I’ve just finished Storm Warriors by Brian Craig, which is part of the Orfeo Trilogy (Games Workshop’s Warhammer setting). Like the first two, and so many more, the review is in progress.

What I’ve started at the moment proves that I’m too far down the path of Geekdom to ever turn back.

What I’m reading at the moment is:

Introduction To BattleTech

leading on to

The BattleTech Rulebook

and then

BattleTech Master Rules.

Wow. What a geek.

So, at lunch today, I’ll be reading Introduction To Battletech, proudly procaiming to the world at large that I am a geek.

What surprises me though, is the reactions of the others in the office when they see me reading this stuff.

So far I’ve worked through a JavaScript HowTo guide, The Day of the Beast Call of Cthulhu campaign book, numerous graphic novels and comics (all with bags and backing boards) and never a comment was made or eyebrow raised.

But bring in the rulebook for a tabletop gaming system and they all start looking at me like I’m not from round here. (Folks from round here ain’t from round here… never mind…)

BigAl

I worry about showing of my geekdom too, both at work and on the train. Once I finish my current library books (Tales Before Tolkien and an Iain M. Banks one) I think I may expose myself to public humilation. So that shiny new(ish) WH40k manual can be brought down from the shelf, along with the CoC rulebook and maybe even Liber Chaotica. Heck, I may even get out my White Dwarf issues, that are starting to create a backlog due to lack of reading opportunity.

The final step will be getting to read my Battle Games in Middle-earth magazines. I no longer want to collect them because I realise I’d probably have been better buying the books from GW, but now I’m at the stage when I’ve got n issues and will feel foolish not having the full set. I suppose if I ever get my wife into tabletop wargames, the mags will be a good place to start… ah, I can dream…

On the subject of gaming, a friend sent me this link, of which the last paragraph is of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil