Category Archives: General

Lady Blackbird Review and Actual Play

Posted on October 18, 2015 by fakedtales

Lady Blackbird is a free role-playing game by John Harper and it’s fantastic for a short game. I’ve written about my experiences with the game here on Who Dares Rolls.

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You All, Everybody

Posted on July 19, 2015 by fakedtales

I love Lost, even now after all this time. It’s a terrible thing to admit, I’m sure, but there’s the truth. This April 1st, I wrote a review of the Lost board game for Who Dares Rolls. In fact, I … Continue reading →

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The Mist in the Bridge

Posted on July 12, 2015 by fakedtales

I’ve been concentrating a lot on Lightning and less so on my short fiction, which is a bit of a shame. I was inspired by this Terribleminds flash fiction challenge so I visited the link and one of the titles … Continue reading →

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Role-Playing Podcasts

Posted on June 8, 2015 by fakedtales

I guest star on a podcast now, as part of the Who Dares Rolls crew. I’m also a bit of a podcast addict, so I wrote an article about some of my favourites. Think of RPG podcasts a bit like … Continue reading →

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Oh, the Places You’ll Go

Posted on June 2, 2015 by fakedtales

I’ve started to write for Who Dares Rolls, a website which deals with tabletop games. I’m a friend of Ben Hendy, who introduced me to the site and explained that they had a big RPG-shaped hole which I could fill. I joined the site and … Continue reading →

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Operation Lightning 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by fakedtales

Last year I triumphantly shouted to anyone who would listen about how I would be publishing the first ‘season’ of my Lightning novellas in 2015, starting in April 2015 so that the final part would be launched in time with … Continue reading →

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Dead of Winter

Posted on January 4, 2015 by fakedtales

I admit I had a little fun initially with Dead of Winter and my promise of a review of it. At first there was this, then my review of the camp fire horror role-playing game Dead of Night which had … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years Ago

Posted on November 7, 2014 by fakedtales

It’s a big anniversary for me today, so rather than rant about NaNoWriMo or the popular culture, or putting up a short story (I actually did that last week, there’ll be another one soon, I promise), I’m going to delve … Continue reading →

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Tomodachi Life Review

Posted on October 12, 2014 by fakedtales

I was wowed and weirded out by the Nintendo Direct advert for Tomodachi Life. On D+Pad Magazine I’ve posted my review of my experiences with the game itself. I warn you, I made the X-Men for my little fictional island … Continue reading →

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Game Review – Mountain

Posted on July 30, 2014 by fakedtales

I blame Monument Valley. It made me susceptible to arty-looking iPad games. Mountain sounded weird and potentially interesting. In truth… well, you can read what I think is my first one-star review of a video game here.

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