Parrying is for wimps!

Threads and nightmares......... It is pretty sure that if you meet someone of around my age that grew up in the 80s and they watched Threads , they will have been terrorised by the threat of nuclear Armageddon and had nightmares at least through their teens.   Think of all the crazy government fear mongering of recent times and multiply it by about 1000 to get a taste of what the apocalyptic doom that we were all subjected to felt like.   Threads is truly horrific – so for Christmas 2022 I finally plucked up courage and bought a copy of it for my wife.   She was equally traumatised by it.   We watched it again and I can say it is still terrifying. ..what has this to do with a blog about RPGs?   Well obviously it’s my spurious lead into talking about my recent introduction to Free Leagues Twilight2000 that was updated and published a few years ago.   I actually had the original box set back in the 80s – part of my doomsday obsession with nuclear warfare involved reading books about h

Resolutions or just get stuff done..... New Year resolutions are a pretty awful concept.  I mean why wait till the 1 st January to do something you should have done at some point during the year?  Feel fat?  Stop eating so much and get some exercise – now. Wanna stop smoking?  Do it – now. Want to solve climate change? Go to school get a degree in something related and find the solution – now.  Stop moaning and throwing paint at pictures and just get on with finding a solution. As for dry January – get outta here! Whose idea was that! Crazy…………. Anyway I digress…..it is with some smugness that in the summer of 2022 I thought – the last few years playing online has been great – I have lots of people I can play with and the community on discord is fantastic, but the wholesomeness of actually playing with other people across a table and interacting just can’t be beat – so I need to get back to that.  A quick interweb search and I found a club about 30mins drive away that meets each Monda