Category: Director’s Briefing

Director’s Briefing – September 2015

Welcome to the fifty-second Briefing and the ninth scheduled Briefing for 2015. September this year for me means being overwhelmed by research consultancy work bids and degree revalidations at the same time as my due diligence on a new module and module updates. So if you get a very succinct answer to a query from […]

Director’s Briefing – August 2015

Welcome to the fifty-first Briefing and the eighth scheduled Briefing for 2015.   RMU beta 2   Beta 2 continues its public playtest. A number of changes have been made already as a result of playtester feedback. Rather than upload a set of pdf fragments for these, a revised Arms & Character Law has been […]

Director’s Briefing – July 2015

Welcome to the fiftieth Briefing and the seventh scheduled Briefing for 2015   RMU beta 2   As I hope you are all aware, Beta 2 is now officially in public playtest with all four books now available – yes, Treasure Law is now available in Beta 2. Following points raised by playtesters, we will […]

Director’s Briefing – June 2015

Welcome to the forty-eighth Briefing and the sixth scheduled Briefing for 2015.   It is the marking time of year, so I am writing this between onslaughts of reports and exam scripts requiring my attention. Enough said.   HARP and HARP SF   AutoHARP   David Klecker has been working on additional improvements to his […]

Director’s Briefing – May 2015

As I have almost certainly mentioned before, while I love physical books, I find ebooks incredibly useful whether it is novels on my Kindle for entertainment or textbooks on the tablet for work purposes. Carrying 1000+ page textbooks in my backpack from Cambridge to Ipswich and vice versa is not good for the book, my […]

Director’s Briefing – April 2015

    Welcome to the forty-sixth Briefing and the fourth scheduled Briefing for 2015. As a historical note, Terry Amthor reminded me that on this day (April 1st) thirty-five years ago that at a meeting in a Mexican restaurant in Charlottesville the original ICE was founded. It seems only fitting that we celebrate that anniversary […]

Director’s Briefing – March 2015

  Welcome to the forty-fifth Briefing and the third scheduled Briefing for 2015. Colin wrote in the ICE newsletter of February being the cruellest month, but for me it just seems to have been and went.   Rolemaster   In RMU, both Rolemaster Arms & Character Law and Rolemaster Spell Law have been handed over […]

Director’s Briefing – February 2015

  Welcome to the forty-fourth Briefing and the second scheduled Briefing for 2015. January has been a painful month for me of assignment marking (I have mentioned that I hate marking?), course specification writing, and dealing with dampproofers (so our bedroom was completely emptied and we are still inhabiting the living room as various bits […]

Director’s Briefing – January 2015

  Welcome to 2015   Happy New Year to everyone   Welcome to the forty-third Briefing and the first scheduled Briefing for 2015. My reading this holiday season was the Void space opera (The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void, and The Evolutionary Void) by Peter F Hamilton, which has been patiently waiting on my physical […]

Director’s Briefing – December 2014

  Welcome to the forty-second Briefing and the twelfth scheduled Briefing for 2014. Christmas and the holiday season are nearly upon us, and the final instalment of The Hobbit movies in the form of “The Battle of the Five Armies” will soon be in cinemas everywhere. I look forward to seeing Peter Jackson’s audiovisual spectacular […]