Oh my. It’s that game. When I mentioned to people that I wanted to do a board games review blog series, EVERYONE said I needed to try Carcassonne. Which, subsequently, made me super excited to play it and very nervous to review it. Apparently, it has won many an award and even has a world […]
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Hi, I’m Fiona and I make tiny things! Earlier on this blog I showed you how to make a tiny armadillo. In this entry, I’m going to share about one of my favourite tiny things to do: customising miniature diorama kits. The kit I’ll be using is the “Roaming Around In Paris” box theatre kit: a
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It’s hard to believe it, but we are now less than a year away from coming together at the SEC in Glasgow for Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures. To celebrate this occasion, our Chair and other staff members gathered in Glasgow on Tuesday, 8 August, to announce some special events you will get
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Gary Lloyd Introduces the Glasgow 2024 Opera Glasgow 2024 is delighted to have composer Gary Lloyd and Guest of Honour Ken MacLeod combining their talents to compose and write an Opera that will be opened for the first time at our Worldcon one year from now! In this video, Gary chats about how he started
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Following the Site Selection voting managed by Chicon 8, we are delighted to announce that Glasgow 2024 will host the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Glasgow 2024 will be the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, and the third to be held in Glasgow after 1995 and 2005. 809 ballots were cast in the election, with 776
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This week we are meeting Matt Calvert, one of the people the blog teams runs to if things start exploding (they don’t, but it’s nice to know we have the option). Matt is the Co-Division Head with Meg MacDonald for Promotions for the Glasgow in 2024 Worldcon Bid. The role involves overseeing all promotional activities
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Our volunteer demographic survey: an important tool for tracking representation As part of Glasgow in 2024’s volunteer recruitment process, we are requesting that all bid and convention volunteers who feel comfortable doing so fill out an optional, anonymous demographics survey. This is something which past Worldcons have aspired to do, but not necessarily early enough
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I like dice! I really like custom dice. I was super excited back when Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon produced custom dice featuring its logo. However, the Dublin dice were d6s. I thought it would have been cool to have a D20 with the Dublin logo on the 19 side. Unfortunately, while lots of places
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If you’ve ever been interested in creating your own resin dice, I’ve put together this guide from my trail and errors. Mostly, to help you try to avoid the pitfalls I’ve run into. I am Grace Worm, a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow where I research social science in Tamora Pierce’s
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Since the success of actual play shows like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, it is now easier than ever to find a regular D&D game to get involved with without any terrible schedule conflicts – you just have to find the right group on Spotify! If you want to get into D&D as a
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