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As some of you know, I went to UK Gaming Expo at the end of May. This is a summary of my time there. Getting There My plans, broadly worked as expected. I found myself in the NEC at around 8:20 am on Friday 29th May. At this time of the day, the queue to get my 3 day pass was light, and I was even able to find a Starbucks that was quiet. I found a seat outside in the sun, and sipped on my coffee while planning my day. Plan A The show is big. Like, really big. 60,000 square feet big. I knew in...

In 2026, I will attend both the UK Gaming Expo at the NEC in Birmingham, and Tabletop Scotland at the Royal Highland Showground in Edinburgh. TTS is at the start of September, but UKGE looms large, at the end of May. This blog post is about my preparation for that show. Getting there and back The NEC can be a strange place. It's located on the southwest side of Birmingham, and has two positives, and two negatives. +1: It is literally attached to Birmingham Airport, so getting to and from the...

Exciting title, right? Nominative determinism is the theory that people are subconsciously drawn to professions or places that match their names. At a simple level, it is how people with a surname like Baker sometimes end up running bakeries. This blog post isn’t about any of that, thankfully. Instead, I want to talk to you about how I will often see a name on screen, on a sign, or simply recall a famous person and think: “I wonder what they’d be like as a Dungeons & Dragons character” For...