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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Most of you will have heard of Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder. But there is far more to the world of tabletop RPGs than those ubiquitous giants, and our resident expert is here to introduce you to some more unusual games you may want to try this RPG month. BUNNIES & BURROWS Celebrating its 45th
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This week, we are introducing Steve Cooper, the bid’s financial lead, treasurer and, in his own words, ‘accidental smof’. Steve tracks his con career to becoming a Smof, or ‘Secret Master of Fandom’, a person responsible for planning fannish conventions. Once he became a Smof, and found his fannish home, there was no turning back
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Hello and welcome all! I hope you have had a wonderful Pride month so far – and I hope that our offering will help you end it with a bang. For 2022, the Glasgow 2024 blog team has asked around and got friends of the bid – from authors to bloggers to members of the
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This week we have a delightful introduction to Bobbi Armbruster, the Queen of Time herself. My official position, I believe, is Manager of the Timeline. Yes, I am the Queen of Time! Not that I can do anything with that; it doesn’t benefit me in any way, darn it. But I am also casually on
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It is traditionally considered bad form for a bid to announce its initial convention rates prior to being selected, as this may influence the selection process. After all, we want people to choose the bid that will run the best, rather than the cheapest, Worldcon. However, as Glasgow 2024 is running as an uncontested bid,
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The Glasgow in 2024 Craft Team is going to bring an in-person community craft project to Reclamation, this year’s Eastercon. We’re very excited and hope you’ll be able to join us, but even if you can’t, this blog post is going to tell you all about the project and how you can contribute from afar.
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Hello again everyone! Here’s another post about how we are moving forwards the Bid for a Worldcon in Glasgow, 2024. This post is about the process that we need to complete in order to officially stand as a Worldcon Bid, and what that entails. In this post I’m going to go over what that means
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