Evening Wood

It's funny, but one of the things I particularly loved about this past series of Doctor Who was the way that some of the stories subtly evoked the Curse Of Fenric in various ways. Nothing overt, just these little nods in theme and tone that, in all probability, only overanalytical fanboys with too much time on their hands such as myself would ever misread into the proceedings. It's interesting then that The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe begins with an oblique reference to a past story.

The only problem is that this time it's Four To Doomsday.

I find your lack of oxygen disturbing.

2011. Apparently.

At the end of the year there are always two important tasks that must be performed. Firstly of course we must review our accounts to see if we managed to actually save any money this year. Then, after that we must take what little it is we did save and blow it all on the stuff that we didn't actually get for christmas.

It's at this point however that I also remember that I'm meant to be writing up a review of yet another year in rampant consumerism, as is apparently traditional around these parts. As ever, the following list is based on what I personally have discovered and experienced in the past year, with very little correlation to actual release dates or objective standards of taste.

CR4

That's right class, today we will be talking about Owlbears. Now, you may well ask "Why Owlbears?". But then that's my point entirely.

The Green, The Brown And The Ugly

Hey, you remember my last post on Doctor Who minis/ Where I tried to talk about painting Cybermen but could only really come out with " MOAR SILVER HERP DERP!!"

Guess how you paint Ice Warriors?

Quose Enquounters

So anyway, I picked up a copy of Quarriors at Dragonmeet the other week. I very nearly didn't though. It was, generally speaking a pretty shitty day. Having half the bloody tube closed was bad enough, but then they also decided to inject the entire population into the ramped confines of the remaining tunnels, presumably just for shits and giggles. Needless to say that by the time we even got there I was already wishing I'd never gotten out of bed and basically just planning to sulk for a few hours and then go home. I'm mature like that.

However, just by passing chance I joined in a demo game of Quarriors, and found that it seemed to be rather fun. This is despite losing in the most miserable fashion. Although to be fair that did rather suit my state of mind at the time. Since I'd bought hardly anything else that day I thought screw it, and blew the last of my money on the game straight after the demo game finished. was somewhat fortuitous as we actually left about 5 minutes after that, since the game that I was waiting for my companion to finish running had actually not happened due to someone buggering around with the tables. As I said, not a great day.

However, they do say every cloud has a silver lining. Personally I think this is bullshit, as that would clearly make them to heavy so stay up, but I'm digressing quite severely again. I wanna talk about this goddamn game.

Which is different from a Godman game. Although that would also be awesome.