I've bought a few things

It was a birthday a week or so ago and with some of the money I was kindly given I purchased some things I'd had my eye on for a while.

Firstly, I bought the XCOM board game. I've downloaded the app onto our ipad and am really looking forward to playing it! Although, from chatting to a mate about it, there is a small bugbear about the nature of the game; no rules come with it because it depends entirely on the app...

This means, if you want to play the boardgame in 10 years time, which is not unrealistic, how easily available with the app be? Will I still have my ipad, and if not, will I be able to get the app on something else?

Right now, I think it will play brilliantly. The friends I've spoken to who've played it and the reviews are all positive, so I guess sometimes you just have to invest in the short term and make the most of it while you can. So the future can wait on that one.

Secondly, I bought a couple of the Warhammer 40k roleplay core books. I had only planned on getting Only War, but my local store didn't have it and couldn't ordered it so I weakened, acted frivolously and bought Deathwatch from him, then ordered Only War from amazon. I'm not going to regret this! The great thing about the 40k RPG books is that they are all compatible. So, even though I don't really fancy running a game with superhuman space marines, I will probably want to create some space marine characters. Also, there's different wargear and stats and info on other bad guys. And, well, I might want to run a game with space marines in the future.

I really am keen on RPGing these days and I'm going to be running an Edge of the Empire (Star Wars RPG) game on Monday, and I'm nervous! It's just the adventure from the core book, but there appears to be more work involved than I thought, so I'm kind of swatting up at the moment. I'm sure once I get use to it I'll be able to just make it up and figure it out on less info than I'd like right now.