds like a hivey thing to me, true.

Hello, my name is Mathew_Freeman, formally known as Tallarn, and I'm an original Hiveminder. What that means is that back in about 2001, when all this started, I was there posting. It's been a long time, and a lot of Hiveminders have passed through. I feel a bit like the grumpy old guy in the corner talking about the Good Old Days sometimes.

Nice! Many hivers have come and gone, and there are many good ol' days that have come and gone as well. Such is the ever-changing hive.

London is awesome. If you're coming over here I'd be more than happy to meet up and show you some geeky sites.

I may take you up on that this or next year! Do you have any pointers I can give my friend?

 

[Dog Moon]

We elected not to have any hackers in the group, and just to skip that area of the game entirely - but your game sounds like fun!

Yeah, I could see why you might want to do that. Hacking is way too rules heavy if you want to do it seriously. But my character is a hacker/drone rigger, so most of my stuff is drone rigging, which IMO is awesome! but occasionally we have a use for Hacking. It's more for researching, checking things on the internet, hacking into Commlinks, etc, rather than using the FULL set of rules for hacking.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I may take you up on that this or next year! Do you have any pointers I can give my friend?

Best geeky shop in London is Forbidden Planet. Orcs Nest is also pretty cool.

In terms of other stuff, if you like video games you should go to the Trocadero on a Saturday night and watch the cosplay kids playing dancing games, it's awesome.

Do all the tourist stuff, of course, but don't be afraid to just wander about. There is interesting stuff all over London, sometimes you just have to look a bit harder for it.

Despite the grumpy reputation of the English, if you are polite and not overbearing you can get a long way by asking questions.

And here's the big, important tips:

Stand to the right on escalators. Queue properly. Be aware of your surroundings and move to the side of the street if you need to look at a map.

There is also a D&D Meet-up page on the net that's a good place to start finding a game, or failing that he should look up Gameforce on Facebook - it's a monthly games club that does card games, RPGs, board games etc.

If all else fails - get him to sign up on ENWorld and PM me!

 

[Jdvn1]

Thanks a lot!

 

[Relique du Madde]

Hey Jdvn,

Why is your user name brown?

 

[Jdvn1]

It's "copper" because I'm a copper level community supporter.

Apparently. I became a community supporter before there were levels, but they decided to make a level cooler than me.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Don't you hate it when you answer a question that you had as aprt of a discussion dealing with your question?

 

[Jdvn1]

Yeah...

what in the world are you talking about?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Yeah...

what in the world are you talking about?

FATE.

More importantly, a version to use. However, the new issue is that one version that might be very useful comes in a 400 page book that hasn't been released, but has some inspiring previews (Dresden Files). The other version whose sample chapters hasn't really inspired me yet (Spirit of the Century) and seems to read like it's SRD..

Then there is a derivative which also hasn't been released yet whose author I trust (ICONS)... but has preview artwork that leaves a little to be desired.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Or is that leaves a lot to be desired?