Innovative ICT-Enabled Services and Social Inclusion
Jyoti Choudrie, Sherah Kurnia and Panayiota Tsatsou
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Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book...
India and the Unthinkable: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics
Vinay Lal and Roby Rajan
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A remarkable but little commented on feature of the various discourses on India circulating today is...
Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Dungeon Lords in Tabletop Games
Sep 19, 2019
It then went back in the cupboard.
At the weekend, I managed to convince my wife to give it a try - eventually, she relented. She doesnt like playing a game where at least one player doesnt KNOW the rules.
The first game, we stumbled through, easy enough, but some "creativity" with the rules (as found) meant it wasnt exactly as per the rulebook. She enjoyed it enough to ask to play it again.
Last night, we played it again. And, having muddled through the first game it was a totally different game. It was entertaining, it was creative, the rules felt like they flowed much better. With two players (and 2 "NPCs") it's a challenge but probably not infinitely replayable. Next challenge will be to use the full rules - the rules are set up as "combat examples", "basic play", then "normal play" with a bit more variation and a bit tougher.
There are lots of nice nods to other classic dungeon crawl genres and games, and the boards are clear enough for easy play.
There are LOTS of tokens and cards, so I would recommend investing in some sort of in-box storage system - I spent about £2 on the one i use, which I think is supposed to be for screws and nails!
It's a really fun game, and I am now looking at the expansion for a near-future purchase!
For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist's Journey
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Rivers and streams supply our water and capture our imaginations. We seek the more pristine ones to...
Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End
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Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating...
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More Happy Than Not
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In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling-debut--also called "mandatory...
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The Book of M
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Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of...
Shadows forgetting love journey
The story - 5 people in 3 countries suddenly find themselves in The Game but it's not your run-of-the-mill game of Monopoly; no, it's something far more sinister. If they refuse to play, the one they love dies; if they tell anyone, their loved one dies ... they have no choice but to participate but there can only be one winner.
The pacing of the book is fast and flowing with the story being told from the perspective of all the characters and occasionally some of their loved ones. The plot is intriguing - you don't know until near the end why the participants have been chosen or who the 'puppet-master' is which made trying to work out the 'why' difficult but all is revealed in an ending that is as surprising as it is violent.
Now, I'm not going to say that all is perfect with this book, there are a number of times where you have to suspend belief a little and it does deal with themes and uses language that some may find unpalatable, e.g. homophobia, racism, abuse, rape, suicide, and there are numerous scenes of violence, so if you find these are triggers for you, I would give it a miss.
Overall, I think this is a very creditable debut and I will be looking out for more of Mr Kershaw's work in the future and I must thank HQ and NetGalley for allowing me to read The Game and sharing my thoughts.
Kerry Daynes gives us an insight into the world of forensic psychology and the different settings that she has worked in, from hospitals to her own private practice to a mother-and-baby unit. Her job is so varied and she talks about a wide range of characters that she has met throughout her career.
Kerry Daynes doesn’t pretend to be a robot and is the first to admit that sometimes her prejudice or feelings do appear during sessions with some of her patients. She says the most important thing is to realise this and to try to put them to one side at that moment in time. I have always been interested in psychology and it is the career I want to go into in the near future, and this book has ignited that passion even further but also put some of my doubts to bed.
I really did enjoy this book, and while I know that statistics and studies are important to back up facts in the book, I did feel that at some points the references and statistics were a bit too heavy, especially if you are not someone who likes to go away and read up on them afterwards. While they didn’t bother me too much, I did sometimes find I was skimming over them a little, so I wonder what people who don’t have any experience of psychology would think of these parts.
Overall, I really did enjoy the book and I enjoyed reading about the patients that Kerry Daynes included and felt satisfied when we found out what happened to them afterwards.