The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Monday, 29 June 2020

Orcs are the baddies and fantasy games need baddies

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You know where you are with orcs. Slaveringly ugly, utterly evil and just the thing to test to edge of your human paladin's blade or ...

Saturday, 13 January 2018

How Dungeons & Dragons changed the world...

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Mark, from his place in France, has written about computer games. But first he tells us where it started: I suppose it started at uni, with...

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Thursday, 18 May 2017

How Dungeons and Dragons will save your life (or something...)

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I thought that, rather than another partisan piece about the forthcoming election (just vote Conservative), I'd comment on charact...

Friday, 11 April 2014

Quote of the day: on role-playing games

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**** "The view of roleplaying games has changed over time," says Smith, "mostly because the predicted 'streets awash ...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: The Elections - introducing the characters (with apologies to Gary Gygax)

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The suggestion has been made that the General Election should be conducted in the style of a role-playing game rather than in the rather o...

Sunday, 21 February 2010

On wisdom...

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Over at Living with Rats , Julian Dobson speculates on building what he terms “the wisdom economy.” I pondered on whether to indulge in my ...

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Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: saving trolls

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I want to rescue trolls – not that they’re especially nice creatures but it rather annoys me that unpleasant, rude, interfering and often a...

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