Tahakki

Windows. Gah.

The virtues and Unity? Oh, very clever.

Not really. All CDs are like this. Maybe DVDs aren't as resistant, I don't know.

Had an old CD, thought I'd play with it. There's a video on it. Anyway, I covered it in fingerprints, ran it along a carpet, and played frizbee with it. It still worked. Maybe CDs are a lot tougher than we think they are?

Remember to vote for Hopes and Fears - an RPG without Metru-Nui! At last!

I'm starting up a podcast here on BZP. This was planned a year ago, but never got off the ground. You can audition for it now. Live from BZ-Koro is back!

Yo, doods. Time for the long-awaited part 2! I waited until we had two play sessions in before writing this. Anyway, unfortunately, I won't be able to say much about it, due to spoilers. However: The adventure that comes with it is called 'Beneath the Village of Harken'. It's called a short adventure, but we've got about an hour and a half out of it so far and are about half way, so it should last a fair while. It's mostly combat, but we have a had a few interesting Roleplaying bits. Today, we went into a room where a Goblin Wizard was drawing power from the fire. We put the fire out in the most creative way possible. I'll let you guess what, but the gem we found in it smelled like wee afterwards. All in all, the set is excellent value for money. To play the full game you'll probably need the Player's Handbook, but it's great for a few hours of gameplay, and your DM can invent their own campaign with the tiles and counters.

I've put a wee box at the side with all the stuff I've made/written on BZP. Kind of embarrassing, trawling through all the stories I wrote at age 8.

Probably because the server was down. Try again.

I finally got Bionicle Online working again.

Review: Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set Well, everyone, here's part one of my review of the new Starter Set. Part one will focus on what's actually in the box, while part two will say what it's like to actually play the game. The game came in a cardboard box, with all these plastic sausage things in it. They're fun. I got the game off a really good site called GamesLore.com, if anyone's interested. The box itself is bigger than I imagined. I pictured a small yet thick box. Actually, it's like what you get a jigsaw puzzle in. Here's a photo, with Thok for comparison. And the back... Unfortunately, rather than having a lid, the box opens at the top. This is only a minor mumble, however, and the 'D&D' logo on the tab is a nice touch. At the side, there, you can see all the stuff that came in the box. All else there was was a set of dice. Don't get me wrong, though - there's plenty there. The DM rulebook is 60+ pages. Sorry about the blurriness of the above photo. It shows the six dice that come with the set. Black is a the, red is a d6, orange is a d8, green is a d10, yellow is a d12 and blue is the famous d20. What you get in the box, apart from the dice, are: Three double-sided sheets of Dungeon Tiles. These are made from really tough cardboard, with a plastic coating. They should last you a while. A double-sided sheet of counters, to represent players and monsters. These are made from the same stuff as the tiles. I'm slightly annoyed they chose not to put miniatures in anymore, but it did halve the price of the set, so I 'spose it's okay. And finally, two basic rulebooks. These don't contain anywhere near as much as the full rulebooks, but they're more than enough to play the basic adventure, and probably others. The one on the left is for players, and is about 15 pages long. The first 5 pages are rules, and then the rest is the 5 pre-generated characters for the players to use. It would, of course, be better if the character sheets were separate, but you can download them as PDFs on the website, so no worries. The other book included is called the 'Dungeon Master's Book'. I haven't read through all of this, as it's only for the eyes of Scott, our DM. However, I flicked through it. It's got the same rules as for the players, then some extra ones for DMs. Then there's a short adventure to play through. At the back is some tips to DMs for creating their own adventures, as well as about 30 pages of information on monsters. Overall, this set is really good value. For £10, you get all that. How it plays, I shall see on Monday!

A couple of friends and me have started learning how to play Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I shall be posting a review of the Starter Set soon. I got it yesterday.

The last few days have been unbelievable. We've seen teaser art of Mata-Nui, we've seen a comic, and we've seen a CGI video of the Great Spirit awakening. I honestly haven't been this excited about Bionicle since late 2003. What do you guys think of the end of the 'first chapter'? Good? Bad? I'm very pleased. I had a few fears, none have been realised.

A while ago, I bought the Bahrag (and some other stuff) off the member Anthony Dalek. I've finally got around to building the blue one (Gahdok, I think) and I'm very pleased. It's a nice, complex build, and they're great fun to play with. One wee thing I've noticed, though, about the older sets in general. So, I've been a Bionicle fan since the start. I remember a lot of stuff newer fans won't. And I remember when I first saw the Bahrag. It was in a Lego Magazine - I wasn't on BZP until 2003 - and I thought, "Wow. They look awesome." They were a bit expensive for me, though - fifty quid is a lot of money to a ten-year-old, and is still quite a lot to me now, five years on. I got them both for £25. Anyway, I thought that these were a really big set - they were indeed one of the biggest so far. And I still thought this when building it. But then I put it on my desk, where Zaktan was standing. They were the same height. Now, a Toa Mata is dwarfish in comparison to a Bahrag. Are the Toa on some kind of weird pill? Youse's opinions on this'd be nice.