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RogerBW's Blog24d ago
2025 fantasy. The Evil Mage has been killed, and presumably his minions too. And there's no reason for anyone to link Violet, the newcomer in town who just wants to open a florist's shop, with the...
RogerBW's Blog25d ago
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a string decompression and permutations. (Note that this ends today.) Task 1: Decode String You are given an encoded string.
RogerBW's Blog27d ago
1999 mystery, twelfth of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The wife of a local farmer is found stabbed to death in the woods.
RogerBW's Blog28d ago
Back to one of my favourite conventions, still at the Royal Highland Centre next to Edinburgh airport.
RogerBW's Blog29d ago
2026 science fiction, first of a planned series. Torian Razner has been saving up for years to buy a starship and move her sister out of the bad-quality air that's killing her.
RogerBW's Blog7 Sept 2026
1951 adventure/romance, dir. John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn: IMDb. After the African mission is destroyed, the survivor is determined to strike back at the Hun.
RogerBW's Blog6 Sept 2026
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array shuffling and subarrays. (Note that this ends today.)
RogerBW's Blog5 Sept 2026
2024 urban fantasy novells, part of a series. Dr Greta Helsing is relaxing with her husband (Varney the Vampire) when a newly-turned and abandoned vampire comes to their attention… This is possibly...
RogerBW's Blog4 Sept 2026
2024 science fiction novella, second of a trilogy. Ada is back on the job, infiltrating a museum gala in order to do… something.
RogerBW's Blog2 Sept 2026
2026 SF. Forty years ago the world fell apart. Our narrator, who remembers it, just wants to be left alone to study ants.
RogerBW's Blog30 Aug 2026
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sequence generation and derangement. (Note that this ends today.)
RogerBW's Blog28 Aug 2026
2026 fantasy, first in a possible series. Maggie Haley went to sleep one night and woke up naked in a ditch in her favourite fantasy series.
RogerBW's Blog27 Aug 2026
It is generally accepted that GURPS Vehicles, the vehicle design supplement for the third edition of that game, is not something anyone would use at the table; I'd agree with that.
RogerBW's Blog25 Aug 2026
1957 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins: IMDb. Karswell's enemies seem to die very conveniently for him; but of course there's no such thing as magic.
RogerBW's Blog23 Aug 2026
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string rearrangements and rational numbers. (Note that this ends today.)
RogerBW's Blog22 Aug 2026
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Interlude 6 Part I.
RogerBW's Blog20 Aug 2026
I've found myself thinking lately about loops. Specifically, how do you terminate a loop? I see two basic sorts of thing here: - There is a reasonably knowable number of iterations when you start.
RogerBW's Blog19 Aug 2026
I recently had occasion to write up a quick introduction to Cthulhu Eternal for a group I play with, and thought it might be more broadly useful.
RogerBW's Blog18 Aug 2026
2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to.
RogerBW's Blog17 Aug 2026
Was Friday's message suitable content for an emergency alert? This is not a discussion of the specific harms of the system: the revelation of hidden phones, the stress and panic caused, the...
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