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Review - The Between RPG

A deeply atmospheric game of people with dark secrets hunting monsters in Victorian London.

Alex White Alex White 6 min read
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Review - iA Writer

My current choice of writing tool is iA Writer. This is why.

Alex White Alex White 5 min read
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Review - Jump the Shark RPG

Do you remember Happy Days, with Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and all their pals in a nostalgic situation comedy back in the 1970’s? It was fun, exciting and spawned a whole generation of people

Alex White Alex White 6 min read
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Review - One Page Howitt

During the last year of COVID I’ve had the great delight of enjoying some regular Sunday night games with friends from America. We’ve played a wide range of one-shot games and playtests. Today

Alex White Alex White 6 min read
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Review - Affinity Publisher

Move over indesign, there is a new kid on the block and Affinity Publisher is better for game designers than you!

Alex White Alex White 5 min read
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Review - The Kraken Wakes

John Wyndham was a master of writing dystopia science fiction from the point of view of ordinary people. I think this is one of his finest, with elements which are directly applicable to

Alex White Alex White 3 min read
Reviews Barbed-wire

Review - Love Letters of the Great War

In these days of instant messaging, WhatsApp and texts, the pleasure of writing and receiving letters is perhaps in danger of being forgotten.

Alex White Alex White 3 min read
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Review - Blades in the Dark

Why I think Blades in the Dark is an important new design in tabletop RPG’s

Alex White Alex White 11 min read
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Review - Metatopia 2019

Metatopia 2019 Report Metatopia is the game design festival run by Double Exposure. I was able to visit Metatopia again this year, with a different game in a different state of development. It

Alex White Alex White 24 min read
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Review - Fate Core

Description and mechanics brought together beautifully through the rules for ‘Aspects’

Alex White Alex White 6 min read
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Review - Timewatch RPG

Time travel as an RPG genre is one with infinite possibilities, but really hard to do right. For my money, Timewatch is the best example out there today, and I’m going to tell

Alex White Alex White 4 min read
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Book Review - Between Silk and Cyanide, a code makers war

Leo Marks was the principal code-maker for the SOE during the war. This book which is filled with wry humour and bureaucratic frustration covers his war from 1942-45. He was considered the “one

Alex White Alex White 6 min read
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Book Review - Lonely Courage by Rick Stroud

This is the true stories of seven of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. The author has taken a chronological view of events from the rise of Hitler in 1933

Alex White Alex White 3 min read
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Metatopia 2018

What does a tiny game design company do in order to get high quality feedback on a new game they are developing? Why, go to Metatopia of course!

Alex White Alex White 14 min read
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Grey Ranks - Review

I had always wanted to try a ‘story game’, but was afraid to try. I didn’t think I’d have the creative wits to be any good at it, let alone enjoy it. So

Alex White Alex White 4 min read
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Ten Candles

I have come to understand that some of the very best games have mechanics which support the theme of the game in some way. For me the outstanding example of this is Ten

Alex White Alex White 3 min read
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Book Review - 1984

So I decided to re-read 1984. I first read it about thirty years ago as a teenager, and I remember it being dreary and with a bit of horror at the end. Reading

Alex White Alex White 2 min read
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