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Last week I attended the UK Games Expo in Birmingham for the first time! As a seasoned SPIEL-attendee, I was especially curious to see how this compares. I ve been to conventions other than SPIEL, of course, such as the Berlin Brettspiel Con, Spiel Doch! in Duisburg/Dortmund, some Dutch one I forgot the name of, and some smaller ones. But IMHO none of those are comparable. Now that I ve been to…
I recently spent 2 weeks in New York City to feed my nostalgia and revisit this place that I kind of grew up with. I used to stay with a relative here on my past visits, who sadly passed away a few years ago. But what I did a few times with her was to go to TKTS and get discounted same-day tickets for a show. That way, I saw The Producers and Wicked, for example. However, it was usually not so…
Yesterday, I returned from my 10th visit to New York. After I blogged about my New York Nostalgia last autumn, I actually went through with it and booked a 12-day trip to New York, despite some doubts I had, mainly regarding the political situation. Is politics a reason not to visit a place? Depends. I think if you think like that, then I think a lot of countries are off the table for a vacation…
In December 2025, I posted about 20 RPG systems that I played that are not DnD 10 fantasy systems, and 10 more systems that are not traditional fantasy. Since then, I ve got to play a lot more RPGs, so it s time for another round of mini-reviews. Not all of them are necessarily dark and dangerous, but I somehow had to come up with a distinguished title 😆 Black Powder and Brimstone: This is a…
I m not a fashionable person, I wear t-shirts and hoodies about 98% of the year. I can t handle dealing with all the fancy outfits and whatnot that you d find in the average fashion store. Usually they are uncomfortable, unpractical, cold, or all of the above. Regular shaped women s shirts with a comfy zipper hoodie are the only thing I m really comfortable in, even though in summer when it s…
The Drowning Empire series by Andrea Stewart is a trilogy of novels consisting of The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor and The Bone Shard War. I was interested in reading this series because it comes highly recommended especially by fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series (probably my favorite book series), and because it was supposed to have a few themes and topics that I m…